I went back to bed until about 9:30am. I feel much better now. No headache so far and I'm not aching as much as I was yesterday. For breakfast I had a banana, some pecans and some raisins (probably a 1/4 cup of each). The dishes have finished, they are just drying now. I actually started a load of laundry even though I'm home alone. I still have anxiety about using water appliances but I'm using them anyway (shower, dishwasher, clothes washer, etc.). This is a major breakthrough for me.
It's still a bit odd that all that we have to eat is fruits, veggies, nuts and seeds. I was kind of stumped about what to have for breakfast since we have no eggs, milk or cereal. I do have those bagels left so I need to get rid of them today along with the cream cheese. Just knowing it's there is tempting me. I'm not much for eating during the day (unless it's junk food) but I'm going to try to have something every 4 hours or so. Not sure what we will juice today. I'm thinking I'll make a salad for lunch after David gets home. We'll probably juice in the late afternoon. I think I'm afraid to juice because I don't know what each type of juice will taste like. It's not that much work to juice and cleanup is very easy so it's not that. It's definitely the juice itself that scares me.
David will be home through Wednesday. The cleaning lady comes tomorrow at 10:30am. David has a doctor's appointment on Tuesday at 12:50pm. He's seeing a neurologist for the shaking in his hand. It is quite pronounced at times. I'm hoping that changing the way we eat will help both of us with our health issues. I know we won't have dramatic results if we're eating and juicing but it's better than what we were doing. I haven't had a soda in 4 days! No candy, chips or ice cream either. The sorbet I made last night helped with the sweets cravings. The taste kind of surprised me. It's so powerful. I'm going to have to get used to tasting so many different foods. I'm so used to eating bland foods along with the sodas and junk food that actually tasting food is overpowering. They do say in the videos I've watched that your taste buds will change and adapt to the fruits and veggies. I hope that doesn't take too long. :/
I'm not sure why I'm feeling so nervous this morning about changing the way we eat. Maybe the reality is sinking in since I have all the food here and I don't want it to go to waste. There's a responsibility to eating like this. I think part of the nervousness is doing laundry while I'm home alone. It's just carrying over into the eating thing. I guess I'm also worried about juicing for David for work. I don't want that to always be up to me. He needs to be able to do it in those times that I can't right now. I'm hoping we can do it together in the evening to prepare for his work day. We only have to juice 32 oz for him to have breakfast and a snack. He can have a salad for lunch from the cafeteria. At some point this may not be an issue because I'll have more energy and can take care of the juicing and even make him a salad for work but that time is not here yet.
Wow, it's almost 11am already. The days go by fast. I still have lots of laundry to do. There are shirts in the dryer that need to be put away and towels and sheets to be washed after this load of clothes is done. I'm used to doing just one load of laundry but today will have three loads Ugh! I better make sure I eat so I'll have the energy to take care of that stuff.
Okay, time to put shirts away and to try to stop thinking about junk food...
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