Creative Meanderings

Well, the juice diet continues….

We are starting to figure out the best process for juicing. It’s quite a bit of work to prepare juices for all your meals. There’s a lot of washing, peeling and then juicing, plus the clean-up afterwards that is required. It’s more work than cooking a meal each night!

Both of us are doing well overall and definitely feel healthier. R wants to keep going. I miss eating solids, to be completely honest, but I will see if I can stick it out one more day before the break begins. It’s good to be detoxed and cleaned out before I head back to the North American enlarged portions and processed food diet. 😛

After the break, I think we will do it again for a few days to detox again, but I will try to include solid food for dinners, such as salads and vegetable soups (half liquid/half solid :P). As long as we continue to eat mostly fruits, vegetables, legumes and other macronutrient food, we should definitely be healthier and happier!

Last night we had a couple of nuts and dried fruit that couldn’t be blended/juiced and it felt so fantastic to chew! I really like solid food, but can handle eating healthier. Though, I do miss me some grease and red meat – that’s just after four days without it. Pathetic!!! 😀

Mostly, I was concerned about my need for a higher protein level to avoid my body revolting and going into shut-down mode to save energy. So far, I haven’t had any problem with it as we drink whey protein and soy milk for breakfast before the morning breakfast juice. There are some points in the day when I do feel a bit hungry, but never weak or really tired like I used to. We are even still having a large cup of coffee each morning, which actually against the rules, but we both do cherish our cup of coffee so!

Anyway, I would recommend this diet as a way to refresh (or reboot!) the body’s system. I feel less tired (not less stressed, though), healthier and perhaps the best motivator, thinner!

Now, I will just have to test out my self-control on Friday morning when I’m at the airport and faced with fast food options!! 😀 Maybe I’ll have to break my diet on Thursday night so my stomach doesn’t revolt from airplane food…. 😛

-T

For the past couple of weeks, R and I have been attempting to change our eating patterns to lose some unnecessary pounds as well as to generally have a better schedule.

Both of us love our food. Perhaps a little too much.

Both of us have considered undergoing the lemonade/juice cleanse, but neither of us have been totally motivated to take it on. Especially since it requires of a day of staying near a toilet and basically starving ourselves until our bodies are void of any food matter. Doesn’t sound like fun, right?

Well, one of our colleagues introduced R to the Reboot Your Life program. Our colleague has noticeably dropped weight and looks healthy as well. I guess that the program is from this documentary – Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, which we are planning to watch tonight or this week as motivation.

So, today is the first day of our ‘Long Weekend’ Reboot, which is three days of just juice. Yesterday, I bought a load of vegetables and last night we juiced up a couple of recipes to get us through the day at work.

This morning we started with a glass of soy milk with whey protein mixed in. I’ve just completed my first juice of Carrot-Apple-Ginger, which wasn’t bad. Later on I’ll have my second juice called Citrus Inspired Green, which I’m not too sure about as it has a lot of leafy lettuce type stuff in it. So, we shall see!

I’ll keep ya’ updated on how it goes! 😀