My idea of dieting over the holidays was doomed for failure and I did fail. No regrets. On the upside I feel a little tighter since my skin has stretched to accommodate the eight pounds of fat I’ve packed on. In an effort to feel healthy again, I’m trying a juice cleanse.
My friend recently sold me his slightly used Vitamix for eighty bucks and it’s awesome, but I decided to use my knockoff Nutribullet for this project to make several different small juices rather than lots of the same. I bought prepackaged baby kale, baby spinach, a giant cucumber, pre-sliced pineapples, mangos and some celery and blackberries. I had leftover homemade cranberry-orange sauce in the fridge as well as chia seeds.
I’m drinking these four juices tomorrow. They will amount to:
1 pound of kale
4 celery stocks
1 English cucumber
15 blackberries
15 cranberries
8 tbsp chia seeds
2 pineapple spears
1/2 cup fresh squeezed orange juice
I should feel pretty damn healthy. I’ll pack a banana just in case I need something solid for all the taxi driving and house cleaning on the agenda. Here’s to health!
Love, Dana
Update: Here’s how it went. I ended up consuming all the smoothies and banana by 1pm. Somewhere in there I ate 1 donut hole and 3/4 a plain cake donut. Donuts are my kryptonite. I also ate two of those little rectangular Hershey’s with crisp rice in them, a sesame breadstick and about seven peanut butter stuffed pretzel bites. For dinner I had two pieces of bacon with an egg and about three normal person servings of the green bean casserole I made (from scratch!) for Christmas. Thanks to the fiber and especially the chia seeds, I think all of Christmas evacuated my body. In all I lost 1.5 pounds and I feel cleaner and healthier. It turned out to be a healthy way to replenish the nutrients I needed and discard the garbage. I highly recommend it.
Love, D
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