Week one

100 day of Real Food mini challenges. 

Week 1: April 21 to April 27. – Eat a minimum of two different fruits or vegetables (preferably organic) with every breakfast, lunch, and dinner meal.

Want to join us? Link up below so we can keep in touch during the week. 

This is the list of all 14 weeks challenges.

14 Weeks of “Real Food” Mini-Pledges:

• Week 1: Two fruits and/or vegetables per meal – Eat a minimum of two different fruits or vegetables (preferably organic) with every breakfast, lunch, and dinner meal.
• Week 2: “Real” beverages – Beverages will be limited to coffee, tea, water, and milk (only naturally sweetened with a little honey or 100% pure maple syrup). One cup of juice will be allowed throughout the week, and wine (preferably red) will be allowed in moderation (an average of one drink per day).
• Week 3: Meat – All meat consumed this week will be locally raised (within 100-miles of your hometown). Meat consumption will also be limited to 3 – 4 servings this week, and when it is eaten meat will not be presented as the “focal point” of the meal. Instead meat will be treated as a side item or simply used to help flavor a dish.
• Week 4: No fast food or deep-fried foods – No fast food or any foods that have been deep-fried in oil.
• Week 5: Try two new whole foods – Try a minimum of two new whole foods that you’ve never had before.
• Week 6: No low-fat, lite or nonfat food products – Do not eat any food products that are labeled as “low-fat,” “lite,” “light,” “reduced fat,” or “nonfat.”
• Week 7: 100% Whole grain – All grains consumed must be 100% whole-grain.
• Week 8: Stop eating when you feel full – Listen to your internal cues and stop eating when you feel full.
• Week 9: No refined sweeteners – No refined or artificial sweeteners including (but not limited to): white sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, sucanat, splenda, stevia, agave, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, brown rice syrup, and cane juice. Foods and beverages can only be sweetened with a moderate amount of honey or maple syrup.
• Week 10: No refined oils – No refined or hydrogenated oils including (but not limited to): vegetable oil, organic vegetable oil, soybean oil, corn oil, canola oil, organic canola oil, margarine, and grape seed oil.
• Week 11: Eat local foods – Eat at least 1 locally grown or raised food at each meal. This includes, but is not limited to: fruits, vegetables, eggs, grains, nuts, meats, and sweeteners like honey.
• Week 12: No sweeteners – Avoid all added sweeteners including, but not limited to: white sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, honey, maple syrup, date sugar, maple sugar, sucanat, splenda, stevia, agave, fruit juice concentrate, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, brown rice syrup, and cane juice.
• Week 13: Nothing artificial – Avoid all artificial ingredients including, but not limited to: sweeteners, flavors and colors.
• Week 14: No more than 5-ingredients – Avoid any and all packaged food products that contain more than five ingredients no matter what ingredients

Just Deb and I?

Isn’t there anyone out there that would like to take a 14 week challenge with us?  Monday starts our beginning. Deb and I gave the full challenge a shot the past 10 days and I’m going to say doing all the 14 weeks at one time didn’t work for me. I am going to work on this just a week at a time. More manageable and maybe I’ll learn better one at a time. If you want to join us, click here and link up. 

14 Weeks of “Real Food” Mini-Pledges:

• Week 1: Two fruits and/or vegetables per meal – Eat a minimum of two different fruits or vegetables (preferably organic) with every breakfast, lunch, and dinner meal.
• Week 2: “Real” beverages – Beverages will be limited to coffee, tea, water, and milk (only naturally sweetened with a little honey or 100% pure maple syrup). One cup of juice will be allowed throughout the week, and wine (preferably red) will be allowed in moderation (an average of one drink per day).
• Week 3: Meat – All meat consumed this week will be locally raised (within 100-miles of your hometown). Meat consumption will also be limited to 3 – 4 servings this week, and when it is eaten meat will not be presented as the “focal point” of the meal. Instead meat will be treated as a side item or simply used to help flavor a dish.
• Week 4: No fast food or deep-fried foods – No fast food or any foods that have been deep-fried in oil.
• Week 5: Try two new whole foods – Try a minimum of two new whole foods that you’ve never had before.
• Week 6: No low-fat, lite or nonfat food products – Do not eat any food products that are labeled as “low-fat,” “lite,” “light,” “reduced fat,” or “nonfat.”
• Week 7: 100% Whole grain – All grains consumed must be 100% whole-grain.
• Week 8: Stop eating when you feel full – Listen to your internal cues and stop eating when you feel full.
• Week 9: No refined sweeteners – No refined or artificial sweeteners including (but not limited to): white sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, sucanat, splenda, stevia, agave, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, brown rice syrup, and cane juice. Foods and beverages can only be sweetened with a moderate amount of honey or maple syrup.
• Week 10: No refined oils – No refined or hydrogenated oils including (but not limited to): vegetable oil, organic vegetable oil, soybean oil, corn oil, canola oil, organic canola oil, margarine, and grape seed oil.
• Week 11: Eat local foods – Eat at least 1 locally grown or raised food at each meal. This includes, but is not limited to: fruits, vegetables, eggs, grains, nuts, meats, and sweeteners like honey.
• Week 12: No sweeteners – Avoid all added sweeteners including, but not limited to: white sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, honey, maple syrup, date sugar, maple sugar, sucanat, splenda, stevia, agave, fruit juice concentrate, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, brown rice syrup, and cane juice.
• Week 13: Nothing artificial – Avoid all artificial ingredients including, but not limited to: sweeteners, flavors and colors.
• Week 14: No more than 5-ingredients – Avoid any and all packaged food products that contain more than five ingredients no matter what ingredients

Hope that life is treating you well. Blessings my friends!!!

So Deb and I….

Are working on a 10 day real food plan. Deb checked in with me yesterday and she is doing awesome. You know I thought it was going to be more simple than it is. Heck I make 90% of our food from scratch but the past two days have been days I’ve spent with my parents doing the lawyer and bank type stuff so that when the time comes (which if I have any say so will be 15-20 or more years down the road) everything is taken care of. But that means eating with them, them taking me out, me taking them out and so forth. Our area is still in the winter zone so asking for rabbit food or fresh fruit they look at you like your a weirdo or that you’ve flip your lid because spring/summer foods just aren’t that easy to get. So that means trying to find something made with real food that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. If I was coming home between 5am and 6pm than I’d just eat here cuz I got the good stuff but I haven’t been doing awesome. Not the worse I’ve ever done because I am learning but not up in the top 50 either. Tomorrow is a me day so after and before my bus runs I am going to go out for a jolk (jo/walk) and only eat what’s on my menu. Did you check out my menu? It’s here and it’s not bad at all.

I don’t know if anyone is interested in joining Deb and I on the 21st with our 100 day challenge with 14 different weeks to master the eating and real foods but if you are click here and add your name and email address and a blog if you want too.

I promise to do better the rest of this week and I hope to see some better gut feelings soon. My insides have been very unhappy for a long time and I know part of it is the foods and other part….well maybe a doctor visit one day soon.

Take care my friends and come join us in learning to eat what is best for us both inside and out.

Blessings!!!

Weekly Mini Challenge

Julie and Debby have been working together to lose weight and get healthy.

I stumbled upon the blog 100 Days of Real Food. Its full of a wealth of information, and a bit overwhelming to know where to start. 

Lisa challenged her family to Real Food for 100 days. She blogged about it, and 100 Days of Real food was born. 

I want to start simple so I dont get totally overwhelmed. Would you like to join us?

Click on the link below and link up your blog with an introduction to you, so we have your blog address, and send an email to debandjulie@gmail.com

The challenge will start on Monday, April 21st. 

This is a list of the weekly challenges. We recommend you do the challenge for all three meals, but if you start out with one or two, thats an improvement over what youre already doing!!! 

(Taken directly from Lisas blog!!!)

14 Weeks of “Real Food” Mini-Pledges:

• Week 1: Two fruits and/or vegetables per meal – Eat a minimum of two different fruits or vegetables (preferably organic) with every breakfast, lunch, and dinner meal.
• Week 2: “Real” beverages – Beverages will be limited to coffee, tea, water, and milk (only naturally sweetened with a little honey or 100% pure maple syrup). One cup of juice will be allowed throughout the week, and wine (preferably red) will be allowed in moderation (an average of one drink per day).
• Week 3: Meat – All meat consumed this week will be locally raised (within 100-miles of your hometown). Meat consumption will also be limited to 3 – 4 servings this week, and when it is eaten meat will not be presented as the “focal point” of the meal. Instead meat will be treated as a side item or simply used to help flavor a dish.
• Week 4: No fast food or deep-fried foods – No fast food or any foods that have been deep-fried in oil.
• Week 5: Try two new whole foods – Try a minimum of two new whole foods that you’ve never had before.
• Week 6: No low-fat, lite or nonfat food products – Do not eat any food products that are labeled as “low-fat,” “lite,” “light,” “reduced fat,” or “nonfat.”
• Week 7: 100% Whole grain – All grains consumed must be 100% whole-grain.
• Week 8: Stop eating when you feel full – Listen to your internal cues and stop eating when you feel full.
• Week 9: No refined sweeteners – No refined or artificial sweeteners including (but not limited to): white sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, sucanat, splenda, stevia, agave, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, brown rice syrup, and cane juice. Foods and beverages can only be sweetened with a moderate amount of honey or maple syrup.
• Week 10: No refined oils – No refined or hydrogenated oils including (but not limited to): vegetable oil, organic vegetable oil, soybean oil, corn oil, canola oil, organic canola oil, margarine, and grape seed oil.
• Week 11: Eat local foods – Eat at least 1 locally grown or raised food at each meal. This includes, but is not limited to: fruits, vegetables, eggs, grains, nuts, meats, and sweeteners like honey.
• Week 12: No sweeteners – Avoid all added sweeteners including, but not limited to: white sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, honey, maple syrup, date sugar, maple sugar, sucanat, splenda, stevia, agave, fruit juice concentrate, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, brown rice syrup, and cane juice.
• Week 13: Nothing artificial – Avoid all artificial ingredients including, but not limited to: sweeteners, flavors and colors.
• Week 14: No more than 5-ingredients – Avoid any and all packaged food products that contain more than five ingredients no matter what ingredients

A break….

Life is taking over and leaving no time for blogging on two blogs so for now this blog is going to take a back seat.

To keep up with Deb, check out her blog ….. Debs daily life.

To keep up with mine, check out my blog …. Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: NOT...but learning.

When time allows and we can give it our all we’ll be back.

Take care and have an awesome healthy life.

Deb and Julie

Just about Wordless Wednesday….

  That’s 9.63 miles walked today. Awesome!!!

One serving….

I have a question to pose……

Is one serving every going to be enough? I am trying so very hard to track (I keep forgetting to put it in myfitnesspal, sorry Deb) and measure and eat just one serving but it’s so hard. I do not get full on one serving of most foods. I know I can fill it in with salad but I don’t want to be the Easter bunny. I am always hungry. It’s not a bad thing, I just look at it every time my bellies rumbles it’s the good cells eating the fat ones and they are running for their lives but being hungry all the time bites too.

It’s just a question. Maybe I’m not eating the right foods and need to concentrate on lower calories with bigger volume except lettuce, spinach (all that leafy bunny food).

I did go with Caron’s advice and bought this yesterday….of course I can’t remember the name but it starts with an i and has a j in it too. It’s suppose to taste like an apple/pear. I’m game, I need something different.

And I’ve gone back to tracking my steps. Sunday was 9843 and yesterday…..

So I’m not doing bad. The scale isn’t moving much but I’m pretty sure the muscles are returning. Not tons of them but a few and they do weigh a bit more than the fat. My clothes are nicer too so that scale can just sit there and taunt me, I’m not listening to hard to it.

Okay my alarm went off 3 minutes ago, I’m suppose to be out that door and at the bus garage in a few minutes and it’s a 15 minute drive. Gotta go.

Take care my friends and have an awesome day. It’s going to be a good one, it’s time.

Blessings!!!