My food & workout journal!

Many people ask me what my day is like. What I eat, what I do for exercise, and if I snack in between meals. For the most part my food intake is very similar day to day. I really love to eat simple meals, I could eat pretty much the same foods everyday and never get board. I drink water all day long!!! If I am hungry, I will eat. I never deprive myself food!  As far as exercise goes, it does depend on my teaching schedule and the weather. If it is nice outside, I prefer to go running, walking, hiking, or recently, cross country skiing, but I exercise indoors as well.
Here is a typical day~

Wake up around 5:30 or 6am
Water or orange juice, followed by hot tea, decaf, herbal
I have my first mono meal around 8am, I like to have a whole melon!

I eat a second mono meal or salad around 11:30 or noon. A mango meal like this is about 4 or 5 mangoes!

Between noon and dinner I snack on raisins or dates, and more fruit. This is a whole pineapple and I usually eat about a cup or 2 of raisins.

Dinner is sometime between 5:30 and 6:30pm depending on my work schedule. It is always some sort of salad, raw dinner, or low fat vegan cooked dinner. Salad is HUGE, I eat out of a serving bowl, not even kidding. It contains about 2 or 3 hearts of romaine or an entire head of iceberg.

 For my weekly workouts, I do 100 squats and crunches daily, if I miss a day, I will do 200 the next day. I spin in class twice a week, I do some kind of walking or outdoor activity twice a week, teach bootcamp once a week, and do a workout at home once a week. To make it easier, this is how it breaks down daily:

Monday: rest day, squats and crunches

Tuesday: squats and crunches, sometimes leg day at the gym (45 minutes)

Wednesday: ride my bike for 90 minutes or do body weight workout, then go walking or hiking for about 2 hours, squats & crunches

Thursday: spinning class for 45 mins, bootcamp for 1 hour, squats & crunches

Friday: spinning class for 1 hour, squats & crunches

Saturday: walking outside, or rest day if weather is bad, but still do squats & crunches

Sunday: rest day, squats & crunches

My Fruitful Beauty

Eyeliner. I was a slave to it! It was the one piece of makeup I thought I would never, ever, live without! I wore it daily, to work, to workout, to hang out at home, and any where else I was going. I had a few staple pieces of makeup, like most women, eyeliner, mascara, powder, concealer, and blush! I played with eye shadows here and there, but could do without. The other items were a must!

Then it all changed. My beauty routine as I new it would forever be different. My life became wonderfully fruity! I joined the high fruit lifestyle. Consuming majority of my calories from wonderful, juicy, sweet raw fruit! Life became unbelievably sweet ;) My mood was great, my health...perfect, and slowly but surely my skin began to reap the benefits! It didn't happen overnight, not even in a month...but about a year into it...I got the GLOW!

I had heard of the fruit glow before from many fruit eaters. Fruity women from all over the world excited to spill their natural beauty secret:FRUIT! I thought...no way! It can't be that simple! And then it happened!!!!

"Wow, your skin looks great, did you go tanning?" asked a client at the gym. No, I don't go tanning, but Thank you! The next day..."you're skin is so pretty" said another gym member! And, just about weekly someone would comment on my skin. All saying I had a nice 'glow', like I had a summer glow. I began to really appreciate the natural glow of my skin, the beauty of it was different, the kind that didn't need much enhancing! So I ended my relationship with eyeliner! It was a HUGE step for me, as I had been wearing it since I was about 15!! But...here I was at 34, parting ways, and loving it!!!

The process continued, I no longer needed concealer, or a powder! I was pretty much left with mascara and occasional blush! It felt amazing! I wanted my bright blue eyes to shine naturally, without the black eyeliner, and I wanted my glow to show without the powder, and as blemishes faded, so did my need for concealer!

So I am no longer a slave to my eyeliner! I no longer need to cover my skin thick with powder and concealer, and I no longer need fake bronzers to give me a glow! To feel confident to go without these items is something I never thought I would have! Fruit is the most amazing food on this planet! It is the true healer, nature's candy, and nature's makeup! So add fruit to your life and watch the fruitful beauty take place! Like magic!

I am not telling you to throw out ALL your beloved makeup, as there is a time and place for a bit of fancy...but to embrace the fruitful life, nature's glow, and the amazing beauty you have hiding under a bad diet & lots of makeup!