Oh, dear! I completely forgot to write Day 5! On Monday, we had a rainstorm, thunder & lightening, and flash flood warnings. The leavings of this "monsoon", aside from the detritus in the gutters, is that the temperatures haven't yet reached back up to full velocity. Last night, instead of firing up the old laptop, I sat outside with my Mom on her veranda. (Ok. It's only a postage stamp patio, but a girl can dream, can't she?) The temps were in the low 90's, accompanied by a balmy breeze that was a little cool at times. It was so relaxing and you need relaxing before bedtime.
As you may recall, Day 5 is the beginning of three days of classic green smoothies. That means you get to add fruit (besides lemon juice). Day 5 was mixed berries. It. Was. Heaven! The mixed greens that Mom got to put into the smoothies gave it, what I can only describe, as an earthy flavor. I don't mean that in a turn up your nose yucky way. It made me think of God's green earth. Not this concrete, rock, and asphalt world we have made. It made me think of gardens bursting forth with vegetable plunder, fresh from the ground and full of flavor and goodness. Mixed with the berries I could picture the bushes loaded with juicy, plump, ripe sweetness. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. And while I don't think I could live on this kind of smoothie only, I sure am enjoying the now of it.
Day 6, (which of course is today) we add BANANAS!!! You'll have to wait for this evening for that post.
Oh, yes. I nearly forgot. I did weigh yesterday and I've lost three more pounds. I'm down from 317 when I first started last August to 252.1 today (yesterday). Not bad. Not bad at all.
Tally Ho!
Nevada Smith
Daring to journey the path to good health.
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