Now I have never, ever pretended to be good at sticking with something. I already even had this conversation last time I tried to start up this blog. However, this time I am chronicling something that has an end in sight.
I will be attempting round three of Dr. Joshi's Holistic Liver Detox. Whereas I usually dislike the term "detox" as it seems to encourage people to drink lemonade and cayenne pepper(which is really closer to a fast), I like this detox as it really just alters my diet enough to encourage me to eat different vegetables- and no junk :(
I eat a mostly vegetarian diet, and for the purposes of the detox I won't be going out and getting special local salmon fish and chips anyways (Damn you Steveston!!). Some goat and bison dairy is also permitted, but I will just omit dairy altogether as that is one of my biggest vices. One of my goals is to stop having the inane desire to eat cheese at almost every meal, and instead reward myself with delicious farmer's market specialty cheese once in a while.
Anyway, this time around a good friend of mine approached me to do the detox with her, and as much and I love my initial detoxing partner, her and I just didn't stick with it. I am not pretending that it will be a magical dietary revelation for me. I would just like to lose a few pounds, and cut down on some of my food cravings.
Here is my first entry- I will not be updating this online everyday- but I will be writing it into my journal so each day gets covered.
Monday, March 27- DAY 1
Breakfast- Green tea, Greek Yogurt, 1 Banana
Snack- 2 rice cakes with 1 egg(salad mayo mustard celery), some veggies with hummous
Lunch- Lentil rice pilaf and Brussel Sprouts+ carrots
Green tea
Snack- Rice crackers and peanut butter
Dinner- Mulligatawny soup (I make a few modifications), and some veggie sticks
How I feel-
The first few days are always the most difficult, as my body has a hard time adapting to eating less snacks, and far less carbs. I make my egg salad with a bit of mayo and mustard, as I am not too sure how else to eat it. I really don’t like eating just plain boiled eggs. However I have found a recipe for egg salad using hummous, so I might try that at home. Other than that I feel pretty good, not going to bed too hungry- just a little peckish.
2 comments:
Hey pally,
Day one was ok for me. I ate rice and an egg for brekkie and the super soup for lunch, then rice and steamed greens for dins. I missed coffee immensely and--confession--am letting myself have one cup a day for the first week. I drink way too much coffee to feel like I want to go cold turkey.
Know what I'm missing the most? Wine. How sad is that?
So glad we're doing this though! And, I'm loving the morning lemon water. I've made M.E. drink it too.
Yeah the coffee part for me is hard, but I know from experience I get over it in a couple of days. I already drink a large amount of tea while i'm working, so now I just don't get coffee either :(
I also have a hard time drinking enough water so I put slices of ginger in my water bottle. YUM
Also, is the super soup not DEEEElicious?!?! I have to make another batch as I ate my last frozen bowl yesterday
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