Day 5: grEASY Street

The grub:

• oatmeal with banana, cinnamon, nutmeg and honey
• steak salad with red leafed lettuce, Roma tomatoes, cheese, green pepper, zuchinni, cucumber, black olives, cilantro and balsamic vinagrette dressing
• bowl of creamy butternut squash soup
• hot and spicy, barbeque boneless chicken nuggets, seasoned fries with garlic parmesan cheese sause, coleslaw, yeast role, celery and carrots
• 8 glasses of water with lemon, lime and cucumber, cup of camomile tea with lemon juice, sip of hot apple cider

How I moved my bootay:

• Took out the trash (c'mon it was HEAVY)
• Took dogs on a 5 minute walk (c'mon it was cold) but they did at least get to run around outside for around outside for about 1/2 hour today supervised, so I'm sure they got some cardio! Woof!

I feel:

Tired as I write this blog. It's already wwwwaaaaaaaayyyyy past my bedtime and I've failed to keep it. I noticed that I get tired waaayyy earlier before I normally used to (around 7:00 pm) and I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Either way, my energy winds down earlier and I happen to wake up earlier than I did last week by an hour. My goal is to wake up with the sun everyday as sunrise is my most favorite time of day, like ever!

I feel like I could have eased back on the grease...and around 7:00 pm I wanted a cafe sooo badly. It was an especially cold night and I thought warm java would have done the trick but alas, I kept to my guns on that one.

Yesterday and this afternoon, the lemon juice/white sugar scrub has worked wonders. And the heavy whipping cream and honey mask I used last night left my skin a little too smooth if you know what I mean. They don't call is grEASY street for nuthin'. Last night, I also took a steeped bag of green tea and pressed along the red spots on my chin -- helpful? Maybe.

When my significant other commented on how my dark circles were lessening and the redness on my chin went down, he did so by stopping and deeply looking into my eyes with the utmost compassion when he spoke. I felt really pleased at having received such a genuine, heartfelt compliment on the progress my skin has made in this brief time. Made me go all soft inside.

Love,

Jennifer