Today is my mom;s birthday. She is 48.... again, lol. Apparently she thought she was 48 all last year, but my sister pointed out she actually turned 48 today. Ah, so funny. So we went to Red Lobster for dinner and I had my weekly animal protein int he form of trout. Who knew trout was so good? I suppose lots of people did, but I was not one of them.

So I am doing mostly veggies these days, and I make sure I juice (1 1/2 cups) every day. I have been eating a lot of quinoa and almonds and I made a soup, which my nutritionist gave me a loose recipe, and I added all the veggies i had and then some. It's pretty good, but I don't think I can eat it everyday. I am going to try to make a cream of sweet potato soup soon. I'll blog if it is good or not, because I decided to just use my cream of broccoli recipe and substitute accordingly. It could be amazingly good, or it could be amazing for other reasons. Oh, so I am not getting enough protein and I am not ready to add meat on a regular basis, therefore...... I am doing one anomal protein a week and supplimenting with a protein powder. I ordered hemp powder and the nutritionist is bringing green tea protein tomorrow. I will try them both and see how they taste. I will probably just add them to the veggie juice.

I rather enjoy my veggie juice. By looking at it you certainly wouldn't think it is even edible. I have to chuckle, because I made my husband try it last night. I thought he was going to plug his nose and run away, but he tasted it. His comment was weird..... but that is good for him. I like it and I guess that is all that matters. I'm not sure uf i blogged about this recipe before, but I think I will put it down here anyway. I use 2 or 3 carrots, 2 leaves of kale, 1/2 cucumber, 3 to 9 pieces of asparagus (depending on the size), 1 brussel sprout, 1/3 sweet potato(or 1/2 yam), 2 broccoli buds, 2 or 3 cauliflower buds, 1/2 inch peeled ginger root, 1 radish, 4 or 5 cilantro sprigs and 1/2 pear. The pear is just enough sweet to make it taste good to me. I tried apple and I just didn't like it. I have been drinking this for over a month now. All of the people on my health team, from my oncologist to my meditation coach, think I look healthy. My nutritiopnist even said there was "something robust about your(my) vital energy". Is there any cancer left? I don't know... acourding to my last scan taken in January there was.... but now? I feel really good. I finally can say good when people ask how I am doing, and mean it. I really attribute it to juicing and not eating meat or sugar... or gluten.

What else did I do today? Well..... I had a singing lesson. I sang Cry Me a River and it wasn't too bad. I'll try to make a link to it on youtube later. I'm not promising I can figure it out though. The vocal coach gave me a new song to try, Ain't Misbehavin. I really don't know it at all, so i t will be a challenge. She gave me Carmen McRae's version to listen to, which I really do like. We'll see what happens.

Sorry my post had little personality today. I'll try to be looser next time.
I'm going to post a recipe now:)