Day 33

The days are blurring together at this point, haha, so I'm sorry I've been bad about posting.

We have both hit kind of a wall, I guess, with the weight loss part. I still feel like I'm losing inches, though, as things fit differently everyday. This past weekend, I put on an XL shirt, and was able to wear it out in public! I've been in a 2XL-3XL for at LEAST a year. I was SO STOKED. Andrew's able to get things on he hasn't been able to in awhile, and we're just so excited at all of the changes.

It's still really tough with cravings some days. We both wanted to cheat SO BADLY this weekend, but we didn't. We have been toying with only doing 45 days instead of 60. Not because we feel bad (because we don't), but because it's actually getting harder to resist for some reason. So we're thinking about going 45 days on juice only, then going the last 15 days on juice half of the time, and fruits and veggies only the rest of the day. So we'll see.

Also, for you nay-sayers about how no-meat-means-you're-not-getting-enough-protein: I highly recommend you go to Netflix or somehow find "Fork Over Knives". More powerful than "Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead" was (and you saw how we reacted to THAT film, haha!). There's no denying that meat is NOT a good thing for you, really, once you watch that film.

Andrew has lost 40 pounds, I have lost 33. It's been three days since I lost anything (I don't count the .4 pounds, haha), but I think it's because I'm not drinking as much water and a few other things. I've been sleeping really bad, my back has been hurting from hunching over slightly to write down recipes, and so I have been tossing and turning. Couple that with being nauseous during the day (which is why I've cut back on water), a suddenly needy cat at odd hours of the night, and it makes for one tired, drained lady. So I'm determined to drink lots of water today.

We went to see our doctor on Friday. He was SO PROUD of us! He did some blood work on me, and I got the results back this morning: my labs are "excellent", which is never a word used to describe my blood work before, haha. I actually have kicked the vitamin D deficiency in the booty, and don't have to take 5000 mg a day (in addition to 2 multivitamins). I can go down to 2000 mg, which is a HUGE improvement. My iron levels are great, and my thyroid is fine (always has been, but he keeps an eye on it just in case after what happened with Andrew). He had no concerns whatsoever.

Andrew spiked a fever Sunday night, so he stayed home from work yesterday and today. He also was having some serious stomach issues. I felt so bad for him, he just looked so pitiful yesterday. I got to leave early from work (still worked the first 5 hours, though) since we were slow, and I proceeded to rest up on the couch all day. We were in bed before the sun went down last night, and I was up feeling MUCH better this morning. A little nauseous still (and no, people: I'm not pregnant--and yes I'm sure, haha), but my PCOS medicine can randomly act up and start making me feel icky, so I'm sure it's just that. Plus I only have 5000 mg tablets of vitamin D that I've still been taking, so I am going to go to taking one of those every other day and see if that improves my stomach issue.

Work is going great, it's tax season for us. Since April 1st I only have had one day off, and so I'm just feeling drained from all of that. Working last Saturday was NOT fun, and I'm working this Saturday. The over-time is great, but it's already wearing me down. Can't wait until this month is OVER, haha.

I'm super stoked, I get to see my two oldest girlfriends this Thursday! Haven't seen Bob in MONTHS, and it's been awhile since Sara and I hung out properly. I'm going to take them the recipe book I've been working on and see what they think. Sara hasn't seen me since I was at around 12-14 pounds of weight loss, and I think there's a much bigger difference now, I can't wait to show her! Bob hasn't seen me since before I started, so I KNOW she'll notice a difference, haha! =)

I hope all of you had a wonderful Easter!!

Juice on!