Day 9: Operation HOPE

Today was a pretty uneventful day.  I'm still VERY tired and hurting a lot.

I was trying to figure out today why I'm so blah.  This has been going on since Sunday.  The fact that I'm tired could be playing a role in that.  I also thought that last week I was really running on a lot of adrenaline with starting this program.  Even though I'm still very thankful and happy to be doing this program, I'm not as excited as I was last week.  And, I don't mean that negatively, it's just the simple fact.  The "newness" of the whole thing is done.  I'm establishing a routine, I know what's expected and I know {pretty much} what I need to do.  I'm down to the nitty gritty of work...the meat and bones of the process.

I love Christmas and everything that goes along with it.  But, having it smack dab in the middle of this process is hard.  Not from a food stand point, but rather from a busyness stand point.  I have so much to do in such little time.  I'm trying to breathe and slow down in all I'm doing and need to do so that I can savor this time.

Tomorrow is day ten...that's just crazy!  Can't believe it.  Sleep first...then day ten!

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Day 9: Menu

Breakfast was two hard boiled eggs with one slice of turkey bacon, green tea and lemon water.  One word...YUM-O!!

Lunch was spaghetti squash with meat sauce, green tea and lemon water.  I was able to freeze 5-6 servings of this from last week.  I liked it so much better today than I did last week.  I think it was because it sat together and "marinated" while it was in the freezer.  I also realized today that I didn't add salt and pepper last week, so I did that.  It was really good and really filling.

Dinner was chili with avocado, salad, green tea, lemon water and four ounces of wine.  This is probably mine and my family's favorite dinner meal.  It's so good, and so amazing how healthy it is.  I could hardly finish the salad.  I wound up having a detox tea in place of the green tea.  In place of the four ounces of wine, I had Enjoy Life dark chocolate.  So. Good!!

Snacks were an apple and raw veggies with hummus.