the first green smoothie of the f(e)ast. cheers!
john and i started our f(e)ast thursday morning as planned. so far so good! tuesday, i felt like i was coming down with something but felt ok after my evening yoga class. i've been a bit sniffly at times and woke up this morning with a slightly sore throat, but all is fine for now.
Day 1
- warm lemon water
- smoothie: banana, braeburn apple, kale, lemon
- handful of blueberries
- peppermint tea
- salad: field mix with tomato, cucumber, avocado, and mushroom
- lots of water
- yogi's healthy fasting tea
- green smoothie: banana, braeburn apple, kale, blueberries, lemon
- juice: beet, celery, carrot, kale, golden delicious apple, lemon
- handful of blueberries
- warm miso soup with chopped veggies and ginger
- banana
- fruit smoothie: banana, apple, frozen blackberries
- chamomile tea
i wasn't too impressed with whole foods' selection of organic produce. i guess it's to be expected for february in the northeast. maybe we'll wait for summer to start another f(e)ast!
they did, however, have a great selection of herbal teas. i chose yogi's healthy fasting tea and really enjoyed it. it has an interesting, pleasant flavor and i like that it contains dandelion to aid the liver in eliminating toxins.
how timely is this?! yesterday, i read in my grandmother's first magazine that "the potent plant compounds [in dandelion tea] can trigger a 240 percent increase in the liver's output of glutathione S-transferase and other enzymes that are critical to destroying and disposing of toxins."
also, " a warm bath opens pores and dilates skins' blood vessels to accelerate toxin release. to enhance the benefit, sprinkle in 2 cups of epsom salts. british researchers found that the salts' stores of magnesium heighten enzymatic activity in the liver's phase 1 detoxification pathway, where energy-sapping toxins are chemically dismantled."
...so i squished my 5'9" self into our small bathtub and took a nice, hot epsom salts bath. ahhhhhh. =)
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