Update: The Fast

Four days in and I'm still going strong.  I've been doing an apple or orange for breakfast, a rice cake with natural peanut butter for lunch, and usually some sort of salad for dinner.  I haven't been getting as creative with dinners as my cohorts, so I've decided I needed to step it up.

Last night I decided to make stuffed peppers.  I sauteed some diced onions and mixed them in with brown rice and black beans.  Not my ideal stuffing mixture, but it had to do.  After an hour of prep work, the peppers were stuffed and ready to be cooked. I opened the preheated oven door to a big "Woomp Wah."  Nothing.  My oven wasn't working!  Here's the embarrassing part:  I don't know when it stopped because I haven't used it  in almost four months.  I found out today  the pilot light had gone out from lack of use and not something major.  Oops!

NOT what my peppers looked like!

For my mushy microwaved stuffed pepper side dish, I went with some spinach leaves drizzled with a little balsamic vinegar.  To top off my pleasant meal experience (and about five minutes in to Million Dollar Listings New York),a piece of spinach hit my fork just right and shot vinegar directly into my eye.  SON OF A B****!  I had to drop everything a run to a sink to splash water on my eye.

I hope my weekend in the kitchen goes better.  If not, it's back to rice cakes for me.  This weekend will be my first not-drinking-while-being-capable-of-drinking-in-a-drinking-environment experience, so wish me luck! 

The Fast

After completely destroying my liver last Saturday, I figured it's time to give my body a break.  A 21 day break to be more exact.  Ladies and gentlemen, I've decided to begin the Daniel Fast. 

The Daniel Fast is a 21 day fast limited to fruits, vegetables, and water. This means no meat, dairy, bread, sugar, alcohol, caffeine or anything else that's good in life.  I should also mention this fast is for the body, soul and spirit.  It's meant to be coupled with a spiritual goal.  

My friend just finished this fast and said she's never felt better.  I'm very anxious to see how this works for me.  It does help that a friend in my office is also doing this with me, so as long as I can keep her away from the Hershey Kisses and she can keep me away from the bottle of vodka I have stashed in my desk (kidding), I think we'll be okay.

Here we go, March 20th, day one of the fast.  So far, so good.  I had an orange for breakfast just like every other morning, minus my cup of coffee.   Woohoo, two hours in and I'm still going strong! We'll see if I'm still as enthusiastic about this in a few days.

To be continued...

My Saturday with Lily

It's been awhile since my last post, but I promise it's with good reason.  My life has completely done a 180, but for the better.  I have the best, most loyal friends in the world and a family who would do anything for me.  I truly have never been happier and that's all I'm going to say about that.

I asked a dear friend who is always asking me when I'm going to post again to pick my next topic.  So for your reading pleasure, I give you my Saturday with Lily.

Lily is my 11 month old niece.  See, isn't she cute?  Most people say we look just alike and I agree.

 Two Saturdays ago, I got a phone call at 8am from my mom.  Usually I'm up and around no later that 7am, but this particular morning was a little different.  The night before was a late night of pub crawling with friends.  I ignored the first few calls, but after three in a row, I knew I'd better answer.

My mom informed me that herself, my dad, and brother Connor all had a stomach bug and asked if I could pick up Lily so she wouldn't catch it.  Being the good person I am, I agreed and off to my parents house to pick up the little tyke I went.  I ran in, grabbed Lily and took off in under five minutes because there was no way I was going to catch whatever they had.  I decided to make a play date with my friend Tosha and her son, Gus.  It was a great couple hours of the babies playing and Tosha and I catching up on girl gab.  There was one slight hiccup where Lily pooped all over me, but I'm just going to glaze on over that.

 Lily and Gus on their play date

After Tosha's, we made a stop by my brother Nick's house.  Lily loves looking at all the fish in the tanks at Nick's and he loves playing with her, so it was a chance for me to relax for an hour.  Taking care of a baby is exhausting!  Kudos to all the parents out there.

It was now 3pm and Lily and I had not yet had our naps.  We headed to my house where we both immediately passed out on the couch while sharing a pillow and cuddling up to each other.  After an hour and a half of napping, it was time for Lily to go home.

Fast forward to 24 hours later when I got a text from Tosha informing me that her, Gus, and her husband were all sick.  I thought surely we didn't bring the bug into their house.  Fast forward to Monday morning at 2am when I woke up sick.  When I say sick, I don't mean a little cough or stomach ache.  I mean this is the sickest I have ever been.  24 hours of non stop vomiting followed by 24 hours of intense pain.  Long story short, turned out Lily was the carrier of the bug. So, as the saying goes, "No good deed goes unpunished."

Stay tuned, now that things have settled down I will have more time to post.