Author: Lauren

I'm Lauren and this is my life.

Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me…

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How HORRIBLY SAD Little Women is?  Joey found me crying in our living room last weekend after I reading that one chapter (come on, you know the one) and totally didn’t know what to do.  I’m quick to cry as is, but UGH, that was rough.  Now that I’m finished with the book, I cannot wait to watch the movie!

Not to watch President Obama’s Farewell Speech at work?  I totally missed it when it aired because we’re having some work done outside our house and they accidentally snipped our internet/cable line and also because I totally forgot about it and went to a yoga class that night, but I watched it at work the next day and had to pause and get myself together when he addressed Michelle and Joe Biden.  Like him or not, you cannot deny that the man can give a hell of a speech!

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I have a complicated relationship with Stephen King (why does everything he writes seem so pervy??) but this tweet said it all.

How long this week would feel?  I know we do those short weeks every year for the holidays and the first full week of work is a shock to the system but I’m still never prepared.  I had “Day Later Syndrome” all week and now that it’s finally Friday, I could not be more relieved.  I hope you all have fun and exciting weekend plans!

The Cooking Light 3-Day Detox

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Hear me out on this one.  “Detox” is dumb.  I have full faith that, unless you’re subsisting off alcohol, processed foods and sugar, your body is fully capable of “detoxing” itself.  That’s what your liver and kidneys are for, right?  But when Cooking Light published a 3-Day Detox meal plan in their January issue, I couldn’t resist, because I like being given a meal plan and I like when Joey and I get to do a little kitchen project together.  Like the Food Lover’s Cleanse, except way shorter, way easier and way less expensive.

Truthfully, I wasn’t even going to post about it, because it didn’t seem exciting or important enough, but I’m trying to take the time to write about those exact things.  They go by unnoticed, but they actually make up most of our lives, ya know?

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Things I Learned:

  • I’m not about a smoothie breakfast — something about not actually chewing food makes me feel like I haven’t actually eaten anything
  • Pork tenderloin and sweet potatoes are the best — I was not even looking forward to that dinner salad on Day 1, but then it was amazingly delicious and those sweet potatoes for breakfast the next day were so satisfying
  • My snack game could be way better — a pear and almond butter is so much better than a Larabar, so why don’t I take the time to actually prepare a snack more often?!
  • C.R.E.A.M., AKA carbs rule everything around me — as in, by the end of Day 3, I felt like if I didn’t eat something more than that 1/2 cup of quinoa for dinner I might actually cry

Okay, I like to think I eat pretty healthy and I don’t think I overeat all that often, but I was kind of starving by Wednesday so I don’t know who that meal plan was designed for, but those portions/meals weren’t cutting it.  While the food was all tasty as hell, it also wasn’t super filling and I so did not get into that “detox” to lose any weight.

In other words, we finished our 3-Day Detox with two big old chocolate chip cookies 🙂