Well, first of all, I have to say that I'm doing this 7 Day Detox from www.therawdivas.com .  You hear about detox-ing all the time now, and I guess the idea is to get rid of all the junk in our bodies that we put there from the fabulous food choices we make--preservatives, dye, herbicides, etc. etc.  Eating fruits and vegs only helps your body clean out the junk.  Of course, fasting does it, too--and probably better!--but won't work for me right now.  This is the first day, and I'm supposed to be fasting, but I still have a nursing baby so I'm jumping on to the fruits-and-veggies only part.  I woke up and had a glass of water, did my Beth Moore study (the last day!  Sad!), and ate . . . one large orange.

I am hungry. 

The funny thing is, it's so true that I am seldom hungry, because I'm always eating!  From breakfast, lunch, and dinner with the kids to stolen bites of chocolate from the stash in my closet, I don't give myself much of a chance to ever get there.  I realized during my pregnancy with Micah that I was absolutely an emotional eater, and I just went with it, LOL!  Bad me!  When he was born, I was not happy to find that I barely lost anything-- I think it was about 10 pounds in the first few days . . . and it just doesn't seem like I ever lost any more after that.  Lately I find myself over and over  having to SIT SIT SIT on the couch with the baby to feed him or hold him because he's fussy (which usually means he wants to eat!), when I have a zillion other things I want to be doing--cleaning, writing, reading, whatever--and it makes me frustrated so I grab some chocolate on the way to the couch.  Yeesh! 

We have a family membership to a 24-hour gym across the street, which is great . . . when I'm not too tired from being awakened every 2 hours all night to be able to go!  So I've not been a loyal patron.  Basically I've figured that when I wean him, I'll sleep all night long (mostly!) and that's when I'll have enough energy to exercise.  Also, I feel the need for a long fast--there are several things I would like to pray about, and it's also such a good thing to do healthwise--but that has to wait for the baby, too.  Getting closer!  Once we figure out how we're going to configure the bedrooms, we can set up a bed for him, and I'll go away for a weekend to make it easier (I know they say not to do that--whomever "they" are--but it works for us!) 

Found this 7 day detox thing online and it sounded like a good start in a good direction.  I know I crave sugar, and needed to do something about that.  So it's hysterical, because here I am writing about my fruit-and-veggie diet.  I get up to take the kids' muffins and bacon out of the oven, and habit takes over . . . I pour juice, pray with the kids, sit down, and eat half a muffin and a slice of bacon before I realize I am *not* supposed to be eating that stuff!  LOL  Anyway, at least it was only half of my usual, and maybe I'll do better the rest of the day.  I'm supposed to do situps, pushups, and take a walk sometime, too, and that actually sounds good--I got some sleep last night--so . . . it should be an interesting week!