I think this is growing on me. Down another 1.2 lbs, so I will take it! Not sure I would want to do this on a full-time basis, but I think it will definitely become part of our regular habits to continue to try new things (especially the juices). I went looking for new recipes last night, and here is a few sites I found that have great recipes:
www.youngandraw.com
www.justonjuice.com
www.juicerecipes.com
www.yummly.com
...and the list could go on for days!
Someone also asked me yesterday why we are dry brushing our skin. Here is two articles that can explain it better than I can. But basically you lose quite a bit of waste through your skin each day (up to 1 lb), so why not help your skin breathe so it can do its job.
http://www.naturalnews.com/040389_skin_brushing_detox_health.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/040615_dry_brushing_lymphatic_system_detox.html
Day Four
Wake up:
Dry brush for five minutes, starting with your torso and working your way out
Hot water with lemon
Throughout the day:
Water
Detox tea
Breathing exercise (5 min intervals)
Stretching (twisting is good for detoxing)
Breakfast:
Banana Boost Juice (http://www.justonjuice.com/gung-ho-mango-juice)
*Somehow some of our beet juice for the afternoon juice made its way in to this juice, so we are cutting it with a banana (I can't do beets twice in a day...no way). We also only had one carrot left, so I added another half of a cucumber.
Snack:
10 Strawberries (small/medium)
1 Hot Green Tea (plain...no sugar/sweetener)
Lunch:
1 Large Salad with any fruit or veg (no dressing)
Anytime of Year Spring Clean Juice (www.yummly.com)
Snack:
3 Medium Broccoli Florets
Dinner:
Steamed Vegetables (about 1 cup)
Brown Rice (1/2 cup dry)
This is our afternoon juice on the left, and the ingredients for our morning juice on the cutting board.
EVENING UPDATE:
This is going to be short, because I am exhausted tonight. We had our first true test today. Chris had a barbecue, and I someone at the office was eating pizza (both of our weeknesses). We faced them both at lunchtime and continued in with our daily plan. The other test was gymnastics night. It is our one day during the week that we usually hit a local pub or find something quick to eat because Makayla has gymnastics right after work. Not only did we forget to bring our dinner with us, we still needed to get to the store to get more food for tomorrow's new food features (hooray for beans, nuts, and olive oil!). We did what we were supposed to do, and came home to make our dinner. Instead of using the rice that normally takes 25 minutes, we used a quick organic brown rice, and we quickly steamed our green beans, grabbed some basil from the garden, and juiced a lemon. My goal is to eat before 7 pm, but tonight that just didn't happen. The store had to wait until after dinner.
The juices today were pretty good! I think we used too much ginger in the lunch juice, so I know to go easy next time. I don't mind the taste of ginger, but today I felt like I was drinking Chinese food! I also tried the mint in the green tea and really enjoyed it. I will definitely keep that up.
Tomorrow will be interesting. We get to add nuts and raisins as an afternoon snack, oil to our salad for lunch, and we get to have beans and stir fried vegetables tomorrow night. We had the option of a baked potato or rice, but since we have already been eating the rice, and we have it here, we just decided to stick with brown rice.
Well it has been a long day and I am exhausted, so I am off to bed! Having a mommy/daughter day tomorrow, and I hope I can resist temptation while we are out and about. This should be interesting...
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