A New Tradition?

Day 8

Weight: I did not weigh today!

I have decided to wait until after Christmas to continue weighing myself. I have still been juicing, but I have also been doin' a little taste testing (lots of cooking and baking goin' on here) and I have not gained anything, but I have not lost much either... Even a little bit of food on a juice fast causes you to not loose as much as you potentially could...

Today I made Tropical Sunset juice (Find the recipe under the "Juice Recipe" tap at the top of the page.) with lemon and orange added in and it is so tasty and refreshing, but it is odd to drink when my house smells like Crockpot Fajitas! I feel 50/50 today about this whole juice fast. Half of me is really into it because I want to be healthy and lose weight. The other half of me is thinking "Why did I decide to do this around the holidays? I know that my family is full of traditions that involve food!".  I guess that is a sign that I need to stay strong because part of this journey for me is to break my addiction to food in general, but especially unhealthy foods!

I have to wonder why people started associating food with celebrations. It seems like every family that I know gets together for a barbeque, to go out to dinner, to cook dinner, to meet for lunch, to have dessert and especially around the holidays to make feasts fit for kings. What ever happened to getting together to GO somewhere and DO something? Having to worry about feeding others adds way too much stress in my opinion. There is the cost, first of all, because food is expensive but there are other factors too. If somebody has an allergy or they don't like certain foods you have to take that into consideration and if you are going "out" somewhere then you all have to agree on where to go and then decide who is paying, or are you splitting the bill... For some people that is not a problem, but think back to when you were just starting out and didn't have any extra anything. I am hoping that by the end of this adventure my family has come up with some other activity to do when we have a gathering other than eating. Maybe it is time to start a new tradition?