Losing Weight

So far, I'm doing really good with juicing.  I'm really enjoying all the different combination's of fruit and vegetables.  You have to get past the weird colors they can produce but once you do, you find they are very yummy!  And I'm starting to lose weight too!  No Lipofuze for me :)  I've been juicing for a couple of weeks now and I would recommend it to anyone!

Juicing

So far, I'm really enjoying juicing!  I've been using my 365 Recipes for Juicing and Smoothies book and I've doing the detox week right now.  There has only been one day where the juice wasn't that great.  It wasn't horrible but the only thing I could think of when I was drinking it was that it tasted earthy.  Next week, I'm going to still use recipes from the book but I'm picking my own.  It's still early with all this and I'm hoping that it helps me lose a little weight but if nothing else, at least I'm getting more vitamins and more energy!  I think even though we moved the elliptical down into the basement, I'm ready to get back on a good schedule with that too.  Since the basement is pretty cold, it will probably help keep me cool while I'm using it :)  I would still like to look into to different fitness equipment and find some other things to work out on too.

New Craft Room

A friend of mine recently turned a room in her house into her new craft room.  I told Lloyd I was a little jealous because I would love a craft room and he said that I should turn our office/storage room into my craft room.  I'm the only one who ever uses it anyway, so it makes sense.  We went and bought the paint today.  I decided on a really pretty light shade of green.  Then I think I'm going to get some curtains that have green and purple in them.  I have so many ideas and can't wait to get started.  I've been looking online to get some ideas and have found some pretty neat ones!  I've already taken a few "before" pictures and once I have the room all done, I'll post those with the "after" pictures.

I finally got my recipes book that has 365 recipes for juicing.  I'm really excited about trying them out!  There are a few that really don't sound appealing at all but most of them sound yummy!  I think juicing is going to be a great way to get more vitamins and lose a little weight.  No more looking for quick fixes and finding those "best diet pills" ads.  Those would never work for me anyway because I HATE taking pills!  Once I've tried a few recipes (they have smoothie ones too), I'll share the ones that I think are tasty!

Yesterday Was Rough!

I think Lauryn had one of her hardest days yet yesterday!  It started in the morning.  She wanted to sit on her potty, so I took her into the bathroom and helped her get her pajama bottoms off and after a few minutes, I decided to let her sit there by herself and hopefully, she'd use the potty.  After about a minute, she came out and wanted to give me hugs and kisses.  This is very sweet but it's also what she does in attempt to run around bare bottomed when she's supposed to be on the potty.  I gave her hugs and kisses and told her to go back and sit on the potty.  She started to go back in to the bathroom, turned around and started getting fussy.  I didn't know why she was upset until I noticed a little "sprinkle" on the carpet.  I tried calming her down and telling her that it was "okay" and "just an accident" but she was pretty upset.  Later, after her nap, she had eaten her lunch really good and we were getting ready to go visit with our neighbors.  Lauryn coughed a little and I looked over my shoulder to make sure she was okay and she looked fine and then a minute later, the poor girl threw up all over the kitchen floor!  Again, she was upset and crying saying, "Mess, mess!" and I was trying to calm her down and clean it up.  I think she has a weak stomach like her mama used to have and even little coughs can mean big trouble.  She seemed totally fine after all of that so we went next door to see the neighbors and after just a couple of minutes, Lauryn fell in the driveway and scraped up both knees and both elbows.  It was just not her day yesterday!

On a completely different note, I think I'm going to try juicing.  I love fruit, but don't eat nearly enough vegetables so I thought I'd give juicing a try and incorporate more vegetables into my diet that way.  I'm really excited about it and I like the idea of getting Lauryn into drinking fresh juice and getting more vitamins too!  I'm still trying to lose weight and although I did a lot of research before on what are the best diet pills for women, that's just not the route I want to go.  If anyone has ever done juicing before, I'd love to get some opinions, recipes, etc. :)