Today's menu:
- Half an avocado with salt, pepper, and lime juice
- Carrots and hummus
- Leftover cold soba-noodle salad from day 3
- Lemon-ginger tea
- A handful of grapes
- Honey glazed chicken, salad, and leftover lentils from day 2
- Another cashew cream smoothie
Today it seems like we've finally gotten into the swing of things. While we're still following the week 1 detox diet to the letter, by day 5 we've figured out how to do that and still manage to eat a normal day's worth of food. Hooray!
But for those of you who never clicked through the links to find out what this detox diet is all about, let me just give a quick recap of the foods we've been avoiding this week:
- Added sugar
- Processed foods and beverages
- Alcohol
- Caffeine
- Wheat gluten
- Eggs
- Dairy
- Peanut products
- Fruit juices (because they're usually high in sugar)
- Soy
- Corn
- Farm-raised fish and fish high in mercury
If that seems like a lot of food to cut out of your diet all at once...it is. But we have been successful for 5 straight days now and I feel pretty great. Knowing that an end is in sight helps a lot. Giving up chocolate for a week is doable. Giving it up forever is just not.
I also want to quickly say that our dinner menu tonight did not come from the 28-day Challenge recipes. The chicken recipe was one I found elsewhere (ok, still on the Martha Stewart website. The woman does everything!) that conveniently fit into the dietary restrictions. And it was amazing. Note to self: if you're oven-roasting chicken breasts, always use bone-in. They are so much more tender and juicy than boneless ones!
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