Improving My "Bottom Line"

OK, it's time for a reckoning/detox/reboot/do-over/mulligan/JUST DO IT!  I'm going on a cruise in 4 weeks.  I had to buy a bathing suit with a nice long skirt on it, like an old lady, just because I don't like my ... "bottom line", let's call it.

Tomorrow is Monday.  Everyone knows the best day to start a new lifestyle is on a Monday, right? (said with tongue firmly in cheek, of course--Monday isn't the best time to start--right NOW is.)

But I choose tomorrow.

There are 3 full weeks left in March starting tomorrow.  So I'm giving myself these 3 weeks/21 days to do REALLY GOOD THINGS for my body and my health.

The plan is to focus all my eating on veggies, fruits, and some clean protein when needed.

My NutriBullet will come in real handy for making nice NutriBlasts first thing in the morning, packed with veggies and fruit.

Then at lunch I'll have a nice salad with some of my homemade Orange Cashew dressing, that I got from Dr. Joel Fuhrman's site.  Nice and clean--no added sugar, salt, or preservatives.

In the evening, I'll have either another NutriBlast or/and some cottage cheese, chicken, or eggs.  Those are my protein sources of choice for the next 3 weeks.

It won't be easy, but I've enlisted the help of a buddy who I can contact when the night-eating urge strikes.  Eating at night is my biggest downfall by far--especially carby crap.

So wish me luck, and strength.  I'll post a new start-over weight in the morning.  I need to do better; I want to do better; and I'm determined to do better.  I CAN DO THIS!!!


How 'bout you?

March 6, 2014 (226.5)

I've been dicking around since November--blasting, then binge eating, then doing nothing special, then more blasting (mostly mornings) and more stress eating (mostly at night)--and on and on.

And it's gotten me nowhere, of course.  Except still feeling sick and tired of feeling sick and tired.  And preparing to go on a cruise in 28 days with a huge gut and a very large "backyard", shall we say.  Oy.

Listened to a PBS special last night by Dr. Joel Fuhrman.  He got me thinking again about eating for health instead of living to eat.

I've often thought I could eat salads and more veggies if I could dress them with something good that didn't cancel out all their health benefits by being loaded with sugar, salt, and what have you.

Dr. Fuhrman has some YUMMY-sounding salad dressing recipes on his site.  They're made with things like cashews, oranges, and nuts.

So I've written down a couple of those recipes for my grocery shopping trip later today.  Going to see if having a good, "approved" salad dressing helps.  I know one thing--it makes me actually look forward to eating a salad, so that's good!

Then just because I didn't feel like eating crap for breakfast today (like the chocolate chip oatmeal walnut cookies I made "for my husband" twice this past week), I fished some good stuff out of the fridge and made myself a really interesting NutriBlast.

It's got tons of spinach (the large cup, packed halfway), about half a cup of shredded carrots, and part of a huge tomato I paid way too much for so I didn't want to waste it even though I'm not a big fan.  Plus I filled it halfway with organic tart cherry juice and the rest of the way with unsweetened apple juice and added some turmeric and a couple dashes of cinnamon.

It came out beet-colored and actually tastes delicious.