Hi jessie

I am so sorry I haven't been on here more consistently. The holidays were a disaster for me... diet speaking. :-) I am so glad you put in a friend request because I wouldn't have gotten on otherwise. I started off the year with a 3 day juice cleanse and then have mainly been eating fruits and veggies. I have had very small amounts of dairy and grains compared to what I am used to consuming but I am finally feeling on top of the world where I can get up and move again simply due to my dietary change. How were the holidays for you?

Well this cleanse.... haha that was tough! I originally wanted to do it for a week but I only got through 3 days. My husband made it a week but I was ready for him to quit after day 5 because he was being a grouch and we had started school again. We bought a juicer over Christmas break and researched different veggies and fruits that are high in nutrients and all that good stuff we needed. We juiced for every meal using Kale as our main ingredient. If you look up kale... it's like a freakin superfood! It is so good for you but definitely needs to be added with other veggies due to it's bitter taste. We used cucumbers, oranges, spinach, apples, strawberries, bananas, mangos, pineapple, carrots, ginger, broccoli, peaches... basically any sort of fruits and veggies we tried. THere are all kinds of recipes online that you can find. The key is just playing with your favorites to see what you like the best. After day 3 for me I started eating just solid fruits and veggies to ease back into eating. I ate veggies and rice, a fruit bowl for breakfast, salads with lemon juice instead of olive oil and balsmic vinegar. My main reason was to cut all the processed crap out of my diet and get it out of my system. I was feeling so good.

I won't lie... school and my internship started and I kinda fell off the wagon for about a week and a half but I'm back on track again. Trying to stick to mostly non-processed foods. I realized that I feel much better when I stick to a vegetarian diet. Red meat does not like me... haha makes my tummy hurt. But we normally have friends over once a week and we all make a different type of ethnic food each week, so that's the only meal I will eat red meat in. However, I love fish, eggs, and cheese way too much to ever give that up completely, so I have just limited the amount I consume. It's been so good. I lost the 8lbs I gained over Christmas break on the juice cleanse and so far I have maintained my weight pretty consistently. It fluctuated when I started working out and it's been hard to break the 200 number but I know I will get there. My goal is to be down 5lbs by the end of this month and then eventually down to 170 by May 11th for the 5K Color Run that I signed up for. So we will see what happens.

I am sorry to hear that Christmas break was rough. I hope things got better and with the start of the new year a fresh start. I had a melt down during my juice cleanse and then last week when I went to go pick up my transcripts from all my old community college. During the juice cleanse, I got a splitting headache and was so thrown off by it that when I went to bed that night I couldn't fall asleep cuz every time I closed my eyes, images came into my head. I started crying and vented with my hubby and eventually fell asleep. Then last week I had a complete panic attack and almost passed out just running back to my car once I got those transcripts in my hand. Talked with my bestie as soon as I got in the car and she helped me calm down but the rest of the day I was super flustered with everything. That's what triggered my little slip over the last week or so. I am back on track now though and feel good. I have a bunch of apps on my phone that I am now constantly logging into to help me stay on track. I hope things are better now... sorry for the novel. haha

What has been your strategy for this 5K? I am planning on doing The Color Run in May with my hubby but need to figure out time to workout and get off my butt. :-) it's been hard with our hectic schedule. Any suggestions?