Getting and Staying Healthy After Fifty

11/28/08 (oops! Forgot to publish)

I spent the day yesterday in pain. I figured it was a healing crisis, so I finally took four ibuprofen and went to bed when I could stand it no longer. My gut just felt twisted, and I was having a hard time even standing up straight.

So I spent yesterday sipping O.J., and suffering. Today, I brewed up the veggie soup I will be eating for the next three days. It really isn’t much, not really homemade, and definitely not organic. This is what I put in:

1 can of potatoes
1 can of diced tomatoes
1 can of whole kernel corn
1 can of lima beans
1 can of kidney beans (for protein)
2 sliced carrots
2 sliced celery stalks
1 cup frozen okra
1 medium chopped onion
1 tsp chopped garlic
a little Nature’s Seasons
a tad of salt

All I can eat all day of this is the broth, and a few of the veggies with it tonight. I had forgotten how good veggie soup broth was! I always add meat to my veggie soup, so I hadn’t had any real veggie broth for awhile now. I’m definitely liking it, and of course, as it simmers away, the broth gets yummier and yummier each cupful.

I seriously could live on veggie soup, which is good, because I intend to live on it for the next three days, then go on a raw food diet. I think I have enough, but if not, I’ll just make some more.

Oh, and I have no idea how much weight I’ve lost, because it keeps fluctuating up and down according to my scale. I just know the bloat is gone in my upper belly, and my lower belly is much smaller. I’m thinking probably from 8-10 lbs. so far, if I’m judging by how my pants fit.

11/29/08

This veggie soup really is pretty good. Not what I’m used to, because I usually put beef in it, but I’m enjoying it.

Yesterday, I was putting 2 parts broth to 1 part veggies, and today I’m doing 2 parts veggies to 1 part broth.

On the upside, I just tried on my stretch/skinny jeans, and they actually pulled on over my butt. First time I’ve been able to wear them for two years. I tried my size 10’s, but they’re still too tight in the waist, so probably another ten days for those.

Tomorrow, I eat soup all day, then Monday, I start the juice fast with one meal in the evening. That should knock off another 10 lbs. by Christmas, doncha think? I hope so.

My belly is really flabby, so I’m starting calesthenics tonight. Just 25 reps of everything, but you have to start somewhere, right? I’ll do 25 for three days, add 1, then repeat until I’m up to 50. Then I’ll add one a day until I’m up to 100. By then it should be pretty easy to do 100 of each.

I’m really psyched! Even though I didn’t follow the master cleanse exactly, and cheated some, I still got the results I wanted, so I’m motivated to go forward with this.

Modified Juice/raw food fast, here I come!

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