YU 30, Day 29

Friday, March 1st

Something I wanted to talk about today was the "You are glowing" comments from friends and family. I was whiter than white. My body doesn't see the sunlight, nine months out of the year due to weather, my skin is blinding. You needed sunglasses to look at me, seriously. 

Over the past 29 days, I've started noticing the "glowing" look. I finally figured out what to call it, the natural tan. The awesome part is my "tan" is through out my body, even the places that never see the light of day. I think it is fascinating that our bodies are telling us it's happy. I am in agreeance with my body. 



"today marks a special day for me. to celebrate it, i did some self-care, as you should everyday. 

i did a 2 hour work out at the gym and made this rawkin' out of this world juice. blood orange, orange, apples, fennel, with crushed ice, chai seeds and bee pollen (image above.) much gratitude to all the wonderful, true people in my life. xo"- Bay

Ched's being so cute! If he hears any assortment of plastic bags, no matter the size, he sprints to jump inside and nest. 

Breakfast:
This morning I had left over Chai Blueberry pudding. Delicious!! I also had some vitamin water. Guess what? I remembered to take my vitamins without my granny vitamin container with the days on them, score!

Lunch:
I ate my leftover salad I made a few days ago. I had a little bit of the ranch dressing left over and used my hummus too. The hummus mixed with salad is an excellent substitute dressing. Hahah. I brought my salad to school and one of my classmates said, "look at Kim's picnic she brought." I had three containers: salad, little bit of ranch and hummus. 

Snack:
I ate an apple to figure out what I would like for dinner, so many possibilities.

Dinner:
I ate leftover Chickpea Buckwheat Jerk goodness  with inajri. Since I didn't make more of the ranch recipe, I used my leftover hummus as a nice contrast with the Chickpea mixture. The hummus progressively tastes better every day. The spices mix together and become more intense. Yum! 

Tomorrow, Bay and I are going to tackle this recipe. I am so excited! I LOVE vegan- Plant Based desserts.

YU 30, Day 24

Sunday, February, 24th:

After being woken up to car alarms and neighbors screaming at each other, got to love the Northwest, Bay and I made her six day cleanse smoothie for breakfast.

"day 6 of 7. 
today's flavor is: forrest park greens. cucumber, spinach, dandelion greens, green apple, mint, ginger, water, honey. topped with bee pollen. 

gettin' ready for a hike at forrest park! happy sunday all!! xo"

This smoothie was inspired by Smoothie Alchemy. As you can see from their recipe "Green Ginger Apple Smoothie" we made some adaptations. 

If you wait to drink your smoothie, your fiber will rise to the top and separate from the green juice goodness. This is a great drink to start off our day with our blood flowing and great energy booster for our hike. We were zipping with energy.

  For tonights dinner I, Kim, made pancakes for the first time using this recipe: Gluten-Free Orange and Toasted Sesame Buckwheat Pancake Snackers. I struggled with flipping the pancakes at first 

but Bay showed me how. It's all in the wrist. Ha! Also I read the recipe wrong, I soaked some sesame seeds! At least I noticed before adding them to my mouthwatering buckwheat pancakes. 

Today we went to a new shop near my studio called Food Front Cooperative Grocery. I got some yummy organic, local maple syrup.

The picture to the left is me, Kim, making homemade Organic Shea Butter.

The picture to the right is a picture of me today, little over a one month later, making pancakes for the first time.

It's crazy how much I have changed over the past month!! I still can't believe I have a few days left of this challenge to go. I wonder what else will change.

This is Bay a month ago to the left. She was getting her hair cut by her sister in law.

To the right is what Bay looks like today.

She notices lately that the results are amazing!

Bay's Work Out Juice.

day three of working out. feelin' super sore! (worth it!) 

i kicked it up a notch today with a scoop more of bee pollen with a homemade fruit/veggie juice with green superfood powder.