Reboot #2 Days 3 (Part 2) - Day 5

Welcome to another blog about juice! In all seriousness though I am so glad I figured out why I felt so poorly the last go round. I am feeling so much better this time and was even able to resist a horribly bad for me, but oh so delicious looking sheet cake at work yesterday. That was a tough fight!

So we finally weighed ourselves yesterday. Logician is down to 217.5 and I am down to 204. His weight loss is a bit slower this time but I think that's because he's not getting enough calories. We shall continue to argue this fact for awhile. 

An interesting thing I forgot to write up in the last blog was that when we picked up those amazing grapes (yes they are still amazing), the cashier asked us if we had seen Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (Join the Reboot). It is interesting to us that it seems like all sorts of people have seen the documentary and taken Rebooting into consideration. It reminded us just how epidemic the fast food diet is. 

I don't know exactly what I will do if this Reboot gets me below 200lbs. I haven't weighed less than 200 since I was in high school. More on the days after the jump.

Rebooting Days 6-9

Silence descended again, but with good reason! I had a crazy weekend involving a furbaby emergency (Kitty) and a lot of running about so here's the update.

Due to the kitty situation we ended up "cheating" twice this weekend. Though to be honest for what we used to eat, we still ate pretty darn healthy. We went to a Mongolian Steakhouse and made fish stir fry bowls (the cheats were the fish and the rice, but I did eat brown) on Saturday night and then Sunday afternoon we went to a place called Jason's Deli which has an awesome salad bar. We sort of needed something different after the craziness and I feel like with all the options available those were not bad choices.

So I left off Thursday lunch. Thursday for dinner we had Epic Tacos. That's right Epic with a capital E. We made "meat" out of a can of corn, a can of black beans, and a can of chopped tomatoes and chilis onto which we put normal taco seasoning (though next time we will make our own). These ended up becoming Taco Salad just because we wanted the veggies. We WANTED the veggies. In fact we demanded them. It was amazing.

Reboot/Juicing Prep Days 2 and 3

So I realized I didn't post any pictures yesterday or anything really (I know, you're also wondering about book news, stay posted though it's not much!) regarding the second day of our juicing prep.

So what Logician and I decided to do was thus: We have two juices a day and then dinner as normal. The first day we had our own juice creation for breakfast, I ate left over spicy boiled fish from a local restaurant for lunch while Logician had the last bit of the breakfast juice and then for dinner he had fish and I had the Gazpacho juice.

Note on the Gazpacho it was tasty, however I was lazy and didn't peel the lime which killed it. It was somewhat like torture to drink. But if the lime had been peeled it would have been epic!

I had a hard day Monday. My body was not really enjoying the lack of solid food and I ended up having to eat a little more when I got home simply because I was really on the edge of an irrational emotional meltdown. I had a very small bowl of rice and some Celestial Seasonings Tension Tamer tea and all was well.

So yesterday I woke up feeling sore EVERYWHERE! I was exhausted and grumpy. I got a 90 minute massage which was heavenly and very helpful, and then we had this AMAZING dinner of rice and what we call Indian Hamburger Helper (yes I know, processed food = bad but the ingredients in this one were fairly good) called Tempting Lentils with Sorrel leaves. To which we added a couple tilapia fillets and an AWESOME salad. Seriously food tastes so much better already.

Rebooting

So as a Massage Therapist I come across some awesome clients who are doing a lot to take care of their health. So when a few people around me randomly (without real connection to each other) started Juice Fasts/Cleanses I wanted to find out more.

They all started after seeing the documentary Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead (Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead Website) which then intrigued me to watch it. At first I was just intrigued enough to watch them all complete their goals for time (10 days, 15 days, a month) but opted yesterday to sit down with the Logician and watch the documentary. I was intrigued and he was excited.

Two Bento's for your viewing pleasure

I had a meeting yesterday to discuss a possible change in my near future, so I did not make a bento. Instead I had a peanut butter and honey sammich and some cool ranch doritios. But for today I made both myself and Logician bento's!

Both his and my main dish involve a lot of rice, a quick sautee of snow peas, spinach, and broccolli with a little bit of lime juice. I then sliced a hardboiled egg for each of us and put the whole one in his (which looks awesome) and the white of the second in mine.

Here's his:

It looks very cute in my opinion. Hopefully it will taste great too.

And mine, which also has a salad making mine the "Very Green Bento"

I decided to put some white and black sesame seeds on my egg and saute, and also have a salad with tomatoes and green salad olives. Finally I have two tangerines, one peeled and one unpeeled to snack on.

It is fun to see what I can come up with at the end of the week when I am running out of the veggies I bought during the weekend. I am now out of olives, cucumbers, snow peas, broccoli, down to one egg, and low on spinach. So tomorrow's will hopefully involve either a kimchi and rice dish or some left overs from dinner tonight.

The 1st part of Logician's Holiday gift arrived yesterday, now I am ready to order the second part and purchase wrapping paper! Probably the first week of December we will purchase an artificial tree to setup somewhere downstairs (I am excited for the Holiday this year because I am getting Bento stuff!).

Happy Thursday! One more day till the glorious weekend!