Days 3 - 6: Moving Forward

As I noted at the start of my last blog post on Tuesday I got the news that my Aunt Susie was dying due to complications from her Parkinson's Disease.  Well Wednesday morning just after getting to work I got the call from my dad that my aunt had passed away.  After fighting bravely for many years God called my aunt home, and she obeyed His call.  Being here in California with my family back in Michigan can make things a struggle at times, and losing a member of the family is one of those times.  I was so upset by the news that I turned around and left work that morning and stayed home of Thursday as well.  Not only was I struggling to deal with the grief of the loss of my aunt while not being able to be with my family, but this threw me face-to-face with my issues with emotional eating.

Day 2: Light on the Ginger

I got the news tonight when I got home from work that my Aunt back in Michigan is dying. She has lived with Parkinson's Disease for years and it seems the God is ready to bring her home. So understandably my mind found it hard to focus on doing our first test juicing tonight, but I felt I needed to do it. I told myself that my aunt would be proud of me for taking these steps to get healthy, and she wouldn't want anything to get in my way. So I got together the ingredients, fired up the juicer, and away we went!

Day 1: No Juice For You!

So a bit of a snag in the plans for today. It's funny that I can walk into a Safeway store and find apples, ginger, and carrots any time I want, yet apparently the people that pull items for the home delivery orders are not able to find them. My girlfriend was at work with the car today, so I ordered groceries to be delivered. The guy showed up with most of my order, but missed the apples and ginger. So the juicing will have to wait another night. We'll stop at the store on the way home from work tomorrow and get the stuff, and then tomorrow night we'll try out the juice for dinner and see how it goes.

Just an important note for myself more than anything else. I'm not putting anything off. This is going to happen. The next step of the plan wasn't going to happen for a couple of weeks anyway, which is when we'll be able to take a Friday or Monday off to do the three-day "Long Weekend" plan on the Reboot website. So one more day doesn't derail anything. Meanwhile I will continue to work on portion control and smarter choices with regular food.