Belated dreams...

Well I fell of the blogestphere, sorry.  Things have been busy and there have been lots of changes to what was going to be...lets just say plans are moving forward and the date of the little ticker has changed.  So I have had to fly in to somewhat action mode...taking my temps again to locate the day that I ovulate.  Taking pre conception vitamins organising insurance and such.

The dreams continue.  At the moment I am dreaming in $$$$$ just trying to get comfortable before D day.  I am also dreaming of a new home for said future baby and the rest of the family.  D day will be upon us in no time and it wont be a dream anymore.  I am so excited and nervous but mainly excited :)

Will update you as things progress but I still need to get a few things sorted before I am really happy with my position.

Sweet dreams...

Processing dreams...

So I missed a week updating you however the next week of the cleanse was an extension of no snacking...it was no desserts. It went quite well managed to have no desserts.

The coffee on the other is not going so well. I have been having coffee again, I would say 5-6 cups a week...this is not good but I am still keeping my water intake up and feeling better for it.

Started to get a cold towards the end of last week...by now I would be a pile of self pity and fever but I really think the cleanse has helped me stay on top of the symptoms. I have also been eating healing foods lots of chicken, chili, ginger, carrots, and green leafy vegetables...trying hard to stay away from sugars and processed foods making it easy for my bosy to digest so more energy can go in to making me better.

Which brings me to the next stage of the detox...no processed foods...this should be an interesting one because I use two of the really busy days of the week to eat fozen meals ***enter shocked expression*** however that is a big no no this coming week...all of my foods must be as close to home made as possible...usually that would include all breads, dips etc however as this is a soft detox I am making some exceptions...being bread and dips...I will be having flat bread with no additives and dips with no additives...if I was doing this hard core I would make some dips in advance for the week but I will be having nasty free hummus. As for dinner I made today a soup cooking day and have made double batches of two soups so that it will cover my busy nights...so this is the menu for next week;

Sunday: Lion's head meatballs
Monday: Fresh vegetable omelette
Tuesday: Vegetable stack
Wednesday: Chicken and vegetable soup
Thursday: Lion's head meatballs
Friday: TBA
Saturday: TBA
Sunday: TBA

The following week is going to be full on as it is a drop of all sugars...refined and otherwise...general no meat except fish...hmmm will have to start thinking about meals now...

Sweet dreams...

Sweet dreams...

This entry really should have been called snack dreams because I can sense another 'sweet dreams' post coming along in the not to distant future but sweet dreams for me suits this weeks challenge...

The next faze of the slow detox is NO snacking unless of course it is one of the following;

• Fruit
• Vegetables
• Nuts
• Liet dips
• Cheese
• Healthy wraps and crackers

This is not to say that I am going to starve myself...I dont include eating something if you are hungry a snack it is in fact a small meal but eating for any other reason on unhealthy food is not feeding your body! its feeding something else...everyone has their own demons.

My demons like sweet things, I know they look cute and taste wonderful but this detox is all about getting rid of toxic habits as well as toxic substances...my toxic habit I beleive is eating out of boredom, as a reward, and to accompany things...like watching TV after my daughter has gone to bed or waiting for my love to come home...I could go on...the bottom line is I am going to control myself and let go of the meaningless snack.

I guess I will just have to survive on sweet dreams...

Fluid dreams...

So I soldier on with detoxing my body...so if you remember the first week I have cut out all beverages except water, herbal teas, and vegetable juices.  As good as it is fluids are VERY important for your body Your body needs water;

• to regulting your temperature
• as means for nutrients to travel through your body
• to transport oxygen around our body
• to remove waste from your body
• to protect your joints and organs
• to think, sleep, eat, breath and live.

Basically without any water we die...but most of us know that, our body tells us that.  What we need to learn is that without enough water we cant think properly, organise our lives and juggle our tasks.  We cant digest our food properly and we need to be able to get the most from everything that goes in our mouths. We cant regulate our hormones properly so we dont sleep soundly, have issues with our moods and enjoying our lives.  Our bodies cannot effectively remove TOXINS from our body. So increasing water intake could only be a good thing.  The best way to work out how much water you should be consuming is...take your weight in kilos and convert it to pounds...so I weigh 69 Kg that in pounds is 151.8, half it (75.9) and this is how many ounces of water you should drink per day...you can convert ounces to litres with a calculator on the web or use this conversion (1 ounce = 0.02957352953125 Liters) therfore I should consume roughly 2.25 litres of water a day.  If you exercise or drink alcohol etc you need to consume more.

I struggled this week a little, generally crashing at about 3-4 pm and having some lollies...I hope having more water will help curve the yuckness in the afternoon.

The next task will be no snacking...goodbye lollies.  No snacking is not entirely true...I can eat nuts, vegetables, fruit, dips and with veggies or low cal biscuit or wraps...oh no!!!!!

Cleansing dreams...

It's time to start clearing out the body.  I am dreaming of a healthy clean and balanced body. It all starts with elimination, just like when you cleanse your mind you have to get rid of all the negative thoughts before you can move on.

Last time I cleansed myself in preperation for pregnancy it was 1 week before I tried to conceive.  This was a crash course removal of ALL sugar, refined and natural...needless to say I nearly died! This time around I am going to cleanse slowly over 6 weeks...

I start by removing coffee and any other beverage from my diet except herbal teas (particularly dandelion and nettle tea which is great for cleansing), vegetable juice (no added fruit or sugar) and of course water.  This just covers the first week.  Once my body has adjusted to that I will move on to the next thing, baby steps baby steps.

Today was my first day and I must admit I crashed at about 4:00 pm and ate a few lollies...tsk tsk. 

I dream of being filled with energy, allowing my body to do what it needs to do to function.  I am not going to slow it down with things that are hard to breakdown and hard to use.  All in good time.

Sweet cleansing dreams.

One who dreams of linen...

I have never been in to buying clothes for an unborn baby let alone a child that is not conceived yet...however months before I conceived my daughter I bought a bib (a pink one) and booties...a lot of people said it was a bad idea, that I was setting myself up for disappointment.  However I did it and everything was fine...I got pregnant the first month of trying and I had a healthy baby girl.  While I am still not in to the idea of buying clothes for a child that is not yet earthbound I am attached to the idea of that special outfit that a baby has before they grace as with their presents...for a lot of people that is the coming home outfit...for my first baby it was a kimono style, wheat coloured sleeping gown...I shouldn't wait to get her into it...once I got over the whole 'why are we trying to dress her she has just come out leave her alone' thing!

Anyway I have been dreaming about what my two items might be for this future baby who is waiting above, never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be a piece of clothing...let alone a pant...these must be wilder then wild dreams as I could not take my eyes of these beauties.

These linen pants from Purebaby

I can imagine these on a little new born, fresh to the world with no top...skin rolling over the top...just lovely.  I gravitated towards the blue but we will have a surprise so you never know.

Hmmmm maybe the fact that I have picked clothes is a bad sign...in my dreams there are no bad signs so there!

Wedding dreams....

While it seems that the wedding dream will not com true first maybe soon after bubs is born though, I still have dreams of my wedding...here the wedding of my dreams...