This morning I decided to share with you all both what I ate/drank plus the nutritional content…
Cantaloupe:
Veggie juice:
Nutrition: (click to enlarge)
Not bad for one meal! Not pictured was the brazil nut that I ate, which added to the selenium count.
By the way, the juice wasn’t very tasty but I didn’t mind, as my taste buds have changed immensely over the past 2 months. I love the bitter taste of pure vegetable juice now, even if it technically doesn’t taste “good”. Hard to explain. Some people get grossed out when they hear the combos of juice I make, but to me it’s damn good. This morning’s juice was made with rainbow chard, kale, romaine lettuce, 1 red bell pepper, 1 cucumber and 1 carrot.
I’ve been going to Whole Foods the past couple of days and getting a smoothie – their blender is top-notch and blends fruits and veggies together perfectly! The combo I got yesterday was: bananas, strawberries, orange juice, mango, spinach and celery. The (super cute) guy who made it for me sampled the bit of smoothie that was left behind and he really liked it, which surprised him. It was absolutely divine-tasting to me!
Anyway, I got an hour of solid walking in yesterday – first 30 minutes in the morning when it was just starting to rain, so I was speed-walking to the point of almost running. Then in the afternoon when my sister, niece and I took a walk.
My body was definitely trying to get rid of something last night/this morning… I woke up with a coated tongue and really bad breath! (TMI, I know). Both classic signs of night/morning detox. I ate really cleanly yesterday so who knows what I was detoxing. (Probably just my body going back into “cleansing” mode again). But I feel great today and plan to take another walk if it doesn’t start raining.
My back seems just about back to normal… it healed pretty quickly, probably due to all the fresh food I eat. 
I still haven’t gotten onto the scale, but I am already seeing new changes in my body – probably from the exercise. I will probably get on tomorrow morning, but I am so looking forward to seeing a number in the 150’s that I don’t want to get on and get disappointed!
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Selenium is awesome for your metabolism. I recently read the new Jillian Michaels book, and she gives SO much info on which vitamins/foods help and hurt the way your body burns and stores fat. It was so eye opening!
I totally get what you mean about taste buds changing. I stopped eat sugar for about 2 weeks and when I had some a few days ago it honestly tasted bad. It made me dizzy and I hated it.
Glad you’re feeling better!!
Wow, those fresh veggies look delicious!! What kind of juicer do you have?
Maggie: Yeah, refined sugar does that to me too now!
Rebecca: I have a Jack Lalanne!
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