Detox: Epic Fail

I'm sure you are all wondering how my detox is going, well, it can be best described in one picture:

EPIC FAIL

Day Three and Four: Detox Adventures

Eating healthy is making me feel so much better, but I long for food. I love the taste of good food, cooked in butter. Pizza and beer...you can never go wrong. I find that the detox is getting more and more difficult. I love the feeling I get when I eat more healthy, but I hate not eating what I want. I really don't know how much longer this will last. It is supposed to last seven days, but with this weekend being fathers day....I don't think it will last.

Some Pictures from the last several days of food:

Day Three Menu:

Breakfast: Oatmeal with 1tbls Honey and splash of Rice Milk

Lunch (pictured): Subway Sandwhich with Oil and Vinegar. I got the "Veggie Pattie" one. Day three was my last day for grains, and I really wanted grains!

Dinner (Pictured): Baked Salmon with Garlic and Cilantro and Stir fry with Veggies and a rice milk and seseme oil sauce.
Snacks: Sunflower seeds, Banana, Grapes
Dessert: Warm Rice milk with a sprinkle of cinamon.

Day Four Menu:

Breakfast: Wild Rice with Rice milk and a dash of cinimon
Lunch: Leftover bean salad with carrots and celery sticks
Dinner (Pictured): Large dinner salad with rice vinager dressing
Snacks: Sunflower seeds, and Grapes

Detox: Day Two

Well, yesterday was day two of my detox. After a full day of the detox I am already starting to feel better. I'm not as hungry between meals, and I physically feel better! I have more energy, and I am so much more happy! I feel so much better eating healthy.

Several people have been asking where I found this detox and where I am finding the recipeis. There is this awesome website called: wholeliving.com. It's amazing. It has all these great ideas about eating healthy. One day, looking on this website I found this DETOX (click on the link to go to the page). It's amazing so far. I love it because there is actual FOOD to eat, and not just a weird lemon/maple syrup drink. I love food too much to fast. As far as the recipies for this diet, I am making them up myself!!! I'm pretty dang proud of myself. This diet gives me so many more oppurtunities to think of healthy ways to cook food. I think if I get anything out of this detox, that will be the thing I take away: knowing how to cook healthy.

As far as the detox today: Today was my last day of cheese, eggs, and milk. So I made the most of it with my menu choices for the day.

Day Two Menu:
Breakfast: Oatmeal with 1tbls Honey and splash of milk
Lunch: Salad with fresh veggies and seseme oil dressing
Dinner (Pictured): Stuffed zuccini (with cheese and sour cream! this was my last day I could eat dairy, so I might as well go out with a bang!)
Snacks: Sunflower seeds, Apple, and Bananna

Since People have been asking for recepies, Here is the recepie for the Stuffed Zuccini:

Serving Size: 2

Cook Time: 30 mins

2 zuccinis about the same size

1 can pinto beans

1/2 onion

1 tomato

1 tbls Cilantro

1/2 cup cheese

2 eggs

Set the oven to 375. Cut the zuccinis length wise, in half. Scoop out the seeds, and save the insides for later. Place halfs in greesed cookie sheet. In another bowl mix seeds, and all ingredients. Fill zuccinis with filling, sprinkle with cheese. Bake for 30 mins in oven, or until golden brown. Best served with with a dollop of sour cream on top! Yum!

Josh doesn't even like zuccinis, and he LOVED it!!

Detox: Day One/Onehundreth Post

This is my one hundreth post on my blog! I can't believe in little over a year I have had so many blogs. Yes, this blog goes back several years, but the later years are just copied and pasted from other blogs. Man, time sure does fly.

I wish this one hundreth post would be more interested, but really, I don't even know what to say, so, I'm just going to write what I would right for any other post...that's what you all read it for anyways right? My thoughts:

I am starting a detox. It's not to lose weight or anything, it's just to clean my body of the toxins I eat from eating all the crappy foods! Ha...Soda, Beef, chips, pizza, canned foood, YUM! But not exactly the best for you. I have researched many different types of detox's until I finlaly found one I think I'm going to like. It only cuts out certain foods, and you can still eat (those weird lemon water detox's are not for me...I like food too much!).

Day one is going awesome! I am starting to feel a little more healthy already, and I am not as hungry as I thought I would be (but yes, I am still a little hungry.

Day One Menu:

Breakfast: Oatmeal with 1tbls Honey and a splash of Milk

Lunch (Pictured): Four Bean Salad with a sprinkle of Soy Oil and Olive Oil for taste

Dinner: Artichoke with Garlic Olive Oil dip

Snacks: Pumpkin Seeds, Watermelon, and Yogurt

Overall, the fist day has been a great success...I'll keep you posted on the days that follow. One down...six more to go!

Tattoo

From This:

To This:

From design to tattoo! I have finally got my first tattoo. I am absolutely in love with it. I never want to wear shoes just so I can sit there and stair at it all day long.

The tattoo is the Celtic sign for "sisterhood". Ivy and I have been wanting to get a tattoo together for a long time, and now we have one. We knew we didn't want words, we wanted some sort of symbol, so we researched and researched what would be the best. Now we have exactly what we want. I am absolutely in love with the design. I'm so happy.

People have so many opinions about tattoos, and now that I have one, I get to hear all the opinions. When I showed my family, they all thought it was awesome. There wasn't one negative response. Some of my family members were jealous, and wish they had one too *cough* grandma *cough*, and others were just in love with the idea that Ivy and I feel close enough to get matching tattoos. It was a positive reaction from my family. But from others I have gotten some negative reactions, "Aren't you going to hate it when your older?", "Wont your tastes change?", "What happens when your skin is all sagging? Will you be happy with it then?". Well, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I have got answers for you.

Q: Aren't you going to hate it when you're older?

A: You can ask that about just about everything can't you? Am I going to like my job? Am I going to like the house I buy? Am I still going to like the fact I never went to college? Etc. Etc. Etc. The point of the tattoo isn't necessarily to have something I'm going to like when I'm older, but rather, to remember who I am now. I can look back at my tattoo and remember what kind of person I was when I was 22, and how fun this part of my life was like.

Q: Wont your tastes change?

A: Possibly. That's why I will never get a tattoo in a place that isn't easy to cover up. But really, as afore mentioned....it's not really about the look, it's more about the memory.

Q: What happens when your skin is all saggy? Will you be happy with it then?

A: If my skin is sagging, I don't think I'm going to feel attractive enough anyways to wear clothes to show off a tattoo I might have. So really, what does it matter? When your skin is sagging, old, full of sun spots, and gross...is a tattoo really going to make your body look worse? No, not really.

I absolutely love my tattoo. I don't regret my decision. But, I don't think tattoos are for everyone. I love it on me, and that is all that really matters.

World Traveler

I want to be a world traveler. I want to travel to every country, every city, everywhere. I want to experience the culture, the food, the lifestyle, the...everything.

I absolutely love traveling. I love experiencing new worlds within my own.

I want to live somewhere else for a while. Outside the U.S. I want to teach kids how to speak english. I want to travel far away...and then travel back. I need to experience something new for a while.

I just wish it all wasn't so expensive....