It's no surprise my weight was up when I weighed myself this morning. First of all, yesterday I started taking the Intestinal Drawing Formula and it seems to still be there in my intestinal tract, drawing up water. I guess, anyway. Plus, I'm up three hours earlier than the last few days and something I almost forgot - when I weighed myself I still had the at least a half a pound of henna that I applied to my hair sitting on my head.
I missed my local farmer's market for the second Saturday in a row, which is really too bad since the lettuce prices were so good AND I noticed the lettuce I purchased there before stayed fresh significantly longer than what I got at Whole Foods. *sigh* I guess it was worth it, though, since the reason I missed it was to go see the opera. Well, not the live opera but a live simulcast. Since we are on the west coast and the simulcast is of the matinee in New York, I had to leave at 9 am. I thought if I was up early enough and ready in time I could go to the market - which opens at 8 am - and be back in time for my boyfriend to pick me up but with the henna and having to drink so much liquid and trying to prepare for what is basically an entire weekend away from home, I would have had to get up about the same time I went to bed. As it was, I was up too late for the hair stuff and I have to have an awfully good reason to get up before dawn.
The opera was good. We were pretty much the youngest ones there by about 20 years, yet I think I may have been the only one in the audience to get up and pee when it wasn't even intermission. Hey, what can I say...I'd had a quart of lemon-msm water and then a quart of pineapple-garlic juice.
After the opera we hadn't really made any plans, but we were hungry so we decided to drive to Judahlicious near the beach in Outer Sunset, since we knew they had a big juice selection. I got some crazy kind of juice that had stuff like burdock root and nutritional yeast in it, and it tasted kind of weird. I also got another juice to go but I never ended up drinking it, which I felt kind of bad about since it was expensive. My boyfriend had a Half Nekkid burrito which I've tried before and it looked really good but I know it's a little too spicy for me even if I could eat it.
Afterwards, we didn't really know what to do with ourselves...going to a wine bar was out and we usually get together later on Saturdays than this. We ended up driving around some interesting neighborhoods and then finally driving to Oakland and walking part-way around Lake Merritt, which was kind of cool because we always say we are going to walk around it but we always find something else to do or run out of time. If only we'd worn better shoes we might have walked all the way around. Oh, we also went to the hat store he's obsessed with. He's always wanting to go there but Lake Merritt we run out of time, otherwise it's closed when we go by. He got a great hat - I was dubious about it at first because I've never known a hat to really enhance his appearance, but the guy at the store helped him pick one that really does look good on him, so that's pretty awesome.
We spent some time talking about things like maybe moving in together at the end of the year if he buys a new house by then and how it's been really hard for him not seeing me as much lately - I think the juice feast has gotten more than its share of the blame for that, since a lot of it has had to do with my cat's medication schedule, the part where I was a little mad at him and the fact that he went out of town on business, but it's true that the juice feast is somewhat disruptive to the way we've been spending out time together. Maybe not in a bad way, but the fact is that *I* decided to do this juice feast and didn't really consult anyone else or give much advance notice and all these other things happened at the same time.
After the lake, we went to Whole Foods and I had my menu plan for tomorrow but not really a proper shopping list, and I was a bit anxious about getting everything we needed. It was a lot of produce, and I needed to think about what I needed and felt a bit panicked and stressed about it. I had everything I needed, though, by the time we left the produce department. Well, I got some Dr. Bronner's liquid soap and my boyfriend picked up some coffee and a beer, but other than that it was like here's this whole big rest of the store and we're done already. It was a bit expensive, too. I mean, it was maybe what we would usually spend if we are planning to have his family over for an elaborate meal IF we also got a few bottles of wine while we were there.
For dinner, I made my coconut-curry broth and my boyfriend had some of his soup from Judahlicious (which they'd forgotten to bring to the table so we got it to go) and a bit of chocolate and his beer. He'd had some bread in the car but overall he really didn't eat enough for the day. Or maybe it was enough if it was just that day but it's more like he hasn't been eating right or enough of the right foods lately and my juice feast doesn't make it easier. He feels bad that he "gets to" eat solid food and I don't. I think he's feeling better about it, though, especially when he tried my broth and was like "wow, that's really good, much better than my soup!" I thought of maybe giving him a little bowl of it, but being out and about all day I really hadn't had that much juice and was pretty hungry.
Weight: 201
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