I got a late start this morning, as I was setting up this new blog, so breakfast was not eaten at a very appropriate hour. As a result, lunch was much later today and dinner is not going to happen. I'm OK though. I've been drinking water and I'm not going to go off this detox.
Just for your edification, the menu for the first four days is as follows:
Breakfast is a no fruit green smoothie and a bowl of oatmeal. You may be thinking, "Hey, a bowl of oatmeal? That sounds alright." Yes. It does. Except this is pretty much just oatmeal. You can put a pinch of ground cinnamon and a few drops of Stevia in it, but otherwise, none of the other usual accouterments that people use to make it palatable. And as for the no fruit green smoothie, I just about gagged on the last mouthful. Lunch is a baked potato and another no fruit green smoothie. The baked potato is also without the usual toppings and no salt. I am to use a salt free seasoning like Spike. You can put flax seed or hemp oil on the potato. I sliced the potato and put the flax seed oil on it along with some crushed garlic (which I can have) and then laid them out on the baking sheet; into the oven they went and an hour or so later, out came baked potato crisps. Well, sort of. It was pretty good, but the Spike doesn't really help bring out the flavor of the potato.
Since I had to go to Whole Foods again to get celery, I decided to see what other salt free seasonings I could use and found one by Bragg. It is organic sea kelp seasonings. It has other stuff in it, but no salt. Anyway, it was supposed to be Hippo soup for dinner tonight, but as I type this, it is cooking.
I realized that there would be a problem with lunches at work. First, the no fruit green smoothie is supposed to be consumed right after you make it. However, the only way to do that is to haul my Blendtec to work with me and that is just not going to happen. Second, I don't like using a microwave to heat up the potato as microwaving changes the molecular structure of the food. So, I decided to flip lunch and dinner. I'm going to take the soup for lunch in a thermal container that will keep it hot and then have the potato for dinner, along with the green smoothie. There is also a yummy looking cucumber and tomato salad that you have with the soup. I nearly forgot that!
I feel quite good so far, only a little stiffness in my neck and a little bit of joint pain in my hips. My knees, which were feeling better, are singing an aria again tonight. Although, I don't know if this is the result of the detox or going up and down stairs today at the theatre. (My sister was in town and we went to see Despicable Me 2.) I have been burping quite a bit from both ends, but nothing too awful.
Well, the soup is set to simmer now for one hour. Then I shall be off to bed. I am looking forward with anxious excitement for day 2 of this new journey.
Tally ho! Sweet dreams
Nevada Smith
Gerri, I'm proud of you for taking this on. Our physical health is the foundation to our lives. One Sabbath, my husband went to a meeting that I was not interested in and I sat down and watched a documentary called "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead". If you have not seen it, you should watch it, it will encourage you to see the results this guy had. He changed lives by what he did. Spirituality was not a part of his journey, or at least he didn't bring it into the documentary, but he is more spiritual than he thinks.
ReplyDeleteI wish you well with this and I'm eager to follow your progress and be a cheerleader along with the others on FB. And by the way, I love to see the same Gerri personality in your posts that we got to see in High School. You have a lot going for you and a lot to offer the world. So get healthy and continue on. <3