07 Sep 2011 No Comments

I LOVE GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!!!

I know I know I’ve been a way for a few days and now I’ve lost count what day I’m up to in the challenge…which I AM still doing. But I have good reason. I’ve been doing a 7 day Green Love FeAST. What’s that, you ask? Well it’s basically green juices and green smoothies for seven days. I did this in lieu of a water-only fast which I feel I would still like to do at some point in the future because I had a few issues that I would like to resolve..sooo juice/smoothie feasting was the next best thing and the most practical for me at this point in my life.  My daily ‘eats’ looked like this;

* water on waking then all over dry skin brush and shower

* 600mls green juice – this alternated between watermelon/mint & apple/pear/ginger/kale

*2 litres Green Smoothie – mango/banana/cucumber/sunflower sprouts/baby spinach or 1 head Cos lettuce/water

* 600mls green juice – apple/pear/kale or silverbeet or chard or spinach

*600mls green juice – apple/pear/broccoli/mint

* 2litres Green Smoothie – dates/banana/celery

* 500mls fresh young coconut water

I have also been averaging to get to bed by 9;30pm every night. I did two detox baths during this time. This involved soaking in a hot tub that I had mixed in a cup of a detox blend of dead sea salt/kelp/bentonite clay/dulse and I did my fruity facial at the same time. Ah BLiSs. I walked along the beach three times during the love feast. Ironically, Penny got a cold and didn’t feel well enough to walk so I forwent the early morning movement in favour of savouring a sleep in where I didn’t get up til 9:30am. I woke up most mornings feeling refreshed and rested.

So anyway tonight marks the end of my seven day journey to green heaven. I would LOVE to keep going as I was, however I have decided to use the routine I got into as a base to rebuild my eating on. I think it is very easy to overlook the importance of Greens, particularly when one is super enthusiastic about fruit and is focussing on meeting the calorie quota. Greens are HUGELY important and I’ve since realised that I should be consuming greens either with or after nearly every fruit meal if possible. Greens provide nourishing minerals. Over the course of this week of greens my skin has cleared and is beginning to glow, I have lost an inch off my waistline and I feel grounded and clear. Even moreso than before. So I’m aiming to now eat somewhere along the lines of;

* on waking – water, dry skin brush, shower.

*Breakfast –  Greeen juice + either a melon or two or WHOLE oranges.

*Brunch – either a green smoothie or a mono-meal of fruit + cucumber & lettuce

*Elevenses – green smoothie or fruit

*Lunch – fruit meal or green smoothie (depending on what I had for brunch & if I had time to have elevenses)

*Afternoon tea – green juice + fruit mono-meal

*Dinner – large garden salad or non-sweet fruit meal with greens. On special occasions I will have something gourmet (because in the spirit of total transparency I am a total foodie, I LOVE working kitchen alchemy & I LOVE going to the raw cafe here on the Gold Coast).

*Dessert – fresh young coconut water. Just ’cause I LOVE it and I can.

So there you go.

Get your green on. xo

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