Mrs. Moderation: Back In The Day

Good morning friends!

First of all, let's just start off by saying how amazing it is and what a difference it makes when you do a light cleanse for ONE day. But hold that thought. Yesterday, let's just say, my stomach had awful pains and they hurt real bad. I remember everything I ate and I know exactly why I had those pains.

All in order from morning to night:

Between 830am-11am:

black coffee with dash of skim milk
water bottle
granola cereal with skim milk
water bottle
Luna bar

1230pm-2ish:

2 slices of mozz cheese
2 hard-boiled eggs
water
thin pretzel crackers (about ten)

And then I pretty much ran to the ladies room every 20 minutes. :-(

Now, I try to eat little things like that throughout the day, but I know none of that was of decent substance and the eggs with the cheese? What was I thinking? At the time it tasted delish! Never Again!!

It wasn't that I ate lighter to lose weight or diet on purpose, because I am totally not on any diet. I do not like the word DIET. But this past weekend involved a decent amount of rich food and I did want to keep Monday on the lighter side. But this is why I don't understand my body. The above was a good amount of food that I consumed, but I know some of it was not the best of choices. But I was thinking I would feel decently full after 11am with that Luna bar. Uh, not at all. So throughout the rest of the day, I felt shaky and lightheaded as if I had not one crumb of food allllll day.

I don't get it. And sometimes I can go 4 hours without any food and not feel hungry whatsoever. What's up with that?? I guess that's just the adventure of being a woman? With the hormones and the hot messes we can be? Ugh. Yesterday was not fun. So by the time I got home, I still felt pretty crampy and a little gassy. {I think you already knew that part} :-) And for some crazy reason, I decided to still hit the gym. I felt it would help to break a sweat and get moving a little bit and it totally did.

I did twenty minutes on the treadmill (running/walking) and ten minutes on the stair machine and it felt great! And oddly enough, when I got home, I wasn't too hungry; just thirsty and tired. Gary even made himself some mac and cheese and I sat on the couch, watching T.V. , content with my large mug of green tea. I wanted nothing to do with food the rest of the night.

Working out and cleansing the rest of the evening with just some green tea apparently helped! I lost 3 pounds in one day...apparently. But I did check it...three times. I know some people don't trust scales and I know you shouldn't rely on them completely, but I personally like to weigh myself almost every day to track it. It's just my thing.

And today? Today I feel great! I am currently sipping on water and coffee and it's 10am. I have an apple that I'm going to eat soon and I bought a turkey salad on pita for lunch that I can't wait to dig into! It really is amazing what one day of cleansing will do for your body! One more thing, please read this when you have a moment. Watermelon is fabulous for your body!! Watermelon !

And now after reading that novel which I'm sure was a snooze fest... I'd like to share some kiddie pics with you. Just, well, because. Maybe to put a smile on your face? Or maybe to let you have a moment of nostalgia....

Mom had some pretty great clothes...