Juicing Day 1

So this morning I get up, head to the fridge to cut up my fruits and veggies for my morning juice. I wash, peel and cut. Then I position my juicer, turn it on and....... the power goes out!! Grrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I could not believe it. I swear the devil was trying to discourage me. I had my walk at 10am and by now it was about 9am. So we drive down to the local natural foods market and buy an already made juice. I don't like to do that but I really had no choice. I WAS NOT going to give in and just eat a normal breakfast.

As soon as my walk was over I had to grab my stuff for our summer PTO planning meeting. That was from 12pm-3pm. So again I had to go to the store and grab an already made juice. The juice I like to buy is the Naked Green Machine.

So then after my meeting (which only lasted until 2pm) I had to run to the store and get a few more produce items to juice. The finally by 3:30pm I finally made a juice and it was really good. This is so far the first one that I have made that was good! Hallelujah!! Then I showered and now I am sitting here typing this and waiting for my next appointment to get here.

After my shower though I just wanted to weigh my self for giggles. Normally I will gain about 1-2 pounds throughout the day. Well today I am down .6 lbs. from this morning!!! I am also down in body fat but I haven't measured that in a while.

As far as how I feel...I feel good. I am hungry and really want to eat but good. I have what feels like dry mouth though. Not sure if that is normal. I am drinking about 50-60 oz. of juice a day plus 64+oz. of water. Here is the recipe for the juice I made today:

• 2 Apples (peeled & washed)
• 2 Carrots (peeled & washed)
• 1 Handful of Spinach (washed)
• 1 Orange
• 1/2 Cucumber (peeled & washed)
• 1 Kale Leaf (washed)
• 1 Red Chard (washed)

It's pretty good. I didn't use a lot of kale and chard because they are quite bitter. So tomorrow I will post what my weight is to see the difference.

8/13/2012

Weight at 8:30am: 265.8

Weight at 4:00pm: 265.2

15k followed by a 5k!

Andrea here...
Yesterday was a proud day for me, my husband and my 3 kids. We decided that were going to go for a walk. Well our walk turned into more than that. 

I mapped our walk and we did a walk/run 9.56 miles (just over a 15k) in 3 hours and 40 minutes!!! My kids had their scooters and they did fantastic! Little stopping (only twice to use the bathroom and get a drink) and very little complaining. I am so proud of them!! 

I am in training to do a half marathon next summer, I don't think we did too bad considering my husband and I had to carry my 45 lbs son for a little while at the end. I need to get the 13.1 miles in under 4 hours! Imagine what our time would have been if we didn't stop or get slowed down by kids!!     


I also weighed myself and I am 2 lbs down!! Could be water weight, but it still feels good to see it go down.   So today Sarah and I decided to to extend our usual walk. So we did....we went 3.22 miles in 70 minutes. Not too bad for us and I was in a lot of pain from my walk/run last night.