Day 25

Well, today I had another tasty smoothie for breakfast. It was similar to yesterday's, although I can't always make them exactly the same because I sort of just toss ingredients together! But I like the one with probably more blueberry and lecithin, and not too much chocolate. It keeps me nice and satisfied for a few hours!

Today I think I will try and go raw for the rest of the day, even though I usually just have one cooked vegie burger or a couple of cooked vegan sausages. Today I'll do the green smoothie for tea, because I don't think I need anything else to fill me up, as it's already incredibly filling. I also don't think I've lost a great deal of weight, despite riding each day and doing my EPOC on Monday and Wednesday. Well, I have a lot of weight to lose and I expected to find more difference in how I feel, if you know what I mean. My belly seems as big as ever! (Mind you, as it is a pretty big belly even if it decreases a bit it may be hard to tell!).

Well I did extra well riding today, I didn't go down gears at all on the way there, and I went half way back without going down either (even on fairly steepish hills). My bike is 18 speeds, but the gears are a bit stuffed, so I usually only use 5, 11 and 17... so I stayed mostly in 17, and only dropped back to 11 for part of the journey on the way back. Usually I do a bit in 5th gear. Part of my speed was because I got a new CD in the mail :) I was really rapt because it only came out on the 26th of February in Germany, and I had to order it from Amazon.de, so to get here 6 days after release date is pretty good! (Doesn't come out in the US until the end of April and it probably won't even come out here in Australia...) However, I also wonder if my diet is helping my stamina?? I have read that people who went raw found their strength improved as well as stamina... or I could just be getting more fit ;)

As usual, I'm behind on everything I wanted to do today, which is kind of typical! I think I will have to find a new way to schedule myself, as the way I'm doing it now is inadequate, and I always feel like I've failed if I don't meet everything on the list. Anyway, enough of that. I have definitely accomplished some work today, and should be able to finish the first draft of this book I'm working on, and hopefully print it out. It WILL be in the hands of the client by the end of the day tomorrow, of this I am determined! That way, all my current jobs will be cleared and I'll be able to focus on my own work and getting some more quality work (work that pays a little more than most of the stuff I do does!)

For lunch I had a mango and made some almond milk. The milk was not too bad, and hopefully it won't give me a stomach ache (last time I ate almonds I got a bad stomach pain afterwards, which was rather horrid).

Hmm well I seem to have developed a headache, which isn't very nice :( especially as I'm trying to forego painkillers! Not sure what set it off, but it started when my youngest son was at basketball training. I'm not sure whether to do my green smoothie tonight or not... I have plenty of greens to consume, but not sure what fruit to put with it since all I have is apple (ooh and some melon). Tomorrow I'll be going shopping again and will get more bananas and other fruits. Of course, if there are any good recipes with melon and apple I'll be happy to try!

Well I ended up NOT doing the smoothie, because I still have these wraps I have to use, and they'll go off if they're not eaten. Hmm there's one left, so I'll eat it tomorrow night (with my last vegan sausage hehe). Tomorrow is shopping day, so I've decided not to buy any substitute vegan foods... that way I'll pretty much be forced into having smoothies etc. and only raw food, because I won't HAVE anything else!

The other thing I did today that was not sooo good was drink too much of the almond milk. I'm not sure what the energy of the milk is, but obviously it's like drinking real milk, if you drink too much you'll get too many calories! Anyway, it seems my daughter likes it, which is good as I'm trying to wean her off cow's milk (she gets lots of ear infections which are exacerbated by milk).