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Cleanse America Starts Tomorrow

By on April 8, 2012 in Lets Talk Fitness

The last six or so weeks have really been pretty amazing to me. When I started working with my nutritionist Linda, I never imagined eating lots of fruits and vegetables every day. I’d say that in the past six weeks, I’ve eaten more vegetables and fruits than I have in my entire life combined. And today I ate more fruits and veggies than ever! Pretty crazy eh? It’s also great that finally I think I am making good progress – and the journey really begins now.

One of the things I’ve talked about with Linda lately is joining “Cleanse America“. This is a movement to get people to eat raw foods for 10 days during a “cleanse”. The first phase begins tomorrow, April 9. Linda is one of the leaders of the program along with about a dozen other raw food and nutrition experts. The program costs $25 and gets you three-months of access to the community site. The Cleanse America site explains that the $25 includes exclusive videos from the experts, cleansing guide, a recipe book with over 80 recipes for raw food and liquids. I can’t provide a review of the actual site because, as I note below, I will be joining the program with the next phase which starts in three months.

The site also is a social network (I think it is ning powered) where you can post photos and videos and ask questions.

I think they would get more participation if the community site was open for free to the public. Lock down the videos, the recipe books, etc. is fine but I think having more interaction would help with signups and with support for those doing the cleanse.

I have decided not to do this phase fully because I still think my body needs the chicken. So this time I will be doing the following which is pretty dang close especially considering a year ago two of my daily meals were fast food crap!:

  • Breakfast – smoothie with fruit and spinach
  • Lunch – big salad
  • Dinner – chicken dish with vegetables

I am going to check out a co-op tomorrow for the first time to get stocked up for the week. I definitely plan to do the next phase which begins in three months.

You can find out more about Cleanse America on their website or on their Facebook page.

 

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Meals – April 7

By on April 8, 2012 in Daily Meals

Here are my meals for April 7:

  • Breakfast – smoothie (pineapple, banana, oj, spinach)
  • Lunch – nothing although I “snacked” on the big box of greens throughout the afternoon
  • Dinner – baked chicken breast, spaghetti, 1/3 cucumber, 1/2 tomato

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Breakfast Today vs. One Year Ago

By on April 7, 2012 in Lets Talk Fitness

This morning I walked around the Austin Farmers Market. I snapped a bunch of photos and will write a recap on Monday. As I was walking around, I started to think about what I had for breakfast a year ago. Generally Saturday was my “fast food breakfast” day.

This morning I had a green smoothie with pineapple, banana, orange juice and spinach. For comparison, a year ago I had (and it makes me so ashamed to say this out loud): 9 french toast sticks and 2 bagels with “egg”. This fast food breakfast is generally what I consumed each weekend for years (although sometimes it was half). Pretty crazy, eh?

I figured let’s see yet another reason why I am fat – here are the nutrition facts for my fast food breakfast:

  • French Toast sticks: 1,050 calories, 75 GRAMS OF SUGAR!!, 33 grams of fat, 840mg sodium
  • Syrup: 120 calories, 18 grams of sugar
  • Bagels: 800 calories, 25 grams of fat, 1200mg sodium

So in this one meal, I basically ate the calories you should have for an entire day, the sugar you should probably have in a month and the sodium you should have in a lifetime.

And for sickness purposes, here are the ingredients in the french toast sticks:

Bread: Enriched flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), folic acid), enriched bleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), folic acid), water, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, may contain 2% or less of each of the following: soybean oil, wheat gluten, salt, dough conditioners (may contain one or more of the following: sodium stearoyl lactylate, calcium stearoyl-2-lactylate, calcium peroxide, calcium iodate, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, enzymes), corn flour, yeast nutrients (calcium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate, ammonium sulfate), glycerol monooleate, oleoresin paprika and oleoresin turmeric (coloring agents), polysorbate 60, polysorbate 80, calcium propionate (preservative), corn starch, soy lecithin, soy flour. Batter and breading: water, bleached wheat flour (enriched with niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), riboflavin (vitamin B2), folic acid), wheat flour, sugar, yellow corn flour, soy flour, contains 2% or less of the following: dextrose, modified corn starch, salt, lecithin, gum arabic, leavening (monocalcium phosphate, sodium bicarbonate), yeast, glycerine, natural and artificial flavor, polysorbate 80, carrageenan. Pre- Fried in soybean oil.

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Meals – April 6

By on April 6, 2012 in Daily Meals

Here are my daily meals for April 6:

  • Breakfast – smoothie (strawberry, banana, spinach, apple juice)
  • Lunch – 3 scrambled eggs, 1/2 bagel, oj
  • Dinner – grilled chicken breast, spaghetti, 1/3 cucumber, 1/2 large tomato, also ate some salad greens throughout the day

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Meals – April 5

By on April 6, 2012 in Daily Meals

Here are my meals for April 5:

  • Breakfast – smoothie (pineapple!, banana, oj, spinach)
  • Lunch – bowl of salad greens
  • Dinner – grilled chicken breast, rice, peas, carrots

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Meals – April 4

By on April 5, 2012 in Daily Meals

Here are my meals for April 4:

  • Breakfast – smoothie (peaches, banana, oj, spinach) – took the smoothie to the car dealer where I had to sit for 3.5 hrs – 2 people asked me wtf this green thing was ha!
  • Lunch – 2 scrambled eggs, 2 pieces toast, oj
  • Dinner – spring mix, 1/3 cucumber, 1/2 tomato, grilled chicken breast, spaghetti

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Meals – April 3

By on April 4, 2012 in Daily Meals

Here are my meals for April 3:

  • Breakfast – smoothie (strawberry, banana, spinach, apple juice)
  • Lunch – 3 scrambled eggs, 2 pieces toast, oj
  • Dinner – grilled chicken breast, 1/2 cucumber, 1/2 tomato
  • Ate salad greens while cooking lunch and dinner

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Meals – April 2

By on April 3, 2012 in Daily Meals

Here are my meals for April 2:

  • Breakfast – smoothie (peaches, banana, oj, spinach)
  • Lunch – nothing although I did snack on some spring mix throughout the afternoon
  • Dinner – chicken breast, rice, peas, carrots (i ate a lot of chicken breast tonight, actually felt hungry for the first time in a long time)

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Meals – April 1

By on April 2, 2012 in Daily Meals

Here are my meals for April 1:

  • Breakfast – smoothie (strawberry, banana, apple juice, spinach)
  • Lunch – 3 scrambled eggs, 1/2 bagel, oj
  • Snack – A WHOLE FREAKING CUCUMBER – BOOYAH – no idea if it is healthy to eat a whole one at once but what the heck – if i can scare the crap out of my system by eating a dozen donuts or a box of hostess cupcakes, why can’t i shock my system with a whole cucumber of healthy bits of vitamins and stuff?
  • Dinner – hamburger, spaghetti, peas, carrots, spring mix salad

I have to say that shortly after dinner I felt like absolute crap. I think Linda was right about the red meat being inflammatory because i was inflamed. I think tomorrow the rest of the meat I have will meet the trash. The chicken doesn’t make me feel like this. Maybe it was the cucumber but since it was 5-6 hrs past the cucumber I will assume it was the burger.

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Meals – March 31

By on April 1, 2012 in Daily Meals

Here are my meals for March 31:

  • Breakfast – smoothie (peach, banana, spinach, oj)
  • Lunch – 3 scrambled eggs, bagel, oj
  • Snack – some salad greens
  • Dinner – grilled chicken, rice, 1/2 cucumber, 1/2 tomato, some salad greens while cooking dinner

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