If you know me or have read previous blogs you should know by now that I am a PICKY eater! I pretty much dislike all things veggie & lots of things fruit & love all things red meat, containing carbs or sugar or in a candy or donut form....so very healthy I know. I pray Mason doesn't inherit this from me! So I was a little worried while I chose to do this the thought of being strictly vegan & vegetarian for 3 days was very intimidating! So much so that after a not great day of eating yesterday I got into bed & had a moment of panic so I got up and made and embarrassing large peanut butter & honey sandwich, scarfed it down & went to sleep. (Sorry to my dentist no I did not rebrush my teeth 😬)
So this morning I woke up & the first thing I thought was man I'm already a little hungry. Then I thought well crap what a way to start this off! Blake brought us 10 ounces of water & we gulped them down. Followed by 1 tablespoon of lemon juice & 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar. I know this sounds disgusting but my hair dresser who is very big into fitness told me what a game changer it is so I've forced myself to just do it. I can say my appetite & sweets craving is totally different since starting this (Day 3 😕 Haha!) Every morning I would drink a diet Mountain Dew & the ACV has totally changed my love or want of that. Monday & Tuesday I didn't even finish a can of it.
Before we walked out the door I grabbed my vegan chocolate shakeology & 12 strawberries for breakfast. I chowed down on that on the way to drop Mason off & was actually feeling pretty great!
About 9:00 I made myself some Mother's Milk Tea (which is actually growing on me) and started to sip on that. About 9:30 I realized I had to wait an hour after the tea to go on to the next thing so I stopped sipping and gulped it down.
While my class was at counselor I had a thought of man I'm actually feeling skinny I wonder if I've lost weight yet! I then brought myself to the reality of its only been a whole 4 hours. 😂 I then texted this out to my group texts I chat in often because really.....that's me. 
At 11:00 it was time for fiber sweep. I've heard you should drink this immediately or it will gelatinize. I made the mistake of pouring the mix in before the water so It was all stuck to the bottom. I mixed it and chatted a bit while I mixed it. MISTAKE #1 of the refresh. When I drank it it was the consistently of jello that had been shaken up. I literally had to choke it down with my eyes watering and prayers going through my head. Tomorrow I will be drinking pretty much while shaking. 😝
By 12:05 when I could eat lunch I was feeling quite frankly a little hangry! I had 1 vanilla fresh shake, 1 Apple (the serving is half but I'm increasing by half an apple because I'm nursing & I mean it's HALF AN APPLE! What does one do with the other half? Trash it? Give it away to friends? Save it and it's brown? Nope I ate it & enjoyed every bite!) with the apple I had 1.5 tsp of unsweetened and unsalted almond butter & 3/4 cup of broccoli. Not the biggest fan of broccoli but it's never tasted as good as it did today. After finishing my lunch I realized I wasn't really hungry. My stomach wasn't hurting, rumbling, no headache, nothing. What I then realized my problem was.....I eat out of habit & boredom. Every day after lunch I have a snack while my kids take a 15 minute brain break & I eat an after lunch snack like crackers or a kind bar. Not out of hunger but boredom. That was a big eye opener for me.
Snack was 1.5 tsp of almond butter & 3/4 cup of broccoli. Yes you will see lots of repeats as I'm ok with repeats and don't like a big variety of veggies. Followed by a terrible lactation cookie. Seriously so terrible I have to hold my nose to finish eating it.
When I got home I had a cup of my Mother's milk tea. And by that time I was actually physically hungry. My tummy was growling, I was kind of grumpy, my head hurt & I was exhausted! I know the headache is from detoxing and the hunger is from over eating & well drastically reducing my calories. I may have had a hangry meltdown to Blake about how I felt I was about to starve to death, what had I gotten myself into, were we crazy?! Yes, I'm a bit irrational at times. 😂 He took that as a hint to start dinner and right he was!
For dinner we had 6oz of lemon green beans and a vanilla fresh shake. The green beans....so delicious. We will eat this all the time. 😋 I wasn't a fan of the vanilla fresh shake because I'm just so picky so I added some cinnamon and pure vanilla extract & it was so much better. I ate my dinner incredibly slow as to savor every bite! Then went though about 5 pieces of gum to busy my mouth & get rid of my sweet tooth. As I sit here typing I'm finishing some water & drinking my mother's milk tea.
My normal milk supply: 28-36 ounces a day. However lately it has been much lower.
Today's milk supply: 25 ounces.
While my milk supply is down a little today I will say I didn't finish my entire gallon of water 😔 So that could be part of it. Also, as long as I am able to continue producing enough to feed him each day I'm ok with it being a little low. I know I can boost it right back up after I'm done. I'm praying literally all day long it continues to be stable. I love nursing too much to lose it!
Today's take away:
1. I am a habitual & boredom eater so I need to be more aware of checking my hunger signals.
2. I need to do a better job drinking my water.
3. You're colder when drinking a lot of water so dress warmer if you classroom is cold. Tomorrow's outfit is a hoodie sweater with fleece lined leggings and boots. It may be 79 outside but it felt like 30 in my classroom.
4. While I joked about being hangry with my coworkers today I may not have been as peppy or energized as normal but I didn't really feel hangry until tonight.
Tomorrows goals:
Finish my gallon of water & start drinking it earlier
Drink my fiber sweep immediately
Try not to have an irrational pre dinner meltdown.
Before pictures (sadly a little regression since finishing hard corps)
Before pictures (sadly a little regression since finishing hard corps)
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