Day 30 - ATC

Well - I'm still moving along. People keep asking me what I've been eating. So here is a small sample of my daily menu.

For breakfast I make a fresh juice. It usually involves carrots and an apple. Then I'll add something green like spinach or romaine lettuce. I've added cucumbers, celery and sometimes beets (it actually tastes pretty good, believe it or not). I haven't attempted kale or any other dark green veggie. I prefer eating my broccoli and asparagus.

Lunch consists of a large salad with raisins, walnuts or sunflower seeds, pepper, tomatoes, sprouts and sometimes cucumbers, a tablespoon of basalmic vinegerette and some multigrain crackers (4g fiber!)

For dinner I eat whatever is on the menu for the family. If there are a lot of carbs, I eat a small salad or veggies. My dinner portion tends to be smaller.

Throughout the day I have been drinking between 66 to 99 oz of water (I have a 33oz bottle I fill up 2 to 3 times a day). I'll have about a 1/2 cup granola in the morning when I get into work, almonds and raisin snack or cashews for my morning snack, fruit or nuts for my afternoon snack and a small dessert after dinner if I'm still hungry. I ate very similar before the cleanse except I would indulge in some snacks around 9:00 pm or have 1 too many cookies. The cleanse really gave me a clean start. I'm so happy that I'm still losing... slow, but still losing.

I've lost additional inches - about an inch each on my chest and hips and a 1/4" on each thigh, and 3/4" in the waist.

The past 2 days I've run in the morning. I ran 2 miles in 18 minutes Monday and 2.3 miles in 22 today. This is huge for me. I haven't run 9 minute miles in a while. Whoopee.

Last night I tried on my wedding dress. I was able to get the dress zippered just past my waist. My problem area is the chest. The boobs need to go! My goal is to fit into it for my 10 year anniversary (8/17) and go out to dinner with it on! Torry of course will wear a suit. I was thinking of inviting friends to come in their wedding get up for dessert. The whole thing is off if I can't get into the dress.

That's it for now. I still haven't taken my after photos. Soon, I promise.

Elisa

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Verse for this week: 2 Corinthians 12:9—But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me.