Five Day Cleanse- Day 1

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My co-worker and friend, Katie approached me about doing a cleanse. I’ve never done one and wasn’t too excited about the idea. I mean, who would be? You could only consume liquid for a week!

But the more research I did, the more I thought to myself, "You know, this might be a pretty damn good idea!" You see, I have IBS and lately I’ve been having an upset stomach (ah! What’s new?)

Anywho, I figured I needed to get down to the root of my issues, start fresh as you would say. From my research, toxins will get in your body one way or another and the goal for me wasn’t too detoxify as much as to start from the basics. Stop eating anything that is manmade and start organic. Slowly start to incorporate healthy/organic foods and hope the stomach will balance out and no longer be upset.

After doing a bit of research, I agreed and told her I’m in. I started again looking around the internet to find soup cleanses. The most popular one I found was something called the Cabbage Soup Cleanse. It was packed full of sodium and it didn’t look very appealing. So I decided to tweak the recipe a little and the overall cleanse was also tweaked.

As mentioned earlier, the goal for me is to get back down to the basics. I want to be able to feel/look better too. I’ve been battling acne since I turned 25 and I want to be more focused. You see, I want to race sportbikes, specifically for the AFM, which is a local motorcycle club out here in Northern California. To make a long story short: I need to get my ass in shape!

The plan: Make the cabbage soup, eat only fruit and veggies for the first 1-2 days. Also, if I consumer anything else, make sure it is organic (grown from the earth). Then incorporate small amounts of protein such as eggs, yogurt and milk. I will also incorporate nuts and peanut butter as the days go on. By the fifth day I just want to make sure I have incorporated all food groups (meat and such) and nutrients my body needs. I will hopefully feel AMAZING by then. But again, we shall see and hence this blog to keep track of my progress. Today is going to be the hardest because it’s the first day and I am only having fruit and that tasteless vegetable soup.

So far it’s only been almost three hours since I’ve been awake. I decided to get a large iced coffee (I wake up at 5:15am and I couldn’t imagine not having any, especially for five days!) But I got it with only ice: no milk no sugar). So far, I am still feeling tired, but I am in it to win it! I have a track day coming up later on this month (well hopefully) and bikini season is right around the corner as well (would like to head to Santa Barbara to soak up some rays, and some fish tacos). Looking and feeling good, I believe, is the key to longevity. Also, it is the key to a boyfriend, which maybe I will get one of these days hehe (jk, I like being single but it’s always nice to have someone to roll around in the hay with, am I right ladies?).

Oh! I almost forgot, I also ran down to Blue Hawaii (that have the most fabulous Acai fruit bowls) and got some spirulina. Spirulina is good for your overall cardiovascular health, eye and brain health, as well as gives you energy and builds a healthy immune system. My allergies are kicking, and this is the only medication I will take for it. So imma sprinkle some of this stuff in my soup as well.

Okay so here is the ingredients/preparation to the soup and I will keep a diary of what I consume on a daily basis as well as my weight. When I weighed myself this morning, I weighed 148.4 lbs. So here we go!

Ingredients to soup:

-Whole clove of garlic

-Whole medium sized onion

- 2 green bell peppers

- 4 stalks of celery

- 3 whole red tomatoes diced

- Container of mushrooms sliced

- 6 green onions

- 1 head of cabbage

- Organic vegetable broth

I filled a large soup pot with olive oil and threw in the first five ingredients and let them simmer. I then added the veggie broth (which is just adding more veggie, into veggies. I would assume for more flavor you would add chicken broth instead, but I am not a cook…yet). I then added eight to 10 cups of water because it’s a lot of veggies! Let them all cook for 45 minutes to and hour and that’s it! Not a lot of flavor at all, but definitely edible.

Back to work I go and I will post how day 1 went tomorrow.