HAPPY NEW YEAR’S EVE !!! Not long to go till 2012 !!!

My last day of the year went something like this:
– Got up, drank my water, got Katie fed, started cleaning house.
– Sat down to eat breakfast, cleaned more.
– Katie watched cartoons while I finished cleaning.
– A bit later was lunch then getting ready.
– We all headed out to the pond!
– Brad read his book while me and Katie ran/walked around.
– Looked at the fish, geese, ducks, and even saw duck nest/eggs!!!
– Next up was a trip to the Interational store to buy fruits/vegs.
– Last stop was Wal-Mart for a plastic water container for me + more FRUIT!
– Had a homemade blended “V8″ for dinner and it was alright, but think I’ll stick to usual salads.
– Came home, fed Katie, sorted through food, and set up my tons of BANANAS to ripen, lol.
– About to get a shower and count down till MIDNIGHT AND A BRAND SPANKIN’ NEW YEAR!

2011 was.. less than ‘okay’ for me. Recap of the year:
~ Struggled with my health, searched for answers
~ Spent tons and tons of money on useless supplements
~ Moved to Georgia
~ Started online college
– Got sick over & over & over & over…
– Did a 24 day veggie juice fast in June, lost 21 pounds but gained it back plus some
– Was actually a bit more festive for Christmas this year!
– Started down the road to being a RAW VEGAN. Stoked!!!

Top resolutions for 2012?
** work on a balance with everything
** go to bed earlier, get up earlier
** focus on enough calories, sleep, water, sunshine
** more spiritual/religious study
** stick to the 811 lifestyle
** keep going with exercise, work on RUNNING
** don’t focus on weight loss, but instead HEALTH
** get a JOB !!!
** get my license !!!
** spend more time OUTSIDE – goes with getting more sunshine
** appreciate the little things & keep a positive mindset

There ya go. Not sure what we’ll do tonight?? Last night to stay up, since Brad goes back to work on Monday! I’ll see ya next time in 2012! ;D

Tomorrow is the last day of 2011! I’ll post my recap on 2011 in tomorrow’s bloggie. Today went by SUPER FAST. I woke up with a slight headache, but it went away after I drank my warm morning water. Breakfast was lots of naners. Mmmmm. Got my workout on with the Wii Active, then a little arm work on the pullup bar. My arms are still sore, but my thighs aren’t anymore. I had a GIANT smoothie for lunch… about 44oz or so. Katie played with her toys, got to watch a movie, ate lunch, then went down for a short nap. While she was napping, Brad walked to the library.

Usual Friday night – Katie @ Mom’s and we went grocery shopping. I’m still trying to find a good source for lots of NANERS. We’re gonna go to the International store tomorrow, so I can buy my juicing veggies, greens, and then see about naners. Gonna look into a local wholeseller as well.

I’ve felt a sense of “fear” today for some reason. I had a bad dream last night/this morning, whenever it was and I think that may be part of it. My body is going through a lot of changes with this diet shift and so the “fear” feeling might be part of detox. I don’t like it though. I know my body has a lot of healing to do. I’m gonna give it lots of good nutrients and hold on for the ride!

I can’t wait to see where I’ll be in a few months time with this lifestyle, woot. Fruit FTW, baby. We took down our Christmas decorations after we got home tonight. Byebye tree!

Time to start counting down till 2012…. ;D

Title refers to the current song by The Killers I’m listening to! ^_^ Sheesh, this week has went by so fast! Brad’s last day at work until Tuesday was today… so he is on his last mini vacation for a long, long while. Our college break will be over shortly, too.

So, my navigation is now working! I updated my pages to current info and created the NEWWW 811 page with deets on the lifestyle. I’ll add more to it as I go along.

I didn’t think I could love bananas or dates more, but it’s happening! I actually got up earlier this morning & slammed down plenty of WARM water. Let’s just say the raw food and water… is really um, cleaning me out! Hah. Get all the mess out of my colon and eventually my health issues will resolve. LOVED my banana/date/spinach smoothie that I gulped down at lunch. I had my biggest glass of green juice I’ve EVER had this evening! 44oz baby. I walked over to my Moms and got to hang out with her for our usual Thursday meetup.

Came home, been catching up online, and am probably about to get a nice hot bath then just R-E-L-A-X some more!!! ^_^ Won’t get to relax this much once college starts up again. I’ll be super busy, with trying to keep up with college AND my usual daily tasks, plus my stuff online – including this bloggie!

Know that your health is in YOUR HANDS. You can change it. Don’t be afraid to question things. Don’t be afraid to be DIFFERENT. Love yourself, love your body, take CARE of your body, fuel it right, get exercise, sleep, water, think positive, and you will know what you are supposed to do in life! <3 I could babble on and on and on about living healthy, thinking healthy, and actually being healthy.

The 811 lifestyle = no calorie restriction. pure fuel for your body. planet/enviornment friendly. animal friendly. a lifestyle to gain health, energy, and vibrance. um, don’t know about you, but I give that a big HELL YES! ;D GO VEGAN!

NEW LAYOUT right before the New Year, whee!

Well, actually… it’s an old layout of mine that I just tweaked. However, i still LOVE IT! Still plenty of work to do on it, but here it is. Today has been a good day. I got some exercise done this morning, and even attempted “pull ups” on our pull up bar, that Brad now has mounted in the kitchen. Hopefully we’ll be motivated to use it more now, instead of when it was in the bedroom. I had 2 diff BANANA shakes… one for breakfast and the other for lunch. I also munched on some dates after lunch. YUMMO.

I’m excited to go buy FRUIIIIT this weekend! YIPPEEE! ^_^

Few more days left of 2011… bumbumbum!!! Kindof short post, since there are other things I wanna get done. Peace, love, and FRUIT! =)

It was an average day here! Brad went back to work and me and Katie hung out. She got to watch a Land Before Time movie and play with her toys before lunch. I’m really trying to up my calories with this new low fat, raw vegan lifestyle. I know I’m gonna bloat up because I’ve been eating a lot lower calories than what the lifestyle calls for. I can’t focus on the bloat or potential weight gain, that will go away once my body adjusts. I did about 10 minutes hard resistance on the bike today, while Katie was watching her movie and my legs are sore from yesterday and today! Love it!!!!!!!!! Really trying to slam the water to help with everything, especially digestion.

Katie has been very disobedient tonight, so she had to go sit in her room for a bit. She threw a fit when Brad told her not to stand up in the tub, so she didn’t get to read a book before bed. Well, Brad first told her no then turned around and let her read with him anyway. I told him he cannot do that! We have to be consistent with her or it’ll never work! He told her no book and put her to bed… of course she screamed and made a fuss, but he can’t give into her.

We’ve decided to watch BUFFY from Season 1!!! We’re about to watch the 2nd episode, lol. So old school. Buffy will always be a favorite. Brad is trying to get story ideas for writing from the episodes.

Guess I am off to do that! =)

Today was Brad’s last day off work! He has to work Tues, Wed, Thurs and then he’s off another 4 days. And whaddya know…. I woke up at 8AM AGAIN! Seems my sleep is balancing, that is excellent. After we all got up, ate, and fiddled around, we got dressed and headed out to put a check in the bank and I wanted to pick up some fruits/greens at the International store in town.. so off we went! It was quite chilly outside. I am soooo ready for sunny, warmer weather! Would love to sit outside and bask in the sun, but lately that hasn’t been any sun, or if there is – it’s too bloody cold to go outside!

Goodies I got at the Interational store:
– 2 persimmons (never had one!)
– 2 bunches of kale
– brad got 2 sweet limes
– whole lot of BANANAS!
– container of dates <3
We browsed around the store…. Brad wanted to browse a lot longer, but I wanted to get Katie home so she could have some lunch and go down for a nap, since she was getting WAY overtired and had been acting up as well because of it. Also, I HAD TO PEEEEEEE! I couldn’t find a restroom in the store, so I just rushed to the bathroom when we got home, lol. I ate my persimmon when I got home, and I actually really liked it! NOM NOM. After Katie went down, I decided to do some EXERCISE!!! I haven’t done a “hard” workout in a long time. I did almost 20 minutes on the Wii Active with a misc of total body, including some arm work. I got on the treadmill afterwards and did 11:11 at slow, then fast intervals up to 6.0 and when I was finished, I felt very nauseous and turned pale. I’ve had that happen in the past…. prob from going too hard, too soon and maybe because I ate the persimmon too soon before the workout. I tried to eat a little of my banana “ice cream”, but felt so sick, so I just sat down for a bit then got a hot bath and went and laid down in bed and almost drifted off, then Brad joined me and we laid for a bit, I dozed back off just a few minutes then eventually got up. On the other hand, Brad slept like 2 more hours, lol. His sinuses are acting up again… infection! I finished off my ice cream when I got up, fed Katie, then she just played with her toys while I fiddled online. Brad put her to bed and I’m sitting here eating warmed up canned pumpkin that is delish.

We might be up later tonight, since we both slept late this afternoon. Thinking about watching a One Tree Hill rerun! Hmmmmm. Most of today has been spent fiddling on tumblr, lol. My new addiction! I drank a lot of water today….. go me! I’m trying to aim to drink lots, since I lots of fruit now. I think today’s total was somewhere around 90 ounces or so. Drink more water!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!! How was your Christmas??

Once again, I woke up early! I woke up a little after 8AM and decided to get up, drink my hot tea and water to chill out for a while before Katie got up. I woke Brad up and we talked for a bit before getting Katie up, so she could open her presents! She had a blast. We got ready and eventually headed over to my Mom’s for Christmas “lunch”! I brought bananas with me and didn’t give into temptation at all, woot! SUPER happy about that!!! Mom and my Aunt got Katie some clothes, a coloring book, and a play GUITAR! She LOVES that guitar, lol. She had a good Christmas! ^_^

We came home and Katie played until nap time.
This evening I’ve mostly been listening to music and working on various things online:
* working on my new layout, woot
* i finally made a TUMBLR account and I love it
* signed up for a raw vegan community site, still waiting approval

Ugh, no more sienna tea for me. I was drinking it to help flush me out, but my tummy says enough of that!

OH, oh and after we came home from Mom’s, I made my usual raw “ice cream” and didn’t add too much water this time so it was AWESOME-SAUCE. I could go on and on and on about how stoked I am for this lifestyle. Eating LOTS of fruit?! Hell to the friggin yes. Since I made the “transition” and I’m not 100% yet, BUT I WILL BE…. I’ve been losing an average of 2 POUNDS A DAY and so since my highest weight after indulging in oats – I am down 10 POUNDS. I will be out of the 150’s soon, let’s GOOOOOOOO.

Raw food FTW, baby.

Merry Christmas EVE !!!!

I woke up at 6AM, had to use the bathroom, then went back to bed and dozed off until 7:40ish… couldn’t go back to sleep, SO I went ahead and got up. Drank some tea and water then got an early start with usual Saturday cleaning. Munched on some fruit and after Katie got up & situated, she watched cartoons. Later on, she went down for nap and we WRAPPED PRESENTS from SANTA!!!!!!! Heh.

This evening I’ve actually been working on a new LAYOUT idea for the site, finally. I’ve had this layout up for a long time and I’m ready for NEW. I’m so stoked for the New Year and striving to become a full high carb, low fat raw vegan!

Welllllllll, we’re going to my Mom’s tomorrow for Christmas “lunch”, and I already told her that I won’t be eating anything on the menu. I don’t want to hurt her feelings, but I’m doing this to better my health. Instead, I’ll prob bring my banana/date “ice cream”. OOOH speaking of! I made the banana/date/spinach/coconut “milk shake”… i put too much water so I didn’t get the thickness like my usual banana blends lately. Ah well, it was still UBER DELICIOUS. Super filling too.

Still up in the air what we’ll do up until bed! Painting together? More website layout work? One Tree Hill rerun? Deffo gonna get a shower at some point!

Sending everyone lots of joy! I’m THANKFUL for my SAVIOR Jesus Christ!!!!!!!! and especially for the LIFE I have! =)

Since getting my eating under control the last few days, I have realized how BADLY I want to go as raw as possible. I said this a few posts ago, but I feel it so strongly! I’ve gotten such great inspiration from many, many, many various raw foodies on the Internet and to see how BEAUTIFUL, FIT, AND HEALTHY they are….. um YES PLEASE. I’m not 100% raw yet, since I still have some cooked veggies for dinner, but I am on my way. Being raw in our world today is one of the hardest things to do, since there is temptation at every single turn. People think raw foodist are crazy, but they are not!!!!!!! They are fully alive. Raw, LIVING FOODS such as fresh, ripe FRUITS, veggies, and herbs are the ultimate fuel for the human body and I believe this. I’ve been wanting to go raw for a long time, but my cravings/temptations/health issues have been always holding me back. NO MORE, NO MORE!

I’ve mostly been eating fruits and I AM LOSING WEIGHT. I’m gonna give this my all with willpower and faith. My health issues will work out if I give my body the nutrients it needs to heal. I drink green juice every day and there’s lots of goodies in that. People often ask “what about protein?!” Here’s a fun fact, the only protein we need is in the leafy greens. Truth. A while back, I wanted to start gobbling down lots of bananas in an attempt at the 80-10-10 lifestyle, but my body bloated up and I felt horrible so I gave up. It was probably just detox symptoms!!!! The hardest thing about trying to go raw is the fact that Brad & Katie aren’t and I have to fight, fight, fight, fight the temptations/cravings/urges to eat bad sugar/carbs. That’s where my cravings come in, but I LOVE FRUIT so I need to focus on THAT being my GOOD SUGAR.

Anyway, lol. I love talking about fruits, veggies, and love. Brad was off work today, so we just had a chill day. Katie went to visit my Mom while we went out for groceries. I got lots of fruits, some veggies, and DATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I friggin love dates and I cannot wait to add them to my daily “banana ice cream” I make! We got stuck in a traffic jam on the way back, but we finally made it through and went to Target, since Brad got a gift certificate from work! We bought vitamins, batteries, and Brad got an energy drink and mints….. lol woohoo right?? Haha.

Merry Christmas EVE EVE!!!!

I’m drawing a total blank on a post tonight. Let’s see..
* it rained and stormed a bit today
* a guy from church brought us by some things!
* brad got gifts from his work
* it was his last day of work until Tuesday
* i did well with my food intake again
* ive dropped a few pounds the last few days (mostly water weight)

Glad that Brad is off until Tuesday! Means we get to stay up late tonight.. just hope my tooth/gum pain doesn’t flare up. I woke up at 3:30AM this morning with the pain =( so I got up, took some meds, then eventually got back into bed. Sigh…..

I just wish I could eat like I used to. I wish I felt like I used to. Maybe one day. Blah blah. Sorry my posts are so boring and repetative. I’ve actually thought about not blogging, since my life is so boring.