Fit with Ruthie

    The recent article in the  newspaper had a few mistakes. Nothing huge but some that I would have preferred they got correct. I totally understand mistakes are made, no one is perfect and i also understand using a bit of creative license... I am not upset but  just wanted to correct a few things. My overall goal was to encourage other people to eat less sugar, to be aware of hidden sugars and realize life is GREAT on much less sugar :) Number one is my kids DO have cake on their birthdays, sure.. now instead of cake, cokes, and ice cream.. we now enjoy cake and fruit and water.... but the cake is still there. Also on their birthdays they get to choose a sugary cereal from the grocery store to have and even get a coke or two if they want. Again.... we dont do this type stuff everyday... but once in a while doesnt hurt much.  Also. I dont use stevia to sweeten or to cook with... the article sort of led people to think I used it instead of sugar. If we are baki...

 My breakfast LOVES me. and I love it! :) ...... I decided I would share in a bit more detail what I am eating these days and how its making me feel. On Jan 11th I started a raw vegan "diet". I am looking at this as "for a limited time only" type thing.. a "Detox" if you will... A way for me to get a sense of what this type of life would be like and how it would effect me. My breakfast :) 3 bananas, frozen strawberries, pineapple, mango I haven't been doing the raw thing 100%. I am striving for 90% raw, 10% cooked. No meat, no processed anything and no caffeine. My goal now is to try this for a month and after that look at what I am doing and change what I want and keep what I want. Honestly I can say I cannot see living my entire life eating completely raw... Just as I cannot see living without having a coke and popcorn at the movie theater once in a blue moon.... I sure cant see living without having a bit of chicken or hamburger on a...

The first surprise.....How wonderful it felt to run this morning in the 38 degree weather :) The second surprise...... How great I felt after a 20 min ab workout the last surprise? HOW HUGE the article was in todays paper about our family and how we try to eat low sugar. I knew the article would be in the paper.. but to see it plastered on the health section like that... a bit of a shocker.... and ... and.. it has  my blog address on it... which is fine.. but again.. .a shocker! You must remember this blog start out private... no one knew... and now.... not only do people far away know about it... people in my hometown do too. Its just a bit strange how we are comfortable with some things and not with others.  I guess my biggest concern is that I dont ever want to come across like I have a perfect fitness and nutrition system... I never want to come across like I dont struggle. Granted.. it is easier than when I first began but I still have times when I think negatively...

 Sore.. you ask? Oh yes.. very sore :)... Lunges from track practice did the trick.. thank you very much! hopefully tomorrow I will feel much better! :)... Just call me TEX for now LOL My eats have been going good. I am still doing the fruits n veggies thing.... Here a picture of my before breakfast blend :) I have only one issue really, missing hot food. So the past 2 days I have had a hot baked sweet potato.... the rest has been raw. OH. how wonderful did the smell of Chicken Express feel! Just the smell of it was wonderful. Surely the engineer its smell just like MacDonalds does...  but I didnt give in ... I didnt eat a bite of chicken or corn nuggets.... I did, how ever.. have a few little chrispy thingings. It was enough to satisfy me and realize i wasnt missin that much :) We have been painting and painting and painting. Painting a whole house is nice when you have three kids and a 6ft 5 hubby! :)... I am now off to Church... where they eat donuts and drink cof...

Had a great workout today with the track kidos. I did twenty pushups before track practice began... we then ran for 25 mins, then lunges and side lunges, sit on the walls :), abwork.. and this thing were we lay on our tummy and face eat other and push and pull each other to get across the gym floor.. ... great upper body workout My eats are going great I am doing a "detox" of sorts :) want to see my eats over the past two days? curious arent you? well.. I am OFFICIALLY OFF CAFFEINE! WOOWHOOO! thats huge for me :) i am soooo happy... yesterday: 3bananas 3 cups strawberries Handful of pineapple 1 and 1/2 Whole med tomato Four things romaine lettuce 1/4 cucumber 5 Mini carrots Green leave spinach 1/2 cup 1 large organic apple 10 salted roasted almond 1 banana 1/2 cup strawberries 1/2 cup blueberry 1/2 cup pineapple 1 1/2 avocado 1 whole tomato 2 corn chalupas (corn meal, corn oil, salt and lime)  water (of course) :) Today: (so far.. I am fixing to ha...

Wow... 8 days since my last post. I don't think I have ever gone that long without posting. wow... what a nice lunch, nice nap and a nice run will do for a gal!!! We have had a busy few weeks of the new year. today was my first run in 8 days! yikes. I have not been feeling too well.. and might share that story later.. but I am happy to say todays run was fantastic and I felt great! I have a bit of a "detox" I  will be doing for the next 10 days. I am three days into being cafiene free! of course I have been "off" sodas so my only source of caffeine has been hot unsweet tea (twinnings to be exact.. yummmy)...  UPDATE- Monday 1-10-11.... ok... so I THOUGHT I was caffeine free... turns out the herbal tea I was drinking had 30 mg of caffeine in it! good grief! I thought I was anal about reading labals LOL.... I have been drinking this same tea at night before bed for 6 month thinking it was caf free.......so.... I lied LOL.... today I drank a decaf twinni...

Wishes I was a more organized person Wishes I didnt eat like crap the first 40 years of my life Wishes happier (warmer) weather were here Wishes I was still on the getting up at 5am without an alarm clock schedule Wishes I could eat anything I wanted and be perfectly healthy Wishes I had learned all I know today about 20 years ago Wishes my kids were not growing up so fast Wishes life wasn't so difficult for so many people Wishes people would be more real Wishes stuff and things didnt matter so much in this world Wishes I would have started running in Jr High Wishes........ wishes are just that.... wishes. We can all wish things were different. We can all wish life was different. We can all agonize over the choices we have made in the past. We can wish our life away. OR We can CHOOSE to embrace who we are, where we are, what we are, and DREAM to be what we know we can become. The reality is this new year holds uncertainty and doubt. BUT It also holds our dre...