day 5: update

I have decided to update you all on my progress every Friday.

This update may or may not consist of the following:

Weight Lost/Gained (Gained? Better not be gained!)
Strengths/Weaknesses
Exciting News
Delicious Recipes
Ideas for Success!

So let’s just dive right in, shall we?

This entire week has been dedicated to this raw fruits and veggies diet that I have been on. Oh, speaking of DIET…I will no longer use the word “diet”…I hate the word “diet”. From this moment on, any “diet” I may be following will be referred to as a plan. Sometimes plans work; sometimes they do not, but from experience, “diets” NEVER work. SO…this raw fruits and veggies plan that I have been on…

I explained it briefly in my blog entitled ‘day 2: dave’. To refresh your memory, it consists of 70% raw fruits, veggies, almonds or nuts and humus throughout the day and 30% protein (small piece of chicken, fish or even shrimp) with lightly steamed veggies for dinner. It was also recommended to me to take a B-12 supplement for energy. I take a dissolve in your mouth form of B-12, but I heard that zip fizz would work just fine. The first couple of days were pretty difficult but it really is getting easier and easier every day. This was originally going to be a 10 day plan, but it has been working so well and I feel great, so I think it might just stick with it.

My time in the kitchen has been interesting. Keeping chicken exciting is always a challenge but I’ve been being adventurous. See one of my more successful experiments in a separate post below: Roasted Garlic Stuffed Chicken . I seriously suggest that you play around with healthy, fresh ingredients. I use a lot of garlic, a lot of onion, fresh herbs, lemon and lime...get creative!

I, by the way, find it hilarious that Julie Powell, my biggest inspiration to start this, used enough butter in 365 days to make like 10 life size model of myself. Which would be so incredibly bizarre to see. It's pretty opposite content wise, but it was the idea of doing something, sticking to it and using it to help me, and maybe even inspire other's, to accomplish something very important...That's what got me excited about this blog.


I haven't side-stepped too far away from my path these last 7 days, except maybe a glass of wine or two with a certain co-worker. We are talking no coffee, no soda, no BUTTER, but a crap load of bananas, cucumbers, watermelon, oranges, carrots, apples, broccoli, pears, peaches, strawberries, which are all very yum. It has been paying off; in the past 7 days I have lost another 7 pounds. A pound a day is very rapid weight loss. If you are not losing a pound a day, please don't be discouraged. Every 'body' is different, but I find that having the thought process that I am going to be a success and visualizing how my body will look; that seems to be more powerful than what I'm eating.


Go Positive Thinking! Go!