It's Day 2 of the fast... yesterday I only had 3 glasses of lemonade.. today 2 so far... I normally drink 6 each day. It's not because I'm not hungry... I haven't had a chance to be.. so far I've slept through 2 days almost. As I said I'm not feeling well, and all I want to do is sleep... so I have been... I just had another 4 hour nap and am sure I will be in bed by 9 again tonight...
On a happy note, I just found the Hilarious House of Frankenstien playing on Drive Inn Classics
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Day 2....
It's day 2 of my cleanse. It's a gorgeous day out, a day I should be enjoying. Walking around in the crisp air that signifies the beginning of fall. I should be wandering around Yorkville right now, seeing out stars, carrying a large tea in my hand. But, I'm not. I'm sitting on my couch, waiting for the kettle to boil, then I will spend the day here writing.
I'm not feeling well physically and emotionally. I feel drained and weak, have had a headache for 3 days. None of this is due to the fast, it started a few days before, my throat is hot and I am achy all over. Yesterday I slept all afternoon and last night was in bed by 9:30 not crawling out again till 10 am. I still feel like poo, for lack of a better word. As I said in an earlier post it's times like this when I would love to have someone take care of me.
On a happy note, I lost 3.3 lbs on my first day of the fast, all water I am sure though...
I'm not feeling well physically and emotionally. I feel drained and weak, have had a headache for 3 days. None of this is due to the fast, it started a few days before, my throat is hot and I am achy all over. Yesterday I slept all afternoon and last night was in bed by 9:30 not crawling out again till 10 am. I still feel like poo, for lack of a better word. As I said in an earlier post it's times like this when I would love to have someone take care of me.
On a happy note, I lost 3.3 lbs on my first day of the fast, all water I am sure though...
Monday, September 8, 2008
blah can someone make me a cup of tea...
Normally I would say I love living on my own, for the most part it's amazing but for the other parts, it sucks. It sucks even more at moments like this and right now it would be nice to have someone else around. When I'm not feeling well, I am admittedly a big baby. I want a big bowl of vegan hot and sour soup from Buddha's Vegetarian Restaurant, someone to make me tea, give me a massage and dote on me. When I am not feeling well I want someone to crawl under a quilt with, cuddle and watch movies.
I think my mother may have spoiled me that way. But... considering that I'm on my own, if I wasn't fasting, I would go get that big bowl of soup and I will shuffle into the kitchen to make my own tea. If I had the energy I'd run a bath but... instead, I am going to lay here on the couch and whine, watch a movie and be a big baby... at least the dogs are snuggle worthy...
I think my mother may have spoiled me that way. But... considering that I'm on my own, if I wasn't fasting, I would go get that big bowl of soup and I will shuffle into the kitchen to make my own tea. If I had the energy I'd run a bath but... instead, I am going to lay here on the couch and whine, watch a movie and be a big baby... at least the dogs are snuggle worthy...
Day 1 of a cleanse
Today is day 1 of my cleanse. I am once again doing the master cleanse. I am trying to do it twice a year. I really feel like I need it right now. I am working really hard to lose weight and get back in shape and am working hard to take my eating and health up to the next level. I am also feeling down right now about certain issues in my life and feel this will help me in many ways.
I started feeling ill yesterday. I feel like I'm getting a cold. Not happy about that, but am hoping the fast will kick it out of my system. I'm sure being out in the pouring rain, getting my feet wet and then wandering around the Vegetarian Food Fair with wet feet didn't helping matters. But after my weekend, I needed to get out of my apartment.
Last week I felt like I was finally coming out of my funk. Then the events of this weekend pushed me right back down to the bottom. There is no point talking about the circumstances around it. It will just frustrate me more. What this weekend did was open my eyes about a few people. People I thought I had figured out. People I thought wouldn't kick me when I was down. Not to mention that saying about glass houses...
So today I start my fast, while I'm fasting I will still work out, do yoga and am going to start meditating again. I am also going to take a good long look at my eating habits and all the things I can do to improve them even more. One of the changes I am definitely making and have already started is I am no longer going to use canned goods and try to remove processed food from my diet all together. I still have some canned chick peas and a few other things in my cupboard, once those are done, I will only buy dried or fresh beans, tomatoes etc. I would LOVE to live in a place where I could have a garden, but that is impossible, but for next year am going to put a container garden on my balcony (tomatoes, peppers, herbs and anything else I can grow). I will also try to prepare almost all of my meals from scratch. I am pretty much do now, but I do include processed sometimes. I need to avoid that as well, the one thing I am not sure how to get around is tofu, but if that is the only processed thing in my diet then that is pretty good!
The other thing I need to figure out during this fast is me. I know where I want to go in my career. Be a writer and I'm doing that. My personal life is a mess! I need to fix it. I need to get myself out of this funk. I realized the only person than can make me happy is me. A cleanse is a house cleaning of the body so to speak, now I need to do a complete house cleaning of my personal life.
I started feeling ill yesterday. I feel like I'm getting a cold. Not happy about that, but am hoping the fast will kick it out of my system. I'm sure being out in the pouring rain, getting my feet wet and then wandering around the Vegetarian Food Fair with wet feet didn't helping matters. But after my weekend, I needed to get out of my apartment.
Last week I felt like I was finally coming out of my funk. Then the events of this weekend pushed me right back down to the bottom. There is no point talking about the circumstances around it. It will just frustrate me more. What this weekend did was open my eyes about a few people. People I thought I had figured out. People I thought wouldn't kick me when I was down. Not to mention that saying about glass houses...
So today I start my fast, while I'm fasting I will still work out, do yoga and am going to start meditating again. I am also going to take a good long look at my eating habits and all the things I can do to improve them even more. One of the changes I am definitely making and have already started is I am no longer going to use canned goods and try to remove processed food from my diet all together. I still have some canned chick peas and a few other things in my cupboard, once those are done, I will only buy dried or fresh beans, tomatoes etc. I would LOVE to live in a place where I could have a garden, but that is impossible, but for next year am going to put a container garden on my balcony (tomatoes, peppers, herbs and anything else I can grow). I will also try to prepare almost all of my meals from scratch. I am pretty much do now, but I do include processed sometimes. I need to avoid that as well, the one thing I am not sure how to get around is tofu, but if that is the only processed thing in my diet then that is pretty good!
The other thing I need to figure out during this fast is me. I know where I want to go in my career. Be a writer and I'm doing that. My personal life is a mess! I need to fix it. I need to get myself out of this funk. I realized the only person than can make me happy is me. A cleanse is a house cleaning of the body so to speak, now I need to do a complete house cleaning of my personal life.
Friday, September 5, 2008
is this really a smart idea.........
Um, not sure if this is brilliant or really DUMB or brilliantly stupid. I'm gonna go with the latter...
Home laser hair removal... shouldn't some things, involving lasers, be left to professionally trained people... what is next.. home laser eye surgery kits??? Mind you.. if they take pay pal.. Yikes!
http://epilalaserhairremover.com/
Home laser hair removal... shouldn't some things, involving lasers, be left to professionally trained people... what is next.. home laser eye surgery kits??? Mind you.. if they take pay pal.. Yikes!
http://epilalaserhairremover.com/
Thursday, September 4, 2008
once upon a time where there were no meat recalls...
Once upon a time.. we use to prepare our meals from scratch, grow our own gardens and the entire family use to also sit around the table together on a sunday night for a huge meal with dessert...
Once upon a time.
We are an evolving society. Sometimes I wonder if we are doing so at too quick of a pace. Computers, video games, iPods, GPS, microwavable dinners, processed food ready to be eaten directly out of the package. In the last few months I have been once again reminded why, I like a 1950's house wife, prefer to take the time to prepare meals from scratch. I try as hard as I can to stay away from processed food. If you look in my fridge there is tonnes of fresh fruits and veggies, and my freezer is packed full of frozen meals that I originalIy prepared from fresh ingredients. I too am guilty of convenience, you will find some of that in my freezer, but only a small portion of it.
Food related issues in the news of late is making me proud of my culinary skills and the fact I don't eat meat... where do I start? First it was the tomato, mushrooms and lettuce recalls, then the Maple Leaf meats, now processed cheeses are being recalled due to Listeria. Listeria isn't just making people sick, they are dying. It is times like this that people need to start thinking about going back to tradional ways of eating/cooking (ie preparing your meals with fresh ingredients). There are so many benefits from it and is something truly satisfying from knowing you're eating something you prepared yourself, you will be healthier and it tastes so much better!
I hear over and over people complaining about convenience, no time to cook, blah blah blah... there are ways around that. When you do cook, triple the recipe and freeze single serving portions. Or my favourite tool, get a slow cooker. Throw everything in the night before, turn it on before you go to work and when you get home, a meal is waiting for you.
I already eat well and healthy, seeing these news stories made me realize I can push it up a notch. Growing up we always had a garden, this past summer my Aunt sent me back on a regular basis with tonnes of stuff from her garden. So, over the winter I am going to start seeds for my own container garden. I have tonnes of window space and the knowledge on how to. Being able to walk out to my balcony this summer and cut fresh herbs had me thinking why stop there. So I won't. My dream would be to live in a place where I could have a garden of my very own, but this will do for now.
I don't want to be the preachy Vegan, I really don't, but all of these food scares should be hopefully waking people up and making them realize that meat and convenience need to be reconsidered. I don't own a microwave haven't for quite some time and trust me, I can prepare a meal in under 20 minutes, that is only 15 minutes more than a microwave dinner. Is a frozen dinner or a package of sandwich meal, really that much more of a convenience. Also take into consideration other things such as MSG and sodium, all those foods are packed with them.
Let's get back to tradition, I want to... and I have the big ass table for the Sunday dinners :)
Once upon a time.
We are an evolving society. Sometimes I wonder if we are doing so at too quick of a pace. Computers, video games, iPods, GPS, microwavable dinners, processed food ready to be eaten directly out of the package. In the last few months I have been once again reminded why, I like a 1950's house wife, prefer to take the time to prepare meals from scratch. I try as hard as I can to stay away from processed food. If you look in my fridge there is tonnes of fresh fruits and veggies, and my freezer is packed full of frozen meals that I originalIy prepared from fresh ingredients. I too am guilty of convenience, you will find some of that in my freezer, but only a small portion of it.
Food related issues in the news of late is making me proud of my culinary skills and the fact I don't eat meat... where do I start? First it was the tomato, mushrooms and lettuce recalls, then the Maple Leaf meats, now processed cheeses are being recalled due to Listeria. Listeria isn't just making people sick, they are dying. It is times like this that people need to start thinking about going back to tradional ways of eating/cooking (ie preparing your meals with fresh ingredients). There are so many benefits from it and is something truly satisfying from knowing you're eating something you prepared yourself, you will be healthier and it tastes so much better!
I hear over and over people complaining about convenience, no time to cook, blah blah blah... there are ways around that. When you do cook, triple the recipe and freeze single serving portions. Or my favourite tool, get a slow cooker. Throw everything in the night before, turn it on before you go to work and when you get home, a meal is waiting for you.
I already eat well and healthy, seeing these news stories made me realize I can push it up a notch. Growing up we always had a garden, this past summer my Aunt sent me back on a regular basis with tonnes of stuff from her garden. So, over the winter I am going to start seeds for my own container garden. I have tonnes of window space and the knowledge on how to. Being able to walk out to my balcony this summer and cut fresh herbs had me thinking why stop there. So I won't. My dream would be to live in a place where I could have a garden of my very own, but this will do for now.
I don't want to be the preachy Vegan, I really don't, but all of these food scares should be hopefully waking people up and making them realize that meat and convenience need to be reconsidered. I don't own a microwave haven't for quite some time and trust me, I can prepare a meal in under 20 minutes, that is only 15 minutes more than a microwave dinner. Is a frozen dinner or a package of sandwich meal, really that much more of a convenience. Also take into consideration other things such as MSG and sodium, all those foods are packed with them.
Let's get back to tradition, I want to... and I have the big ass table for the Sunday dinners :)
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
the power of positive thinking...
Yesterday three very wonderful things happened, all very unexpected, but wonderful. I had a rough start to the day.. in fact it's been a rough ride since the beginning of the year. Fall how ever, brings change for me. I find that when the leaves start to change, so does my attitude. For me the growing darkness brings light. Yesterday morning, I was at my darkest, by mid-morning was shaking my head trying to grasp something that had happened and by the end of the night realized, I need to make changes. If one could realize their mistake and own up to them, if one other could do the things after ten years I didn't think he could and if another, could always make me feel alive when I see him, then why couldn't I take those things as being positive and continue to carry that positive energy with me?
For the past couple months I've been in a deep, dark funk that I cannot seem to pull myself out of. As I said, yesterday I was at my lowest, then three things happened to make me realize that the things I keep thinking can never happen, are. If I think positive, keep in the light, then the things in that I want in my life will come to me. Staying in the light means continuing to think positive. I am taking the things that happened to me yesterday and using them to help me change my attitude. I know I am still going to have moments where I feel down, alone and sad, but I will make a bigger effort to find the positive. I know that a huge part of my problem is my impatience. "Good things come to those who wait." Is that the saying that I heard my grandmother repeat over and over when I was a kid? I know that if I take one step at a time, I will get there without falling down. I'm tired of falling down.. it hurts.
Yesterday was and eye opener and the kick in the ass that I needed.
For the past couple months I've been in a deep, dark funk that I cannot seem to pull myself out of. As I said, yesterday I was at my lowest, then three things happened to make me realize that the things I keep thinking can never happen, are. If I think positive, keep in the light, then the things in that I want in my life will come to me. Staying in the light means continuing to think positive. I am taking the things that happened to me yesterday and using them to help me change my attitude. I know I am still going to have moments where I feel down, alone and sad, but I will make a bigger effort to find the positive. I know that a huge part of my problem is my impatience. "Good things come to those who wait." Is that the saying that I heard my grandmother repeat over and over when I was a kid? I know that if I take one step at a time, I will get there without falling down. I'm tired of falling down.. it hurts.
Yesterday was and eye opener and the kick in the ass that I needed.
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