Here we are at the end of August…I’m doing great and feel good about my days eating mostly raw food.  I’ll post more later!

I haven’t written in here for awhile, but I am losing weight! I’ve been mostly eating raw veggies and fruit. I eat do eat carbs like cereal and bread to keep me from raiding the pantries and fridge. I know that I can make it if I had to without breakfast-but I do eat a “brunch” right now, since I’m eating late. I have bananas on cereal, herbal tea with toast, and then avacodos and celery.  By three oclock, I drink Mona Vie and eat nuts and a plum. By evenings…I’m fixing dinner, so I eat a green salad and have calcium by eating a yogurt.

Someone gave us some zuchini this week-so I’m making zuchine bread (cake-in a bundt pan). I found a recipe on-line. I love to shred raw zuchini Feels and tastes really healthy!

Okay- all day yesterday, I must have been craving protein…because I ate tuna with mayo and sweet relish! Who knows why I wanted tuna so bad-but it was not on the schedule for menus! But, I managed to go grocery shopping and grab more fresh fruit and dark green veggies.

Today, I had fresh food available…so I ate a banana for breakfast and a green salad for lunch. Cherries, blueberries and strawberries for snacktime and a southwestern rice and corn for dinner. The kids don’t even know I steamed zuccini and blended it into the rice and corn! Sneeky or what?! Ha! I also did some walking today while I watched Oprah and Dr. Phil. I know that I walked two miles and burned over 250 calories on my treadmill. This first attempt at walking while on this strict veggie diet should help make a dent in my weight loss! I’m hoping I can drag the needle back down into the 130’s soon!

• I Ate Lots of Good Food Today
• plums, apple, carrots, and pecans
• PB and J sandwich/water/yogurt-lunch
• Eggs and a bisquit-dinner (protein & carb)

I will admit that sugar gets the best of me-EVERY TIME!!!  I do so great eating healthy…and then my family and I crave carbs and sugar.  Even though I intend to eat healthy, I second-naturely grab food that makes me calm and feel GOOD.  First thing I want on Saturday morning, was EAT a bowl of cereal…granola. Nothing wrong with that-just not a whole food. I’m trying to only eat fresh fruits and veggies. So, I did eat plums and apricots next! But, I had bought a cake mix for my daughter to make a pineapple  upside-down cake too. She grabbed that box and whipped out a fabulous dessert-before I could run and hide. So I ate a large square, yummy piece! MMMmmmm!  It was sooo devine-heavenly!  Guilt set in and I had to eat salad next.  For the rest of the evening- I ate carrots.

Today, Sunday…I sat and watched Donny Osmond sing with the Tabernacle Choir for Pioneer Day! To comfort myself, that I didn’t get to go up to this concert- I drank a Pepsi and ate a bowl of cherries. For lunch, we all ate salad.  When we came home from church- I ate a PB and J sandwhich…I think it’s because I made one for Jaden. (It smelled so good!) For dinner, I had an avacodo with a handful of cornships. Not too healthy-I know. But tomorrow is Monday-I can go shopping for fresh food again!

Here in Utah, we celebrate Pioneer Day every July 24th. I started mine with a pancake with bananas and orange juice! Then I ate a dark green salad with celery, tomatoes, avocados and peas for lunch. For dinner, I had plums and grapes. My only snack was on Hershey cordial cherry Kiss!

Today’s Friday-the 25th, I have to go and usher a mantinee at the Festival. But I had a banana and plum for breakfast. (I also drank Monavie). It gives me an extra boost before lunch time. It’s now 12:19pm and I’ve eaten a dark green salad with the same toppings as yesterday. My thoughts for the day are: I feel so happy! I really do feel like I can do anything I have more energy and want to do MORE today

I’m so excited about my food blog, that I ate breakfast and ran downstairs to post my thoughts on food this morning! I cut up a pineapple and served it for breakfast, and then I also added fresh cherries and I drank fresh squeezed orange-juice. Then I drank a whole glass of water…and I feel really full. I only had one slice of my pineapple-but it fills you up fast. I’m trying to eat as much raw, whole foods as possible today.

“What you did, which is the most important thing of all, is you became the world expert on your body. You took charge … of your own destiny”. -Dr.Oz

I’m going to use this blog as a food journal. My wedding picture I’ve posted, is to show one day in my life when I was 110 lbs. I felt great and I looked fantastic! This is a real eye-opener for me to see just what I put in my mouth…and the whole world can watch Life’s experiences change

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I’m experimenting with a whole new blog style right now. I like the tool-bar that word-press has here, and I like the widgets I can add too (like the calender).  My other blog never created a full tool bar…so that when I made posts with pictures, the code came up-but not the photo. I could never move them around and add text. The whole post was a guessing game! I wondered just what the page would hold-size and style. So now, I’m testing this out to see just how much control I have.

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