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I finally attemped the fitness test - a few days late, but who's counting?



I first went for a brisk 30 minute walk outside as I said I would and brought my camera along and took a picture of the Eastern Screech owl sunning himself in the doorway of his house located in a neighbor's tree. I'm a sucker for the wildlife, what can I say.

So....when I returned I attempted fitness test #! - Cardio: pathetic - I was in the poor… Read more

ok - no coffee today! I substituted a pot of tea - Jasmine Tulsi mixed with one green tea bag - green tea is supposed to be good for detox so I figured it was ok (I hope) so I get a LITTLE caffeine but far better than coffee I'm sure. I like to mix ginger slices with my herbal tea and today I threw in a couple cardamom pods too - sooo good! sweetened with just a little agave syrup to take the edge off. fortunately I do love tea - I just love coffee more.



I did make the… Read more

today is better!



I admit I had coffee in my morning stupor, but only 1/2 cup - I am reducing. Aside from that I have only had the mango smoothie and I just ate some sunflower seeds and the remaining 1/4 avocado (since the recipe only called for 1/4 - what else was I supposed to do with it?). I did consume both servings of the smoothie however ;) I did not even eat lunch. I plan to make fresh wild caught tuna for dinner if I can find the sesame tuna recipe. I did not get any sea bass… Read more

Ok, if it was Martha....forgive me....I adore you Martha! but this is terrible! It's winter and all I want is pork roast, red cabbage and potato dumplings and all I get is brown rice, coconut milk and a kale/carrot/pear juice and some sunflower seeds. I usually eat heavy in the winter and my excuse is that I have to keep warm somehow?! So, depriving myself in the dead of winter (and a particularly freezing cold one at that) is pure HELL! How do you Northerners manage this detox thing? What was… Read more