Exhausting Day Yesterday

What a day! Felt like a race from start to finish.

6:00: I was doing work and writing my blog.
8:00: At Gym
11:00 At Real Estate Clients discussing property
12:00 at home making Fresh Almond Milk and Fruit/Veggie shake in VitaMix.
1:00 Chiropractor appointment
2:00 Viewed a couple of properties on my own.
2:30 Had a quick soup at home.
3:00 - 6:00 - showed 16 properties in three hours!
6:30 - 7:00 Chicken and salad dinner (I planned a more interesting dinner but had no time to make it so Jamie cooked for us).
7:00 - 8:00: The clients I showed the properties to in the afternoon wanted to place an offer on one of the ones we saw. The original plan was to quickly go in with an offer last night before anyone else could buy it, but the evaluation showed the price to be a little high. We will probably still try an offer on it but became in less of a "race" to do so last night. We will view more properties today and tomorrow before making a final decision.
8:00 - 10:00 wanted to do more work but was totally fried so I vegged out in front of the TV.

Today is crazy too. Real Estate seems to have clicked back into full gear. It's a good thing.

I am really loving the VitaMix. Just wish I had more time to play with it but then I might make too much stuff and get fat :-)

The drink I made in it today had carrots, celery, grapes, and pineapple. It was yummy.

I mentioned before that Weight Watchers really doesn't encourage fruit juice as opposed to eating the fruit itself.

I think this is for three reasons:

1) Eating the real fruit takes longer and makes you feel more full.

I do believe this is true but I find that as long as I make a thick drink I feel pretty full.

2) It takes a lot of fruit to make that drink and fruit does contain sugars that without activity can quickly convert to fat.

Truth to this as well, but making the drink with vegetables AND Fruit reduces the amount of fruit in the drink. I exercise a lot so I think I am ok.

3) When you make fruit juice the pulp gets left behind. The pulp contains the fibre and the fibre slows the conversion of sugar to fat.

This is what I love the "second most" about the VitaMix. I basically pulverizes everything, pulp and all, so you actually drink the pulp and therefore you drink the fibre. Fantastic!

You know what the most amazing thing is though? The clean up.

I have bought juicers more than once before (I have one in the basement right now) but I always stop using it because it is too hard to clean.

With the Vitamix you put two drops of detergent in the blender and turn it on. The machine basically becomes a dishwasher and it cleans itself. Thirty seconds and your done.

I should do an infomercial for this product. I think I just DID a blogomercial!

Looking forward to making flour from organic grains in it etc too. All I need is time.

Wish me luck on another busy day, and, be healthy!

Alan