14-Days Detox

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:

1. 10:00 Fruit/veggie smoothie
2. 14:00 2 cups Mung Dhal
3. 17:00 1/4 cup walnuts, 1/2 Banana
4. 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.