I had intended to blog each day during this cleanse...and I guess, in the end, I only missed yesterday, so only one day... but, to be honest, it's 9:20pm right now and my body & brain are shutting down. I'm TIRED. I'm not sure it's necessarily due to the cleanse itself, but I do think it has something to do with it. When I get tired at night...I'm suddenly TIRED. Past the point. Can barely move one more limb. I'm getting there right now but am forcing myself to at least post a few pics and write a few words. Overall, I have felt GREAT! Really!! The smoothies are pretty good. I never got light-headed or felt famished. When I would get hungry it was time for my next smoothie and that would do the trick...and I'd feel great again. I was a little sluggish at times for sure, usually a 1-2 hours after the previous smoothie. However, I was so busy (as usual) and I truly believe that helped keep me distracted enough to endure a 3 day cleanse in the first place. I initially had thought my busy life would make the cleanse hard (no time to prep the veggies, no time for feeling sluggish when I have so much I need to be doing, places I need to go, etc) but actually it was for the better. Distraction kept me from having too much time to THINK about food. Though I did think about a breakfast burrito on more than one occasion, which, interestingly enough, I very rarely actually eat. I never craved anything sweet the entire 3 days, but I did think about salty/savory here and there but usually for fleeting seconds. Nothing enough to lure me to the dark side and quit. After all, three days is just three days. So, overall, I'd say this was a good cleanse. No coffee, no artificial sweeteners, no dairy, no gluten and simple carbs...only whole foods and healthy fats.
One weird side-effect I noticed was that I wanted to constantly be cleaning and organizing...but at the same time my brain was a bit off and I couldn't stay focused long enough to finish one project at time. I'm like this ANYWAYS as a default...BUT it was definitely exaggerated during the cleanse. Here are some photos below form yesterday and the crazy messy state the house was in. I was "cleaning out" the cabinets and drawers. I'd go to put something back and then end up emptying the entire area, cleaning it out and rearranging it. So for a good part of the day there was STUFF on almost all counter tops downstairs.
Day 2 Pics:
Green Machine!
Day 3:
breakfast on the run
Lunch poolside at a friend's house
AND, just to have a non-cleanse item in this post:
Chloë & Owen on their first day of joint-skateboarding lessons at the YMCA
Owen picked the same deck as his big sis :)
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