Experiment Ending

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Hi all,
I’m planning to wrap up the green smoothie experiment. I’m feeling better and getting into the store again and it’s the middle of summer and I’m really wanting to eat some unblended fruit. In particular I’ve been obsessing about the fact that the pears will be in next month and I won’t be eating any. I ate 2 cases of organic pears last year in September & October. I’ve been going back and forth with myself for the past week. Part of me arguing that I shouldn’t mess with success. Another part of me saying I should be able to eat some watermelon or a bowl of fresh peaches if I want to.

So now that I’ve made the decision it’s just a question of how and when. The how isn’t that hard, I’ll just start to add a plate of fresh fruit for dinner. The when is a little trickier. I’d like to stop on a nice round number so when I think back on it I’m not thinking I lived on green smoothies for a little more then twenty four weeks or just shy of six months. I’d like it to be exactly twenty five weeks which it will be on Monday, or exactly six months which it will be on September 5th. I’ll give the date some more thought.

Since the experiment was about living on green smoothies exclusively, I think I’ll be wrapping up this blog as well. I’ll leave it up for a while for people to look at. I may start up another blog about my continued journey eating a raw food diet (which will still contain lots of green smoothies). But I’m not real sure about that. I’ve not felt like blogging much or hanging out on the internet in recent weeks. But that’s happened to me before where I’ll just get burnt out on the internet for a few months and then I’d go back to it again visiting all my old stomping grounds. We’ll see. I’ll be doing at least one or two more entries.

In other news, the garage sale was a huge success. We were going to go Monday through Friday of this week and we chose this week because there is a huge kite festival on the beaches here so we knew there would be lots of city folks with city money in town. Sure enough, in just two days they bought more then 75% of what we had and we made over $500.00. The festival wraps up next weekend and there will be even more people coming into town so we decided shut it down for the week and then open for ½ a day on Saturday to see if we can’t get rid of the last few bits and pieces. Today we’re off to the city ourselves to spend some of that city money.

I’ll wrap this up with some stats.

Statistics:
Height: 5 foot, 11 inches. (180 centimeters)
Weight loss since March 1 2007: 124.4 pounds (56.43 kilograms)
Weight today: 403.8 pounds (183.16 kilograms)
Weight Last Wednesday: 408.2 pounds (185.16 kilograms)
Weight March 5th 2007: 515.6 pounds (233.87 kilograms)
Weight March 1st 2007: 528.2 pounds. (239.59 kilograms)