After the fast...

Since finishing the fast we have continued to juice every morning and are eating pretty healthy still, except now we are including protein and grains and trying to stay away from sugar! Our first day off the fast I really didn't know what to eat, it was weird, Ethan made bacon and eggs for breakfast and it tasted heavenly. We had decided to splurge just a little and go out to dinner that night, plus I had my piece of cake from memorial day in the fridge that I had been saving and dreaming about all week. We ate at Texas road house, neither of us could finish our dinner, however Ethan managed to finish the water...a first for him!

Then we came home and I dived into my cake even though I was still pretty stuffed from dinner. It was good but I was so full I had trouble really enjoying it like I thought I was going to. I ended up scraping most of the frosting off and just eating the cake. Maybe my taste buds had changed over the last 8 days and it really wasn't that good in the moment? I don't know. All I know is a few hours after eating the cake I felt so SICK and ended up spending a while on the toilet (sorry TMI!). Over the next three days it felt like someone punched me in the stomach, it wasn't a throbbing pain, just felt like my insides were all bruised. I am sharing this to tell you DON'T DO THAT! Not only did I feel physically horrible, but it kinda felt like I flushed the last 8 days down the drain. Anyway, we are back on track and doing good. I was so excited to go to one of our favorite produce markets that has the best prices on fruit and veg. I got all this for $25! 2 pineapples, 12 ears of corn, kale, cucumber, 3 eggplants (all 3 for $1, figured I could afford to experiment with them), carrots, 3lbs of strawberries, raspberries, zucchini, red and green bell pepper, apples, pears, butternut squash, mushrooms, celery and asparagus. 

Also found this recently and LOVE it! I've never liked almond milk, something weird about the taste I can't get used to, so I usually drink coconut milk which I really like, but the texture is just a little too thick. This stuff is the perfect mix! Has the smooth texture of almond milk without the weird almond milk taste.

Our main focus the next 12 weeks is to minimize our sugar intake to 30g or less. Ethan has not touched soda still, although he did admit to me he came very close one afternoon after having a really stressful morning at work. I am so proud he resisted the temptation!