Posted By: Dawnie on

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008, 12:17 am

Meal 1:

SouthBeach Cereal bar(10 g Protein

140

Meal 2:

Oatmeal

eggbtrs 

220

Meal 3:

yogurt(dannon lite & fit

gala apple

FF cott cheese(1C

blueberries(3/4C

354

Meal 4:

micro-steamed Zuchini & cabbage (1C each

Tilapia loin(4 oz

156

Meal 5

EAS protein(2 scoops

FF milk(1C

banana(1/2...3"

283

late night snack @9:pm

 ff cottage cheese(1/2C

apple

150

TOTAL Calories: 1283

 I had the xtra 9pm meal tonight because I walked 8 1/2 mi & did resistance circuit, (Could never imagine I coulf do SO much)So my calorie deficit said I needed alot more, I settled w/the cott cheese & apple.lol... Kinda had to force myself, but I needed it!

Tags: eating, clean

Posted By: cleanelizabeth on

Saturday, December 15th, 2007, 7:23 pm

I love to clean and clean using green cleaning products. Most of them I make myself. I have owned a janitorial company in New York for many years. I've used traditional cleaning products like the rest of us. I have no major complaints with traditional cleaning products. They do a great job but some are toxic and as we all know expense to replace. I still have a top - notch collection of my particular favorites:)

This blog will focus on cleaning your home and creating products that are friendly for the environment and you. Feel free to ask questions, leave comments or just contact me.


CLEAN MEAN! CLEAN GREEN!

Tags: green, clean elizabeth, clean

Posted By: emmaspirit on

Sunday, April 15th, 2007, 11:13 am

As a first step in going Green, I eliminated the toxic stuff in my home...or at least as much as possible. I started one weekend by calling The Salvation Army and booking a pick up for 4 boxes for the following weekend. This looming deadline forced me to collect my toxic stuff so I could recycle it. I considered just throwing the stuff out but then realized that what I want to get rid of because it was toxic may be useful for another person and it would be their choice as to whether they chose to bring it into their life. As I saw it, going green was all about providing me and others with more and healthier choices.

With the help of Dr. Blue Eyes, we quickly filled those 4 boxes with:
• Chemical based cleaning supplies (Downy, Tide, Snuggle, Top Job, Clorox, Comet)
• Aluminum pans (linked to Alzheimer's disease)
• Scented candles (emit toxic fumes)
• 10 year old vacuum (which likely spewed more dust than it picked up)
• Brita water filter pitcher (not thorough enough for yucky NYC water)
• Regular light bulbs (not energy efficient)
• Sheets, comforters and towels (polyester and dyed with toxic dyes)

And I threw out:
• Wall to wall carpeting (carpets can be extremely toxic. Some low-toxic synthetic carpets are available and the adhesives bonding the carpeting to the floor are also important so use nontoxic glue)
• Old mattresses (full of plastic and chemicals, these mattresses are made of polyurethane foam that has been treated with fire retardants and formaldehyde )

Over the coming weeks, I then added some Green products to my home:
• House plants that oxygenate the air
• Good multistage air filters (including a prefilter, another filter that takes out microparticles of dust and other debris, and a final filter that eliminates gases and fumes)
• New Hepa filter vacuum
• Reverse Osmosis Water filter (now we make 10 glass jug gallons of filtered water on the weekends to use throughout the week)
• Organic sheets and towels (soft and pretty too)
• Compact fluorescent energy star light bulbs (see energy saving facts at http://ge.ecomagination.com/site/index.html#cfle/details)
• Painted every room with low EOC paint (Benjamin Moore's EcoSpec line)
• Non-toxic carpeting ( for carpet and paint I turned to expert Paul Novack, founder of Bronx-based Environmental Construction Outfitters of New York at 800-238-5008, environproducts.com)
• Organic cotton mattresses and non-toxic cleaning supplies (Seventh Generation at http://www.seventhgen.com/household_hazards/toxins_home/non-toxic_bedding.html

Some things I decided I wasn't ready to part with...my Colgate toothpaste and Dry Idea deodorant...I was happy to go Green in many areas of my life but I had relied on these hygiene products for years and I sure didn't want to smell. Especially as I was adding more naturally curing garlic to my meals!

Some of these changes were simple and some took more time and were a little expensive but I think it is worth it. What do you think? What are you willing to do to Go Green?

Mary Beth Gonzalez

Tags: green, organic, home, clean, toxic home

Posted By: cl-rowan6 on

Thursday, July 19th, 2007, 3:58 am

My town is having a "keep TRE clean" program going on this summer. There are some teens that are the ambassadors of the project, they walk around with blue shirts and tell people where the nearest trash cans are (which are everywhere) and other such stuff. The only promotional item that is associated with this is a pin that says:
I want one of the pins! As a child I collected pins of all types and I guess that desire of collecting them still is a part of me. It just happened that as I was walking to work today, I saw 3 of the ambassador girls walking towards me!! I asked them how do I get a pin and one of the girls pulled one out of her bucket and asked "like this?". Yes! Kiitoksia (Thank you), I told them.

My morning was made! It's the little things in life that can sometimes make you happy. This was one of them.

Although, a bit while later, one of my co-workers came into work smacking his gum. ARgh! I'm trying to ignore it, but it's difficult...

Strawberry picking was an adventure yesterday. I googled the route to get there, we had two options. What should have taken us about a half an hour to drive there, took us double that! ¨For the life of us, we couldn't figure out how to get there from the first option, so we back-tracked, went around to the other way and eventually found our way there. The 2nd way was how I had gotten there last year with a friend, but she drove and I hadn't fully paid attention to the route, so it looked a bit unfamiliar.

Once we got there, got our buckets/boxes weighed and to the field, the clouds immediately opened up and poured on us for a few seconds. We started our picking, got some picked and it rained again! LOL. The pickings weren't too good. It had been raining too much the last week, many berries were moldy and rotten. Half of the berries that were good were touching the moldy berries.. *sigh* We came a week late. 2 of the girls were getting cold from the rain and wind (they only had fleece sweaters), so we didn't stick around long. I only got just over a kilo of berries.

It was ok though, the trip itself was fun.

I also learned a bit of funny info while on the trip. One of the girls is my DH's co-worker. She asked me if my DH had driven our car yet (we've had it a year now). I told her nope, he hasn't driven it and he doesn't really want to (unless it is passenger seat driving *argh*). In addition, he doesn't really have a need to drive the car, his work is a 10 minute walk away.

I then learned that my DH has told her that I won't LET him drive the car. That it is my baby and that he isn't allowed to drive it!!! We all had a GREAT laugh over that. In fact, I'm still chuckling!

Tags: strawberry, car, driving, clean, picking