Next year I may only cleanse M-F for the month of February. Just sayin'.
Ok, so how did this week look? Well, I pretty much stuck with the recipe plan that I posted last weekend. Lentil stew and butternut squash soups were good and filling lunches. That stir fry with the cauliflower "rice" was actually great. I was probably most skeptical about that one, but we said we'd do the cauliflower that way again. It did feel a little more like couscous than rice, but it was a great substitute. And then the kale mushroom dish was excellent. Didn't use portabellos, still great. Smoothies for breakfast have been fine. Here's the one pic I took of the stir fry:
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I only had one cup of coffee all week on Thursday even though I said I'd allow myself to drink coffee. I was fully expecting to have headaches, but I didn't. I've been extremely tired though. I'm not sure if that'd due to the cleansing, or lack of coffee, or just being plain exhausted from working a lot. Could be a mix of all of those things. I did make it to yoga once this week and I plan to play basketball on Sunday morning. I also spent two hours yesterday learning this dance for a flash mob that I'll be participating in on Valentines Day downtown.
It's definitely been helpful to have others also on the cleanse this week. I haven't talked to everyone, but have been able to commiserate with Yesenia, my supervisor, who is on the cleanse while at work. Also talked with my mom over the phone and she too was feeling tired.
Ok, here's to hoping I get through this weekend!
We've talked too. Or maybe that was a dream i had?
ReplyDeleteha ha, yes of course. matt is the ultimate support in the cleansing efforts!
ReplyDeleteThis cleanse sucks.
ReplyDeleteOk that's all I was going to leave to be like someone on a yahoo comment section. But I'll elaborate. I've been doing the cleanse about 75% of the time this first week. Having a baby, bum thumb, and stupidly hurting back have given me zero ability to be at 100%. Excuses excuses. But I believe some success from a challenge is better than none! So ill continue to week 2. Oh- funny story: so tired Monday fell asleep at my desk. At work.
yeah, i hear ya. i think doing it 75% is a huge success!
ReplyDeletethis weekend was TOUGH. I basically skipped to week 2 rules (fish, beans, & gluten free grains) on Saturday rather than monday. that way we were able to eat at restaurants. today after 3 hours of basketball, we seriously could not think of a single thing we'd want to eat that would fit into the cleanse. so we got a gluten free, vegan pizza from Father & Son. it did the trick. i'm hoping that this week will bring more energy!