Clean Day 3

What a difference 24 hours can make.  I'm feel much better today.  I was also so excited to eat some real food I ate my lunch before 11 am.  The only thing I'm suffering from today is muscle aches, especially in my lower back.  However, that can be a symptom of detox so hopefully something good is happening.  I'm also continuing to loose weight.  While the primary purpose of clean is not to loose weight it is obviously a side effect of such a drastic change in diet.  The only thing I am finding is that I am becoming tired really quick if I don't keep up with the water.  In the past couple of days the day time high temperatures have been in the upper 80s/low 90s and because I spend part of my time outside at work afterwards I'm left feeling really exhausted.

So what did I eat today?

8 am - Kale, Pineapple & Chia Seed Smoothie + vitamin/supplements
10:45 am - Stir-Fried Vegetables & Chicken with Buckwheat Noodles + supplements
5:45 pm - Blueberry, Cacao, & Almond Milk Smoothie

I have to say, I'm growing to hate kale.  Especially the super dark kale.  When you mix it into all these smoothies etc. I can't help but feel like I'm drinking lawn clippings with some sweetness added on top to make it some what less bitter.  We are also finding that while all the recipes state that they make two portions, some of them clearly make more.  Today's lunch for example is easily 4 meals.  I don't know how one person would ever just finish half of that at one time.  We have run into the same problem with almost all the soups as well, however we have yet to really try a soup we like.  So that wont really be a problem since its doubtful we will make any of them again.

Well I guess thats all for today.  I'll try and post some pictures tomorrow!

Clean Day 2

Wow!  So the past 24 hours have not been easy.  I think due to the fact that we only did liquids yesterday and that it obviously carried into today until lunch time I began to detox faster than I would like.  Needless to say up until this afternoon I did not feel well.  I suffered some of the worse symptoms of detox and it was no fun.  I'll leave it at that.  If you really want to know all about the bad detox symptoms you can go here.

So what did I eat today?

8 am - Energy Smoothie with Almond Butter and Cardamom + vitamins/supplements
12:30 pm - Macro Bowl with Quinoa and Ginger-Miso Dressing + supplements
7 pm - Apple, Ginger, Lemon and Spinach Juice

The smoothie this morning was pretty good.  It reminded me of fruity pebbles.  I'm not sure how it had that flavor profile but it did.  Lunch was not so good, I hardly ate 1/4 of it.  Between not feeling well and just really not liking the way anything tasted it was sad since I had been looking forward to eating some real food.  Last night I began craving steak and today when lunch didn't pan out how I had hoped it would I almost gave up and went out and got something.  However, I just drank a bunch of water and the craving passed.  Tomorrow we are having chicken in our lunch so I think that will help.  My partner is actually making it now and its taking everything I have not to go in there and eat it all!  We have decided its probably better for us to try and include more protein in our lunches either with chicken, lamb or fish to help curb our cravings.  I've never had lamb before so I'm excited to get to try something new.  I have to say I'm surprised I'm having meat cravings as I never really was a huge meat eater.  Generally before this I only ate meat maybe two or three times a week.  I thought I would miss sweet stuff more but I guess not.

Tonight I plan on doing pilates and relaxing.  I've been going to bed earlier and just listening to my body.  If I feel, tired I sleep.  I've also been destressing my life as much as possible.  Even today I had a terrible day at work, but I just went with the flow and didn't stress, it was really nice.  Normally I'm the complete opposite.  One thing did get to me today though, my Starbucks gold card came.  It just makes me sad because I can't use it until June and I spent a lot of money at Starbucks to get it!  I guess if I really wanted to use it I could go to Starbucks and get tea, but who really gets tea at Starbucks?  Oh well, I guess life goes on!