My 12 Day Wild Rose Cleanse

Day 3 and I went to bed stressed and I woke up stressed. Nothing to do with the cleanse, just life. So stressed that I didn’t have an appetite until 11:00am for breakfast.

Breakfast:

1 hard boiled egg with salt

1 small gala apple

1/2 tablespoon of almond butter

Lunch:

2 rice crackers with hummus

2 lettuce turkey tacos that my friend made. (THEY WERE AMAZING!) We had ground turkey with brown rice, guacamole and some tomatoes and cucumbers. I had these at like 2:00pm and I’m still really full. It’s currently 6:10pm. Would continue eating these even after the cleanse.

 I’ve had a foul mood all day. The mood... probably has nothing to do with the cleanse. Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve stopped eating sugar... but I’m thinking it’s the stress from trying to find a place, being overwhelmed to suddenly cook a lot, and a lot is happening all at once.

Second day is a new day. No cravings to start the day, not even when there were boxes of chocolate and cupcakes to lure me away! I went grocery shopping yesterday after dinner and bought some stuff to make guacamole. Bought some rice crackers and some ingredients to make hummus. Oh, and almonds and popcorn. Let’s just say I went snack crazy and avoided actual meal food.

Enter my boyfriend. He dropped off some amazing salmon sashimi last night before he headed home... so luckily, I was able to have that for lunch! :)

Breakfast:

1 large apple with a tablespoon of almond butter

I was already full from this

Lunch:

1 cup of cooked brown rice

1 cup of salmon sashimi with braggs soy sauce

Afternoon snack:

1/2 cup of blueberries

1 hard boiled egg

1 rice cracker (brown rice) and hummus!

Dinner:

Brown rice with some beef and veggies

Movie snacks:

Popcorn with my own melted butter!

Also watching Rogue One with the bf today and I get to eat popcorn! This cleanse thing is easier than I thought :) Minus the pills, it’s just nice that there are some guidelines for me to just eat healthier. I don’t think cleanses are life changing at all, but at least this one comes with a recommended diet that gives you workable constraints and allows you to get creative.

The thing I love the most though, is that I’m never hungry :)

It’s officially day one and I can’t believe how supporting my boyfriend is. We meal prepped together and following the little booklet/guide to the tee.

Breakfast:

1 hard boiled egg

1 large pacific rose apple with a tablespoon of almond butter

Lunch:

3/4 chicken breast with baked yams

1 cup of blueberries

Snacks:

kale, tomatoes, the 1/4 chicken left over from lunch

Dinner: (still yet to come)

HOT POT is planned!! :D

sauce: bragg’s soy sauce (it’s a soy sauce alternative that isn’t fermented! I highly recommend this!) 

 plain tofu

plain beef 

plain veggies 

plain pork meat 

was more full than I initially thought!

Activities:

I was scared to go to the gym because of the headache, but I decided to go for a 20 minute walk. After work, I did 25 minutes of light exercise at the gym that consists of elliptical and a 7 minute work, followed by stretching. My step count for the day was 14,475 :)

Throughout the day:

1 cup of black coffee

1 liter of lemon water

1 cup of peppermint tea (tip: drip the 40 drops of liquid in this and you won’t be able to taste the nastiness!)

I also accidently had 10 pieces of baked/dried apple slices. I thought it would be okay, but it said no dried fruit :( I’m a super sad panda.

How do I feel?

mild headache and it gone away after I had my cup of coffee in the late morning

tired (but it could be from the lack of sleep I had the night before)

no cravings (I’m actually quite tired of the junk I’ve been eating before; I have a hunch it’ll dawn on me later in this 12 day program)

the gym was much, much harder than normal. Only 10 minutes on the elliptical and a 7 minute workout got me super sweaty and tired. I guess I should just stick to low impact exercises until my energy levels are back up