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Woohoo, first day of a new challenge! Always exciting. 7am Oatmeal with 1/2 cup oats (wheat-free Only Oats brand), 1 cup water, cinnamon, 1/3 banana, 3 tbsp all-natural PB (500). 10am 1/2 apple with 2 tbsp PB (250). 10:30am Big smoothie with 3 cups cold water, spinach, romaine lettuce,1.5 frozen bananas, 1 cup frozen strawberries, [...]

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My nutrition challenge begins tomorrow! I’m very excited. All month I will be doing a detox. I decided to do all my measurements first thing this morning. I want to be really accurate to see my progress as the months go by. I hadn’t weighed myself in over a month, so it was rather saddening [...]

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When I woke up this morning, I still felt bloated/sluggish. After feeling pretty awful yesterday from the banana bread and oats, it was a pleasure to focus on green smoothies today. I drank four vanilla protein smoothies at the office in the morning. In the afternoon I had two raw cacao smoothies. They were delightful! [...]

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It SNOWED today. Ugh! Freezing out there. I ate more solid food than I have been eating, mostly because smoothies are really freakin’ cold to drink when it’s snowing outside! I drank a strawberry surprise smoothie and a mug of chai green tea in the morning, along with a couple spoonfuls peanut butter and two [...]

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I spend most of my Saturdays at the boyfriend’s place, so I made all of my smoothies yesterday and hauled them to his house. This is what I had: 4 cacao smoothies A few handfuls sugar snap peas Some grapes 2 tropical smoothies 1 strawberry surprise smoothie Several spoonfuls peanut butter A couple mugs chai [...]

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This morning I had four vanilla protein smoothies and the rest of the hearty blueberry flax smoothies from yesterday. I added 70 grams organic tofu (in total) to my four vanilla smoothies for added thickness. In the afternoon, I drank four chocolate protein smoothies and had a couple handfuls of tasty tasty sugar snap peas. [...]

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Today I drankĀ a variety of green smoothies: – 3 classic green smoothies – 2 chocolate smoothies (I added some PB2 this time for a chocolate peanut butter cup smoothie!) – 3 vanilla smoothies – 2 tropical smoothies Vanilla Smoothie 1 cup cold water 1 scoop Genuine Health Vegan Natural Vanilla Protein Powder 1/2 frozen banana [...]

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The past week/weekend has been very tasty. Tried out a new restaurant, Sensi, which is a wine lounge/tapas bar. Less than ten minutes walk from my place. Awesome. I also had chicken fingers and French fries from a pub (why is pub food so delicious??), went out for bacon and eggs at Stella’s Cafe, and [...]

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Today I drank 10 green shakes (about 1,100 calories). I was really hungry this afternoon and would have been fine with drinking more green smoothies, but I didn’t have any of the ingredients at work So instead I had half of a banana with 2 tbsp PB2, plus a couple more tbsp PB2 mixed with [...]

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Today’s my last day of the green shake fast! Hurray! For the most part I’ve enjoyed it, but I’m looking forward to chewing on food and to eating something with a little more sustenance. I woke up early and had nightmares all night. Four nights of bad dreams in a row! But at least I [...]

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