DETOX DAY 1

Yesterday was our first full day of the cleanse/detox (or maybe they are the same thing)...not an entire disaster! Mark and I had some very meaningful, thoughtful conversation Sunday night about what we think eating healthy means to us and how we want to define it once this 21 day period is over. He really enlightened me about what his thoughts were during the grocery shopping at Earth Fare, and how frustrating it was for him that there were so many wonderful gluten free options, but then they would have sugar (even minimal sugar at 1-2 grams), and so he would have to put the item back. This really frustrated me, I want Mark to be able to enjoy what we are doing and in my eyes, as the book and the instructor both said, do the best you can...if we are going from high volume sugars to something that has 1-2 grams of sugar, I view that as a success, and I was sorry that I didn't realize this for Mark sooner. We discussed thoroughly what our next round at the grocery shopping store will look like!

I did find bagels that were gluten free and very low in sugar and used a vegan butter spread and tofuti cream cheese for breakfast and found that the sesame based bagel was very good and filling! Mark spent a lot of the day snacking on his cashews! Dinner...we had found a pasta noodle that was gluten and sugar free, and had 2 ingredients, rice flour and corn flour, so we did a simple pasta last night (basically due to time constraints), and whipped up our own pasta sauce in less than 30 minutes! We bought a tomato sauce in a can and a tomato paste in a can from Trader Joe's with the equivalent of 2 grams of sugar I believe, we added fresh garlic and parsley and used some italian seasoning from the cupboard. We thought it was good for what we did! We cut some fresh cucumber and were very satisfied! Our son was not entirely sold on the pasta noodles, which was fine.

Late night, grabbed a breakfast cookie and cup of hot herbal orange tea!

Hope those of you trying this are doing well!

Namaste!

Amy