March 13, 2013

• Day 3 of Sport Fasting, and the house.

  Well…I’m almost to lunch of day 3 of the Sport Fasting program.  Honestly, it is amazing to me how I’m not really hungry!  I thought I’d be starving through this program, but I’m really not.  My trainer kept reassuring me that the proteins and amino acids in the powder mix I drink three times a day helps with hunger, but I didn’t really believe him.  Guess he wasn’t lying!

  Today is the beginning of a liquid diet.  I get 300ml of fruit juice for breakfast and lunch, then 550ml of vegetable juice for dinner.  I’m really lucky because the grocery chain here (Albert Heijn) has some amazing fresh squeezed juice combinations in their produce section, so I have a lot of options for juice and flavor.  I’m currently working my way through an orange/strawberry mix, and picked up an apple/mango mix as well.  TASTY!  It’s odd, because I don’t really drink any juice normally…too high in sugar, and a lot of times all the acid does a number on my stomach, but I seem to be doing well so far.  After today, and then three days of “fasting” with very minimal intake (juice three times daily, in small amounts), I might feel differently and never want to see juice again. 

  I swore I wasn’t going to weigh until this was all over, but when I got to the gym this morning (the program still has me working out 45 minutes, seven days a week for cardio…at a medium level), my trainer was busy so I had some extra time.  I thought, “what the hell,” and stepped on the scale.  I didn’t really FEEL like I’d lost anything, but good lord!  I was down 2.6 kg (nearly 6 pounds)!!!  I know a LOT of that has to do with water weight from my last trip to the UK, where everything has a ridiculous amount of salt and is deep fried, so it isn’t a true estimate of loss, but it was encouraging nonetheless!

   

  In other news…things with the house is going well.  We hired a painter to come in and paint all the main areas of the house (living/dining/kitchen) along with our master bedroom, so that will get started tomorrow.  The painter we hired will be basically painting EVERYTHING.  Walls, ceilings, taking down and repairing the trim boards if needed, then painting them.  It’ll be so nice to not have to worry about those areas when we move in.  The master bath, spare rooms, and spare bath will be done probably over a weekend…my mom wants to come help out, so we’ll see.  We could have had the entire upstairs painted by the painter, but the quote was for $7,000 and it just seemed like an expense we couldn’t really justify.  We had to have the entry/living room professionally painted because we have 17ft. ceilings…which require scaffolding and the like, so that was something we had to do, but the other rooms can be done on our own.  We picked a bright blue for the living/kitchen/entryway, and then a lighter blue for the dining.  For the bedroom, we picked a grey color, which I’m excited about.

  
  For the living room/kitchen:

   
  For the dining room: 

   
  For the master bedroom (and master bath, when we get around to remodeling it): 

   

  Turns out we’ll also need to replace the HVAC sooner rather than later.  It’s original to the house, and it does work, but it’s incredibly ineffecient and the bills are ridiculous.  We’re considering geothermal, but need to do more research.  We’ll probably have that replaced around May/June timeframe…right before the heat of summer gets to Indiana (because I can’t live in Indiana in the summer without AC…not gonna happen).  So that goes on the list of things to take care of as well.

  Otherwise, things are good here!  I am officially TWO WEEKS away from moving home!!!  I’m really excited and can’t wait to be home for Easter this year (mom and I discussed a menu on the phone yesterday…yummy!), and can’t wait to be in our house and for things to settle down a bit.  Then, a month or so after moving home, it’s time for HAWAII!!!!!  So excited!

  Hope you all are having a good day!

  XOXOXO,
  K.

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