David and I are on our 4th day of our "Earth Diet". This is our made up name of a basically vegan/vegetarian diet. I got inspired watching Dr Oz on Oprah talking about a group of British folks who ate "the ape" diet. This diet is basically eating 11 pounds of raw fruits/veggies every day. After 12 days they lost weight, had significantly lowered their cholesterol and lowered their blood pressure. I flirt with having too high cholesterol, so I thought - "I wonder what would happen if we ate this way?" Of course I chickened out with the 11 pounds of fruits and veggies, but modified it to fit our lifestyle. David is doing the vegan way and I decided I didn't want to give up dairy, so I went vegetarian. (must have greek yogurt!) This also includes no white stuff - no white flour or sugar. It's actually going really well and I feel great! I thought there would be tears shed over bread, but not so far! We did our grocery run this weekend and spent our average weekly dollar amount on all sorts of fruits, vegetables and nuts. Later this week we will introduce some fish (there goes David's veganism). I worked on many many recipes found mostly from
Dr. Oz's book,
Montel Williams' book and
Dr. Weil's book. I must say we have found some new yummie recipes!
Our original plan was to go 10 days. However, I goofed up and planned a breakfast date and dinner date with some friends this Saturday. Sooo, now we will just do 7 days. Perhaps down the road, we'll do this again. It's funny, I have some vegan friends who eat this way all the time. It's just their way of life. I admire them! I just would miss dairy and bread too much. :)
The Newly Stocked Fridge
One of our many veggie soup recipes
And I forgot to say "Happy St. Patty's Day" on my post yesterday. I'm not a lick Irish, so this day hasn't meant much to me. However, I do love the color green and I'm happy to support the green clothing tradition. I donned Lily in some green as well.
And after...It's a great cut for straight hair, but I have wavy/curly hair and most days I don't have time to straighten it. 
This didn't look right curly, so I cut more off!
All together, I cut about 8 inches. I wasn't able to donate it because of *this* incident. I had to bleach the highlighted parts and you cannot donate bleached hair. I guess I missed that little piece of information when I looked it up the first time. Ho hum. I will grow my hair out again and donate in the future.
