Day 6....I've made it almost a week

One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

I have made it to day 6 without a cheat. That's pretty good because I actually have not even had the desire to cheat. I'd only be cheating myself.
Today, I didn't take in as much food as I should have. I was running late this morning and grabbed an apple before I walked out the door to work, but I did drink a lot of water today. Then I figured since I had to leave work early to take Lexi for her physical and I worked through my lunch, I figured I'd have a chance to stop at home and grab a hard boiled egg or a salad. Well, we were running late & that didn't happen. I drank lots of water and actually grabbed a lemonade at the store before we got to the Doctors. When I got home, I had a piece of steak and some peas. Not a good amount of food today. Late just seems to be my name today!  What should have been a 30 minute appt, turned into a 2 hour appt. Shots much needed for High School, so we got them taken care of now, since we were there, and we are not usually at the doctors too often. Thank God!!!

Tonight I have a house full of girls. 8 extra girls, and it's so great to be sitting up here & listening to them all laughing. A few of the girls I have known for years, yet a few I just met tonight. a great group of girls, and it's nice that they are all getting along. Lexi has changed so much this year, (for the better) and she has made so many new friends, and started hanging out with other kids she always wanted to hang out with. IT's nice to see the friendships she has made. NONE of them fight, there's almost NO DRAMA with them all. It's so nice to have a drama free life when it comes to friends. Lexi has had some wonderful friends over the years, but this past year has been really hard on her with friends. Probably harder on me than on her to be honest. But true friends always find their way back to eachother and I am sure that if she is true friends with them, they will find their way back to eachother. It's just part of life. Ok, so I'm going off on where I wanted to take this.
So, having all the girls in my house, with chips, cheese doodles, soda, juices & cupcakes from JP's Cupcakery. OMG, if you have never tried them, and don't need to stay away from sweets, check out his website http://www.jpscupcakery.com/. Lexi got Red Velvet with cream cheese icing, and lemon cupcakes with lemon icing. The girls absolutely loved them. I left after singing "Happy Birthday" and retreated to my bedroom.

My favorite thing to snack on is chips & cheese doodles! LOVE THEM! But I ate dinner, drank lots of water and figured, as long as I'm up here, I won't even be tempted, but honestly, I don't even feel tempted. I think I am just too tired with it being Friday & having had a busy week with Lexi's 2 other birthday celebrations this week. She is one lucky girl. Not many kids get to have 3 celebrations! The joys of having family live close by,and then the other, having dinner with her best friend, boyfriend & I. She's a lucky lucky girl. She got some great gifts tonight too. Kids today give such great gifts. They didn't have gifts like this when we were kids. Well let's say, "When I was a kid!" I didn't have a party every year. I had a few slumber parties, but I didn't get to have a birthday party every year! Most kids didn't have parties every year, did they?

I will be so happy when I make it past a week but more so when I go shopping again & get some more fruit & fresh veggies! God, I never thought I'd be saying that. I still miss the grains, going GRAIN FREE was not an easy decision for me, but every day, it really gets easier and easier. There is so much out there that I can have. I can cook with coconut oil, which I have not tried yet, coconut flower and all kinds of other stuff I'm just finding out about.
I can't wait til I can post some really good recipes to share with you guys. The first week was pretty boring. I'm going to internet search tonight and this weekend for some really good recipes. If you have any grain free dishes you'd like to share, feel free to post them. I'd love to have them!

I'm going to watch some tv and relax!
Have a great night ya'll!

Godspeed!