Detox Protocol Days 8-14

Hello All! Well, we have completed week 2 of our plan and are headed into the last week - the home stretch if you will! This was by far the strictest phase of the plan. The only meat allowed was in the A.M. Lunch was mostly veggies and Dinner was either a sweet potato or rice and beans.

Here is what the food looked like for week 2.

Breakfast: chicken breast

 

Chicken - again. 

Mid morning snack : Berry Smoothie with Almond Milk and Fruit with Almond Butter

Once again, apples and nut butter saves the day 

Lunch : Salad with nuts, seeds, and avocado with a side of veggies

Lots of veggies 

Afternoon snack: Berry Smoothie with Almond Milk and Nuts

Berries and Pistachios 

Dinner: Brown Rice with lime and cilantro, black beans, avocados, salsa made from jalapenos & onions, sriracha and cilantro

Vegan dinner goodness 

We had a few different types of vegan dinners but most were beans and rice or a sweet potato

Sweet potato with butter bean and salad 

Vegan Black beans, brown rice, bell peppers and cilantro 

We also had some alternatives for breakfast using ground turkey

Taco ground turkey with peppers, avocado & pineapples 

We had different kinds of snack that fit the meal plan

Kale chips - half curry and half Himalayan salt

Smoothies with Almond Milk, pineapple, strawberry & cantaloupe

Crunchy Chickpeas

Amazing how sugary carrots taste - Sushi being supportive - still wishing for bacon 

We had one night of eating out and had great success with going to the Mongolian Grill. They had a huge choice of veggies as well as chicken breast. You also create your own sauce so we could skip the soy sauce, since we cannot have soy, and used things like ginger, lemon grass, garlic and basil.
I added a small amount of chicken to mine but Mikes was 100% veggie. Once again, he has stuck to the plan with zero cheats.

Mike mixing up the sauce options

The grill of goodness!

Mikes plate of fresh veggies and tons of basil 

In this second week some things were noticeably different. Without having basically any sugar for two weeks, I'm blown away by some foods as being very sweet. We grabbed a juice at Juiceland this weekend and the strawberries tasted sugared even tho they weren't. Moods have been different this week as well. I think a combination of giving up the vices of everything from caffeine to cigarettes to sugar to alcohol leaves blank space for release.  After a few days of being a bit hot tempered, we both ended the week in good moods so at least crankiness was temporary.

I feel like my skin has been still clearing up. I have a problem area on my chin that always seems to be broken out in some ways and it basically clear tonight. The scale has been weird this week. I lost another pound and a half early in the week and then the scale didn't budge. I did however have a fun afternoon in my closet trying on clothes that were too tight before and fit nicely now. That was super great!

Mike has been up 2 lbs and down 4 and back again depending on the day. Earlier today, he was down a full 3 more pounds this week for a total of 10-11 so far. I haven't been on the scale for a few days so I need to check to see if it possibility went down more. I feel like it should since this was such a veggie heavy week. I did eat chicken breasts a few times at lunch where Mike did not. I just wasn't getting full and with my work being either in a store or a car, it was nearly impossible for me to eat every 2 hours. I didn't have any cheats this week tho as far as food off the list. I'm pretty excited that we get meat again 3 times a day for the last phase. Its gone extremely fast and hard to believe our next update will be when we are finishing up the program.

Thanks to everyone's support and following along on this clean up quest. A special thanks to our guests Jessica and Bruce for eating along with us while they were here these crazy meals. This meal plan is not akin to being social.

** update - weighed myself this morning and down another 2.5 lbs for a total of about 3.5 loss this week. Hurrah!!