Epic FAIL

Well, the morning started out really well!  Aside from putting ice that was clumped in the blender and almost burning the motor up when it got stuck, I successfully made the first 2 smoothies.  The first was the easiest, but not cold which is why I went to put ice in the second one.  They were both banana, blueberries, and baby spinach.  They were okay, but adding a packet of Stevia to sweeten it made a big difference for the taste.  I made a 3rd one with strawberries and bananas with the baby spinach and it was even better, still had to add a packet of stevia though.  Took a few sips of it, but figured I would finish the blueberry banana smoothie.  


An hour later...how do we say "STARVING"?  I was stark-raving HUNGRY for food for the first time in a LONG time.  The rest of today, I felt like I couldn't get enough to eat!  I fell off the bandwagon really fast :(  I had an apple after that hour and it helped.  But I got hungry again really fast.  Ate a handful of raw almonds.  That helped some.  But by lunch, I not only had a mind-blowing headache, I felt like I was going to pass out.  Got some tea to go with the almonds and with the little bit of tea I had left, took some BC Powder which did help.  However, the "hunger" I felt would not go away and I wound up eating cooked food.  ARGH!  Same for dinner :(


My honey did much better than me.  Being at work with no money, he had like 5 oranges and 6 peaches and some raw almonds along with, in his words, "probably 5 gallons of water"!  He ate the "cooked" meal I made for dinner.  I really bombed today! :(


So, I went searching for answers as to WHY we (yes, he said he had the EXTREMELY HUNGRY feeling too AND the headaches) felt so hungry and at least I found this on a raw lifestyle forum:  "Stress Hunger": The Cause Of Obesity.  What WE thought was hunger was our body TRYING to detox from decades of SAD eating!


Tomorrow, back on track.  I think I will put a little less spinach and more fruit in the green smoothies.  I still have mangos, pears, pineapple, bananas, blueberries, strawberries, and a few oranges, but I bought the oranges for Kenny.  I like them okay, but he LOVES them so I got what he loves to take to work.  I want more peaches though!  Those were sooooo GOOD!  Oh, and I've got to make sure I drink lots more water and eat those apples and/or organic apple juice to prepare my body for the weekend:  liver/gallbladder cleanse.  


Trying to get healthy is extremely hard when you've eaten the SAD diet all your life!  I need LOTS of encouragement!  Not that the food is bad.  Quite the contrary!  The fruit is delicious and the smoothies weren't that bad.  And I LOVE raw nuts and seeds (that will be my problem is NOT overeating them)!  


We WILL do this!