DAY 113. Day 3 of Wild Rose D-Tox. This has been interesting. One very prominent thing I've noticed about the cleanse so far is the amount of, shall we say, 'colo-rectal' cleansing taking place. I have become the most un-ladylike woman in the world, thanks to these herbal supplements and much to my boyfriend's dismay (I'm so sorry my love!!). It's a true testament to his character that he doesn't even bat an eye at all my gassiness, though I have been the butt of many of his jokes over the past few days (pun intended). I didn't check the scale today, but I'm betting that by the end of the 12 days I will be losing at least 10 lbs of built-up crap, literally. Sorry, too much information, no one is going to want to hang out with me for the next couple weeks now... lol
Yesterday I had a TF+ bootcamp with trainer Wes and Tracy. I also dragged my boyfriend to his first bootcamp ever. I think that, even though he's more slender and athletic than I am, the class was definitely a challenge for him. It made me super proud to show him how hard I work while I'm there, and how far I've come that I can do these kinds of workouts. With my added cardio I burned 550 calories in 75 min. I'm definitely feeling sore in my arms, shoulders and chest today. I love that achey muscle feeling.
Yesterday was a great day, after our workout we did some grocery shopping and ran some errands together. Stocked up on lots of produce. For dinner I made seared ahi tuna with roasted veggies. Mmm. Sorry, forgot to snap a pic in my rush to gobble it up. I also put a slow cooker of pea, bean and leek stew, though even with cooking for 10+ hours, the beans still weren't soft enough this morning. I think I may have to scratch this batch and start again with canned beans instead of dried.
My boyfriend did another batch of juicing this morning so I had a glass of his 'mean green' before work. So good. I was talking to Tracy about it yesterday. The green juices are great, a 1-cup serving is an awesome snack. I have pondered adding a scoop of protein powder to the finished juice to have for breakfast sometime, though I don't know how good vanilla protein powder will taste with it...
Mean Green Juice (courtesy of Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead)
Serving Size: 16oz. (though I do 8 oz. for a snack)
Ingredients
1 cucumber
4 celery stalks
2 apples
6-8 leaves kale
1/2 lemon
1 tbsp ginger
Directions
Wash all produce. Juice. Pour over ice and enjoy.
Lol! TMI... :)
ReplyDeleteFor dried beans its best to soak em overnight before cooking with them... Or u can cheat a bit if u boil water, add dried beans/lentils/barley etc...turn the heat down and let it simmer for about 30mins. I think it's 1cup water for 1/2 cup dried beans... Same as rice! Then they will be sofy enough to cook something with! Cheers happy new year! I'm back on a meal plan too!