Cleanse Me.

This Easter weekend coming up I am planning on a 4 day juice cleanse. This is to compliment my current cleanse or diet (however you want to call it), which goes a little somethink like this: no flour, no sugar, no booze, no fun, ha ha ha. This juice cleanse will end Monday at 6pm for an Easter dinner, which will be nice treat. It starts Friday morning with a 9am workout with my trainer and then a facial at my favorite spa (Silk Road).

I feel like my attempts to be as healthy as I can are really paying off. I feel good, I feel strong and I have more energy than I have had in a while. I am a bit of a health nut anyway, so this transition is not challenging for me, it feels more like a natural progression towards how I want to eat for the rest of my life. I mean, realistically it may not be super feasible to have this time and money in other periods in my life, but I hope that I can take a lot what I learn from this 6 week trial  and incorporate into my every day and least as much as I can.

I certainly do not feel like I am starving myself. In fact it’s somewhat of the opposite. I had a big smoothie this morning with a full banana, ½ cup of blueberries, 1.5 scoops of hemp hearts and a cup of almond milk. I just got back from lunch where I had a raw “burger”, which is sweet hearty heaven. Dehydrated type of bun and a patty made out of mushrooms and seeds and goodness. With a sundried tomato “ketchup” and a tahini tasting “mayo”, sunflower seed spouts, lettuce and tomato. I picked up some yam crackers (dehydrated) for my organic black bean soup and avocado I am having for dinner. I also had a mango ball…which is a treat type raw dessert.   I am actually quite full.

Snacks are endless on this cleanse. I eat prunes, raw nuts, veggie pate and wheat-free/gluten-free organic crackers. I buy young coconuts and cut of the heads and drink the water and eat the inside young coconut meat…sounds barbaric but it is sweet sweet stuff. I even made a raw phai thai on Sunday for the hockey game that Jon and Cyn raved about. This recipe came from my friend Susan Prior who has a great raw food recipe book that I highly recommend for anyone interested in cooking raw foods. http://alive-n-well.net/ 

Anyway, just thought I would share a little something, it’s been a while. Plan to write a bit while on my cleanse. Perhaps I will add a journal entry talking to something abstract and not self absorbing J .