OK, this juice fast strategy is not working. I think the number one issue is that I am constantly providing and preparing food for Sebastian. Its requiring a level of will power I am just not ready for.
Trying something new. Increasing my raw food consumption coupled with some supplements to recover my energy and get into balance. Tracking what I eat. Exploring feelings and behaviors. Starting now.
AM - Coffee with teecino & almond milk
Since starting a week ago, I am now on about 1/2 and 1/2 and have cut out the majority of afternoon pick me ups.
- Smoothie: Orange juice, 1/2 cup strawberries, tsp. spirulina, tbsp. B complex, tsp. bee pollen. Feel fantastic after drinking this.
- prepared salad greens for after return from our Friday play at friend's home. Every week they provide fresh-baked (like that morning fresh-baked) spelt bread. I don't forsee abstaining from the warm fresh baked filled with love bread. Going to go for it, but will have the greens ready to easily throw together the salad when I return home.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Day 2
AM
2 ounces strong green juice w/ stinging nettle, kale, apple, lemon, celery, cucumber
Coffee: 2 tbsp. organic coffee, 2 tbsp. Teecino coffee replacement
1 quart orange juice.
We're getting ready to go blueberry picking. Let's just say there is no way I am not going to eat them, but I really want to get out there while the weather is still nice, so I am not going to postpone until next week. I don't mind the cleanse going a little longer for the sake of a few blueberries. Looking at last year, I notice a little trend here. Could the patterns be any more obvious?? However, I can do nothing but celebrate a pattern of blueberry eating!
2 ounces strong green juice w/ stinging nettle, kale, apple, lemon, celery, cucumber
Coffee: 2 tbsp. organic coffee, 2 tbsp. Teecino coffee replacement
1 quart orange juice.
We're getting ready to go blueberry picking. Let's just say there is no way I am not going to eat them, but I really want to get out there while the weather is still nice, so I am not going to postpone until next week. I don't mind the cleanse going a little longer for the sake of a few blueberries. Looking at last year, I notice a little trend here. Could the patterns be any more obvious?? However, I can do nothing but celebrate a pattern of blueberry eating!
Monday, June 15, 2009
Salad Days of Summer
Oh the abundance of summer on the Central Coast of California. I am amazed every time the farmer's markets start over flowing. I hope I never stop being surprised!! Here is Sebastian enjoying salad of avocado and cherry tomatoes last night (our last meal together for a week!) We followed with cucumber slices topped with a pesto made of fresh, green garlic bulbs, just picked basil and locally grown pistachios - still just a tad bit soft from only being out of the shell a short while...
Day 365....
Well looks like its been almost an entire year since my last post. And, I am back again posting because I've been inspired to do another cleanse...I can't tell you where I got off track last year or why I didn't stick with it, or how I am back at square one again, because I didn't document, well, anything really over the last year. Been working, cleaning, caring for, loving the child, supporting Enrique as he grows the ice cream biz (as well as I can until I reach my limits of human capacity for 24/7 round the clock work). Been involved in some community activities that have been great. Made some amazing friends. As I reflect, I know that I am loved and blessed. Don't always feel that way in day to day life.
I am seriously addicted to coffee! Its at the point now that its no longer a choice, its a compulsion. Not a good thing emotionally or physically. So, that's part of the inspiration to cleanse, too. Weaning off the crutch. Finding my natural energy. Losing a few pounds would be a nice bonus.
I started taking a Liquid B complex about 1 week ago. It feels like a fog has lifted from my brain. I suddenly am seeing "things" through a more clear (perhaps just less foggy) lens. A little light in the back of my consciousness flickered on and illuminated the realization: Tiffany, you need a change and a transformation....
So, logging on that I might keep track of my progress, I am happy to see that I wrote about what I was doing a year ago...I think it will be a great motivator this time around. Don't really want to turn around in another year and see that I am stuck in a rut 365 days later...
Day 1 (redux)
AM
1/2 cup of green juice courtesy of Enrique
1 cup of coffee, black
Nursed the babe
1 cup of green juice blended with spirulina, bee pollen
Afternoon
1 cup of orange juice blended with a few strawberries
finished off the quart of green juice, with liquid B complex added
Evening
A few bites of what Sebastian was eating: strawberries, pistachio pesto, sprouted garbanzo beans.
green sun tea, water
I am seriously addicted to coffee! Its at the point now that its no longer a choice, its a compulsion. Not a good thing emotionally or physically. So, that's part of the inspiration to cleanse, too. Weaning off the crutch. Finding my natural energy. Losing a few pounds would be a nice bonus.
I started taking a Liquid B complex about 1 week ago. It feels like a fog has lifted from my brain. I suddenly am seeing "things" through a more clear (perhaps just less foggy) lens. A little light in the back of my consciousness flickered on and illuminated the realization: Tiffany, you need a change and a transformation....
So, logging on that I might keep track of my progress, I am happy to see that I wrote about what I was doing a year ago...I think it will be a great motivator this time around. Don't really want to turn around in another year and see that I am stuck in a rut 365 days later...
Day 1 (redux)
AM
1/2 cup of green juice courtesy of Enrique
1 cup of coffee, black
Nursed the babe
1 cup of green juice blended with spirulina, bee pollen
Afternoon
1 cup of orange juice blended with a few strawberries
finished off the quart of green juice, with liquid B complex added
Evening
A few bites of what Sebastian was eating: strawberries, pistachio pesto, sprouted garbanzo beans.
green sun tea, water
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