Weight Release Journey Day 1

Today is the day that I finally made up mind to stop holding on to the rest of this excess weight and get back to the point where I cause traffic accidents like I used to in high school, lol. I'm so not exaggerating. That really happened. I was so fine in high school a guy crashed into a stop sign because he was looking at me as I walked to the store. My measurements were 38-26-38 and I was wearing a size 12/14. I've never been a skinny chick, and frankly I don't want to be one. I just want to be healthy again. I want to feel good again. I want to be able to buy clothes on sale again. You know the bigger sizes are always the first to go and by the time the store has a sale my size (18) is always gone.

I became a vegetarian almost 2 years ago and I lost 50 lbs. by just eliminating animal foods from my diet and practicing yoga on a daily basis. I didn't exercise that much afterwards and I've hit a wall since then with my weight fluctuating 5-20 lbs. I still have another 65 lbs. of excess weight to release. I know you're probably thinking "Damn! She lost 50 lbs. and still has another 65 to go? How big was she before?" I'm not, nor have I ever been ashamed of or felt guilty about my weight, so I'll tell you. I maxed out at 275 lbs. I now weigh 225. My goal weight is 155-160. I'm 5'5 1/2 with a large bone structure so if I got down below 140 I'll start to look like a crack head.



I have made a plan and I'm sticking to it. I just came back from Super Walmart and I splurged on some fruits and veggies. I've decided that I'm going to make the majority of my diet raw fruits, veggies, nuts, and seeds and that I'm going to only have one cooked meal a day. The rest of the day I'm grazing on dishes made with raw fruits, veggies, nuts and seed. I already drink plenty of water and I don't drink a lot of juice. It's been years since I've drank a soda, so that won't be a problem. For example, tonight I brought snow peas, which I'm munching on raw right now as I type this (they're really good raw, you must try them), some Fuji apples, mushrooms, raw cashews and 3 differnt types of Bolthouse Farms organic fruit & veggie juice blends. I got the Green Goodness, the 100% Carrot Juice, and the Blue Goodness. All of these juices are not from concentrate and flash pasteurized. They're expensive, but worth every penny. They'll be a good addition to my smoothies.

So I'm thinking that if I do a smoothie in the morning made with fruits, veggies, and nuts for breakfast, some type of veggie sandwich or wrap for lunch, dried fruits and seeds as snacks, and for dinner stuff like beans & rice or basil pesto & whole wheat pasta with a salad...always have a salad with cooked food. Eating like this along with the herbal supplements I'm taking, working out with the new belly dance workout DVD, and getting back to doing yoga everyday like I used to will get me back to the point to where I have my dangerous curves back. Oh yeah, I gotta stop eating my daddy's sweet potato pies too, lol.