Healthy Detox Diet Thread September 25 to 29th

[monarch64]

Heather, you are SO kind to your men, lol! My DH has been forced to grill/bake/fry/whatever his own meat since over a year ago when I decided to commit to a vegetarian lifestyle...and he recently asked me when I would be finished with this "phase," ha ha! Then he told me that when we have children he will be feeding them McNuggets and hamburgers...

We''ll see if they really end up wanting them, and go from there, I guess. But seriously, you are doing a great thing by joining the detox thing for a few days and trying to get your body into a healthier state--good for you! I know it is hard to do when you live with a guy/guys!

Mara, did you get a new job? Heather''s reply led me to think so, but I must''ve missed the news in some thread...do tell, in case I missed it!

So, tonight I missed K-box, and opted to take a little fall nap when I got home from work. This week has been nutso at the office and I felt I deserved a little mid-week R&R. So, no gym time for moi...but I did manage to make some more jasmine rice and mixed in some red and green bell peppers, as well as a few baby portabella mushrooms from TJ''s. While I waited for the rice to cook, I had a nice butter lettuce/red cabbage/some other type of lettuce salad with just one tablespoon of bottled honey dijon dressing and spritzed the rest with olive oil, with walnut pieces and didn''t feel too bad about cheating a bit on the dressing. That rice is to die for, I could eat it every day, and the on-hand veggies were perfect with it. Oh, I haven''t made any potato/carrot/whatever stew this week...DH is leaving for Canada on business tomorrow a.m. and hates frozen things...so I will put that off till next week I guess.

I have to say I''ve felt better this time around on the detox than last time. I don''t know if it has something to do with the temperature changing here (autumn), or if I was just more prepared this time around, but I''ve awoken every morning with a less dreadful outlook on life, that''s for sure, hee hee. Plus these detoxes seem to have fallen during my "ovulatory" week, rather than TToTM, so I am thinking maybe it''s that. I always seem to have a better outlook on life (although it''s really unintentional, consciously) during this week...

See you detoxers tomorrow!

 

[Mara]

okay so we went out tonite and i was so bad!!! going out on the detox is a no no. hehee. we had tofu fries for appetizer and lemongrass coconut soup and then i had a veggie and tofu rice noodle bowl. so all was well up until this point. then i thought i HAD to have something sweet. i needed the taste. so we went to a little bakery and i had a triangle of baklava. i figured not TOO bad...i mean sure it's not on the detox but i could have gotten the whole chocolate croissant or the big choco mousse they had too.

BUT then we go to meet our friends for the drinks and i got a vodka tonic which i expected to get, at least it wasn't a sugary rum drink...BUT then they ordered apps and i was a goner. they ordered kobe mini cheeseburgers, garlic fries, onion rings and a calamari and prawn dish with fries. yikes!!!! so i thought okay i can have some fries..potatoes and all. HAHAHA. but then the smell of the kobe burgers totally got to me...and i HAD TO HAVE ONE. greg actually FOUGHT me to put it back, we were struggling over the mini burger, it was hilarious! so anyway i had 2 bites and he ate the rest. and i had some ranch on the fries and a few onion rings.

WAH! i was doing so well. oh well..i knew tonite would be hard because of the going out thing. i can be good tomorrow. hehehe.

this week the detox has been way harder for me than last time! not sure why. oh and monarch yes i got a new job, i posted about it in the WWT...basically just going back to doing online marketing after my 2 year hiatus where i have been doing sales with marketing promotions. it'll feel good to get back to doing something i feel very familiar with and in an environment that seems really cool. so i'm pretty excited. plus it'll mean great things for our finances in the future...something greg really likes. hehee. and that means more baubles for me!! which i really like. hehee. on the down side, i won't have my flex schedule anymore really so portia will be on her own more, but i will probably put her in doggie daycare 2 days a week so she has some interaction. is it just so silly that i feel guilty for taking a job away from home because my dog will get lonely??!! hehe.

so anyway off to bed for us, a new day tomorrow...and more detox. whose idea was this?

hehe. congrats gals on doing so well and HEATHER you are my hero for being able to BBQ burgers for the boys and stick to detox. i would have been chowing down on the burger straight off the grill.

 

[monarch64]

Well, from the lack of responses today, I''m wondering if you are not the only one who fell off the wagon, Mara!

I am ashamed to admit that I gave in to a yearning for french fries from this little hot dog stand I love today...so don''t feel too bad about your burgers last night!

I have had a tough time with this week too. I don''t know if it''s the change in the weather, or a combination of other little things, or all of the above. DH has been having back issues all week, and I haven''t even been going to the gym because I feel like I need to be home with him in the evenings when he is semi-incapacitated. Eating healthy and working out really go hand-in-hand with me, and if I don''t do one, I''m unlikely to do the other, ya know?

I hope you other detoxers are doing better. I think even if one attempts just a two or three day detox it is still beneficial, so IMO eating something non-detox friendly once or twice over a period of a few days doesn''t negate the whole thing.

I never did make my stew...I didn''t get a chance to stop by TJ''s for more veggies earlier this week, but I may try to go after work today and attempt to make it tonight.

 

[Mara]

okay SOOO...

I fell off again.

I made myself a jack grilled cheese sandie at home with the multigrain bread (super good by the way). I don't know what is wrong with me! I think that part of it is that I feel like I already have met my goals mentally and so I'm not as driven this time to do the detox the whole time because I already feel like I am doing a lot in terms of watching food, working out etc. I feel almost like why limit myself any further? At least I made the sandwich with olive oil (just a tiny bit) and the bread was good for me. It was only a small sandwich as the bread is not that large around...so I figured it was about 250 calories. Not a lot at all. I think I still need to eat something else.

Yesterday when I felt totally dizzy and sweaty at the gym I was really bummed. I ate my nectarine in the car and felt better. Greg said later that I must have had low blood sugar. I said well I ate the same thing for breakfast and lunch Monday and Tuesday so why all of a sudden on Wed doing the same thing was not enough food for my body? He said your body probably had 'reserves' it was using on Monday and Tuesday and by Wed they were depleted and you had not restored them.

It was a random comment but it totally hit me. I thought wow maybe that is true. Over the weekend we chowed on carbs and fat and my body must have been using that for fuel Mon and Tues and then Wed it was like hello....honey puffed kashi and some hummus is not doing the trick here darling.

So last nite when I chowed down I felt like I was justifed somehow in needing to give my body more fuel. The funny thing is that even with my falling off the wagon with apps and stuff, I still think I was within my desired calorie intake for yesterday. Since I eat 1/2 of my daily calories at night basically. I just can't eat that much food during the day.

Anyway...so today I think I felt like mentally I have to give my body more stuff so that I can work out tonite and be STRONG and not feel weird again. Mental justification is the best. I think I need to try to eat more during the day also so I am not forced to pack it in all at night.

So anyway, I think we are getting sushi tonite so I think I am off the detox pretty much though tonite I will just have fish, rice and veggies in the sushi....I guess with my daily workout thing I can't subsist like I did last month on veggies and rice alone?? Hmm. So I'm on partial detox. But I did do it for Mon, Tues and 3/4 of Wed so that counts...right?!?!

 

[hlmr]

Hey gals!

I just couldn't face another day of bean soup!! haha I kinda cheated a bit today too, but not too badly. I had cereal for breakfast, a small subway sub with veggies, no dressing, (and cheese - because he put it on before I could tell him not to

) for lunch because I was far from home and STARVING! I had an apple for snack and salad for supper. I feel good but I feel less motivated today. Our detoxing is petering out this time around but there is always next time right? Don't feel too badly ladies.....we were very good for a few days!!

 

[monarch64]

You know, Mara, when I read that 7 Day detox miracle book, it did say that around day 2-3 you might start feeling a little cruddy due to the toxins leaving your body, and that it was normal. I don''t know how much stock I would put into that theory but it is interesting anyway. Also, the authors really didn''t recommend any strenuous exercise (hmm, wonder why, lol!)...

I think another great time to do detox would be after the holidays--namely Thanksgiving and Christmas, when we eat all those goodies that really aren''t so good for us. Not gaining the "holiday 5" would be enough motivation for me to stick to a detox for a week, that''s for sure.

I basically said "screw it" tonight, and made some fantastic TJ''s artichoke tortellini, which I found in the frozen section. I just had some marinara with the pasta and it was excellent, and totally satisfied my pasta craving! It said about 250 calories per serving, which was like one cup, but I think I had a bit more than that, he hee. Oh well...better luck next time, but I do feel like I made plenty of good food choices this week, and I managed to stay away from the pizza my boss brought in for lunch today (you all know I''m a piggy when it comes to pizza!

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[hlmr]

Date: 9/28/2006 2:42:59 AM
Author: monarch64
Heather, you are SO kind to your men, lol! My DH has been forced to grill/bake/fry/whatever his own meat since over a year ago when I decided to commit to a vegetarian lifestyle...and he recently asked me when I would be finished with this ''phase,'' ha ha! Then he told me that when we have children he will be feeding them McNuggets and hamburgers...

We''ll see if they really end up wanting them, and go from there, I guess. But seriously, you are doing a great thing by joining the detox thing for a few days and trying to get your body into a healthier state--good for you! I know it is hard to do when you live with a guy/guys!

Thanks Monarch!!! LOL about your DH feeding your possible future children McDonald''s!!

Are you ladies detoxing today or have you had enough for this time around?

 

[Mara]

I''m not really detoxing anymore, but I am still being pretty healthy. Last nite we had chicken pot pies from Marie Calendars which blew my fat intake out of the water for the day but I was still on track with my calorie intake. The positive thing about working out daily is that I do have more food freedom to eat stuff if I crave it because I typically have the calories.

This morning I mixed Optimum Slim cereal (a bunch of twigs and nuts basically!) with Peace Wild Berry crunch...I am a cereal mixing whore to try to get new flavors into other cereals so I can also get my high fiber, high protein breakfasts. That is one thing that is tougher when I detox, I don''t get that same mix of high fiber, high protein in the mornings since I am eating Kashi rice.

Anyway in the future I might do a 3 day detox but I think that''s it. And I probably won''t be able to work out as much on it as I am now. I just think the combo of me doing such strenuous workouts and not really FEEDING my body enough of what it''s used to and needs was just not good by Wednesday.

Lunch I will probably have a salad and dinner we were talking about going to get hamburgers at our fave local place, but now that I had my meat fix last nite in the form of chicken pot pie, I don''t think we''ll have to get burgers. So maybe we''ll go get some fish or do sushi or something.

Are you still doing detox Heather? If so KUDOS!!! I think it is a great way to figure out how to eat more healthily, but for me I am already mostly doing that. So the detox is just one more step on limiting what I can eat and I think mentally I can only take so much. I don''t have a ton of dairy in general, but if I want cheese on chili, then I put it on. hehe.

 

[hlmr]

Date: 9/29/2006 12:32:50 PM
Author: Mara

Are you still doing detox Heather? If so KUDOS!!! I think it is a great way to figure out how to eat more healthily, but for me I am already mostly doing that. So the detox is just one more step on limiting what I can eat and I think mentally I can only take so much. I don''t have a ton of dairy in general, but if I want cheese on chili, then I put it on. hehe.

Hi Mara, I quit the detox Thursday night but I will be adopting a healthy Monday to Thursday meal plan/diet from here on in and will allow myself the extras I love on the weekends. I think it is a fair compromise and I have noticed already that I felt better when I was detoxing than when I allowed myself what I wanted to eat!!!!

I will definitely join in next time you decide to do a detox. Thanks for the inspiration!