Drink Yer Juice, Shelby

Final dose of juice, then I'm onto raw food the next couple of days.  This has been the best juice fast ever.  It is my fourth, and the only one that I added extra protein to.  Thanks to Catherine Egan, my fitness trainer!

For those of you who cannot see it well, that juice be GREEN, yo!  And the extra protein is a quarter cup of Oregon hazelnuts.

The Juice is Loose!

Here's my breakfast, lunch and snacks for the next few days.  I found spirulina in tablet form so I don't have to mix the stinky green powder with my juice.

I'll be getting 36g of protein a day from the spirulina and some extra protein from the following nuts:

1/4 cup raw pumpkin seeds = >8g protein
1/4 cup raw cashews = 5g protein
1/4 cup raw almonds = 6g protein

55g total per day.  Different internet sources are confusing me on the amount of protein I should be aiming for.  It varies between 25-57g per day. 

Whoopsie!

So, I took a couple of days off my diet to eat fish and chips at Fire on the Mountain and a tempeh Reuben and chocolate stout beer at Proper Eats.  In my defense, the fish was lightly panko-breaded and the chips were sweet potato fries. 

Desperate times call for desperate something, so I'm going on a juice fast this week.  I'm eating raw today and tomorrow (fruit, veggies, salads with oil and vinegar, and steamed tofu only).  Then three days of fruit and vegetable juices, followed by another two days of raw food.

In case you're curious, breakfast is the juice from a pear, an apple, small piece of ginger and spirulina.  Evening juice is carrot, celery, beet, spinach and spirulana.  Mid-day juice takes the discarded veggies from the evening juice, plus garlic and onion, boiled and then strained for broth.

Chris is worried I will be a wicked hose beast and doesn't even want to hang out with me this week!  He's also really curious about how the fast will affect my pooping.  I'll let you know it all goes...ahem...at the end of the week.

Thursday

Same

Same

Fried tofu, green beans and Jameson on the rocks.

Who's Hungry for Tuna Steak...again?!

Check it Out!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I had a hard boiled egg and veggie sausage for breakfast, then an orange, then a salad for lunch and a snack of cottage cheese and cherry tomatoes.

For dinner, I decided to try Tofu Shiratake noodles for the second time.  My friend Erika recommended them to me as a noodle alternative.  20 calories per serving and only 1 net carb!  So I had spaghetti for dinner, folks!  And a bit of sauteed kale.

Check out Tofu Shirataki here.

I Am So Smart!

Breakfast was a bit of a cheat today.  I ate most of a Fiat omelet at Beaterville (eggs, spinach, sun-dried tomatoes and feta), and two slices of sourdough toast with atomic red sauce (my nickname for their house-made jam which is sweetened with fruit pectin).  Buuuuuut....I also had an Arnold Palmer, which is iced tea and lemonade with a shot of vodka.  Too bad the lemonade is the worst thing in that mix.

No lunch for Dawnie.

I was in a Taco Bell-desiring shame spiral after work and thought about rolling up in the drive through.  But I thought about this blog and I thought about my half-way point weigh-in on Tuesday.

When I got home, I came up with something I'm calling Dawn's Messy Brussels Bowl.  Cous cous, black beans, Brussels sprouts, avocado, and salsa.  The only thing I would've added was sour cream but the sour cream I have is past it's prime and was unceremoniously tossed.  It was de-lish!