Spring Reboot - Day 10 and 11

Day 10 Wednesday - Reboot with lunch

was the plan, as the bug left me quite weak and felt like needed a bit more than just juice so had

breakfast my usual juice of carrot/ginger/apple, I make about a litre and share it between the morning and a mid afternoon snack when I get back home from work

lunch celery salmorejo with alfalfa sprouts and polenta with sauted veggies

dinner: fennel green juice and 2 pieces of rosemary organic goat cheese

Day 11 - On the scale 69.80kg totally over the moon

breakfast, the usual

lunch celery salmorejo with sprouts (I have little time, so that I like to cook at least for 2 days and I don't mind eating the same thing two days in a row)

polenta with stir fried veggies mediterranean style - divine

Dinner: red beet juice

Spring Reboot week 2 - day 5 to 9

Well, my daily journal got a bit boxed, but not my reboot.

Last Friday day 5 I weighted in at 70.70kg and did well all day BUT got invited over to a friend's house for dinner and managed to have my juice, some celery with homemade hummus, some mixed salad and, this was the mistake, 2 slices of toasted bread with tomato and spanish ham. God it was so delicious, but believe or not the next morning I weighted in at 71.6kg.
Come on it's not as if I've eaten 900 grams for dinner, but I believe it's fluid retention or similar.
I have discovered that lunch more or less I can have anything, but dinner has to be extremely light, even when not rebooting

Day 6 - Saturday, liquids all day again
Carrot/ginger/apple for breakfast
Pepper Gazpacho for lunch
Green juice for dinner

Day 7 - Sunday, not bad all together...
Sweet Potato Juice  for breakfast
mixed salad and some pasta with tomato for lunch
Carrot/Ginger/Apple juice for mid afternoon snack (and a piece of homemade apple cake)
Cilapple juice for dinner
Spent the whole day at home as kids got a stomach bug from the kids of the friends we went to see on Friday (not people to hang out with: give bugs and make me skip diet)

Day 8 - Monday, the bug got me
so spent the day on ginger and lemon water, then got hungry mid afternoon and had a small bowl of pasta with tomato sauce and a piece of apple cake
went to bed and slept 12 hours to recover

Day 9 - Tuesday, on my feet again
breakfast: small glass of my kids breakfast pink smoothie
lunch: lentil soup and bowl of pasta with pesto, asparagus and zucchini
dinner: vegetable soup

CilApple Juice

I must admit I was very skeptic about this juice and only went for it because I had a bunch of cilantro about to go off... But it turned out to be a very good choice, great balance between the cilantro and the lemon, will definitively go for it again.

Very good choice for when it's compulsory to keep the juicing interesting with challenging flavours

INGREDIENTS:

1 bunch of cilantro

1 bunch of spinach

1 peeled lemon

6 thick celery stalks

3 golden apples

drink and enjoy!

It produces about 3/4 of a litre so it's a whole meal!

Sweet Potato Juice

I must admit it's no great picture, but I can assure it tastes great!

Not my recipe but from No Sugar Sweet Life, however, I have been promoting it withing my circle of juice lovers

INGREDIENTS:

1 medium sweet potato

4 peaches or nectarines

2 apples (I like Golden)

dash of cinnamon

before starting to put all the ingredients through the juicer put the cinnamon on the bottom of the juicer jug, so as the liquid comes out it mixes with the powder.

Sunburst Juice

Ideal for breakfast, just recently discovered the original recipe from 

Joe the Juicer

Ingredients for 2 people:

2 red peppers

juice of 4 oranges

juice of 1 lemon

1 bunch of carrots (7-10)

juice the pepper and the carrots in the juicer and the citrus in the citrus juicer, as they're meant to be juiced without the skin on and personally I found it easier to use the citrus juicer than peeling them!

Ideal to enjoy before going sunbathing as you'll get more tan!

ESPAÑOL

Ideal para desayunar es una receta descubierta recientemente en 

Joe the Juicer (en riguroso Ingles)

Ingredientes para 2 zumos:

1 manojo de zanahorias

2 pimientos rojos

zumo de 4 naranjas

zumo de 1 limon

Meter en la licuadora la zanahorias y los pimientos, y agregarle el zumo de naranja y limón echo en la zumadora de cítricos. 

Se supone que hay que pelar las naranjas y el limón y meterlos en la licuadora, pero como es un trabajo bastante tedioso, prefiero hacer el zumo a parte ya que resulta mas rápido y practico.

Ideal para disfrutar antes de ir a tomar el sol ya que te pondrás mas moren@

The ORANGE juice that cheered me up

When I woke up this morning I wasn't depressed, but haven't been feeling my best in the last week.

The temperaturas have dropped and my body took some time to adjust, so I kept feeling hungry, kindda sad and cold.

I had been trying to get back on truck onto juicing (and failed), tried with Beck's with some of my fav for lunch (and failed, as I kept having too much) and as a result the scale was showing an increase of 100/200 grams every day, instead of loosing them.

So I decided to switch from smoothie or fruit salad for breakfast to fruit juice and the result was amazing, only after 10 minutes of drinking it, I felt better, I felt full and moreover I felt happy.

Now, most of you will ask: what exactly did you put in that juice???

Well simple and easy:

3/4 of a pinapple (I left the rest for my son's afternoon snack)

1 Golden Apple

8 carrots

Throughout the rest of the morning I kept feeling full and happy, also not so cold as I put on an extra layer of clothes (couldn't care less if I looked bloated, as was nice and warm). 

I kept drinking wáter and got back the nice feelings you get on the raw food diet: power, energy, fullness that I recently experienced on the last liquid only detox that I did early in the month between New Year's and the 3 Kings, when I lost 2 kg in 4 days that I had put on over a 4 days long weekend. For lunch I had a

TOMATO ROCKET SALAD:

1 beef tomato

5 cherry tomatoes

5 sundried tomatoes (in oil)

10 black olives

1/4 red onion

2 hadfuls of rocket

parsley, oregano, olive oil and balsamic vinegar

It's one of my favourite salads and when not detoxing I add 1/2 can of red kidney beans.

After making the juice this morning I got down to clean the juicer and the left over pulp looked very appalling so I put it in a box and took it with me to work.

I added some oatmeal, chia seeds and cinnamon poder making it a very healthy and money saving snack . I could only eat half of it, so that it's in the fridge ready for tomorrow

Now it's nearly dinner time, I had a tea a while ago and I feel absolutely great and ready for

DINNER consisting of Green Juice:

6 carrots

3 cucumbers

8 celery sticks with leaves

so hopefully am back on track for good #StartClean2013 and #HealthysELF

And how are you doing?