It was Sunday, my dad's birthday and also St. Patty's Day!
My oldest niece, who is 11, baked the cake for my dad.. it came out so pretty!
Everyone enjoyed the cake, including my baby niece. It smelled really good, buuuuuuut I didn't have a piece.
In so many ways, I felt really bad, like I was breaking a birthday ritual in our family or something. Honestly it was very easy to tell them "no thank you, I can't eat any right now." They understood and didn't give me a hard time. But still, I felt bad. It would probably had made me really sick even if I had attempted to eat a piece. I know when I come out of this detox, I have to gradually work my way into eating whole food again.
Anyway, it was another day of juices for me :)
I had my usual herbal tea in the morning. My breakfast juice was a Banana Citrus Smoothie.. really yummy! ..My late morning snack juice was my Mean Green version. (by version, I mean that I followed the Joe Cross recipe, but I also add 2 pears and when adding kale or spinach, I lightly steam them to kill off some of the goitrogens) I have Hashimoto's, so eating goitrogenic food, like kale and spinach raw is not healthy for me. It can cause a goiter and also interferes with my thyroid meds. I may be killing off some of the nutrients by doing this, but I want the added greens and protein in the juice. For lunch I had the Sunset Blend juice, dinner juice was more Mean Green and then I had a Coconut Berry Smoothie as a snack early evening. my first time making this.. it was delicious. I made it with freshly made coconut milk. - 1 cup water, 1 cup unsweetened organic coconut flakes.. whirled it my bullet blender knock off and voila! ..Coconut milk! ..I did this twice and each time I had to strain it through a fine mesh strainer. (I didn't have cheesecloth on hand). The ingredients for the smoothie - 2 cups coconut milk, 2 cups raspberries (i used half frozen raspberries, half frozen blueberries), 1 banana. Blended it all in the blender and then I added I TB of chia seeds. When I made it, I wasn't ready to drink it yet, so I put it in a container and let it sit in the fridge. The chia seeds made it a lot thicker. Very Berry tasty! (yeah, I know that was wicked cheesy.. lol!)
I did workout yesterday as well. Changed things up a bit by working out as soon as I woke up in the AM. I warmed up, then walked for 3.20 miles and did my usual post workout stretches.
It's already day 10 and I am so excited that I've made it this far... more to blog about today a little later. Later Gators!!! :)
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