She’s Back

(started this on Tuesday evening, finished on Wednesday afternoon)

Well in case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t blogged in a while. We went to pick up Kerrie from college, visited with Kelly while we were there (she lives there year round) and when we got home Bonnie, Lee and the kids had moved into their new house. Busy weekend. I spent most of the rest of it reorganizing everything and cleaning. It’s kind of nice to have my house back and Bonnie and Lee are in their really great new home, so all is good.

Kerrie and I have “gone vegan.” Well…I have, Kerrie’s been vegan for a while. Not sure how long I can sustain this, but I wasn’t sure if I could do the vegetarian thing either. It’s been 2 days and it’s not bad. We’ve been having fun coming up with healthful meal ideas.

Tonight we watched the 1^st half of Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead. A really good documentary about a fat guy named Joe from Australia who was way over weight, had a debilitating skin disease and all around not doing well. He came to the U.S., started in NYC then traveled the country talking to people and consuming only water and juice made from fruits and veggies. Lots of greens. He let people try it and asked what they thought. He met an even larger man who was a truck driver and had the same skin disease, which is pretty weird because it’s very rare. Anyway…we watched Joe lose a ton of weight, now tonight we’re going to watch Phil’s story. It’s a pretty good documentary, full of useful info and entertaining as well. He tells part of his story with animation, so that’s always fun. I gotta get me one of those cool juicers he has. Kerrie’s in the kitchen making a smoothie for us for lunch. She’s using my magic bullet but the juicer would be better.

So I’ll keep you posted on the new phase of Sherry’s Health Journey!

Almost forgot Monday was weighday! 196.6 I lost 2 pounds this week and 10.1 overall! I love reaching the little milestone marks. 186.6 here we come!

Tuesday – Exercise – 20 minutes; 1.1 miles

• Breakfast – A banana, piece of whole grain toast with organic peanut butter and 1 cup of iced oolong tea.
• AM Snack – ½ an avocado
• Lunch – brown rice, refried black beans and salsa.
• PM Snack – a few pita chips  
• Dinner – salad, a steamed artichoke (I’ve never eaten one without dipping it in garlic butter or curry/mayo. They’re pretty tasty all on their own without dipping!) and spaghetti with no meat sausage