Vegan-Ish

Day: 35

Where: Home

Type of Yoga: MyYogaOnline.com Up, Down, Upside Down 

Time:75min.

Day: 36

Where: Home

Type of Yoga: MyYogaOnline.com Sunrise Flow for Energy

Time:25min.

Day: 37

Where: Home

Type of Yoga: MyYogaOnine.com A Lion Yourself & MyYogaOnline.com Sunrise Flow for Energy

Time: 22min. & 25min.

Starting the week Vegan-ish. Trying out a detox-type menu for each and every Monday. I want to start each week by wrapping my brain around the concept of being conscious of what it is I put in my mouth. This means eating only things that grow in the ground and not slathering them with butter or dipping them in ranch dressing (dear sweet Lord how I love even the letters that form the words butter and ranch dressing). I am now almost to din din time and am keeping myself as distracted as possible from thinking about all the food I am not eating. I seriously stared at the peanut butter and jelly remnants on my kids' lunch plate for a good two to three minutes contemplating "Should I lick it? I could lick it...I mean, would that even really count?" but, I stayed strong and did not, I repeat, I did NOT lick the plate. Small battles win big wars, afterall.

I have chicken in the crockpot for the three meat, cheese and noodle eating heathens that live in my house...and it smells like nothing short of heaven, BUT I CAN DO THIS. I can do this, I can do this. I keep repeating this quote from Michael Pollan (a writer who has been talking about people, nature, and food for more than twenty-five years):

I can dig that. I'm not forever and ever and ever cutting out all things bad, I'm really just using common sense. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. 

S0unds right.

I have a few things that have helped me today from full-on-crazy-climbing the walls type-jonesing for bread, sauces and chocolate...

• started the day off by making myself a big, honking, yummy-yum-yum smoothie with baby spinach, mangos and bananas
• Monday Full House Cleaning Sprint (not Marathon) set the 10 min. timer for each task and when the timer went off, the work was done and it was good enough to walk away so as to not get stuck obsessing on one particular task. brilliant.
• two mini yoga sessions today about 20-25min each to break up the day
• gave myself the green light for an extended meditation time this morning
• planned the week's events with kiddos and updated the big Mamma-Jamma Family Calendar on the fridge
• implemented some new DIY beauty treatments today, i.e. doused my hair with a combo of coconut, olive and jojoba oil and left it in, wrapped it up and let in penetrate all day long 
• bought my fav produce to make sure I was excited for and enjoying what it was that I was eating
• stayed inspired by listening to different podcasts about food and weight loss by people like Michael Pollen and Marianne Williamson

I am on the home stretch. This is soooo not as bad as I thought it could potentially be (as my stomach is growling like a rabid dog). I just need to, oh gee, I don't know organize all of my closets until 9pm and get this day over with!