Detox

Ok so I don't believe in crazy diets, like single ingredients, or just eating a certain food type for a period of time. Mostly, I don't like the idea of avoiding something completely either. Then I saw this Dr. Junger on TV the other day while I was in a meeting and the TV was just creating "white noise" for me.
Dr. Junger is the founder of the Cleanse Program. He has certain items that he completely wants you to avoid during the Detox - Carbs, Dairy, Caffeine, Alcohol (duh). He has his reasons listed on his web site and in his book.
You should be heavily on the "health foods". It's really a life style change more than a "diet" which is why I thought it was intriguing. I did this for a week and lost 5 lbs in a week! :) You need to basically be eating lots and lots of fruit, vegetables and legumes for the protein and you ARE allowed to have fish and white meat chicken if you must have meat. The first week is strict, you have the stuff to completely avoid. Then you can slowly introduce the other stuff like some complex carbs and dairy into your diet in moderation of course. As is the key with most other life style diets it's all about moderation.
I LOVE blueberries so I've been eating pints and pints of them. Putting them in my smoothies in the morning and even in the evening. Then I found out that you can have an awesome smoothy with beets and kale as long as you have something sweet in there, like mango, apples, bananas. Beets are just awesome for you. So the 10 foods that you will be heavily consuming with this life style are:
- Berries!! - raspberries, blueberries
- Legumes
- Green Leafy Vegetables - Kale, spinach, collard greens
- Fish - Cold water fish for the Omega 3 and 6
- White meat Chicken
- Apple Cider Vinegar - helps the digestion
- Lemon Water
- Herbal Teas
- Unsweetened Coconut Milk
- Coconut Oil
- Plant based protein powder - no chemicals at all

You would be completely surprised the amount of foods that you come up with with JUST these ingredients. Your skin even changes! Because you are only putting great stuff into your body.

And I did find the videos from the Dr. Oz Show - if you want to see Dr Junger and Dr Oz explain the insider story about this type of diet.
Part 1 - Explaining the Detox Program and the foods you should NOT be having
Part 2 - The foods you should be having
Part 3 - The recipes suggested by Dr. Junger

Those crazy squares

You know how. The squares you are looking at take you away from where you are. You forget your surroundings, forget the immediate for a while. You focus on the square. Just recall what you lived while you were composing that square. To others watching you it might look like you're staring into space. It's that moment that you've captured. The feeling that it meant for you, more than the visual it means to others. That feeling it meant to you is mostly so strong that those looking at just that square now, see it too. They dont feel it. They see it. Here's one I took while in Istanbul. Just looking at that square to me has more than what meets the eye. It has the behind the scenes memories. The surroundings. The sounds. The smells. The wind. The rain. All of it, is actually here, you just can't see it.

What's that emoticon?

The one where you're red in the face cause you just have no words... Hahaha... look at my blog. All scrappy. Aaaand it's 11 months this time!! :) Love that BLogger still hasn't given up on me!