Day 4 Over The Hump

Update: Day 4

Breakfast

I got right to work this morning on my Coffee-Break Green Healer Juice and somehow I ended up making all the green juice first and then the beet juice separately.

It looked really cook when I added the two.
It's a magic genie!
The complete spread: Hot Lemon Water, Coffee-Break Green Healer Juice, and two cleanse tablets.

Lunch

After my voice lesson, which went really well, I stopped at the coop on my way home to pick up some essentials that I had run out of. I decided to make "Bridge-and-Tunnel Beet Greens Soup" which included

• 1 cup purified water
• 1 cup beet greens, washed and cut into bite sized pieces
• 1/2 cup sprouts
• 1/4 tsp. jalapeno, deseeded and minced
• 1 Tbsp. lemon juice
• 1/2 apple cored
• 1/2 large avocado, peeled and pitted
• 1/8 tsp. Celtic sea salt

I forgot to get avocados at the coop! I decided to go ahead with it anyways and see if I could just go without.
Blended till smooth. I tasted the soup with a straw and literally, immediately after grabbed my wallet and a plastic bag, got on my bike and zoomed to the coop to get avocados. It just wasn't going to fly without them! It's a good thing I forgot avocados actually because I had also left my coconuts without realizing it!
Then I added the avocados to the disaster soup.
And blended again till smooth.
I topped it with the usual culprits: salt pepper and cholula.
This wasn't the best tasting soup in the world but it was alright. The beet greens have a really planty taste to them which I could live without but with salt and pepper it was fine.

I dreamt last night that I cooked fried pickles... think it has anything to do with the cleanse? haha. I am really craving solid, cooked foods again and it doesn't help that I love to read food blogs! All I want is banana bread and oatmeal and a sandwich! Only one more day to go though, and best believe I will have my first meals all planned out!

I'm going to make my coconut shake right now and maybe even my soup for dinner. I have opera from 4-8 tonight and I don't want to get caught starving.

later!

Whateva whateva, I do what I want!

Snack

This snack eventually evolved into lunch but started out with a crostini and zucchini slices, perfect for dipping into...

hummus!!

Lunch

Then I decided I should probably just have a something more meal like and call it lunch! I ran out of bread so I made a eggplant patty on a bed of spinach with plenty of avocado. It was quite delicious!

For a 'dessert' I had a chocolate brownie flavored Z Bar. Yum! Mostly I just wanted to show my newly painted nails in this shot. RED!
When I finally got down to business later that afternoon to work on my paper I kept the peppermint tea flowing to stay hydrated and focused. Also, I was having a weird stomach ache... I don't know what caused it! Too much fiber? Too much fat from the hummus and avocado? Ugh.
Eventually I tried mixing powdered ginger into my tea since ginger is supposed to help tummy aches!

Dinner

Part 1! It's funny because when I was little my parents told me that I used to confuse hunger with a stomach ache, always saying that my tummy hurt when really I was just hungry. Last night I was having a moment like that. I really couldn't tell if I was just having digestive pain or if I was hungry! I decided it was a little of both. I wanted to put something friendly in there so I made a sort of rice pudding/cereal thing lol. All it is is

• 1/2 cup uncooked brown rice
• 1 cup water
• handful raisins
• shake cinnamon
• shake ginger
• 2 tsp. brown sugar
• soy milk to taste

I soaked the brown rice for just over an hour (which probably didn't make much of a difference in the long run) and then brought it to the stove to cook. In the last 5 minutes or so of being done I added all the ingredients save the soy milk and let that cook till the timer went off. I portioned out little by little, adding soy milk on top to make it like a cereal. It was pretty good!
I couldn't handle eating all of it at once but I did eventually eat all of it. I made it last!
Part 2! Later that night Savannah and I decided we deserved to just relax and do whatever we wanted! We bundled up and walked to a favorite 'healthy' food place "Silvergreens". We both went with the half soup half sandwich meal which is always a winner in my book. The soup was a hearty tomato vegetable. It was a little salty even for my taste but still good.
For the sandwich I got the Hummus & Avocado (I know, did they invent that just for me? I think so.)
I was just really appreciating letting someone else put together my food last night. haha, sometimes you just need a break! (Plus...I think I'm running out of my staples :/)
For a little dessert I sliced half a banana and sprinkled it with blueberries, chocolate chips, mixed nuts, and a drizzle of maple syrup. I throughly enjoyed this concoction!
Gangs of New York was on last night and Savannah and I completely lost track of time watching it. Leo is such a hunk, he's so talented. By the time we realized how late it was, Spring Forward had happened and it seemed even later!!

I definitely slept in this morning but I whipped up something spectacular for breakfast. Post coming sooooooon!