I’m going to do this almost daily. Of course I do this right before a vacation where I most likely won’t be able to write for a few days at a time, but I’m going to do my best at this.

Mostly I just really want to cover food and exercise. Many days you will also see what’s going on in my daily life because I feel that your life experiences also serve a huge part in whether or not you will be successful in fitness that day.

We’re about to go on “vacation”. My kids are going to Colorado to stay with grandma for a month and my husband and I are going to spend the week in Oregon looking for an apartment. Then we’re coming back to Texas to finish packing. I can promise you now, I will be admitting to a few days of stress eating. This will be the longest I have been without my kids and as of right now, I do not have a job to go to in Oregon after we move. I may be a stay at home mom this summer, which I enjoy working so that may be hard. But keeping a daily journal has always helped in the past so we’ll see how far this train goes.

Today is day 2 of my sugar detox. So far so good. Day one 1 had a slice of pizza (tons of sugars in sauce and bread) but that’s been the only downfall.

Since we head up to drop off the kids in Colorado on Thurs and then spend the rest of the week in Oregon I’m not going grocery shopping this week other than fruits and veggies and kids lunches (mostly shopping at Braums). Cleaning out the cabinets it is! I’m not good at wasting food. It actually makes me nervous. So this is fun for me… not so much for the family. Of course the next two nights I will be taking the kids wherever they want to go for dinner due to the fact that they are not coming back to Texas after Thurs. But I promise I can prove you can do a sugar detox even off of a menu. Last night we ended up have a QT gas station dinner lol. I needed milk and gas, they wanted hot dogs, it was a go. I ended up grabbing a premade chicken and tomato sandwich on whole grain bread with no added mayo or dressing other than mustard, a pickle, and a cheese stick. My favorite part was the pickle. Did you know theres only a third of the sodium in a huge pickle in a bag of pickle juice from a convenience store than there is in a average lean cuisine? (Pickle 390mg, lean cuisine 1200-1400mg, thats not cool yo)

This morning I had fruit for breakfast (I eat breakfast at work so that’s usually what I have every day for breakfast). 2 apples and an orange.(217 cal)

Unfortunately I had to get up early today. Mom duty called and I had to take some paperwork to the boys school. That put me up a few hours earlier than expected which means I will be tired all day. That usually means sugar cravings out the wazoo. First thing I had was my shakeology. That will help a ton with it. (150 cal)

When I got home I did tai Cheng because my back is killing me. I may only be doing tai Cheng this week because I need to help the boys pack instead of going to my groupX classes. If I have time tonight I might throw in a hustle and practice my cuing.(-150 cal)

After tai Cheng I ate a huge thing of spring mix salad, hummus (2 tbsp), and 4 slices of lunch meat turkey. The turkey has extra sugars(it has cultured corn sugar and brown sugar). You have to watch lunch meats. But I really wanted to wrap my salad in something like a burrito and 4 slices of lunch meat will most likely not cause me to go into an M&M rage since it’s grams of sugars isn’t even on the product label. But they’re still there, so if I start having trouble with the sugar detox, I know they have to go fully.(155 cal)

Here’s my spread. You see the shakeology cup in it because I had some left to drink. And the raw vitamins in the back are because I’m on my “week” and extra vitamins make it easier on me. Yes, you will get info like that in my daily blogs. I’m an open book. Periods suck. And yes my desk is a mess. I’m focusing on the rest of the house right now.

I laid out 4 pieces of lunch meat, used a fork to spread a half tbsp of hummus on each of them (when you get used to measuring out food, the easier it will be to eye out what a tablespoon or half tablespoon looks like), then used them like Indian bread to grab a bunch of spring mix with. Ghetto, I know, but no one was watching, no one cares.

So if you’re looking at my calories right now, I’m over halfway through my day at 522 calories eaten and 150 calories burned, which puts me at a net of 372 calories. I really need to be around a net of at least 1200 calories at the end of the day so I should be at least at 700 cal right now. So this is actually pretty bad. I need to pace myself better during the day. While it sounds sane to say I could just eat a big dinner, that’s now how the body works. It needs that energy THROUGHOUT the day. That means snacking regularly through the day and eating those calories in equal proportions through the day so that it can draw from that not only at night and not only at dinner.

So thats where I am right now 🙂