Delicious reboot

I finally made it to the grocery store and bought some serious supplies for the serious Reboot. I've already tried two different variations of the Mean Green Juice. The first try I made, I threw in the following veggies and the result was absolutely delicious. I didn't taste any bitterness from the kale like I've been reading other people complaining about. Here are the ingredients to what I am going to call, Mexican Green:

Kale
Celery
Tomato
Red Pepper
Cilantro

Later in the day, we went grocery shopping to a different store where I bought some more veggies. I tried another recipe and the picture above is of my second attempt of the Mean Green juice. This time I am going to call it Red Green It's the same juice, it just that I didn't drink it right away and by the time I got to it, the juice separated itself like that. Let's see what I thew in this time:

Kale (actually it was the same kale as earlier, just juiced again.... to my surprise it still had enough juice inside... yes, I am cheap that way)
Celery
Green beans
One plum
One lemon
Some ginger

I just finished drinking it and it was absolutely delicious!! I don't think I am going to have any problems chugging down these weird looking liquids.

One more day

... till I start the Reboot Challenge. I did pretty good yesterday: had lots of juice (had only carrots and apples in the house and didn't make it to the grocery store for more variety), tea, water, some peas I ate when I fed my toddler, a little bag of delicious olives and in the evening I gave in and had some bourbon! My husband knows I like it and bought me some as a welcome home gift. I drank last night because I will not have any more alcohol for the time of the reboot. All in all, I am pleased of how it went.

New start

My son and I made it to US after a long trip but we are home now and trying to switch to this time zone (seven hours difference).

Today I woke up with a renewed enthusiasm for this Reboot challenge. July 1st is the START day and I'm already part of a support group that is trying to help each other through this juice fast. The website is very useful for finding someone who can encourage you and bounce ideas of. I highly recommend the Join the Reboot website.

I still have two days until July 1st, I have some serious veggie and fruit shopping to do. I thought ahead though and ask my husband to buy me at least some carrots and apples. I wanted to have a 'soft start' by myself and juice these two days until the entire group jumps in this together. Today I had some green tea in the morning and some freshly, yummylicious carrot and apple juice. It's 11.15 and I am a little hungry... I might give in and have some beans (spotted a can in my almost empty pantry). While I was gone my husband didn't really do too much grocery shopping, just absolutely basic stuff. Anyways, I am deviating here.... cheers to a great start!!

Encouragement

Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead

I recently watched this documentary, "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" and I felt very inspired to do a little juice fast in order to lose some weight and reboot my metabolism. I've tried juicing before and I really like it but I've never been as serious as I intend to be now. The testimonies in the film were absolutely mind blowing, very inspiring and real. I like how well and supportive this website that is connected with the documentary is. I am joining the Reboot Challenge meaning I will start with a 10 day juice fast. The start day will be July 1st. I hope at the end of those days I will be able to continue for another 10 days. But I will be taking smaller steps at the time and see how it goes. I am though VERY excited about this!! I can't wait to reboot!!

Jesus Calling devotion

This past Christmas I received the best devotions book I've came across in a while, Jesus Calling. I really liked today's message:

"Open your hands and your heart to receive this day as a precious gift from Me. I begin each day with a sunrise, announcing My radiant Presence. By the time you rise from your bed, I have already prepared the way before you. I eagerly wait your first conscious thought. I rejoice when you glance My way.
Bring Me the gift of thanksgiving, which opens your heart to rich communication with Me. Because I am God, from whom all blessings flow, thankfulness is the best way to draw near Me. Sing praise songs to Me, tell of My wondrous works. Remember that I take great delight in you; I rejoice over you with singing."

Psalm 118:24 "This is the day which the Lord has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it."
Psalm 95:2 "Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms."
Zephaniah 3:17 "The Lord your God is in your midst, A victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy."

What a great message. And what a beautiful coincidence that the words I used yesterday, 'thankful' and 'joyful' are used in today's devotion. I feel shallow correlating these two words to my own state of my mind, for example feeling a little heavier than I would prefer to be make me lose these two powerful characteristics that should define a believer, a follower of God. It's a wake up to reality this reminder that Him and Him alone can give us these fulfilling emotions, if I resume it to weight, beauty, wealth... I will never, ever find that satisfaction. I realize this is the battle I need to win.

New blog on the block

I kind of lost track of how many blogs I've started so far but that doesn't stop me from going ahead and setting up a new blog on the crowded block of all sorts of personal blogs and whatnot.

The reason I've decided to create yet another blog is that I want to document my journey back to health, back to joyfulness. I might have to explain why I use these words as synonyms, "health" and "joyfulness" but that will require of me a very honest tone. In that case I will be just frank and say it that for me, being a little overweight makes me sad and depressed. I've been trying to loose the so-called 'baby fat' for a while but the only results I got is that my baby boy is not a baby anymore. I guess in that case I can say that my 'baby fat' unfortunately became 'toddler fat'?! I really don't like the sound of that...

I hate to say it but even if I am extremely happy with my life in general, with my husband, my super cute 16 months old boy and everything else that makes my universe, I am just not happy having these extra pounds. I don't have lots of weight to get rid of but whatever I do have is enough to make me obsess over it and take away my daily dose of happiness. It might sound superficial but I don't think it is. It's a struggle I have and for I don't know how many times, I try to conquer it and throw it out the window.

So, here it is in a few words my idea behind starting this new journal. I want to record here both my physical and spiritual victories. I should add that my idea of health includes both physical and spiritual aspects.

Let's start, shall we?