Ryan had to work this morning, but I was already awake when his alarm went off! I'm really hoping sleep will turn around soon!
Today is the day the detox changes for 7 days. Only foods from vegetables, fruits, fats, spices and beverage categories are allowed and rice. That means all the protein is coming from the shakes. Also, no legumes, nuts, or oats. This makes thinking about what to eat...easy, but less actual food being eaten.
For breakfast, I mixed a shake and headed off for a walk with one of my dearest friends and her two boys, down by the lake. It was a gorgeous day, with the sun shining and temps near the 30's. Spring feels like it is around the corner! I walked for almost an hour and went home to find something to eat.
I had an apple, then a banana, then some snow peas, then a tomato. The walk must have kicked up my metabolism, because I was starving and NOTHING was making me satisfied. I buckled and had some of the leftover turchetta from last night. I also had some steamed broccoli with flaxseed oil drizzled over it. I would have had another shake, but realized our jug was getting low and we didn't have enough to do 3 shakes a day and get through the weekend. We'll have to deviate from the schedule a little and only do 2 shakes a day, until I can get more product this week.
I was busy all day and HUNGRY all day! This was the first day of discomfort, well, sort of, if you consider hunger...discomfort. I felt like I couldn't think about much else today, except what I was going to eat next! I think the hardest part was not having a satisfying breakfast, like oatmeal, and drinking my breakfast instead.
By late afternoon, I was REALLY looking forward to dinner! I had another apple, a shake, and a grapefruit to get me through while I was cooking dinner. Another thing I have realized on this detox, is how much I like to snack on something while I'm cooking! I usually have some chips and salsa, chips and guacamole, etc. I miss them!
For dinner, I made risotto with carrots, yellow squash, celery, onions and garlic. I also had baked sweet potatoes and cucumbers. Dinner tasted soooo good after a long day of feeling hungry! The sweet potatoes were such a treat because they tasted so sweet! Ryan and I commented on how we would normally put lots of ketchup on the potatoes. We both thought ketchup would have been much too sweet because we are getting used to the taste of the actual food and the sweetness in the potatoes was more than satisfying. I hope we can continue some of these lessons we are learning after the detox. No ketchup will save us lots of extra sugar and calories if we can pass it up!
Even though the meal was fantastic, I was still a little hungry. I waited a half hour after dinner and then had to have a rice cake!
I didn't go to bed really hungry, but I definitely know I'll be hungry by morning!
Today is the day the detox changes for 7 days. Only foods from vegetables, fruits, fats, spices and beverage categories are allowed and rice. That means all the protein is coming from the shakes. Also, no legumes, nuts, or oats. This makes thinking about what to eat...easy, but less actual food being eaten.
For breakfast, I mixed a shake and headed off for a walk with one of my dearest friends and her two boys, down by the lake. It was a gorgeous day, with the sun shining and temps near the 30's. Spring feels like it is around the corner! I walked for almost an hour and went home to find something to eat.
I had an apple, then a banana, then some snow peas, then a tomato. The walk must have kicked up my metabolism, because I was starving and NOTHING was making me satisfied. I buckled and had some of the leftover turchetta from last night. I also had some steamed broccoli with flaxseed oil drizzled over it. I would have had another shake, but realized our jug was getting low and we didn't have enough to do 3 shakes a day and get through the weekend. We'll have to deviate from the schedule a little and only do 2 shakes a day, until I can get more product this week.
I was busy all day and HUNGRY all day! This was the first day of discomfort, well, sort of, if you consider hunger...discomfort. I felt like I couldn't think about much else today, except what I was going to eat next! I think the hardest part was not having a satisfying breakfast, like oatmeal, and drinking my breakfast instead.
By late afternoon, I was REALLY looking forward to dinner! I had another apple, a shake, and a grapefruit to get me through while I was cooking dinner. Another thing I have realized on this detox, is how much I like to snack on something while I'm cooking! I usually have some chips and salsa, chips and guacamole, etc. I miss them!
For dinner, I made risotto with carrots, yellow squash, celery, onions and garlic. I also had baked sweet potatoes and cucumbers. Dinner tasted soooo good after a long day of feeling hungry! The sweet potatoes were such a treat because they tasted so sweet! Ryan and I commented on how we would normally put lots of ketchup on the potatoes. We both thought ketchup would have been much too sweet because we are getting used to the taste of the actual food and the sweetness in the potatoes was more than satisfying. I hope we can continue some of these lessons we are learning after the detox. No ketchup will save us lots of extra sugar and calories if we can pass it up!
Even though the meal was fantastic, I was still a little hungry. I waited a half hour after dinner and then had to have a rice cake!
I didn't go to bed really hungry, but I definitely know I'll be hungry by morning!
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