May 19 & 20

Saturday and Sunday, all day long, I had the Arden's Garden 2-day detox juice. It's a gallon each day, which is comprised of 80 oz distilled water, 24 oz grapefruit juice, 16 oz orange juice, and 8 oz lemon juice. I did get some heartburn Saturday night, which was no fun at all! But I took some Tums and went to sleep. I FINALLY got a good night of sleep this week! This detox was worth it just for that!

Saturday was difficult for a few reasons. For starters, the smell of BBQ ribs in the slow cooker for hours was pure torture! Then my mom made potato salad, and since I was having a craving for eggs, that was rough too. But I did it, I passed up every opportunity of food. At dinner time when I needed some motivation, I got on the scale and it made me happy so I didn't want to do anything to reverse that! I also got the chance to jump on the trampoline with my nieces a bit. It was so fun, I love having them over, they make me feel like a kid again.

Today is Sunday and the yummy smells from the kitchen were again simply treacherous. For breakfast, my older brother fried up some sort of meat (chicken fried steak?) plus there were blueberry pancakes and eggs. Then my little darlings had a picnic outside, it was too cute for words. Just before they had to go back home, my freakin mother made a batch of fried bread and donuts. Any time she makes dough for fried bead, you better believe it's accompanied with pans of homemade biscuits and loaves of bread. I never wanted to cave so bad. But I resisted. I kept hearing a couple important messages from Jen's blog. The first was nothing tastes as good as being thin feels (she likes to replace 'thin' with 'healthy,' and I think that's a better fit as well). And she's made a point that in the moment, something may taste great, but it's usually not SOOO great that it's worth throwing away the effort you've made thus far.

Last night and today, in search of inspiration to keep my mind in the right place, I've been reading a lot of Jen's blog over at itsuxtobefat.com. She's so awesome! I emailed her to let her know I've mentioned her on my blog (even though I don't have any traffic, it felt like the respectful thing to do) and I actually got a response back, she seems to be a real sweet lady. I just read today about her first ever half-marathon and this lady has got me dreaming BIG. I don't think I qualify as a 'runner' just yet, but I enjoyed all the running I did last year, and reading about her journey inspires me to get back to something I used to love. Jen is a major goal setter, and I'd like to aspire to be that as well. It's the only thing that will keep me progressing on this journey!

Tomorrow's my first day of training at work (and it lasts 5.5 weeks!). I'm so excited. Better get to bed!