No Junk October - An Explination

Every October I've been plagued with the task of deciding how to pry mountains of candy from eager hands on Novemeber 1st. This year my kids are 11,10,7 and 1. 

My strategy is to convince them candy isn't always all that. 

So I gave them a choice

A. We give up junk food for 30 days. On October 31st, after trick or treating, they can enjoy their candy as much as they want. (I mistakenly thought Halloween was on a Friday)  so I decided to amend it by saying a couple pieces and then as much as they want Friday night. Then the rest will be donated to the troops. 

B. They don't have to give up anything for October. Then on Halloween they can have a couple pieces  of candy and 1 piece each day for 7 days. At the end they donate their candy. 

    My children chose option A. I figured they would. So my plan is already working mwahahahaha! Lol 

No Junk Food October Day 1

No Junk October
Day 1
Kids had egg & banana pancakes for breakfast. They were too runny so we added a tablespoon of arrowroot powder. That helped a lot! I'm doing a juice fast so my breakfast was a
10 oz naked mango juice. Not ideal but I need a little variety and I choose to eat fruit early to burn off the sugar through the day.
Morning snack
I think the kids took dinosaur fruit for their morning snack. I had a juiced "pumpkin late" a little coffee with pumpkin, coconut milk and spices.
Lunch
Kids were not as disagreeable about the choices for lunch today as I thought they might be. Ironic since it's nothing different than we always have available but they were so worried yesterday about not being able to have a sucker or chips till Halloween. What makes it funnier is that they don't normally eat that anyway.
12:30 For lunch I had green juice with some arrowroot powder (great fiber and thickening) and water. Seriously walking around my kitchen obsessed with the idea of chewing food. Lol I saw the spaghetti squash on my counter and thought "Saturday I'm eating you with a jar or tomato sauce!"  I don't think I've been this obsessed with food since I tried my first Whole 30 2 years ago. That first week was sooooo rough! I felt like a drug addict being kept from my drugs only I could touch, smell and see them. Which was much worse because it took self control not to eat those foods.

I needed another green juice by 3:00.
 Dinner for the family was beef stew. That was rough! It smelled so good. I don't think the creators of juice fasting have kids. There's no way it would occur to me to skip eating for 3 days. I'm not knocking it just being funny. But seriously staring at my family eating stew was torture. I accidentally put some butternut squash in it (was also making baby food) apparently I ruined it but the kids ate, so it's all good.
I did some cleaning tonight and realized I was hungry again. So another glass of green juice. To be honest I'm a little concerned about what all this juice is doing to my blood sugar. I should have bought a blood sugar test kit, since I'm insulin resistant. Since I just thought about it I guess I'll try to remember tomorrow.
I hate feeling hungry. Paleo keeps me very full and very even! I can't figure out how to juice an avocado and make it taste good. I can't wait till Thursday! At least I can have my beloved eggs. <3
Well Day 1 is done! Tomorrow is my last full day juicing. I hope I survive! Lol I'm down a couple pounds from last week (not my main concern but it's nice to know since my weight is caused by my IR)