This is really working...

This 811 thing, that is. I really love eating this way. Granted, it's been like 2 days, but I'm really excited to see where it takes me! I feel more energetic already, and I find I'm enjoying very simple foods (fruits & veggies) much more than I enjoy more complicated raw foods with nuts, dried fruit & mixed dressings. I had raw hummus with my lunch today, but I found it took away from the flavor of the foods, especially the tomatoes, so I ended up eating some of it plain. And on my salad tonight, I just put a little raw apple cider vinegar- No avocado or sundried tomato dressing- and it was SO INSANELY GOOD!! I really loved it and can't wait to eat another salad tomorrow!

Grub:
-banana
-2 c. fresh-squeezed OJ (heaven)
-apple
-veggies (carrots, cucumber slices, cauliflower & 2 plum tomatoes), some w/ raw zucchini hummus. a banana afterwards
-apple & banana
*walked for 50 mins. very very fast with lots of hills*
-my amazing salad- tons of romaine- almost a whole bag- with half each of a red & yellow pepper, baby carrots, another tomato & some cauliflower drizzled w/ raw ACV. an apple afterwards.

It's interesting that the banana and the apple I had after my lunch & dinner didn't hurt my stomach at all even though I mixed them with veggies.

The macro breakdown for today from Fitday is:
1117 calories
249 g. carbs, 16 g. fat, 22 g. protein - 78/13/8

Not bad at all! I do want to lower the fat, but that will come with time. I may eventually get to the point where I'm not eating any overt fats most days of the week. Of course my lara bars and avocados will still be occasional treats!

I'm so happy it's the weekend. My boss has been just awful to me lately, trying to make me feel like an idiot. I have done my best to just deal with it and not say anything mean back to her (and i've been able to actually do that!) but it got really tough today. I ended up crying hysterically in my car on the way home from work! My emotions are very near the surface lately- probably PMS. I don't usually sweat the small stuff like that. In a way, this may be a good thing (my boss becoming a heinous bitch, I mean), b/c that will make it easier for me to leave in a few months if & when I find a job I feel better about. My dream is to work for a nonprofit. I'd love to do something in animal rights & welfare, but I also worked for a very large humanitarian-oriented nonprofit in college and absolutely loved that. I just want to feel good about what I'm spending my days doing, and I want to make a difference. I have a lot of things I feel passionate about, but the Hollywood film industry is certainly not one of them :-/

I am looking forward to making a GIGANTIC fruit smoothie for brunch tomorrow! And then I'm sure I'll have another salad in the evening. And maybe a glass or 2 of organic red wine! We'll see. I keep saying I'll have a glass, but then when I actually open up the bottle, I really don't want it! It's so unlike me!