Accidental Suicide

In my attempted to get healthier, I almost killed myself, on accident of course. So, I read somewhere that Fergie drinks Braggs apple cider vinegar to melt belly fat. Well, I want to melt belly fat. So it says on the Braggs bottle to take a table spoon of the vinegar before every meal. Being the obedient student that I am, I measure out a tablespoon of the murky, smelly liquid. I open my mouth and throw the juice down the hatch. Well, the stuff hit the thing that hangs down in the back of my throat and felt like battery acid hitting raw flesh. My throat immediately closed up and I began to choke and gasp and tear up. The sad thing was there was no one there to save me. I couldn't breathe and my poor little uvula(I just googled the name, look I'm no medical major) was searing with pain. No wonder Fergie has no belly fat, I'm surprised she can eat at all after choking that stuff down. I'm just saying'.

All Things Juicy

So, I bought a Jack Lalanne Juicer at Costco last week and used it for the first time this morning. Both my teenagers are sick and so I made them real apple juice with organic apples, which I also bought from Costco. So my daughter tastes the juice and she says, 'It tastes like an apple. No, like eating a real apple.' And I said,' I know, I know. That is what it is supposed to taste like, that is why I bought the juicer.'

Then I proceeded to make this 'Green Juice' I saw on a morning show from Kris Carr. She is a young woman who has gone from being a 'junk food junkie' to a 'green machine' to combat her cancer. The juice consisted of 5 organic kale leaves, that look and smell like the grass our cows would eat in the summer, when it is juiced. 4 organic celery stalks, 2 organic cucumbers, 1 inch of ginger, 1 green organic apple, and 2 organic stalks of broccoli.

It was not appealing to this beef feed, farm girl's palette.

But I choke it down because 'it is good for me'.

Last night I also made my first VEGAN meal, Chili with Quinoa.

Needless to say, I was the only one who ate it, but I actually really like it. I will make it again but probably with wagyu beef.

And this is where my dilemma comes in, I am a carnivore through and through. I come from a heritage of Tillamook Dairy Farmers and Wagyu Beef Ranchers. I was raised with a philosophy of, 'You only have so many heart beats, so you might as well enjoy them all'. I daily battle 42 years of eating, thinking and drinking while on this 28 day detox. 17 days down, 11 to go.