Day 7 Week 1! Ultimate Reset 2013

Sunday mean church. Sunday I woke up again at 5am. My sleeping is starting to be off. Though I have it narrowed down to what is causing this! I also awoke with a killer headache. Back to bed! Time went by quickly and it was time for church.  I got up and fixed my Oatmeal and Yogurt! Needless to say only the yogurt got eaten and I took the Oatmeal with me. We always have breakfast type foods in out room so I wanted to make sure I wasn’t tempted. So there I sat in my Sunday school class filled with women eating my oatmeal, cinnamon and apple while everyone else was having some yummy looking bread dish.

After church I came home and took my supplements. I had stopped by and gotten the boys some Zxaby’s because my headache still had not gone away. I laid down because my head was throbbing and I had an hour for the cashews to soak in water for my soup. I ended up sleep in a little longer but when I got up I had my Zucchini-Cashew Soup and Microgreen salad. Today I am awfully tired. I needed to go get some Distilled water though because I was totally out and I had a few other things I needed to get for the kids lunches for the week. Off to the grocery store I went.

No snack today! When I got back from the store I took my Alkalinize and figured out what the kids wanted for dinner. For me I knew I was having Tempeh, Veggies and Brown rice. All stuff that I already had cooked and in the fridge so all I had to do was heat it up. It was around 7pm before I was able to have dinner since my timing was off for the day due to the longer than expected nap I took. I so needed that nap. I was still tired. However I had dinner, talked to my man and then got ready to watch the walking dead! Yeah it is a Sunday in October!

Wooh!! Week 1 is done and ready to move on to the next Phase of the Ultimate Reset: Release

This may be a heard week because I will be moving away from animal products and moving to a fruit, veggies, whole-grain based diet. 

Day 6 Ultimate Reset 2013

It is Saturday and we are having a garage sale at my house. I had decided though that since my mom and grandmother handled it I was going to try and sleep in. Well at 5am I was wide awake. Then again at 6am and so on. Twister, our English Springer Spaniel, would bark anytime someone walked up to the house! Heaven help me. Well I got up around 9am and took my supplements. I sat outside for a little while with my mom until I decided she needed to see my Halloween Costume for the party I was going to that night. She laughed at me.. Now I am normally very conservative but over the past year I have grown a lot of confidence in myself and went a little out of my comfort zone this year.

On to breakfast: Kale with Pine nuts, Baked Tempeh, 1 slice of whole grain bread and I forgot the avocado. It was good. Tempeh is growing on me and Kale it very slowly. I hung out for a little while but knew I needed to get going. I need to run to the mall to find some think hose to wear to the party because it was going to be cold. Then to get my grocery shopping for week 2 done and back home to cook my dinner for the night.

Now my timing of the supplements and food was off today. I was gone for almost 3 hours and when I got back it was time to start cooking and getting ready for the party.

So I had my lunch: Quinoa Salad and a Microgreen salad, I through the Quinoa on top of the Microgreen and started preparing dinner.  See for dinner there is a soup with Cashew’s in in and they have to soak for an hour. So while they soaked for an hour I cut up my veggies for dinner and put them in the oven. They are supposed to cook for 40-50 minutes and here it was 2pm and I needed to leave my house at 330pm. So I got my veggies on and ran upstairs to get my hair done. I had 20 minutes to get my hair in curlers so I could come flip the Veggies. Done! I came down flipped the veggies and cut up my Zucchini up to start to boil for my soup.  I now had about 15 more minutes.. time to get to get the make up done and get partially dressed.

Well everything got done and I was out of the house at 345pm. Not bad because I didn’t have to be there until 415pm but I have been taught if you are supposed to be there at 415 and you show up at 415 you are late.. Always arrive 15 minutes early.

So here I was, dressed as the Cheshire cat going to a Halloween Party to meet my Boyfriends’s friends for the first time where there would be all kinds of food and I have my dinner packed and a snack just in case I got hungry.

So Dinner was Zuchini-Cashew Soup, Roasted Root Medley and some Quinoa. It was supposed to be Miller but I substituted the Quinoa because I didn’t have any millet at the house. My man was cute. He didn’t want to eat in front of me because of what I was having and they had BBQ, some little sandwiches that looked good, dumplings ( I had 1 little bite of his) and all kinds of sweets. I told him I was good to fix him a plate and I would be fine. Talk about some will power. Over the night I did have two small glasses (like 4oz each) of hot apple cider because it was freezing and 1 piece of candy corn. It was in a cup at the table we were playing cards at. I am surprised I had that much self-control because they had brownies and I had wanted some Chocolate.  The night wad good though!

Day 7.. almost a third done with the reset!

Day 5 Ultimate Reset 2013

I am still sleeping well! 6hrs and 43 minutes and only restless one time. Yeah I hit the snooze button.

Breakfast today was super yummy! Oatmeal with walnuts, honey and fresh fruit! Yummy yummy! It was filling and good and something I will continue when the reset is over.

Lunch: well when ready the menu for the day I kind of got things all messed up. I was supposed to have Quinoa Salad, Hummus ad raw vegetables. I am not sure what I was thinking but to work I brought Quinoa with stir fried veggies and the hummus with raw carrots. It happens. We read thing wrong or pack the wrong lunch but all in all not a bad thing because the Quinoa salad with the green lentils I am not sure I could have stomached.

I left work just a little early today to run by the Delta Zeta Market place. It is a place with vendors to be able to do a little shopping. The smell of roasted almonds and pecan almost did me in. There was also a lady there with all kinds of jellys, jams, butters, spreads you name it. I did buy some for use later and tasted just 2 of them to see what they were like. I was very careful to read the label to see what exactly was in them. I would have loved to have gotten some of her butters (apple, pumpkin ect) but they all had high fructose corn syrup in them, so they were out of the question.

I didn’t have nor did I want a snack. Seems that my appetite is slowly going away.

Dinner: well my older was still out of town so my little one got Papa Johns. Do you know what it was like to ride in the car with Cheesy Bread from Papa Johns. As for me I came home and made me some Stir-Fry veggies which I almost burned because I was doing one to many things at a time and made some Miso soup. I also had some greens for a salad. Not sure where I got that but I had one.

On to Day 6 which I already knew was going to be challenging one for me.

Day 4 Emotions Set it 2013

Day 4 Emotions Set it     

Thursday.. Day 4, I woke up feeling a little uneasy and it was harder to get up this morning than any other day on the reset so far. I am starting to put to and to together on days that I feel like this and think I have it narrowed down to one key trigger. As I prepared for the day things got better. I just needed to get out of bed and get rid of that feeling. Ever since my divorce from my children’s father I have suffered from anxiety. Some of it is from past experiences and other is total pressure I put on myself. Really who should be trying to raise two boys as a single mom, working a full time job and trying to grow 3 businesses of their own? At some point in my life I am going to slow down, well maybe.

I also did the one thing I said I would not do! I weighed! My stomach is feeling tighter and I feel lighter so I weighed.. 2-3 pounds down.. Not bad! I will not weight again until Saturday afternoon. My plan was originally only to weight in once a week. I caved today and Saturday I am doing it because my man is taking me to a Halloween party one of his friends is throwing and there will be food and drinks I am sure. I want to stay on track so I figure that will be the best way! It will be hard for me. It is a social event and the first time I am meeting his friends. Yeah I am going to be coined the weird girl who brought her own food and water to the party! I did ask him if he would tell them beforehand because I don’t want to see like a stuck up little women and of course he was like sure… I am going to tell them you are just a very stuck-up picky eating and wasn’t sure what they would have or if I would eat it. You would have to understand his personality to know that this is so something he would say and it would be taking in a funny way. Of course I have my come back ready.

So with one kid away on a field trip the house was really quiet. I got the littlest ones lunch ready and started preparing my food for the day. This will be bad for me to admit, but I am supposed to do lunch with a friend so I didn’t pack what was on the menu for lunch today (Nori Rolls with Tempeh and Veggies, Lentil-Lime Salad and a Microgreen salad with no nuts). We are supposed to go to a local Sushi place that I know makes things fresh and has the organic brown rice, However I did pack the Microgreen salad with nuts in case she cancelled. Which she did due to work, but I am going to have lunch with another friend at Ruby Tuesdays where I can make my own salad and get a grilled chicken breast. Four days in and I am caving? No I am making healthy choices and a lifestyle change. I will be carrying my bottle of distilled mineralized water in!

Breakfast this morning was a fresh fruit plate. I had Strawberries, Blueberries, Peach and an apple. Those that know me know I don’t eat strawberries unless they are chocolate covered, blueberries only in muffins and Peach only in Margaritas! This is a big accomplishment for me. I also had Organic Plan yogurt with Honey and a slice of toast! Very filling!

By 11:15 I was getting a little hungry but that is okay. Lunch with Miss Heidi is right around the corner and I will be making Healthy choices at Ruby Tuesday.

For Lunch I had the Salad Bar (Spring Mix Baby Lettuce, Onions, green legumes, I tried a few cucumbers, nuts, carrots with oil and vinegar), grill zucchini, roasted spaghetti squash and ½ a plain chicken breast because it was so big. I was full! And I am thinking I may not need all or any of my afternoon snack other than to wash down the Alkalinize which I forgot today as I realized when I went to take it.

I got home from work only to find that my Halloween Costume had come in. That totally distracted me for a few moments and almost forgot my Alkaninize again.  However I took it and started in with dinner. On tonight’s menu was Quino with Stir-Fried Veggies and a cucumber-tomato salad. I didn’t make the cucumber salad but had the other and man on man was it good! It tasted so good! I was eating that as my son and grandparents were eating Taco Bell. It didn’t even phase me. Okay well for a brief moment when I first saw it I thought it would taste good but I stuck with the plan! It is so easy to get off track.

Today I haven’t been as hungry. I only had my almonds for my snacks in the afternoon instead of the almonds and apple. I think I may have been more bored then hungry but I had the almonds not knowing what time I would get dinner done.

The reset seems to have a calming effect on me. I can easily get aggravated if things are not going like they should (kids homework, dinner getting done, ect) but the last three days I have been calmer. Maybe it is because my body is detoxing. Maybe it is because I am trying not to stress about anything and maybe I just letting things go. Only time will tell.

I wasn’t as tired yesterday as I have been at night.  Normally by 830om I am beat and ready for bed. Dinner was easier than normal though and took less time to prepare so maybe that was it. Dinner was good and filling. However at 930pm I put a movie in and stayed up and watched it. Needless to say I only got 6hrs 43mins of rest. I awoke feeling rested and got right out of the bed at 630am.

On to Day 5 with 17 more days to go I can already see that some of these changes are things I will be doing once the reset is over. Some of the meals are good and I will continue to them long after my 21 days is over. It takes 21 days to create a habit. The only thing I a missing right now is my exercise. I want to push play. I want to go to the Barre. I want to do the new Rounds of Insanity, PiYo Strength, TurboKick and Hip Hop Hustle I have received in the mail. November 11^th here I come!

Day 3 & Still Going Strong 2013

I woke up groggy but that slowly faded. I think it was more just the getting up and going then anything. I only hit the snooze button once before I got up. According to my Fitbit I slept 7hr and 45mins and was only restless one time! WOOH!! That is a first in months. My typical sleep pattern: Go to be around 9pm, talk on the phone for an hour, flip the channels for 30mins-1 hour, turn the TV off and lay there looking at the ceiling for an hour or longer and then be restless 5-15 times and awake 3-4 hoping for 6 hours.

By time I showered and got ready I started getting a little hungry. I put my Kale on to Boil and took my supplements. I then got my kids lunches ready and my older son’s dinner ready since he was leaving on a field trip and needed a bagged dinner for the trip. Once they were off and I had my breakfast and lunch packed it was off to work I go!

Breakfast was better this morning and after my 24oz of water before breakfast I wasn’t as hungry. Another 24oz of water and some work and then it was time for supplements 2. I wasn’t hungry yet but I took them because it was time. Today’s lunch was not something I was looking forward to. The Lentil-Lime Salad stuck to high heavens and I am not sure how it was going to taste at all! Well let me just say it was hard to stomach and I didn’t get much of it down at all. I tried everything to get it down I just couldn’t. Luckily today was a Micro-green salad today though to. However, I made my dressing on Monday and it had separated in the container I had it in and would not shake bake together. It was almost like all of the oil had evaporated which I know can’t happen. It was weird but I went with it. It took me about an hour to eat the whole salad today. This made me have to wait longer to take the nasty Alkalinize. It may be okay with some OJ.  There has to be an easier way to get it down.

All in all I haven’t been as hungry today but I am still looking forward to my Apple and almonds!

Dinner was Miso Soup, Sushi with Tempeh, avocado, rice and carrots along with a cucumber salad. I still can’t find the nerve to try cucumbers again so I opted for a salad no dressing. The sushi was rather easy to make and tasted pretty good. I need to learn the tricks to making sushi. I got it to roll okay but getting it to cut into pieces was a totally different story so it was more like eating a burrito wrapped in seaweed! The Miso soup was okay but I have had better. It was lacking something and brown instead of the usual yellow that I am used too. I could have picked up the wrong kind of Miso though. It was a brown paste and didn’t look too appetizing.

After dinner it was date night!! Yeah. Well date now for now is a movie at his house since there is no going out to eat or ordering some Chinese food and eating in. Luckily I have been blessed with a man that understands this and it working on his on health and fitness right now so it isn’t an issue. However I have found that these meals or the preparation and cleaning of the kitchen afterwards makes me totally exhausted.

I feel asleep rather quickly once I got home and sleep pretty well. According the fitbit 7hr 39min and 2x restless (snooze button 2x).

Day 4 is off and running!!

Day 2 Ultimate Reset October 22 2013

For the first time in a while I slept through the night. I didn’t wake up in a cold sweat nor did I wake up at some crazy hour in a full blown panic attack. That has been happened to me for the past few weeks or longer. At first I blew it off as getting sick and then to stress. I am starting to think my hormones are just out of wake because I am getting to that age.. Mid-Life Crisis here I come! Lol

However, When my alarm ( I use my iPhone)  did go off I hit what I thought was the snooze button but apparently I hit the Off button. I meant to just stretch and sit there for a few minutes but 30 minutes later I awoke and quickly showered so I could get the kids lunched packed and my breakfast and lunch packed.

One thing about the Ultimate Reset is that there is no Shakeology until Week 2 and 3 and then it is the Vegan (Tropical Berry or Chocolate Vegan) with water.. I will so be getting my Chocolate on. I am so used to getting up in the morning and having my daily dose of dense nutrition with Almond milk and whatever I feel like adding to it! I love me some Shakeology! Well today was day 2 without Shakeology and I missed it. I came close to reaching for my milk and blender as I was fixing the kids sandwiches because that is how I roll, but I didn’t! Instead I got the kids lunches ready and then prepared my stuff for lunch dinner and snack. I took my supplements and off to work I went!

Breakfast. I was hungrier today then on day 1 by time I got to work and had waited my 30 minutes to eat breakfast. AS I sat down to breakfast I noticed I had forgotten my blueberries. I am not a fan of blueberries unless they are in something baked like a muffin but I was willing to give them a try! So I added a little bit of organic honey to my oatmeal and had it with my organic plain yogurt with honey.

I felt more focused at work today and didn’t want my normal cup of coffee. By lunch I had drank 68oz of distilled mineralized water. I took my next round of supplements and patiently waited for me lunch.. Salad with chicken and homemade dressing!! Yum yum

The day continued on and it was time for that Alkalize again.. It still taste gross! After my waiting period I had an apple and almonds again. I then finished up work with a glass of green tea and honey followed by 24 more ounces of water!

I seemed to be more productive at work today but at the same time my mind wonder about things I needed to get done, questioned I have for the guy I am dating and how in the world I was getting everything done between baseball, scouts and cooking tomorrow’s food tonight and going to the grocery store! I still had work to do for my Beachbody business to do when I got home to. And the all-important Originals and Supernatural are on tonight. I am glad there is a TV in the Kitchen!

Dinner time: well that happened really late. We had pitching lessons from 605-635 but had a 30 minute drive to and from and had to stop by old navy to get some blue jeans because the older son was going on a field trip in the morning.  So we got home around 725pm. I put my Kale on to boil, took my supplements and prepped the Tempeh for baking. Yeah it had to marinate for an hour before baking! Needless to say I only marinated it for maybe 45 minutes so I wouldn’t be up all night.

I then made my guacamole and taco that I got to eat for dinner and once the kale was ready I was ready to go.. I can say that the Black been rice taco is something I will have again! It was yummy. After dinner I came to the realization we had no bread for the kids sandwiches for lunch so I needed to run to target while the tempeh continued to cook. My grandmother agreed to flip it over when the timer when off and reset it.

After I got some from Target I prepared my Green Lentil Salad for my lunch the next day. The smell is awful and I am hoping that it taste better then it smells because if not I am not going to be able to stomach it.

After everything was cooked and done I tried just a bite of the Tempeh! To my surprise it was good. This is coming from someone who while in Vegas and the beachbody coach summit ate Vegan Chicken wraps. I didn’t even know there was such a thing to be honest. At this point I was tired and ready for bed and it was only around 9pm. I am a night owl so for me to be tired at 9pm is not normal for me. Normally I start getting sleepy around 11pm even if I have been laying in bed since 9pm. I did lay in the bed and talk on the phone for a while like me and the guy I am dating always do, so it was around 10:45pm before I turned the lights off and went to bed.

I woke a little groggy but that quickly wore off as I started getting ready for the day. According to my Fitbit I slept for 7hr 45min and was 1x Restless. Okay this means for the first time in months I slept through the night because I am sure the 1 restless time was when I hit the snooze button.

What I can tell after just two days. I do have more energy. My stomach is getting flatter and I am resisting the urge to get on the scale.  Biggest part is I really want to exercise because I am not sluggish. However I have 19 more days before I can hit Play again!

Day 3 is under way so I will return!

Day 1 Ultimate Reset 2013

Grocery Shopping and Day 1!

Well what an experience it was grocery shopping for the Ultimate Reset! I made my list for the first few days while sitting at an all day baseball tournament. I literally went day by day and looked at the recipes and food I would need. I have bought foods that I have never even heard of being a Meat and Potatoes girl raised in the South. This is going to be such an experience for me. I ended up going to Targets who had most everything I needed for the first few days, then to a Local Fresh Market grocery store where I thought I would be able to find the rest of what I needed but that was a no go. So I then found myself at Publix picking up sandwich meets for my kids school lunches and find a few things I needed.

So I went Home Sunday night ready to get ready for the week and started digging into the recipes.. Well day 1 was all stuff I could fix Monday morning before work or when I got home so that is exactly what I did. However, I did go through the spice cabinet and clean it out. We had stuff in there from like 2-3 years ago or longer. Basically I got organized and got my mind wrapped about what was about to take place.

What is taking place? The more I read about the Ultimate Reset and the more I watch success videos I get more excited and alittle bit nervous. I really didn’t know exactly what I was getting myself into until I get the kit it and started reading. What I knew: There was some stuff I had to take several times a day. I  knew there was no exercising for 21 days. I knew it was eating Clean and Healthy. I knew distilled water was involved. What I didn’t know: There are a lot of food out there that I knew nothing about like Tempeh. That really after the 21 days that exercise should be kept at 50% of your ability for the first week and then full steam ahead. Something I found interesting it said that you should stay away from alcohol (for me wine) for at least a month after  the rest is over. I fully planned on rewared myself with some 50 Shades of Grey Wine the weekend after. I can see the point that because you are removing all of these toxins from your body and drinking wine would quickly return them and probably make you sick. I also didn’t know that it would help to clear out “emotional bag.” Not only is this a reset to get all of the toxin out of your body but some have said it really helped to clear their mind and get ready of any emotional baggage they were carrying around. Last but not least, I didn’t know there would not be a substitute list for things I just can’t stomach: Spinach, Kale (though it is not to bad), Cucumbers, Berries and a few others.

Day 1 is over in the books so how did it go! Well I think it went pretty well. I only messed up a few times. Like I got up and took my morning medicine (not reset supplements) with normal water and then forgot to take my last round of supplements 30 minutes before I ate. Well know I know if I forget I can take it 2 hours after I eat! Good to know. I did have 1 cup of Organic Green tea with some honey in it instead of coffee because I was dragging!

By lunch at 11am I was getting hungry but had to have my supplements first. I took them, waited my 30 minutes and then ate my salad. It was okay filing but by 1pm I was starving and I had to wait until 2pm to take my Alkalinize (nasty stuff every made I think) and then wait thirty minutes before I could have a snack. After my apples and 12 raw almonds (yeah I had to count them) I felt better. I finished the day at work and ran by the store to get a fresh piece of Salmon. I went home and marinated the fish while starting to prep food for the next couple of days knowing that they were going to be crazy! I fixed rice, lentils, chicken, hardboiled eggs, my dinner for Tuesday night since we have baseball from the time I get off work until 7pm.  It was around 8pm on Monday before I got everything prepped and ready and man was I wore out.

Day 1 was not bad at all and the food was good. The big thing for me was not being able to get out during lunch to socialize and sticking with the timing when things need to be eaten or taken. None of the food n day 1 was stuff I had not heard of though Kale was something I had not tried and I am really not a fan of since I have tried. I was given a recipe on how to prepare it better but since it calls for milk and cinnamon I am not sure about using it while on the reset.

When I woke up on Day 2 I felt refreshed and ready to go! I haven’t slept that good or through the night in a few weeks.

More to come! I will be blogging everyday to document my experience and to share my results!