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Since Mary was home yesterday we got started on some of our preparations for the upcoming garage sale. I was actually able to work for quite a few hours yesterday with periodic rest breaks/naps. I feel like I have quite a bit more stamina then I have had in the past. Yea for Green Smoothies!
So, sorting through all of our stuff is kind of emotional. You realize how attached you are to bits and pieces you’ve collected. I came across a trunk for my adult son who now lives in another state. I didn’t know I had it. It didn’t have much in it so I decided to repack it in a cardboard box and send it to him. It was an odd collection of old cards, driver’s licenses, college papers, sea shells and rocks, Karate belts, and maybe a dozen zip lock sandwich bags with $2.00 bills in them, etc. He’s 27 and very busy and I wonder if he’ll take a moment to look through the box and reflect or if he’ll just shove it in a closet to be dealt with later. I’m guessing it will go into the closet unopened.
My big thing is books (Mary’s will be clothes). I had six shelves of books in the living room and an additional five or six boxes in the garage. And most of these books have survived a couple of moves because they were considered too precious to part with. Well, our local library holds an annual book sale of donated books every Labor Day weekend to raise money and we’ve donated to them before. So yesterday and this morning I’ve been packing books in boxes for them. Mary bought 10 small boxes on Sunday and I’ve filled all of them up to be donated to the library and it looks like I’m going to need 5 or 6 more boxes. I’ve got the books I just can’t part with down to 1 ½ shelves which I think will fit into a single small box. Almost all of them are books related to my ongoing Buddhists studies. I even went so far as to cut out two pages with my favorite poems from one of Jim Harrison’s books and then throw the rest of the book away as it was falling apart. I’m planning to travel light.
I also came across a bag of dress up clothes that I may be able to fit into again. I’ll likely try them on in the next few days. I don’t really have anywhere to wear them (I never really was one for dressing up) and I imagine they’ll only fit me for six months and I’ll have to part with them anyway. Perhaps I’ll hold onto them for a few more months and wear them in my monthly video journals. That should be a hoot!
Well, today is more of the same. I’m feeling fine. Still living on green smoothies. It seems so normal to me now it’s hard for me to believe anyone would want to read a blog about it. I was thinking about how scared I was at first to try living on green smoothies. Would I cause myself irreparable damage? Would my hair and teeth start to fall out? It’s funny that I never worried about irreparable damage when I was living on lattés, cinnamon rolls, and Teriyaki chicken. It’s kind of like when I first considered becoming a vegetarian in the early 80’s. I was carefully trying to get a “complete protein” by adding dairy products to each meal. Then when I first considered not eating dairy. It was so ingrained in me that milk = good health. The whole time I was growing up milk was served to me at every meal and for snacks as well. OH NO! I feel a rant coming on, I think I’ll spare you and wrap this up for the day with the usual.
VW
Yesterday’s 2 quart Green Smoothie Recipe:
228 grams Earthbound Farms Mixed Baby Greens [Organic baby lettuces (red & green romaine, red & green oak leaf, lollo rosa, tango), organic red & green chard, organic mizuna, organic arugula, organic frisée, organic radicchio.]
102 grams Raw Onion
22 grams Raw Garlic
22 grams Fresh Lemon Juice
684 grams Frozen Mango
18 grams Organic Whole Flax Seeds
32 ounces filtered tap water
I had an additional 48+ ounces of water and 4 Rolaids. No other food, beverages, supplements, or medications.
Nutritional Breakdown utilizing Nutridiary:
Calories: 655
Fiber: 25 grams
Fat: 8 grams, 10% of total calories
Carbohydrates: 153 grams, 82% of total calories
Protein: 15 grams, 8% of total calories
Elimination: 2BM, normal
Menses: Most recent: 6/3/07, Prior: 5/3/07, Prior: 4/5/07, Prior: 03/10/07, Prior: 2/11/07
Exercise for yesterday:
10 minutes neck stretches
Approximately 5 hours sorting boxes of books and such.
Statistics:
Height: 5 foot, 11 inches. (180 centimeters)
Weight loss since March 1 2007: 97.2 pounds (44.09 kilograms)
Weight today: 431.0 pounds (195.5 kilograms)
Weight yesterday: 431.8 (195.86 kilograms
Weight March 5th 2007: 515.6 pounds (233.87 kilograms)
Weight March 1st 2007: 528.2 pounds. (239.59 kilograms)
10 comments:
Getting close to that 100 pound mark. Way to go!!!
RTM
Your book gifting is a very timely inspiration for me. I can't tell you!
I may be just about ready to let go of huge parts of my past studies...how I can cling to books. Every year I usually give away bags and bags full, but this year they have mostly been sitting somewhere else in storage due to open houses and moving. Many of them I have missed, I really feel a loss, some are probably collecting mold and I wish I could just get rid of more and use the library more, so I don't have to worry about them and get so attached to them. I may start selling my books online once I get them back in about a month.
I am glad you wondered out loud why so many people want to read your smoothie blog. I have wondered why I read it. It is like a great teacher, writer, or professor can make any subject very interesting, it really doesn't matter what it is. I always said if my greek professor had been teaching swimming instead I would have majored in swimming. If something is written well people will get there to read it. Maybe part of it for your writing is the honesty and kindness. I have come to realize I like the idea of living off green smoothies, I think I would really like to do that someday. I like learning what it is like for you, I had never thought about the not being able to drive part, that is really hard. Being overweight is so common in this country I feel like I should know these things.
Wow. I totally understand what you mean about milk=health. I thought that too for the longest time. Just this morning I found a website called "the milk acne connection" which talks about a paper on this very subject written in the 1960's! I wish I had known about this--but mostly I'm glad I know now. I hope you are very proud of not only your progress, but of how you inspire others to a better way of living.
Saeran
What a great idea for a blog and for taking action towards better health!
I have one question for you- how do those smoothies taste to you? I intend on trying some of your recipes, but have tried green smoothies before and found them..not very palatable. Any advice? I would prefer drink green smoothies with no fruits (except avocado!)
I have read that mixing fruit with vegetables (and any other type of fruit) is not the best idea because fruit is digested quicker. What do you think?
-Caroline
http://www.rawlifestyle.wordpress.com
I like the way, when it's time to prepare for something that needs doing, ya just get to it...I'm such a procrastinator...
...there's lotsa reasons we read your blog, silly! & everyone also has their own unique reasons, but for me, the reasons are: I want to see you completely succeed in reaching your goals, & enjoy watching you progress...
...& you inspire me to persevere!
Also, your way of expressing yourself & this adventure you're on is really fun to read, & educational at the same time!
& your honesty with the process, & what you're experiencing is so nice to see!
You can always take the clothes into a consignment store when you're done with that size, they always have a shortage of nice plus sized clothes (unless it's what the store specializes in, there's usually only one rack in the whole store...)
Have a great week!
~Anastazia~
I was chatting to one of my students today about mik and how the dairy industry and government joined forces to promote it's so called goodness blah, blah, blah.
Milk is still new to Japan. Calcium came from green produce only - then the western way of thinking spoiled it all
em
xxx
Anti-Milk Rant? Allow me. Once I quit dairy I finally quit getting migraines and terrible nausea that had just become a daily thing. Once I couldn't tolerate dairy I just was getting so sick until finally someone said try quitting dairy and I was immediately better! I was so glad to know this. That was about 8 years ago that I quit that crap. Dairy is not the most absorb able form of calcium even when you can digest it. I was so mad that I had been brainwashed all those years thinking I needed that toxic cow pus, hormone, baby cow food. No other animal in the animal kingdom drinks milk as an adult much less the milk of another species. I shut up now.
RTM,
Thanks for stopping by and leaving me a supportive comment.
Anastazia,
Thanks for the positive feedback on my blog…I wasn’t fishing for compliments I swear. (Smile)
Saeran,
I think in the future milk will be considered as dangerous as cigarettes and no one will even consider feeding that substance to a child.
Rawlifestyle-caroline,
Nice to meet you. I just checked out your blog. Nice. I’ve added you to my blogroll.
Em,
May the wise people of Japan not get sucked into the “Got Milk” mentality.
Elizabeth,
I also am a little ticked off about being deceived about the importance of milk and I feel particularly unhappy about having forced milk on my son (now age 27) when he was a toddler.
I hope all of you have the day off and are enjoying friends and family.
VW
You and your loves live in a purple cottage? How cool is that?!
Wishing you well...just discovered your blog! You're doing so great!
Apasaraw
Apasara,
So nice to meet you. Thanks for the well wishes. It’s not just purple, it’s shockingly purple. (Smile). I picked the color from a ribbon that Mary used to wrap my Valentine’s gift the year we moved into the house. We took the ribbon to the paint store and had them match it. Mary is also a member of the Red Hats and I’ve often thought when we replace the roof we should get red metal so it will be a red hat house.
VW
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