It's finally over!
During the last 15 days I've learned and been through so much! I've felt very home sick and have been craving British food. I've had moments of feeling absolutely fantastic and those where I felt utterly terrible. I've learned so many things about living a healthy lifestyle and eating healthy food and how essential these things are for leading a vibrant life. As well as that I've discovered the importance of sourcing my food ethically and found out about some fantastic companies who are working towards great things and have wonderful products. And of course ... I lost a stone in the first week. I'm excited to see what results I will see on the scales tomorrow.
We still have so much food left over, since going organic we got so much more juice from the vegetables. So we are going to think up some highly veggie recipes before we leave this place. It was great throughout today knowing that with each juice I was getting so much closer to the end. One of my New Years resolutions was to be more adventurous and funnily enough, doing this has lead me down a much more adventurous path. Instead of going to the same old chains of super markets and restaurants, making the same meals over and over. I will need to discover and create new things to keep with my healthy new lifestyle!
THE REBOOT PART IS OVER! I will fill you in with my results tomorrow.
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Monday, 27 January 2014
Wednesday, 22 January 2014
Day 10
No nightmares last night! But, I've had the worst day ever today. I haven't posted any photographs on Instagram. I've only had 2 juices and I was supposed to have 5. I've been asleep most of the day and I've got up just to write this really and drink the stupid 2nd glass of juice. I'm sick of it. I feel depressed and angry. I feel like I can't do anything. I'm sick of the sight, taste and thought of juices. Robbie received some late birthday presents today which contained M&S mini eggs. I was so close to breaking my fast for them. I'm fed up, I just want to eat now. I apologise for this post being so short but I can't bare to write anymore. See you tomorrow.
Sunday, 19 January 2014
Day 7
Hey,
Last night I continued to feel ill and I slept terribly. I was talking loads in my sleep and had nightmare after nightmare. When I woke up this morning I felt rubbish so I realised I needed to work out what was wrong. I had a think about what was making me so ill then, I remembered that a few years ago that I used to have coconut oil in the mornings and a few hours later I would feel really sick. So, I decided I don't want to have anymore coconut water. Today I haven't had any and I feel great. I didn't struggle like yesterday which was brilliant.
This morning I made a green juice that I really enjoyed having. I enjoyed it even more because it was green and the green juices are better for you. It was green citrus juice and it's fantastic because it only has 3 ingredients - apple, orange and kale -and is so quick to make. For lunch was sporty spice, which was alright. I think I was put off by how long it took to make. It had beetroot, celery, orange, lemon, carrots and basil leaves. Then for dinner I had peach delight. I wasn't too keen on this recipe as it has raw sweet potato in it. I was nearly going to improvise and make something different but, I decided I needed to try it before I rubbished it. All together the ingredients were, peaches, sweet potato, mixed berries, apple and cinnamon. I loved it! It was the closest thing to food that I've had over the past few days.
Seeing as I didn't feel awful today I thought I would tell you about other things I've noticed and what I've found difficult. My teeth are looking really white and I don't use special toothpaste for that, it must be the reboot. I haven't seen my collar bone for a while but it's starting to reappear, wahoo! I've been craving food and I really miss cooking. I miss the smells and everything else. With juicing it's just the same actions over and over again and it's a bit monotonous. So, I prepared and cooked Robbie's food today and I felt so jealous. Cooking the food is the closest thing I have to eating it. I want to eat. I really, really want to.
I've started writing a blog along side this one and I've put up my first post. It will include all the recipes I have used during my reboot. Once I have finished the reboot I will post other healthy recipes. You can find it here . . . http://tickseasyhealthyrecipes.blogspot.com.au
At the end of today I feel a million times better than yesterday and actually better than I do usually. So, I'm not feeling nervous about tomorrow which hopefully means a good nights sleep! Fingers crossed.
Last night I continued to feel ill and I slept terribly. I was talking loads in my sleep and had nightmare after nightmare. When I woke up this morning I felt rubbish so I realised I needed to work out what was wrong. I had a think about what was making me so ill then, I remembered that a few years ago that I used to have coconut oil in the mornings and a few hours later I would feel really sick. So, I decided I don't want to have anymore coconut water. Today I haven't had any and I feel great. I didn't struggle like yesterday which was brilliant.
This morning I made a green juice that I really enjoyed having. I enjoyed it even more because it was green and the green juices are better for you. It was green citrus juice and it's fantastic because it only has 3 ingredients - apple, orange and kale -and is so quick to make. For lunch was sporty spice, which was alright. I think I was put off by how long it took to make. It had beetroot, celery, orange, lemon, carrots and basil leaves. Then for dinner I had peach delight. I wasn't too keen on this recipe as it has raw sweet potato in it. I was nearly going to improvise and make something different but, I decided I needed to try it before I rubbished it. All together the ingredients were, peaches, sweet potato, mixed berries, apple and cinnamon. I loved it! It was the closest thing to food that I've had over the past few days.
Seeing as I didn't feel awful today I thought I would tell you about other things I've noticed and what I've found difficult. My teeth are looking really white and I don't use special toothpaste for that, it must be the reboot. I haven't seen my collar bone for a while but it's starting to reappear, wahoo! I've been craving food and I really miss cooking. I miss the smells and everything else. With juicing it's just the same actions over and over again and it's a bit monotonous. So, I prepared and cooked Robbie's food today and I felt so jealous. Cooking the food is the closest thing I have to eating it. I want to eat. I really, really want to.
I've started writing a blog along side this one and I've put up my first post. It will include all the recipes I have used during my reboot. Once I have finished the reboot I will post other healthy recipes. You can find it here . . . http://tickseasyhealthyrecipes.blogspot.com.au
At the end of today I feel a million times better than yesterday and actually better than I do usually. So, I'm not feeling nervous about tomorrow which hopefully means a good nights sleep! Fingers crossed.
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Day 6
Today has been very hard...
I had another difficult night with lots of nightmares and then something was making a really annoying noise. You know when you're half asleep and instead of getting up and sorting out the problem you just keep shouting at it and think it will go away? Well that's what I did and it meant a few hours of crappy sleep. Then I got woken up by the coles people knocking at the door and it scared me so much I was shaking for ages! So... Clearly mornings and nights aren't my thing.
It was so good to have the food delivery and see all the food I will have having for the next 5days. There was so much colour it made me feel so good. Again, I prepared all my juices this morning so I didn't have to do any washing up or making later. So, for breakfast I had carrot, apple and ginger juice. I have to admit I'm beginning to get a little bored of carrot. It is so sweet and it makes me feel a little sick now when I have it in the juice. The biggest challenge of today was drinking the coconut water. I don't know why I hate it so much. When I drink it I just want to spit it back out. When I swallow it almost comes back up immediately. I was meant to have 450ml but I only did 400ml. I think I'm going to have to reduce it down to 250ml. I just find it so unbearable. I try to think of the benefits but it's so difficult when it's so gross. I put ice in to try and make it as cold as possible so I couldn't taste it but it wasn't good enough to work. After drinking the coconut water I felt so hungry. I'm find it so hard not eating. Even after my lunch juice (joes mean green juice ) I still felt starving. The juice was so sour and now I keep craving meat and cheese and oniony things. This afternoon I had my 2nd round of carrot apple and ginger juice and I couldn't bare the sweetness. I want to eat so badly. Robbie is cooking up something now and I'm desperate to eat it!
On a more positive note, I have found a local organic produce company who deliver vegetable boxes. They're called, Organic Collective. I've sent them an enquiry about ordering a box from them, it only costs $60 and it's organic! Compared to the $140 that I spent at Coles on non-organic food. It's completely ridiculous how much supermarkets charge. But, I'm very excited to be supporting local and organic produce. It also means better nutrients!
This evening I was really looking forward to my purple passion. But, I think the mint in it has made me feel absolutely disgusting. I want to throw up. I feel so nauseous and it's unbearable. First the coconut water now the purple passion. I hope it goes away soon. I'm going to have some fizzy water and see if that helps. So, at the end of day 6 I'm feeling really sick but I'm not ready to give up.
I'm going to start a blog tomorrow which links onto this one. It will include recipes of all the things I make during this transformation. I will include it at the end of my blog tomorrow.
I would also like to thank everyone for reading my blog and giving me so much support through this!
I had another difficult night with lots of nightmares and then something was making a really annoying noise. You know when you're half asleep and instead of getting up and sorting out the problem you just keep shouting at it and think it will go away? Well that's what I did and it meant a few hours of crappy sleep. Then I got woken up by the coles people knocking at the door and it scared me so much I was shaking for ages! So... Clearly mornings and nights aren't my thing.
It was so good to have the food delivery and see all the food I will have having for the next 5days. There was so much colour it made me feel so good. Again, I prepared all my juices this morning so I didn't have to do any washing up or making later. So, for breakfast I had carrot, apple and ginger juice. I have to admit I'm beginning to get a little bored of carrot. It is so sweet and it makes me feel a little sick now when I have it in the juice. The biggest challenge of today was drinking the coconut water. I don't know why I hate it so much. When I drink it I just want to spit it back out. When I swallow it almost comes back up immediately. I was meant to have 450ml but I only did 400ml. I think I'm going to have to reduce it down to 250ml. I just find it so unbearable. I try to think of the benefits but it's so difficult when it's so gross. I put ice in to try and make it as cold as possible so I couldn't taste it but it wasn't good enough to work. After drinking the coconut water I felt so hungry. I'm find it so hard not eating. Even after my lunch juice (joes mean green juice ) I still felt starving. The juice was so sour and now I keep craving meat and cheese and oniony things. This afternoon I had my 2nd round of carrot apple and ginger juice and I couldn't bare the sweetness. I want to eat so badly. Robbie is cooking up something now and I'm desperate to eat it!
On a more positive note, I have found a local organic produce company who deliver vegetable boxes. They're called, Organic Collective. I've sent them an enquiry about ordering a box from them, it only costs $60 and it's organic! Compared to the $140 that I spent at Coles on non-organic food. It's completely ridiculous how much supermarkets charge. But, I'm very excited to be supporting local and organic produce. It also means better nutrients!
This evening I was really looking forward to my purple passion. But, I think the mint in it has made me feel absolutely disgusting. I want to throw up. I feel so nauseous and it's unbearable. First the coconut water now the purple passion. I hope it goes away soon. I'm going to have some fizzy water and see if that helps. So, at the end of day 6 I'm feeling really sick but I'm not ready to give up.
I'm going to start a blog tomorrow which links onto this one. It will include recipes of all the things I make during this transformation. I will include it at the end of my blog tomorrow.
I would also like to thank everyone for reading my blog and giving me so much support through this!
Friday, 17 January 2014
Day 5 ( last day of food )
Last night when I posted the blog, I was feeling good, in a positive state of mind. A few hours later things had changed. When I got into bed I felt wide awake. Not in a, I have more energy way, that stressed, I can't stop thinking, kind of awake. I was lying there with so many thought rushing around but sort of felt blank at the same time. Suddenly I burst into tears. Then I thought I was an idiot so I started thinking really negatively about myself. Once I had eventually got over that - through the kindness of Robbie putting up with my crying AGAIN and saying such nice things - I fell asleep. But, I had night made after night mare. I had to wake Robbie up because I felt so weird. So, I had an awful nights sleep. My legs still hurt from the squats and I just felt stressy. Once I'd had my lemon water though I felt better.
I got to the fridge and I was running so low on food. I couldn't really follow any of the recipes due to the lack of ingredients I had to make stuff up and because of this I ended up making juices that just separated into weird layers. Which made me realise how experimental making juice is. I didn't think juicing would be anything like cooking but every ingredient counts. I knew in dressings and baking that lemon juice acted like an emulsifier but I didn't realise it would be so important in the juice! The ones that lacked lemon were okay though. Then, I ended up putting coconut water in both sets which is really annoying as it's pretty expensive. I managed to make a much nicer version of the shamrock smoothie today which I was really pleased with. It was almost completely smooth and didn't taste really sour, so I enjoyed it. It was much better than my last attempt. With the juicing I have managed to use up all the food in my fridge. I didn't really ever manage to do that before. Things would go bad or I couldn't think of anything in time but with the juice it's like making a liquid salad. Which is great because it means no food or money goes to waste. It's such a shame that I'm not at my own house otherwise I would definitely be making a compost heap.
I found it quite odd that once I'd done all my juicing, I had no meals left to prepare. They were all ready for the day ahead. That's so much time saved. I felt so strange. But this meant I had more time so, I decided to watch, Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. A documentary focusing of how doing a reboot can completely change your life - Joe Cross being the main example in the film. I can't believe what a difference the reboot made. Not just the losing weight but how the people changed for the better. It was as though a miracle had happened. But, it hadn't. All that happened was that they ate how we should eat. So I'm very excited about how much healthier and happier I will be. It just seems such a shame that natural healthy food, that should be free from the earth, is so expensive and then the processed food that we have to create is cheap. It makes no sense.
Even though I had some very positive parts of my day I did face some annoying stuff. My skin had cleared up from all the red sore spots but today I've come up with tonnes of tiny little spots on my: face, chest and shoulders. This is probably the toxins beings released but it still sucks. After lunch, around mid afternoon maybe I felt weak and tried and a headache almost appeared but that drifted quickly. I felt so exhausted I had to lie down. I did feel better later on. I am thankful that I haven't suffered as badly as some people I read about on the community forum on the reboot website. So that's a positive. Something that's really getting on my nerves now is my obsession with food. I keep thinking about it. I want to look at recipes all the time. Not for junk food though, what I'll eat after this. I keep trying to convert these nagging things that annoy me into positives. So, my positive reason for being obsessed with food is that it means I am becoming more aware of how important my diet is and that it is worth devoting time to.
So, I'm approaching the end of Day 5. Feeling so hungry and quite nervous about the 10 days of JUST JUICE ahead of me. Particularly the daily intake of 16oz of coconut water. I just don't think I can do that or afford it. We will see.
I'll be back on Day 6!
I got to the fridge and I was running so low on food. I couldn't really follow any of the recipes due to the lack of ingredients I had to make stuff up and because of this I ended up making juices that just separated into weird layers. Which made me realise how experimental making juice is. I didn't think juicing would be anything like cooking but every ingredient counts. I knew in dressings and baking that lemon juice acted like an emulsifier but I didn't realise it would be so important in the juice! The ones that lacked lemon were okay though. Then, I ended up putting coconut water in both sets which is really annoying as it's pretty expensive. I managed to make a much nicer version of the shamrock smoothie today which I was really pleased with. It was almost completely smooth and didn't taste really sour, so I enjoyed it. It was much better than my last attempt. With the juicing I have managed to use up all the food in my fridge. I didn't really ever manage to do that before. Things would go bad or I couldn't think of anything in time but with the juice it's like making a liquid salad. Which is great because it means no food or money goes to waste. It's such a shame that I'm not at my own house otherwise I would definitely be making a compost heap.
I found it quite odd that once I'd done all my juicing, I had no meals left to prepare. They were all ready for the day ahead. That's so much time saved. I felt so strange. But this meant I had more time so, I decided to watch, Fat Sick and Nearly Dead. A documentary focusing of how doing a reboot can completely change your life - Joe Cross being the main example in the film. I can't believe what a difference the reboot made. Not just the losing weight but how the people changed for the better. It was as though a miracle had happened. But, it hadn't. All that happened was that they ate how we should eat. So I'm very excited about how much healthier and happier I will be. It just seems such a shame that natural healthy food, that should be free from the earth, is so expensive and then the processed food that we have to create is cheap. It makes no sense.
Even though I had some very positive parts of my day I did face some annoying stuff. My skin had cleared up from all the red sore spots but today I've come up with tonnes of tiny little spots on my: face, chest and shoulders. This is probably the toxins beings released but it still sucks. After lunch, around mid afternoon maybe I felt weak and tried and a headache almost appeared but that drifted quickly. I felt so exhausted I had to lie down. I did feel better later on. I am thankful that I haven't suffered as badly as some people I read about on the community forum on the reboot website. So that's a positive. Something that's really getting on my nerves now is my obsession with food. I keep thinking about it. I want to look at recipes all the time. Not for junk food though, what I'll eat after this. I keep trying to convert these nagging things that annoy me into positives. So, my positive reason for being obsessed with food is that it means I am becoming more aware of how important my diet is and that it is worth devoting time to.
So, I'm approaching the end of Day 5. Feeling so hungry and quite nervous about the 10 days of JUST JUICE ahead of me. Particularly the daily intake of 16oz of coconut water. I just don't think I can do that or afford it. We will see.
I'll be back on Day 6!
Thursday, 16 January 2014
Day 4
I'm feeling so good today, wahoo! It didn't start out that way though. When I woke up - the second time after waking up before 6am to watch the birds on the balcony and and going back to sleep - my body felt like lead. I didn't think I'd be able to get out of bed. It was terrible. I heard some kookaburras laughing outside my bedroom. This motivated me to get up and run outside to the balcony to find them. Once I was up I felt fine. Aside from the running down the stairs and it feeling like death to my legs (yay for squats), I felt really good. So being in bed feeling awful was just muscle strain along with a heavy influence of a poor state of mind. Proving to me the importance and power our minds have. Healthy and positive thinking is part of this whole reboot process. I mustn't give in to negative thinking - thank god for the kookaburras - otherwise I could have just been lying in bed for hours feeling sorry for myself. I'm so glad I didn't do that.
I had to experiment quite a lot today because I had run out of an awful lot of ingredients. Plus, my order online had failed to go through so I wasted an hour but I sorted out later so only a few hours of my day was ruined. Anyway... I couldn't follow the recipes exactly, apart from one juice: carrot, apple and lemon juice. It was absolutely delicious. After the Internet failing me with my shopping, creating a terrible mood, I had this beauty and my mind was completely changed. It was like having a treat. This may become a regular. So, as I was saying I'd run out of ingredients. Kale being one of them! So instead of having my least favourite meal, reboot green salad, for lunch I made my own rainbow salad. It had, red cabbage, radish, avocado and tomato. It was so good. I enjoyed it way more than the other one ( sorry joe!). I think it was because there was no leafy greens :/ I know I need to have them, I need to find some I can enjoy.
I mentioned yesterday that I was going to try a new method of making smoothies to tackle the avocado and banana mix issue. Today's challenge was to make green island juice, containing those two. I mashed the avocado and banana together and slowly added the juiced spinach and coconut water. It worked! I made a smooth and tasty smoothie. No more getting stressed in the kitchen.
This evening for dinner I had another serving of the apple and butternut squash soup and I struggled! I never struggle!! So, this has to be a good thing but, it is weird seeing as I felt very hungry earlier today. But I haven't felt sick after eating food today so that's a step forwards. Other observations: I smell like curry? It's really weird, I haven't eaten any spices or anything. Why is curry such an overwhelming smell? Hopefully it will go away. It must be part of the process, I guess. Since doing this reboot I feel like a cloud has cleared from my mind. I can think much clearer and I don't feel bogged down. I didn't even realise I did feel like that until now, when I don't. I used to think about food a lot anyway but now I think differently. It's so important to have natural nutrients. Obviously I crave and miss food I had before especially cream, cheese and coffee but, I'm noticing a huge difference by not having it after only 4 days!!! Tomorrow I have just juices and liquid food no solids. It's the last day that I'll eat. Bring on day 5!
I had to experiment quite a lot today because I had run out of an awful lot of ingredients. Plus, my order online had failed to go through so I wasted an hour but I sorted out later so only a few hours of my day was ruined. Anyway... I couldn't follow the recipes exactly, apart from one juice: carrot, apple and lemon juice. It was absolutely delicious. After the Internet failing me with my shopping, creating a terrible mood, I had this beauty and my mind was completely changed. It was like having a treat. This may become a regular. So, as I was saying I'd run out of ingredients. Kale being one of them! So instead of having my least favourite meal, reboot green salad, for lunch I made my own rainbow salad. It had, red cabbage, radish, avocado and tomato. It was so good. I enjoyed it way more than the other one ( sorry joe!). I think it was because there was no leafy greens :/ I know I need to have them, I need to find some I can enjoy.
I mentioned yesterday that I was going to try a new method of making smoothies to tackle the avocado and banana mix issue. Today's challenge was to make green island juice, containing those two. I mashed the avocado and banana together and slowly added the juiced spinach and coconut water. It worked! I made a smooth and tasty smoothie. No more getting stressed in the kitchen.
This evening for dinner I had another serving of the apple and butternut squash soup and I struggled! I never struggle!! So, this has to be a good thing but, it is weird seeing as I felt very hungry earlier today. But I haven't felt sick after eating food today so that's a step forwards. Other observations: I smell like curry? It's really weird, I haven't eaten any spices or anything. Why is curry such an overwhelming smell? Hopefully it will go away. It must be part of the process, I guess. Since doing this reboot I feel like a cloud has cleared from my mind. I can think much clearer and I don't feel bogged down. I didn't even realise I did feel like that until now, when I don't. I used to think about food a lot anyway but now I think differently. It's so important to have natural nutrients. Obviously I crave and miss food I had before especially cream, cheese and coffee but, I'm noticing a huge difference by not having it after only 4 days!!! Tomorrow I have just juices and liquid food no solids. It's the last day that I'll eat. Bring on day 5!
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
Day 3
Last night I wrote my blog post while I was still eating dinner so, I have a few more things to add. I really struggled to eat the rest of it. I was about half way through and nearly gave up. I kept feeling sick and I didn't want it. (I didn't realise I'd be so fussy). But I carried on and finished it all. Afterwards I felt like I'd been on a run and just got home, I felt really bad. I went to bed feeling exhausted with a stomach ache.
This morning I woke up feeling incredibly sore but I had been hill walking yesterday (2 days in a row) so double, double strain. I haven't done any hill walking today so it will be interesting to see if I wake up feeling any better. I had my daily cup of hot lemon water. I wasn't having the bake today but a shamrock smoothie with the... Coconut water!! So, I wasn't feeling too excited. The shamrock smoothie's ingredients were: banana, avocado, cucumber, romaine lettuce leaves, lemon juice and coconut water. As you may have guessed the avocado and banana were a challenge, even though they were ripe this time. So I made a somewhat lumpy smoothie. What was it like? I hear you ask well, it was very different to what I had thought it would be. It was overpoweringly sour I don't know why it was so bad. I thought the coconut water was going to be the biggest problem but it wasn't. It was very hard to swallow. I was relieved that I didn't feel sick afterwards! Hmm... Interesting.
My mid morning snack was green lemonade juice. I forgot to put in the spinach - whoops! The other ingredients were: kale, green apples, cucumber, celery and lemon. Out of all the juices so far this one has been the nicest. I followed my snack with a cup of peppermint tea. Everything is GREEN! I had a look at what is in store for me during the next steps of my reboot. There seems to be a lot of recipes relying on a blender and we don't have one. I've decided my tactic for getting through this will be treating the smoothies like a sort of batter and maxing in the liquids a little at a time to get the right consistency. We will see how this method turns out.
For lunch was apple and butternut squash soup. This was strenuous to make. Mainly because the oven just doesn't seem to have a clue about how to heat itself up so, we have to wait forever for it to get to the right temperature. I hadn't made any vegetable stock because it would just take too long. I had a look at some vegetable stock powder to add to the soup for some flavour but, it contained milk. I was very tempted but my conscience got the better of me. I was regretting not making the vegetable stock though because I was guessing this was going to be some majorly watery soup. I decided to add heaps of onions and garlic. It must have done the trick because out of all the meals (apart from the berry apple bake) this was the tastiest and the one I actually enjoyed. Unfortunately after finishing it I was left feeling incredibly lethargic. This keeps happening when I eat so I decided to do some research as to why. I had a look on http://www.rebootwithjoe.com and looked on the beginners forum and what different people were saying. I have concluded from what I've read and advice I've received from people that I've asked that, I'm lacking in salt and that I need to make sure I do at least 20 mins of exercise per day. Hopefully when I do this I will notice an improvement.
Something else I've noticed us that I get a build up of plaque on my teeth after I drink a juice (in particular) and eating all the vegetables. I don't know what's causing it. I tried having a look online but couldn't find any information other than to make sure I'm brushing my teeth. But it's gross and it does make me have to brush my teeth a lot (which I don't usually want to do at all). I hope the build up will die down.
In the afternoon I did some exercise (not walking) followed by another green lemonade juice. Other than my legs feeling like they were dead, I was feeling on top form. Yay! Then came making dinner - another soup, green detox soup. I was optimistic that this wouldn't involve so much effort. I was wrong. Due to all the kale and broccoli the mixture wouldn't mash. I sieved out the bulk and then put it in the juicer. There was a lot of mess. But the finished product was delicious! Come to think of it it think the detox soup is my favourite. I don't feel tired, YAY! Since I've been posting photos of my reboot on Instagram I got some new followers, which is encouraging. So, at the end of day 3 Im feeling excited!
This morning I woke up feeling incredibly sore but I had been hill walking yesterday (2 days in a row) so double, double strain. I haven't done any hill walking today so it will be interesting to see if I wake up feeling any better. I had my daily cup of hot lemon water. I wasn't having the bake today but a shamrock smoothie with the... Coconut water!! So, I wasn't feeling too excited. The shamrock smoothie's ingredients were: banana, avocado, cucumber, romaine lettuce leaves, lemon juice and coconut water. As you may have guessed the avocado and banana were a challenge, even though they were ripe this time. So I made a somewhat lumpy smoothie. What was it like? I hear you ask well, it was very different to what I had thought it would be. It was overpoweringly sour I don't know why it was so bad. I thought the coconut water was going to be the biggest problem but it wasn't. It was very hard to swallow. I was relieved that I didn't feel sick afterwards! Hmm... Interesting.
My mid morning snack was green lemonade juice. I forgot to put in the spinach - whoops! The other ingredients were: kale, green apples, cucumber, celery and lemon. Out of all the juices so far this one has been the nicest. I followed my snack with a cup of peppermint tea. Everything is GREEN! I had a look at what is in store for me during the next steps of my reboot. There seems to be a lot of recipes relying on a blender and we don't have one. I've decided my tactic for getting through this will be treating the smoothies like a sort of batter and maxing in the liquids a little at a time to get the right consistency. We will see how this method turns out.
For lunch was apple and butternut squash soup. This was strenuous to make. Mainly because the oven just doesn't seem to have a clue about how to heat itself up so, we have to wait forever for it to get to the right temperature. I hadn't made any vegetable stock because it would just take too long. I had a look at some vegetable stock powder to add to the soup for some flavour but, it contained milk. I was very tempted but my conscience got the better of me. I was regretting not making the vegetable stock though because I was guessing this was going to be some majorly watery soup. I decided to add heaps of onions and garlic. It must have done the trick because out of all the meals (apart from the berry apple bake) this was the tastiest and the one I actually enjoyed. Unfortunately after finishing it I was left feeling incredibly lethargic. This keeps happening when I eat so I decided to do some research as to why. I had a look on http://www.rebootwithjoe.com and looked on the beginners forum and what different people were saying. I have concluded from what I've read and advice I've received from people that I've asked that, I'm lacking in salt and that I need to make sure I do at least 20 mins of exercise per day. Hopefully when I do this I will notice an improvement.
Something else I've noticed us that I get a build up of plaque on my teeth after I drink a juice (in particular) and eating all the vegetables. I don't know what's causing it. I tried having a look online but couldn't find any information other than to make sure I'm brushing my teeth. But it's gross and it does make me have to brush my teeth a lot (which I don't usually want to do at all). I hope the build up will die down.
In the afternoon I did some exercise (not walking) followed by another green lemonade juice. Other than my legs feeling like they were dead, I was feeling on top form. Yay! Then came making dinner - another soup, green detox soup. I was optimistic that this wouldn't involve so much effort. I was wrong. Due to all the kale and broccoli the mixture wouldn't mash. I sieved out the bulk and then put it in the juicer. There was a lot of mess. But the finished product was delicious! Come to think of it it think the detox soup is my favourite. I don't feel tired, YAY! Since I've been posting photos of my reboot on Instagram I got some new followers, which is encouraging. So, at the end of day 3 Im feeling excited!
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Day 2
I woke up this morning feeling incredibly achey, sore and exhausted. I don't think this was necessarily the reboot though. At the moment I'm living in a place called, Gooseberry Hill and I'm quite near the bottom of it. So, whenever I go out there is heavy duty walking going on and clearly I'm unfit. This resulted in me waking up feeling pretty bad. But, I didn't have a terrible headache like I was expecting so I started off well. I began my day by having hot water with lemon followed by a delicious apple berry bake. I have always found it hard to enjoy breakfast so the apple berry bake has been a real treat and I'm very sad it's the last day I will have it. But, I think once I have finished my reboot it may become a bit of a regular at breakfast time. So, I started off the day feeling much more positive because I ate something in the morning!
A little later on I made myself a green juice. I was dreading having this juice because it had - yup you've guessed it - kale! And celery. Altogether the ingredients were: kale, celery, cucumber and pear - pretty disgusting wouldn't you say? I gritted my teeth when I put the glass to my lips and surprisingly it wasn't absolutely appalling. It just had quite a strong hint of celery which isn't an overwhelming flavour anyway. Due to it not being so sweet it didn't make me feel sick like the carrot juice did yesterday.
I have decided to post my photos of the food that I make on Instagram to get into living the reboot more, along with my blog. Quite a few interesting people on there have liked my photos so I decided to check out theirs. The most interesting being a girl under the name of, weekdayvegan. She has some delicious looking vegan recipes that just look so tasty. Which made me think at the end of the 15 days I'm going to try and stick to a mainly vegan diet and to try and keep eating a rainbow a day. I feel really inspired, which has given me more confidence with this whole reboot thing.
Although...
Later in the afternoon it was time to make raw carrot soup. I had to juice about 20 carrots which was easy but, I don't have a blender and I was meant to mince the ginger and purée the avocado. It didn't down as intended. I was chopping the ginger up into tiny pieces thinking' "god this is going to be terrible" and the avocado was being dealt with in the same way. Resulting in very firm bits of avocado and ginger looking kind of gross. I tried mashing all the ingredients together, putting it through the juicer, using a tenderiser thing. Nothing worked and it looked very lumpy. But, I had to eat it. My boyfriend joined me on this one. Throughout the ordeal we stared at each other in silence grimacing at the sweet gingery ness of the whole thing. The combination of thin carrot juice and lumpy avocado and ginger was appalling. It was just too sweet. We united in racing towards the bottom of the bowl together. Afterwards we both felt very sick. I do think if we had, had the blender though it would have been better. I'm so glad I didn't add any honey!
So, for dinner it is squash stuffed with sautéed mushrooms and spinach. After 2 and half hours (it's now just before 10pm) I'm finally sitting down to eat dinner. The oven takes forever to heat up so that's pissed me off quite a lot. A good thing though is that my dinner is pretty tasty but I was very jealous of Robbie's food! The weird thing about eating so many vegetables and there's no fat or meat is, I don't want it as much. When I'm eating it I don't turn into a pig and want to wolf it down like with other food. It's probably good because, it means I eat my food slower, so I digest it better and I might conquer my battle with candida, which is what probably created the monster eater that I was before.
I feel much better today even though there were some really annoying things happened, that wasn't the diets fault. That was the lack of kitchen utensils. I have realised that I need to drink more water, I've noticed, I keep getting headaches and the lack of H2O is probably not helping me. I'm hitting the coconut water tomorrow, I'm seriously not looking forward to it. I'm pleased with my day 2 so, I'm feeling reasonably relaxed about day 3.
A little later on I made myself a green juice. I was dreading having this juice because it had - yup you've guessed it - kale! And celery. Altogether the ingredients were: kale, celery, cucumber and pear - pretty disgusting wouldn't you say? I gritted my teeth when I put the glass to my lips and surprisingly it wasn't absolutely appalling. It just had quite a strong hint of celery which isn't an overwhelming flavour anyway. Due to it not being so sweet it didn't make me feel sick like the carrot juice did yesterday.
I have decided to post my photos of the food that I make on Instagram to get into living the reboot more, along with my blog. Quite a few interesting people on there have liked my photos so I decided to check out theirs. The most interesting being a girl under the name of, weekdayvegan. She has some delicious looking vegan recipes that just look so tasty. Which made me think at the end of the 15 days I'm going to try and stick to a mainly vegan diet and to try and keep eating a rainbow a day. I feel really inspired, which has given me more confidence with this whole reboot thing.
Although...
Later in the afternoon it was time to make raw carrot soup. I had to juice about 20 carrots which was easy but, I don't have a blender and I was meant to mince the ginger and purée the avocado. It didn't down as intended. I was chopping the ginger up into tiny pieces thinking' "god this is going to be terrible" and the avocado was being dealt with in the same way. Resulting in very firm bits of avocado and ginger looking kind of gross. I tried mashing all the ingredients together, putting it through the juicer, using a tenderiser thing. Nothing worked and it looked very lumpy. But, I had to eat it. My boyfriend joined me on this one. Throughout the ordeal we stared at each other in silence grimacing at the sweet gingery ness of the whole thing. The combination of thin carrot juice and lumpy avocado and ginger was appalling. It was just too sweet. We united in racing towards the bottom of the bowl together. Afterwards we both felt very sick. I do think if we had, had the blender though it would have been better. I'm so glad I didn't add any honey!
So, for dinner it is squash stuffed with sautéed mushrooms and spinach. After 2 and half hours (it's now just before 10pm) I'm finally sitting down to eat dinner. The oven takes forever to heat up so that's pissed me off quite a lot. A good thing though is that my dinner is pretty tasty but I was very jealous of Robbie's food! The weird thing about eating so many vegetables and there's no fat or meat is, I don't want it as much. When I'm eating it I don't turn into a pig and want to wolf it down like with other food. It's probably good because, it means I eat my food slower, so I digest it better and I might conquer my battle with candida, which is what probably created the monster eater that I was before.
I feel much better today even though there were some really annoying things happened, that wasn't the diets fault. That was the lack of kitchen utensils. I have realised that I need to drink more water, I've noticed, I keep getting headaches and the lack of H2O is probably not helping me. I'm hitting the coconut water tomorrow, I'm seriously not looking forward to it. I'm pleased with my day 2 so, I'm feeling reasonably relaxed about day 3.
Monday, 13 January 2014
Day 1
Today was the first day of my reboot and I have to admit, right now I'm not in the mood for writing, I'm exhausted. I was falling asleep moments ago but I must keep my promise I made to myself and post everyday with the truth.
I lay wide awake at half four this morning, contemplating how hard this was going to be. This was then followed by a stream of nightmares about weird cat men and my house being burnt down. I think I was feeling just a little bit nervous about today. It didn't get off to a good start as I wasn't really prepared food wise so I had to swap my breakfast for my mid morning snack which was apple and carrot juice - it was surprisingly tasty. So, once we had got some food in, I could finally eat breakfast which was a number of hours later. So, I felt a bit off.
Before this though was the toughest part of all. I hadn't weighed myself in months and I was pretty sure I was in a poor state but when I got on the scales I was so shocked. It was worse than I had imagined. I feel so ashamed and terrible. My ideal body weight for someone my sex, height and shape is 9.5 stone (about 60 kg). Today, when I stepped onto the scales, I weighed at a ghastly 12.5 stone (78.9 kg). I felt so awful. I flumped onto the sofa and just stared. I can't believe I've let this happen. It's as though I've played a hideous prank on myself. But, the whole point of this thing is to change! But, I have to admit if I don't lose any weight or feel any better I don't know what I will do!
The juices and breakfast were delicious, I had baked apple and berries. So, I felt like I was going places with this thing. Then, came lunch. Salad and sweet potato and carrot "fries." The dressing made the salad more bearable and I was enjoying it to start with. Until, my somewhat slimmer than me boyfriend, sat down in front of me with a dressed up version of my meal. Covered in cheese and sauce with his chips. The temptation was huge but I resisted and made myself enjoy what was on my plate.
For some reason after lunch I began to feel appalling. I felt drained and kind of moody. Everything was getting on my nerves. I began to make dinner and it had lots of KALE in it. (It's a super food and I gotta admit I'm no fan of its taste but I probably should become a fan of its health benefits I guess.) The leaves we're falling off everywhere. I kept knocking stuff off of the counter and things were just really getting to me. Then I ate this "salad" and I could barely chew it. It tasted so bland and my jaw hurt from the herbivore actions I was recreating. With the smell of meat, dairy and carbohydrates in the background I just wanted to cry - don't judge me until you try doing it. Then I realised I hadn't put any dressing on and believe me once it was on there it was heaven compared to what I was eating before. It took me about forty minutes to chomp through that plate of salad. I'm feeling pretty cranky and ready to collapse with a headache and a nice cup of herbal tea to look forward to.
So, all in all, a very challenging first day. Bring on number 2!
I lay wide awake at half four this morning, contemplating how hard this was going to be. This was then followed by a stream of nightmares about weird cat men and my house being burnt down. I think I was feeling just a little bit nervous about today. It didn't get off to a good start as I wasn't really prepared food wise so I had to swap my breakfast for my mid morning snack which was apple and carrot juice - it was surprisingly tasty. So, once we had got some food in, I could finally eat breakfast which was a number of hours later. So, I felt a bit off.
Before this though was the toughest part of all. I hadn't weighed myself in months and I was pretty sure I was in a poor state but when I got on the scales I was so shocked. It was worse than I had imagined. I feel so ashamed and terrible. My ideal body weight for someone my sex, height and shape is 9.5 stone (about 60 kg). Today, when I stepped onto the scales, I weighed at a ghastly 12.5 stone (78.9 kg). I felt so awful. I flumped onto the sofa and just stared. I can't believe I've let this happen. It's as though I've played a hideous prank on myself. But, the whole point of this thing is to change! But, I have to admit if I don't lose any weight or feel any better I don't know what I will do!
The juices and breakfast were delicious, I had baked apple and berries. So, I felt like I was going places with this thing. Then, came lunch. Salad and sweet potato and carrot "fries." The dressing made the salad more bearable and I was enjoying it to start with. Until, my somewhat slimmer than me boyfriend, sat down in front of me with a dressed up version of my meal. Covered in cheese and sauce with his chips. The temptation was huge but I resisted and made myself enjoy what was on my plate.
For some reason after lunch I began to feel appalling. I felt drained and kind of moody. Everything was getting on my nerves. I began to make dinner and it had lots of KALE in it. (It's a super food and I gotta admit I'm no fan of its taste but I probably should become a fan of its health benefits I guess.) The leaves we're falling off everywhere. I kept knocking stuff off of the counter and things were just really getting to me. Then I ate this "salad" and I could barely chew it. It tasted so bland and my jaw hurt from the herbivore actions I was recreating. With the smell of meat, dairy and carbohydrates in the background I just wanted to cry - don't judge me until you try doing it. Then I realised I hadn't put any dressing on and believe me once it was on there it was heaven compared to what I was eating before. It took me about forty minutes to chomp through that plate of salad. I'm feeling pretty cranky and ready to collapse with a headache and a nice cup of herbal tea to look forward to.
So, all in all, a very challenging first day. Bring on number 2!
Sunday, 12 January 2014
Dawn
Hello,
I'm about to embark upon a challenge that I'm very excited and also very nervous about. I'll be attempting to conquer an issue that almost every person faces during their lives. That issue is: weight. I've read so many things about diets and health regimes and they're always made out to be fancy and fashionable when the truth is, they're hard work, very hard work. The things we read in magazines seem unachievable which leads to feeling down, making the problem worse. During my challenge, I promise that I will be honest about what I'm going through, even if it is embarrassing or I don't want to say it, I'll say it. I won't tart it up to sound lady like. I've always wanted to hear the real truth behind diets that work and what the people really go through. Instead, all we hear is, "it was hard, but it was worth it" stretched out into a few paragraphs. So, I'll be the person who is honest about what I go through, whether it works and if it's worth while.
The challenge...
I'm going to do a reboot. This is when I restore my body back to natural order by eating/juicing fresh fruit and vegetables and that is all. This idea was put together by a man called Joe Cross. He was facing a whole body of issues (literally) and overcame it by "rebooting". Now he has set up a company which helps people get back to being healthy in a natural way. It's called, Reboot With Joe. There are various plans to suit different people: 3, 5, 10, 15 and 30 day reboots. I've decided to go with 15 days as I believe it is an achievable goal for me.
I'm hours away from beginning my reboot and I hope you'll join me on my journey to transforming myself into a better me!
I'm about to embark upon a challenge that I'm very excited and also very nervous about. I'll be attempting to conquer an issue that almost every person faces during their lives. That issue is: weight. I've read so many things about diets and health regimes and they're always made out to be fancy and fashionable when the truth is, they're hard work, very hard work. The things we read in magazines seem unachievable which leads to feeling down, making the problem worse. During my challenge, I promise that I will be honest about what I'm going through, even if it is embarrassing or I don't want to say it, I'll say it. I won't tart it up to sound lady like. I've always wanted to hear the real truth behind diets that work and what the people really go through. Instead, all we hear is, "it was hard, but it was worth it" stretched out into a few paragraphs. So, I'll be the person who is honest about what I go through, whether it works and if it's worth while.
The challenge...
I'm going to do a reboot. This is when I restore my body back to natural order by eating/juicing fresh fruit and vegetables and that is all. This idea was put together by a man called Joe Cross. He was facing a whole body of issues (literally) and overcame it by "rebooting". Now he has set up a company which helps people get back to being healthy in a natural way. It's called, Reboot With Joe. There are various plans to suit different people: 3, 5, 10, 15 and 30 day reboots. I've decided to go with 15 days as I believe it is an achievable goal for me.
I'm hours away from beginning my reboot and I hope you'll join me on my journey to transforming myself into a better me!
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