Read, Share, Repeat

I am going public. Oh, wait. I guess I already am, but now my blog has a dedicated Facebook page. You can look it up under Wake Me When Sanity Returns; it's a community page because, surprisingly, there isn't a place to make a page for a blog... Which just seems weird to me, but oh well, this works too.

If you find yourself so inclined by the hilarity of my life please, like and share the Facebook page.

Now onto the real shit.

Today is day five of the mild juicing adventure I am on. The more I think about it, with the addition of the protein powder to my homemade blends, I am not really juicing in the true sense. But, since I am enjoying a light breakfast and dinner, I suppose I was never really juicing to begin with. However, it's just easier to say that's what I am doing.

How am I feeling? Other than hungry, pretty good. I am on day three of strictness since my body decided to detox itself Sunday night. So breakfast has been light; the past two mornings it has been Kashi's Indigo Morning. Really good for a gluten free cereal, but I tend to find husks in my teeth throughout the day. Then I am drinking my smoothie; half at 10 and the other half at 1. Then around 3 (give or take a half hour) I am imbibing my Odwalla. Today I will be enjoying one of their protien drinks since I have found Wednesdays to be my "hungry" days, and protein helps with it. Dinners have been light, flavorful and full of veggies.

I gingerly placed myself upon the scale Monday morning, and will again Saturday or Sunday. I will share if there was any change, or none at all. We have been walking more this week. Since we haven't needed time to eat our lunches we have been walking. And since we have not needed to grab snacks at our morning break we have been walking further. We have also managed to snag an extra walk after work.

We will be continuing this experiment into next week. Since I do all my meal planning in weeks at a time, and we are coming up on the start of a new plan I was able to plan next week around foods that have freezable leftovers. So in a way this juicing experiment is also saving us some money.

I think this might become the normal practice for us once a season. Kind of do a juice cleanse/recenter our eating habits, etc. I think it will be a good way to keep us on track. You know I will share as we go.

Last night I had a dream about shoes... Now I can't remember if they were new shoes or shoes I had. I think I recall them looking like a pair I have but they were flats. So now it has me considering wearing said shoes from the dream. The heels are a bit higher than my normal everyday shoes, but that's why I have my trusted purple Nikes in my cubicle. They might get swapped out for my silver ones, because I miss having them at home. When we really start getting back into running and putting in more miles I will need to get new shoes. I should probably just get them now while we are walking so I can break them in. Maybe I will check out some shoes this weekend.

I'm pretty sure I have shared my method before, but then again maybe not. So I think in the next post I will try and throw out some info on how I do my meal planning.

I know, I know. I'm jumping all over the place with this post. To round it out, here is my review of the new Cabela's Store in Tualatin:

IT IS AWESOME! Seriously! It is. I freaking love it. I would live in it if I could. They have so much awesome outdoor and hunting and fishing gear. And the shoe selection amazed me. And oh my goodness the clothes. Even the baby loved the action! All the people, and all the animals that had been stuffed. She absolutely adored the cave with the fish tanks (which makes me think next summer we will totally need to make a visit to the Oregon Coast Aquarium). We also looked at the kid's toys, and I wanted to buy her all the stuffed animals. I eyeballed a spendy re-curve bow that I want (not a fan of compound bows, but might try some anyways). We just had fun the whole way around. And then we somehow managed to control ourselves and walk out of the store without purchasing anything!

As the title states: read, share, repeat!

Have a wonderful Wednesday, world!