Day 2: Lots of spinach!

After complaining last night that there was too much fruit, today there was rather too much spinach.

The breakfast smoothie (mango, berries, blood oranges and celery) was really good, although it took me more than three hours to get through all 800mL or so of it. I was actually still finishing it as I prepared lunch (a "cold soup" of spinach, cabbage, coriander, avocado, lime juice and water). It was actually surprisingly tasty, although I only got through about a third of it... This was partly because my timetable today didn't allow me to wait until I was really hungry before I ate, and also because, to be honest, it smelled like fresh grass clippings. Seriously, it tasted good, but the smell was just a little too hard to get over. So when I got home between students I put the remainder in the fridge and had a small handful of natural almonds. (This is not a "good" snack for "releasing" weight, but it is a healthy snack, and I figure since I didn't get the fats from the avocado in the soup then I'll be okay.) Finally, dinner was a green salad (mixed greens, a cucumber and two celery stalks) with a "dressing" made of blended spinach, avocado, lemon juice and a few other things. It was really not that great. The dressing began to get bitter as I ate, and it just wasn't nearly as appetising as I was truly expecting it to be.

Despite having had two massive boxes of organic vegies delivered, Mum is now thinking of switching to the "fruit" menu planner, as opposed to the "green" one we chose last week. I am now committed to following the green menu for at least this week in order to use and not waste all those vegies we've bought. Overall, I think it will suit me better—I've spoken before about not having a sweet tooth and not being a huge fan of fruit because of that—but the prospect of getting through mounds of spinach over the next few days is a little daunting.

This all makes me sound really negative. In a way, I am. Mum is tired today and so is feeling defeatist about the amount of washing up (one blender, two raw vegans, three meals a day), and this is getting passed on to me. Also, the attitude of my Gran is not helping, as she sneers at the idea of celery in a fruit smoothie and says things like "it's all a bit extreme". Of course it's extreme, it's a freakin' health intervention! And you can't taste the celery (or any other greens, for that matter) in the fruit smoothies at all. Which I know, but it's getting a little hard to constantly defend. And this is only Day 2! Imagine how much harder a weekend away with the Wilsons could be...

There are positives, however. I don't feel hungry (if anything, it feels like there's a little too much food for me), I don't feel light-headed from lack of calories and (so far) I haven't had any more headaches. Also, although I have been bombarded with smells, images and ideas of fantastic cooked foods, and have been somewhat tempted, I have refrained from breaking out of the Challenge.

I'm hoping that in the morning, having both had a good night's sleep, things will seem more positive.

Current weight: 80.3kg (-1.8kg)
Current body-fat percentage: 39.3% (+0.9% — I've realised this keeps increasing because it's mostly water I'm losing so far and so the fat is a higher proportion of my weight)
Current feeling: A little down, but physically feeling pretty good