I'm Done with Liquid

Yesterday was my final day on the 48 hour liquid diet. Some of you have asked, "Does it work? Have you lost weight?" It's hard to tell if I lost any weight or if it was an effective diet, but I will say that I don't think this diet is for me.

Reason being, I know how to eat well. I know how to diet and exercise. I know what foods are good and which ones are "bad". My issue with the liquid diet is I'm pretty sure I consumed more calories on this diet, because I felt like I had to. I work out pretty hard and I work eight hours a day, so in my mind, I'm thinking that I need food and energy and calories to keep me going.

All this to say, this diet is perfect for someone like Jamie, because he thrives off of restrictions and has much better discipline than I do. He's lost almost 20 pounds by doing a liquid diet 3-4 days out of the week. He looks awesome. He is awesome :)

Let's go back to yesterday.

I woke up to this gorgeous sunrise yesterday:

Loving the clouds!

Yesterday morning, I had some of this strawberry banana fruit juice around 6:00 AM before I walked Leia and went to my weight training class:
Check out what is in this juice:
That stuff is just like Naked juice but a little cheaper. I love how fresh and natural it is. No funky ingredients. Love it.

After my workout, around 8:45, I had a low calorie blue Gatorade:
Around 9:45, I made a chocolate covered strawberry smoothie:

In this smoothie is:

• Handful of frozen strawberries
• 1/2 cup strawberry yogurt
• 1/4 cup skim milk
• Handful of baby spinach
• 1 large scoop of chocolate protein powder
• 1 teaspoon ish of cocoa powder

Yum! It's so sweet and so delicious and soooooo filling!!! I drank that sucker and wasn't even remotely hungry until around 3:00 that afternoon!

So around 3:00 ish, I went to Smoothie King:

Pineapple Surf is my new favorite Smoothie King smoothie. Oh. My. Yum.

That thing kept me full until around 8:00 last night, and then I made me and Jamie some hot chocolate.

I went to bed with a tummy ache and a headache. Not sure if it was because I hadn't had any food food or what, but I didn't feel awesome.

You know what did make me feel awesome? Waking up and eating this bright and early this morning:
Oh how I've missed you, my dear banana and peanut butter!

The liquid diet is probably great for some people, like Jamie, but I didn't like it for me. I just really like food. A lot.

Oh. And I cheated. Just a little. Monday night, I was DYING!!! So I had a cracker. A single stinkin' cracker. One single solitary cracker. Jamie said that I failed the whole 48 hours, but I don't think I did :)

Stupid diet.

Change of subject.

I was blow drying my hair this morning and Leia was looking pathetic, so I sat down and this is where she landed:
What a little cuddle bug.

I came home from work for lunch and here she goes, cuddling again:
How can you resist this furry lug of sweet preciousness?:
Oh and if only you could smell her tostito paws. I know I've talked about her tostito feets before in this blog post. Don't make fun of me until you've smelled her paws. I'm telling you, they're tostitos.

By the way, auto correct keeps trying to correct my "tostitos" and make it "tomtits". Oh good gosh. I'm too immature for that.

Tomtits.

Bah!!

Anyways, I'm waiting for Jamie to get home from his class, watching Kate Plus 8. Never seen this before. Oh Kate...you're a mess.

Love y'all! Hope you've had a great day!