Breakfast:
It was time to eat some really real
food (not that juices were not real but I get to chew!) and this morning’s meal
choice was a Berry Bowl, which actually sounded great. I mean, fresh berries;
who can complain about that right? Expecting to hear a complaint now after that
set up? Well, not this time, I was in heaven… Okay not quite, my jaw popped
disturbingly like an old mummy gasping for the first time in a millennia, but I
did manage to remember how to chew properly after that and enjoyed my non-juice
breakfast immensely. I have to say when I first watched Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead I realized that it must be hard to maintain an all juice diet for sixty
days straight, but after only having to do it for five days I have a renewed
respect for Joe Cross and Phil Riverstone. Sixty days is nothing short of a
herculean feat and my hat’s off to both you gentlemen and anyone else who
managed to reach the sixty-day mark. Maybe I’ll be able to attempt it someday
but you have to learn to walk before you run, right?
Mid-Morning Juice:
My first day of non-juicing
continued with… Wait, what the f#ck??? Apple-Beet-Carrot Juice! Another juice? I don’t know if I can handle that yet. Five days of
nothing but juice and these sadistic bastards have me drinking yet another
juice, what gives… After I calmed myself down a minute and sipped on my juice
(it was actually modified again, missing beets) I realized this was just par
for the course. The first five days had juicing so why wouldn’t the last five?
I was being a prima donna and I needed to chill (and no, a Snickers Bar wasn’t
an option). Once again this juice was missing its base and really needed a beet
to round out the sweetness.
Lunch:
For my first warm meal in days, the
Pumpkin Potato Bake was a tasty treat. I’ve had pumpkin pie before and pumpkin beer but that ends my adventures in consuming pumpkin. I thought they were a
squash meant primarily for pies around Thanksgiving and to carve faces into for
Halloween. I had no idea you could really do anything else with them, besides
flavor beer that is (ah Shipyard I do miss ya). But this mix of pumpkin and
sweet potato was naturally sweet, rich and delicious. This is what I was
talking about; this is how to welcome your pallet back into the world of food.
Afternoon Snack:
I wasn’t quite as excited for the Fresh Summer Veggie Mix because I’ve never really been a tomato fan. Sure I love just
about everything you can do with tomatoes but I don’t like their raw form. And
the Fresh Summer Veggie Mix was pretty much tomato and cucumber with a balsamic
vinaigrette dressing, something that I’ve seen Jaclyn eat in the past with
maybe some cottage cheese. So I’m sure to most of you without a tomato phobia
this actually doesn’t sound that bad and honestly it wasn’t. It was a nice change from just a regular
salad and much nicer to eat tomato and cucumber than to just drink it.
Dinner:
Going into this diet I heard Jaclyn
and I should be careful around each other that tempers could flare and we could
end up fighting about dumb stuff, but here we are on the home stretch and we
haven’t even come close to fisticuffs. Enter Kale-Zucchini Stir Fry and the
evilness that is eggplant (I’m sorry if we’re friends and you like eggplant, I
don’t think we can be friends anymore). We sat down to our “wonderful” meal,
the first dinner we’d had since Day #5, and dug into our bland flavorless food
as the anger built. My Dad was currently in town visiting, something that
usually equals meals together, wonderfully decadent things like Chinese food
from Men at Wok (my favorite take-out Chinese) and maybe a beer or two while we
catch up. But this visit meant my Dad was dining at Men at Wok solo and Jaclyn
and I were going to eat a Kale-Zucchini Stir Fry and then prepare the meals for
the next day. We both balked at the stir-fry opting to starve rather than
finish it and ate nothing but our Green Basil Salad and Dressing (we used the
Ginger Honey Soy from Day #1). After the salad, it was time to prepare the
meals for the next day… Let’s get ready to rumble! I tripped over a pair of her
shoes on the way back to washing dishes and it was on like Donkey Kong before
either of us could say crazy food cravings. Luckily, we stared at each other
with hate in our eyes long enough to burst out laughing, realizing we weren’t
mad at each other, just getting burnt out from the diet and craving Chinese
food. We hugged it out like professionals and completed the next days meals,
for tomorrow is yet another day… Of dieting…
Day #11 Complete (barely)!
Totally Cost of Diet for Two:
$62.59
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