MY NEW QUASI-DETOX CLEAN EATING PROGRAM

Since coming back from my 9 day vacation in Chicago, I have for about another 9 days gorged myself on unhealthy foods. I'm leaving Saint Louis in about 10 days to start my masters program in Boston and I've had many friends taking me out to eat and celebrate my departure. Unfortunately these dinners have led to what "APPEARS" to be a 15 lb gain( YIKES!!!). I say "APPEARS" because I'm sure about half of that is from bloating and water retention from the sky high levels of sodium I've been inhaling. 

I think in my happiness for the next step of my life, I have let my excitement overshadow my fitness goals. 
I am unhappy with myself, but I WILL NOT GIVE UP. This is  LIFE-LONG JOURNEY, not a GET SKINNY QUICK SCAM. I would be fooling myself if I didn't think there would be many set back in this journey.

Yesterday I watched the documentary "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead", and it put a new perspective on healthy and clean eating in my head. For this long journey, I think while I have been focused on health, I have been mainly focused on getting skinny and losing weight. While its very important for me to lose weight, I think it is is also very important for me to re-engineer my cells to fight off infection, and keep me healthy for the long run. 
I want to start a new system that detoxes my body and rewires my brain to look at food differently.

To help me with what a call my "quas-detox clean eating program" (say that fast 5 times :p), I've enlisted the help of this website: thecleanprogram.com. Which is a website that sets you up with a detox program to properly re-wire your body. I will be following about 75% of the program, because I will be eating some of the fruits on the "excluded fruits" list per the website (grapes, bananas, strawberries).

I want to cleanse my body, I want to rewire my cravings for food, and I want to LOSE WEIGHT. I want to feel good on the inside and the outside, and I truly believe that what you eat has a HUMONGOUS effect on HOW you FEEL. 

OKAY SO HERE'S MY PLAN:

I'm going to START it for 7 DAYS and see how I feel, AND THEN CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER 7 DAYS AND SO ON AND SO ON. I've learned that shorter goals tend to work for me, than LONGER goals.

Breakfast: Natural Blended smoothie: Today I had kale, strawberries, bananas, grapes, carrots, and almond milk, ice all blended up.

Lunch: Sensible lunch from the allotted list of included foods from the cleanprogram.com list. (quinoa, brown rice, spinach, salmon, chicken, etc). My lunch today is Green Lettuce, Spinach, Tomato, 8 oz chicken tenderloin, pure lemon juice, and light italian cheese (all in a salad)

ONE NATURAL SNACK: Today mine is a sweet potato

Dinner: NATURAL BLENDED SMOOTHIE (Same as what I had for breakfast but with more leafy vegetables this time).

for 7 days, I will have 2 micro-nutrient filled smoothies( size doesn't really matter here, my breakfast was 30oz, and about 300 calories). and a SENSIBLE LUNCH (not more than 500 calories, jampacked with fiber, protein, and unrefined carbohydrates)..

I WILL DO NIGHTLY UPDATES ON HOW I FEEL...SUFFICE IT TO SAY THAT RIGHT NOW I AM VERY HUNGRY AND A BIT GRUMPY..BUT I WAS TOLD IT WAS IMPORTANT TO STICK TO IT AT LEAST 7-10 DAYS, SO THE BODY ADJUSTS TO THE CHANGE AND THE BRAIN REWIRES ITS CRAVINGS....