Detox Day 2

Hi friends! Happy Tuesday! I’m still so thrown-off by LOST being on Tuesday night! I usually think of Tuesday nights as being “Treadmill Tuesday”– where I’ll watch the Biggest Loser on the treadmill for as long as I can stand it. Now I think I’ll divide my time between LOST and Biggest Loser, because I just can’t stay up late enough to watch it all! I’m such an old lady.

I need my sleep, too! I slept terribly last night thanks to a TERRIBLE detox headache. I realized that I barely drank any caffeine yesterday, yet I was coming off a full week of traveling and indulging in lots of black coffee! My body got used to that stimulation, and I didn’t even think about transitioning slowly off of it again… so I’m suffering the consequences. My headache pounded all morning, so I decided to give in and sip on some green tea. I figured that would be a nice compromise for my body– not quite as much caffeine as coffee, but still a nice boost. And now I feel 100% better! Whew!

My day has also included some green red juice:

I stuffed all this produce into those two glasses:

Two heads of Romaine, greens from two beets, a bunch of carrots, a lemon and a lime. This was NOT the best-tasting juice I have ever made. It was very tart, and I didn’t care for the flavor of the beet greens. But, I gulped it down! I just think of it as a liquid-vitamin I need to take.

Lunch was much tastier!!

Another round of the same salads we had yesterday! Sorry if it’s redundant, but this is just my absolute favorite combo right now. I literally crave it every day! What’s funny, is that in just two days my mom and I have gone through a block of my favorite goat cheddar:

(I live within miles of the Alta Dena farm– gotta love that!)   Normally I go through about a block of this cheese a week, but with my mom eating it, too, I’ve gone through a block in two days! Ha ha. I love that I have someone to share my food with! It means I’ll get through our leftovers faster, so I can create more fun detox meals!

We followed our salads with some lightly steamed baby carrots:

Steaming them made them so sweet! It was like dessert. I’m trying to include some extra cooked food in our diet, in order to slow down the detox process. We don’t want to be detoxing more than our body can deal with at once! Body brushing, rebounding, and sweating can all help the process, too.

Speaking of sweating, I’m off to do some more walking. I really think it’s helping my back heal! I was talking to my husband this morning, and I think my injury might also have something to do with using the cross-training elliptical machine. The last time my sciatica flared up, I was using the elliptical a lot! I’ve been using it again, as my cross-training of choice, and I’m wondering if the flare-ups are related. Sometimes I feel like the cross-training aspect of the elliptical is awkward for my body– like it wouldn’t naturally move that way. So, I’m thinking for the next few months of marathon training, I will be doing more “natural” forms of cross-training (i.e. walking, jumping, etc.)  The elliptical may have NOTHING to do with this, but I think it’s worth exploring!

Be back later!!