Day 11: Still Doing Well, Mostly.

Needless to say, I've been exhaustively paying the price for my food bender, but I am feeling much better today. For some reason I have been crazy hungry (possibly dehydrated) and eating everything in sight! I am hoping that once I get 100 percent back on board, some of the weird cravings will stop. I have PMDD and right around mid-month, my moods and hunger go crazy! Then I'm fine again. I am actually considering going to see a doc about it and then maybe it will level out some. :-) (And I apologize to those on my Girl on Fire page who put up with my PMDD, lol!)

I have been meeting some new friends by way of Facebook groups. For those of you unfamiliar with groups vs pages, a page is mostly one person posting and others commenting on those posts, and the groups are multiple people posting with one or two moderators making sure no one steps out of bounds or posts against the grain, so to speak. Having the outlet of groups is great, it is so much fun to learn new things from people. I am a non-denominational Christian (or more specifically, a member of a church with a long name that states its autonomy. Fancy fixings there!) and one of my favorites is Christian Vegans. I have met some amazing people there and have learned so much about the Bible from a lot of different perspective! And as a runner, I am a participant in a Vegan athletes group, of which I am too new to know the full name, but it is a lot of fun!

On an unrelated note, here is a fancy new smoothie pictured somewhere other than my bookshelf:

 

The smoothie recipe was a slight bust as I realized if you throw blackberries and raspberries into a beverage you'll be picking seeds out of your teeth for the next five hours, lol! Still, I basically put strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, kale, and coconut milk together and blended in my trusty Vitamix, and it was sort of alright. I didn't make nearly enough of it though, normally my smoothies yield enough to feed a small village, but today I barely had enough for one glass! Next time will be better, lol.

 

I am also going to do some running at some point. I have been lazy lately, just overwhelmed by the changes I'm making and didn't really want to do a full overhaul, but add things in piece by piece. :-) I intend fully to go back to my training regimen and try out some fancy vegan sports products (I have never been able to comfortably digest anything made by traditional sports beverage/gel/chew makers except maybe Nuun, but it tastes funky to me.) So we'll see if Vega fits the bill. I have been using 1st Phorm and if the Vega products don't work I fully intend to stay with 1st Phorm. :-) But it never hurts to try some different things too!

 

Well, I am going to do some Chemistry homework, learning about liquids and solids, woohoo! ;-) Have a great day all, be blessed and enjoy the journey!