Cheers to Healthy Mornings!

After reading Kris Carr's book CRAZY SEXY DIET I have been trying to drink purified water every morning with half squeezed organic lemon and a dash of cayenne pepper.

Let me explain why:

Cayenne pepper is awesome if you didn't know! It increases metabolism, helps adjust blood pressure to normal levels, and cleans arteries.

Lemons:
Helps the body stay alkaline. After reading Crazy sexy diet I learned that cancer lives in acidic environments.  Our body's PH levels plays a major role in our health. Every food was eat has a PH level. My thinking was lemons=acidic=bad, but lemons once metabolized become alkaline!

I found this blog post this morning and thought it was helpful! I now want a lemon press! It's amazing all the little kitchen gadgets that make me happy, I don't know when I became such a kitchen nerd!

Check out this  Link Below!

5 Reasons to Drink Lemon Water in The Morning

Nothing like starting your day off on a healthy note! I try to wake up drink water first thing! Then make a glass of this lemon juice+cayenne pepper water because I need my metabolism to wake up and get a jump start! Then if I have time and need caffeine boost I'll drink some yerba mate tea ( jitter-free caffeine boost and high antioxidant content). Finally Green Juice ! This is on a good day when my day goes as planned and I'll try to eat a veggie wrap with lets of raw veggies or a salad.

I am still working on my vegan diet and trying to eat RAW as much as possible, but it is a process I help to master for a new start this is upcoming new year!

Thanksgiving 2011

Hope Everyone had a wonderful Thanks giving! 

This year my brother Josh and his wife hosted Thanksgiving and it was probably one of the best ones our family has had in a long time! This was also the first thanksgiving for me to be vegan so I really didn't much, but I feel great and my belly isn't full, however it just doesn't feel like thanksgiving without the full stomach! Maybe I can stuff my face tonight with some vegan food as I'm drinking my wine and watching movies home alone with no one to judge....

Thanks Josh for hosting Thanksgiving! 

HUNGRY?

Green Juice

Every Morning for the past couple of weeks I try hard to juice up a bunch of green veggies and drink my breakfast. This past week I fell off the wagon when Ella was sick and I was working with little sleep. Lots of things feel through the cracks! My house was a mess, I didn't stick with a vegan diet, didn't have energy to work out or clean my juicer!
I wish I could say this week I am back on track, but it's a process I guess I am slowly working back into.
PMS didn't help out last week either! I just had a flash of all the chocolate I ate.....oooops!
Oh well it's a new day I am going to try to forget about what a slob I've been and getting back to drinking Green Juice will help my state of mind!
I started drinking the Veggie Juice below after read Kris Carr's book, CRAZY SEXY DIET!

Make Juice Not War Green Drink

By Kris Carr

-2 large cucumbers (peeled if not organic)
-4-5 Kale Leaves
-4-5 Kale Leaves 
-4  stalks celery
-1 – 2 big broccoli stems
-1  green apple 
-1 inch of ginger 


......Cheers!

My Other Half.

I have a friend that gets me better than any one else in the world.  Some times I think she is my older twin sister.  We think too much alike and even will show up somewhere wearing the same outfit! She has a daughter and goes through a lot of the same tough "it's life" kind of stuff I do.  We met about 4 years ago and became best friends in a matter of minutes. It was love at first sight, the real kind that actually last.  I honestly don't know what I would do without her. 

We both are single hard working moms who are trying our hardest to give our daughters everything the world has to offer.  We use to live together and we have worked together almost every job since meeting one another.  This weekend was a rough one for us both.  We both had very little sleep and not the best work weekend to make it worth while. I guess having someone to lean that wears "the same shoe" makes it easier trying to get to the light at the end of the tunnel. 

I am blessed with many friends but I have always felt alone when my girlfriends get their boyfriends that take up their time or when my guy friends well just disappear for periods at a time. 

Being the constant single girl/ single mom/ family black sleep/ workaholic is something Christine and I both share and I guess it's just nice (possibly selfish) to know I'm not the only one ... 

OUR First Trick or Treat!

Daniel and I got a new puppy! Isn't she cute?!?!

Last night I took Ella Treat or Treating with my best friend Christina and her daughter  Merrit.
It was not only Ella's first time trick or treating but also my first time! Growing up my parents were baptist and Halloween was not to be celebrated with costumes or candy.  As we grow up they became a little bit more opened minded. This year Ella is 1, the prefect age to dress her up and let her fill her basket with all kinds of goodies. My parents have been in New York and my mother called me about 4-5 times asking me to send her a pic of us trick or treating (funny how much has changed!).