Fruits and Veggies F(e)ast Day 1 and 2

 

the first green smoothie of the f(e)ast. cheers!

john and i started our f(e)ast thursday morning as planned. so far so good! tuesday, i felt like i was coming down with something but felt ok after my evening yoga class. i've been a bit sniffly at times and woke up this morning with a slightly sore throat, but all is fine for now.

Day 1

• warm lemon water
• smoothie: banana, braeburn apple, kale, lemon
• handful of blueberries
• peppermint tea
• salad: field mix with tomato, cucumber, avocado, and mushroom
• lots of water

Day 2

•  yogi's healthy fasting tea
• green smoothie: banana, braeburn apple, kale, blueberries, lemon
• juice: beet, celery, carrot, kale, golden delicious apple, lemon
• handful of blueberries
• warm miso soup with chopped veggies and ginger
• banana
• fruit smoothie: banana, apple, frozen blackberries
• chamomile tea  

i wasn't too impressed with whole foods' selection of organic produce. i guess it's to be expected for february in the northeast. maybe we'll wait for summer to start another f(e)ast!

they did, however, have a great selection of herbal teas. i chose yogi's healthy fasting tea and really enjoyed it. it has an interesting, pleasant flavor and i like that it contains dandelion to aid the liver in eliminating toxins.

how timely is this?! yesterday, i read in my grandmother's first magazine that "the potent plant compounds [in dandelion tea] can trigger a 240 percent increase in the liver's output of glutathione S-transferase and other enzymes that are critical to destroying and disposing of toxins."

also, " a warm bath opens pores and dilates skins' blood vessels to accelerate toxin release. to enhance the benefit, sprinkle in 2 cups of epsom salts. british researchers found that the salts' stores of magnesium heighten enzymatic activity in the liver's phase 1 detoxification pathway, where energy-sapping toxins are chemically dismantled."

...so i squished my 5'9" self into our small bathtub and took a nice, hot epsom salts bath. ahhhhhh. =)