Over the last few weeks I endulged myself with eating marvellously. That´s always a pleasure, but I overdid it. Usually I balance a lot of eating with a lot of running. But because of the bitterly freezing temperatures and the snow-covered tracks I curled up on the sofa with a lot of comfort food instead.
Slowly but surely I´m feeling the effects of too much fat, sugar, white flour and not working out: I have been struggling with a persistent cold for three weeks; when I tried to put on my favorite jeans they seemed to have shrinked considerably. My energy level is completely messed up, I´m tired all the time.
Yesterday I googled “14 days detox diet”. I was looking for a diet which primarily helps rebuilding my strength and cleansing the body system. Loosing some weight would be very nice, too. After rummaging through a lot of pages I found Jugalbandi´s thread about Dr. Joel Fuhrman´s 6-Week Plan, the strictest version of the Eat to Live vegan diet plan. Bee followed a 14-days detox diet herself recently and I liked her program at first glance. Just like her, I will avoid gluten entirely.
I´m going to base my menu loosely on Bee´s and Joel Fuhrman´s Eat to Live guidelines and include elements of Ayurveda detox, for example the detoxifying tea. I´m quite excited about whether this kind of nutrition will show true impact.
Instead of my beloved super strong black tea with milk, this morning I brewed myself a big pot of Ayurveda detoxifying tea:
Ayurveda detoxifying tea:
2 quarts of water
1/4 t. whole cumin
1/2 t. whole coriander
1/2 t. whole fennel
seeds of 5 cardamom pods
Boil water, add spices, steep for 10 minutes, strain and put into a thermos. Sip throughout the day.
Here you can find the original recipe. I added cardamom.
My menu today:
- 10:00 Fruit/veggie smoothie
- 14:00 2 cups Mung Dhal
- 17:00 1/4 cup walnuts, 1/2 Banana
- 19:00 1.5 cups Mung Dhal, 1 pear
Fruit & Veggie Smoothie:
1/2 apple
1/2 carrot
1/2 banana
1/2 zucchini
1/2 small fennel bulb
some green leaves
10 almonds
1 tsp flax seeds
100 ml unsweetened soymilk
water added to 0,5 l (16.9 oz)
I didn´t like the smoothy particularly. It was drinkable, though. Tomorrow I´ll go for more fruits instead of veggies.
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Comments ( 3 )
bee added these pithy words on Feb 19 10 at 7:08 PMgood luck, petra. you will feel much much fitter and energised after a week, i promise you.
Petra Pfänder added these pithy words on Feb 19 10 at 11:00 PMI really hope so, Bee, right now it feels like starving:)
Neely added these pithy words on Feb 22 10 at 3:03 AMIt sounds like you are describing what’s happened to me over the last few weeks of unusually cold weather down here in GA. I can’t wait to see how you do on your detox. I am trying to start something myself soon!
