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I was eating with some friends the other day and I said, " I wish I could cook like you." My friend turned to me and said, "No you don't Trang. If you did, you would make time to learn." I don't handle criticism very well to begin with but I was kinda upset with her so I pouted the whole night (here is a picture of me pouting the whole night even though I kept stuffing my face)

I was pouting because she was wrong.I have been watching cooking channels every day while doing my workouts, I got like four cookbooks from friends and family for Christmas, I have been youtubing "yummies for dummies" quite a bit and even made sure to buy the freshest and most expensive cut and ingredients since I read that was the key to cooking. Needless to say, the result has been the same...it tastes so good to me but no one else. So I end up eating leftovers for the whole week.

However, I have great news. My girls are twelve and thirteen now and they have always had friends over and none of their friends have ever liked my cooking either. But for the first time last week, one of their friends actually asked for a second serving of my cooking. You should have seen the reaction at the table from both girls, they got wide-eyed, then quiet and then they jumped up for joy and screamed, "Oh my gosh Mom, someone finally likes yourcooking!" I have never seen a child so proud of their parent, you would of thought that I just told them I won the lottery or something. Of course, I tried to play it cool and said, "Oh, that's nothing. I just whipped that up real quick, I have way better dishes." The girls just giggled because they know I don't. When they woke up the next morning, I have never been so happy to see one of their friends wake up. I went straight their friend and asked her if she wanted some more of my fried rice and she said, "YES!!!!"

I won't give you my special fried rice recipe even though I know a lot of you will ask me :). However, I get a lot of questions on what do I do for breakfast and what vitamins do I take so here it is even though I know most of you will just read it and forget about it. A lot of you guys have complained about feeling bloated after eating so much after the holidays, so this is my go to morning drink to start my detox for the day. It is not as good as theStandard Process 21 Day Purificationthat I am doing now but you guys are always asking me for something easier so here it is. Before you think something is this easy, realize that the true key is to 1)stop feeding your body the wrong foods(vegetable oils, sugar, trans fats...) and 2)feed it with the right foods.

a. 350 ml of pure clean water

b. 2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar

c. 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice (from my parents lemon tree)

d. 1 tsp cinnamon

e. 1 tbsp. of raw local honey (from a farmer near my house)

f. 1/2 apple sliced (optional because I am too lazy to do this)

g. 2 tbsp of Himalayan rock salt (from local farmer at gramen farms)

Pour all the ingredients in a blender (except for the apple) and mix for 10 seconds.

This is not the only thing I do in the morning since I get a workout in every morning, I need some extra energy to help me finish my workouts strong. I also do my protein shake and take all these vitamins including my fiber and fish oil that is not in this picture.Catalynis my multi-vitamin,Trace mineralsB12,Ginkgosynergyfor my memory, andCellular vitalitywhich has myconenzyme Q10. I also do my protein shake with some live pro-biotic and take a fiber and fish oil that is not in this picture since I did not want you guys to think I was some crazy vitamin lady.

Here is a picture of all the ingredients. In case you are wondering about the dishes in the back, that is Belle being lazy. Her chore is to clear the dishwasher and all she does is leave it on the counter by the cabinets where the dishes are supposed to be. Since she is too short to reach the top cabinets, I am supposed to just put it away for her. As you can see, none of our top cabinets are ever used since we are all too short to reach that.

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