1.21--1.17.08 Diet and exercise

1.21.07
Exercise 10 minutes rebounder 50 crunches.
Breakfast---Two neat balls with sun dried tomato cream cheese. There are wonderful vegan versions of cream cheese that I really like, but this one happens to be the real things. I’ve been in a big hurry lately and have found that the neat balls when very dehydrated are a fabulous quick, raw, energy, protein food and are kind of like a meat substitute.
Lunch---I wanted a salad, but my husband was making salsa for an hour and wouldn’t relinquish the kitchen so I settled for a half of left over roast beef sandwich and a half a pumpkin and raisin tamale.
Dinner---Golden beet salad, page 101 .Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes 3 chocolate mint cookies one spoon living fudge

1.22.02
Exercise---15 minutes jogging on the rebounder
Breakfast--- Vegetarian sandwich on sprouted wheat bread.
Lunch---Neat balls, sun dried tomato cream cheese. 1 small sweet corn tamale.
Dinner—Man, I don’t quite know how to admit to this but I derailed pretty big time. I had one chocolate covered cherry cookie, 1 mint chocolate cookie, 1 Reese’s peanut butter cup, some Chinese food, a little bit of a stuffed pork chop and for desert I had some lavender berry sorbet. What was I thinking? Well, Ronnie complained that I hadn’t been cooking for he and the boys, so I made the stuffed pork chops, which they didn’t want but ordered Chinese food instead. I put the pork chops in the oven and set it but apparently forgot to push start, so they weren’t done at dinnertime anyway. I’d seen a Reese’s commercial, which got me, so that explains why I bought the candy. I did eat only one of the two in the pack and gave the other to my son. And after almost no sugar for three weeks, I will say that it tasted off the charts mega nauseatingly sweet. I only had 3 or 4 bites of the pork chop and didn’t enjoy the taste of that either, so it is good that my taste buds are adapting to healthy more natural flavors.
1.23.08
Breakfast---Fruit scone cereal with almond milk
Lunch—Pumpkin soup, salad and Doritos
Dinner---Cauliflower mash page 143 Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes it's mile a mash pototo substute. Tasted good, but you eat it cold because it's raw and that takes getting used to. For deseret, living fudge.

1.24.08
Breakfast---Carrot Dill bread page 72 Living in the Raw Gourmet
Lunch—Salad and half a roast beef sandwich. I’m not eating half to cut calories, I’m eating half because it’s a Claim Jumper sandwich which has massive servings that are too big for most humans.
Dinner—Steamed vegetables. These were microwaved, which is a very undesirable way to cook food.
1.25.08
Breakfast—dill carrot bread
Lunch---almond butter on herbed bread.
Snack—protien bar
Dinner--- Two slices of pizza
1.26.08
Breakfast---1 slice of herbed flax bread with apple slices on top.
Lunch---Beautiful salad.
Snaks—corn chips and salsa, and potato chips and dip.
Dinner---Another salad


1.27.08
Late Breakfast ---Steamed kale, salad, really great tasting fake chicken made from wheat.
Snack—5 not on the diet peppermint oreo type cookies and a small amount of ice cream.
Dinner--- Leftovers from the morning salad.

While I don't always note it, I drink lots of alkaline water. More some days than others but I shoot for 6-8 16 ounce glasses a day. I don't drink ANYTHING but the water unless I note it here in the blog.

Week 1 Diet Results

Week 1 Diet Results

Started 1-1-08 at 165.5
Weigh in 1-7-08 results 160.2
Result 5.3 pound loss in one week. YEAH!

I have to tell you I really step on that scale in fear because of the high fat content in the new style of eating. I will be posing an article about that soon called Fear of Fats.

Changes--- I notice that I'm not needing to eat as many snacks. My new bathroom habits which I will spare you the details, are evidence that all the new fiber in my diet is cleaning me out. I have much more energy. As a matter of fact, I woke up at 4:30 a.m. and started writing this at 6:13 a.m.. A big change from when I met Ronnie 41/2 years ago, I hadn't gotten out of bed before 8:30 a.m. in many years. Lastly, five days into this new diet, I've noticed a significant change in my skin. I had beautiful, almost perfect skin in high school, but have had some acne from my 20’s through current 40’s. I've always said that it’s unfair to have pimples and gray hair at the same time! Anyway, I've had a couple of zits the last tow days, but the rest of my skin is brighter and smoother and softer. I think it’s because of all the healthy oils in my new healthy living diet. Many people say t hat they see changes in their skin after drinking alkaline water. But for me it’s taken the water and the diet.
By Nedalee Ruiz
Nedalee is the author of The Desperate Parents Handbook http://www.desperateparent.com/
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