Coconut Oil

I've been reading some interesting things about Coconut Oil the past few days. http://www.coconutdiet.com/weight_loss.htm
Someone on the raw food forum had advised to add a tbsp to your morning smoothy. I guess, from what I had read, coconut oil is different than other oils - corn and soybean oil tend to be stored as fat in the body, whereas CO is metabolized very quickly, the body burns it because it has a hard time storing it, the end result is your body has more energy and burns more calories! I know that I am getting a lot of fats from the nuts that I eat, which is good, but I also get alot from the ranch dressing which is probably not as good... So I added a tbls of CO to my diet yesterday. And I also added MSM back into my diet (finally got it in the mail yesterday). I had noticed that I quit having those vivid dreams and I had kind of liked them. Plus it was having a positive effect on my skin. :)
Anyway, I woke up this morning and stepped on the scale - down  2 lbs now. I had thought that it was a fluke the other morning, cause I had seemed to loose 3 pounds overnight. I was thinking it was cause I hadn't eaten much the day before. It went back up two pounds the next day to what seemed more normal, then this morning it went back down again. I figure that must be where I'm really at. The scale had been telling me I hadn't been loosing anything all of last week, but my body was telling me otherwise. Now the scale agrees! Probably retaining fluids or something.
I was camped out in my room for hours yesterday, trying on all my old clothes (still finding unknown clothes in the depths of my closet!). The shirts that I had not worn because they didn't fit me for the past three years, are now too big! Whaaa!! I should have got them out sooner! They might have fit me last month. :( I was really surprised when I tried on my jean-jacket, it has always been a bit too tight in the arms so that it makes me uncomfortable and I can't even move them. And I coudln't button it up. But I slipped into that yesterday and had one of those 'what the heck' moments. The top of it is way too large now, shoulders and arms are very loose, and I CAN button it up, and now I feel like I am drowning it it. It's like it's a completely different jacket. Might use it in the  fall  if I remember that I still have it in two months. So is the Old Navy sweatshirt I have, I never zipped it up whenever I wore it because it was too tight, but now I am able to and it is actually a bit big. That is just amazing to me, how my body can change that much in just 2 months. I haven't tried my winter coat on yet, but I decided that I don't care how big it is on me this year, I'm still wearing it. Cause I like it. But I may or may not change my mind when I actually try it on. :P
I am joining the YMCA tomorrow. I have been doing Pilates at home every other day, but I think I could benefit from being in some weight-training class and I wanna be in the water!! Speaking of pilates, I think I stretched a bit too much on monday night. ;) I didn't think I had worked too much on the arms, I guess I was doing a lot of roll-ups though. But man were my arms sore the next two days! haha. I can tell that I haven't been working out for the past five years. And I think I need to work on those arms, cause now I am losing the famous bohm-family 'bat-wings' hahahaha. Darn it, now I have the batman theme in my head. nanananananana nanananananana batman....  
At the beginning of all this, I was afraid of eating so many nuts, because they have a certain amino acid or something in them that cause me to break out in coldsores - mostly peanuts do. If I even eat half a cup of them, I WILL have a cold sore a few days later. So I have stayed away from peanuts, but since I have never really tried any other nuts (cause i have never liked them and now I have gone crazy) I just assumed I would have the same reaction to any of them. But I haven't. Even when my lips were pretty chapped for a couple days from being dehydrated, which is another thing that causes coldsore outbreaks for me, nothing happened. I am hoping that this diet prevents them! Cause I hate them! And I have not had any cold symptoms since I started either. I know that I had a cold in May, that was the last one. I usually get them four times a year, especially if someone else I hang out with has one. Usually my nose always runs at work, but it hasn't since I did the MC. They say that a buildup of mucus in your body is what the cold virus - and other mucus-thriving viruses make their homes in - and the master cleanse is suppose to break up all that mucus in your body. THat was what the Lemons were for. I will have to note it when I do get a cold. Maybe I won't! That would be awesome too!
I started a kefir regimin Tuesday, Kefir is made from Raw milk I think, cultured so that it has good bacteria in it... It actually tastes just like yogurt. But it has 10 different kinds of cultures in it. Not my favorite taste in the world, as I hate yogurt, but hey - it's 100 times better than that nasty tasting kombacha tea!!! Think I might use it in my smoothie this morning.
Oh!!! I saw some raw cheddar cheese in Cub Foods yesterday!!!! I wanted some, but it cost five bucks. I didn't need it that bad yet, but something to try later on. I can also have goats cheese, but that also costs five bucks. Instead I spent five bucks on a dragon fruit. hahaha. Interesting and strange. It tastes kind of like a cross between a pear and a kiwi, after you peal it like an orange, the fruit on the inside is white with black speaks. Wierdest thing I have ever eaten! It was good, but I think I would have rather spend that $5 on a watermelon. yummy!
There was a mishap of a watermelon exploding on my kitchen floor the other day. I'm not sure how it happened, it just burst while I was away from home. :)
Oh, and I got rid of those annoying fruit flies. I set a trap for them! I pulled the garbage up, so they could fly in, but i could grab and close the bag quickly without them getting out the next morning. There was a bazillion of them little buggers in there. They live in the trash dump now. ;) I got rid of my tall garbage can, used the small one and stored it under my kitchen sink so they can't find it. Plus I can just use grocery bags instead of garbage bags. Very nice! :D  
And I finally got some popsicle molds! whoo-hoo! They're actually push-up molds. ummm...yummy. 
  

I've been neglecting this blog!! :)
I've lost 23 pounds so far!!! :D Whoo-hoo! I'm thinking I actually weigh about one or two pounds more, because I neglected to eat anything besides a huge salad and some watermelon yesterday. Just away from home too much. I tend to notice that when my life isn't revolved around my work schedule, then I don't eat as well. Mostly I am just sitting around the house so I am not too hungry and I just don't eat, i don't feel like eating. (more like it's because I'm lazy and don't feel like getting up to get something to eat.) I tend not to snack those three times a day like I need to. And all I have eaten today is a banana for breakfast and I had a bunch of watermelon at lunch. I should probably make myself a smoothie just to get some food into me. Figured I'd eat my big salad tonight instead. I have been wearing skirts around the house and to church now because my pants are just way too loose and they annoy the crap out of me. I figured if I really have to, I can sew a drawstring into these skirts and use them quite often. I have a jean skirt and that brown one. And I also have that pretty dress I could probably wear, which can double as a skirt if I wear a shirt over top of it. I just don't know what to wear to work, cause I can't wear my flipflops. Might have to find some shoes to go with these outfits, then they will look okay.
I am starting to loose weight around the stomach. Back at the very beginning of this (2 months ago!) I took some swimsuit pictures (blaghhhh) because I wanted to compare them after the 10 day master cleanse. But looking at those pictures that day made me think - melia, you need to lose this weight, it's killing you... I wasn't all gung-hoe about it yet, but I would be. I took pictures 10 days after that, there's not too much of a difference in those comparision-pics. But by that time I was okay with it, because loosing weight on the fast wasn't my goal, it was merely for detoxing. But I've been taking swimsuit pics about every 2 weeks since then. I think I have four sets now. And man - you can see the difference in this last one especially - my butt is shrinking!! :O And so is my belly. I don't know if I will ever post those pictures for others to see, unless I can actually do this, then maybe I will, beacuse they show better then my other pics how far I have come. But you can't see them right now! hehe :)
I had my monthly this past week, no sign that it was coming other than that I was ravenously hungry and craving all the wrong kinds of foods cause my body must need more carbs during that time. Very few aches - just a backache one afternoon, which I took Ibprophen for, so it went away. But no cramps or anything. One thing I noticed was the huge mood swings on Monday - two days before. I was in a foul mood all day long and just wanted people to leave me alone. But I think I caught Joshua on a bad day too, so we were just kind of clashing and rubbing each other the wrong way... :) By the time I got out of there I just wanted to go home and cry, but I couldn't cause I had VBS. I had a much better time then, I was with people I love. I think half of those mood symptoms depends on what kind of people I'm around. People who stress me out or people who put me at ease and allow me to be myself. Usually I will know that I'm in a bad mood because it's 'that time' and be able to take a chill-pill and deal with it, but on monday, even though I knew why I was feeling that way- I didn't care. I just wanted to be angry at the world!!!!! Period came 3 days early by the way. It did that last time too. So when I was going through the hunger and the mood swings that weekend, I wasn't for sure if that was what it was anyway, it seemed a bit too soon. Also - I tend to get a little tired the week before. I want to sleep in until the last minute.