Happy Veteran’s Day to all of my family and friends who have served our country courageously. God Bless you for the work and dedication you gave our country to ensure every one’s freedoms!

Today begain with my yoga stretches, fiber, and a short workout on the elliptical before showering and setting off with my husband and children to the Veteran’s Day Parade.

Day three of the 9 Day Nutritional Detox begins  8-10 ounces of fresh fruit (I am still rocking the green grapes and apples) and raw nuts or seeds (we have brazil nuts - not my favorite, but they will do in a pinch).  Lunch and dinner are interchangeable with fruit or veggies and some quality protein.

I went to the gym with my daughter late in the afternoon, went home to refill waterbottles and run some errands and then back to the gym we went for another cardio workout with some light weights.

Today was a very fun day with the kids and my husband home! Now everyone goes back to school and work tomorrow.

I am struggling with the water intake. I know I am very low in my intake. With all the workouts I got in today it really should have been easier to get all that water in. I will make a point to get closer to my water intake goal tomorrow!! Until then… “Rock ON my Detox Divas!”

Today I woke shortly after 5:30am. I had a glass of water, took my probiotics, did some stretching.

It’s 8am and I have had my fiber, my EFA’s, a second glass of water, some raw brazil nuts and freshly juiced tomato, carrot and celery juice.

I have a busy morning, so am packing two water bottles with water and unsweetened cranberry juice and carrots, celery, peppers and grape tomatoes to munch on at lunch.

I teach a Yoga-Lates class at 11am, if you are in Butler… all are welcome!

I woke up shortly after 5am (because that’s when Mike leaves for work) and started my day with a large glass of water and my probiotics. 20 minutes later I followed that with another glass of water with some fiber (Purifying Cleanse II from a company called Entrenet - it’s a combination of psyllium husk and apple fiber. And it’s not too gritty and actually didn’t taste bad mixed with some unsweetened cranberry juice. I clumsily went through 3 bi-lateral rotations (leading with both left and right side) of Yoga Sun Salutations. I am really out of practice and need to do these more often. Oh yea… every morning now on the 9 Day Detox ;). Before leaving for the office I took my EPA/DHA (liquid.. not real wild about the flavor… now I know why Mikey calls it “drinking butter”). I have had an apple and about 1/2 cup of grapes and am now on my 2nd water bottle of liquid chlorophyll. Not really hungry, but after I check my blood under the microscope I will have another apple and maybe a pear!

Feeling very good, no headache, no hunger pains, no “brain fog”.

Later today, going to the gym to exercise!!

I’ll check back in later and give you an update! Please let me know how YOU are doing … my “Detox Divas!”

I finished the day with a good (not great) aerobic workout at the gym, came home and had some lovely green grapes that were so crunchy (I was craving crunch) and another apple.

I tried to stay up for the Steelers game, but was just too tired. I think I fell asleep around 10pm.

I recently finished my November Newsletter and after writing about the benefits of heading into the holiday season by preparing the body with a detox made me think, “It’s TIME FOR MY OWN DETOX”. If not now, when? Why not now? When is it NOT a good time to detox… when you are suffering and weak with chronic illness, when you have cancer, when you are already actively ill with the flu. If you are otherwise a healthy individual, under the care of a natural health care practitioner it is very safe and recommended to detox and cleanse your body! I recommend that you cleanse and detox seasonally! We clean our homes, well we should… :-), we wash our cars, why not cleanse our bodies… ON THE INSIDE!

Our bodies general detoxification Systems include:

• Respiratory - lungs, bronchial tubes, throat, sinuses, and nose
• Gastrointestinal - liver, gallbladder, colon and whole GI tract
• Urinary - kidneys, bladder and urethra
• Skin and dermal - sweat and sebaceous glands and tears
• Lymphatic - lymph channels and lymph nodes

I am starting the 9 day nutritional detox tomorrow and will post here daily, what foods I am eating, how I am exercising, how I am feeling… if you care to tune in you can read along, if you care to join me… EVEN BETTER! Give me a call if you would like to start the detox and travel this road along with me! 724-407-8017.

Yours in Health,
Dr. Julie

Things I like to have around to snack on… Yes I snack… I LOVE TO EAT!! 

• Have carrots, celery and multi-colored peppers on hand all the time.
• Zuchini and yellow squash are really yummy when cut into strips and eaten with humus or vegie dip.
• Raw almonds and cashews.
• Organic peanut butter on brown rice cakes.
• When really hungry I will have a protein shake (I LOVE vanilla whey from Entrenet)

Recipes:

• Vegie dip - plain yogurt with a few teaspoons of Hidden Valley Ranch powdered mix and about a teaspoon of lemon juice (I know there is maltodextrin in the mix, but maltodextrin is made from natural foods - rice, corn or potatoes)
  To change up the vegie dip you can also add some thawed frozen spinach and a bit of Knorr’s vegie soup mix.
• Humus - in a food processor combine garbanzo beans (I like dried beans - they take forever to cook and soften, but the flavor is so much better than the canned ones) olive oil, flax seed oil, garlic (I roast it to make it sweeter and nuttier), cumin, dried pepper flakes, chili powder and a good squeeze of lemon juice, fresh cracked black pepper and sea salt. I will change this up by sometimes adding roasted red peppers or turmeric.

Breakfast: Three egg whites, sauteed yellow squash, zuchini, onions and green peppers with a brown rice cake

Lunch: 1 Scoop of each: Entrenet vanilla whey, Ultimate GreenZone, Untra InflamX with lots of ice and whipped up with a stick blender. I NEVER just shake my protein shakes. I always use a stick blender or the counter top blender to mix them up so the ice is finely crushed and so I dont get CLUMPS of whey.

Dinner: Mike is making White Clam Sauce
You can find Mike’s yummy recipe here … http://ourspecialgarden.bizland.com/id118.html   I was craving pasta…. something to twirl on my fork. Try this with rice pasta

Fluids: Every day detox tea, water with liquid chlorophyll

Exercise: 25 minutes in the elliptical, lower body resistance, 15 minutes on the treadmill, Sunsalutations 5 times bi-laterally

SNACKS: handful of raw almonds, rice cake with humus

Breakfast: One whole egg (yumm….. thank you Mr Allen) on a slice of ezekiel toast

Lunch: tuna salad on organic baby spring greens with diced tomato dressed with a drizzle of olive oil; 1/2 can of tuna, 1/4 cup of plain yogurt (check label for added sugar), 2 stalks of celery diced (I also throw some of the celery leaves in - they are so flavorfull), cracked pepper and sea salt

Dinner: MIKE IS MAKING STEW… mmm
Beef stew (I am going on what Mike said was in the stew. If you want the REAL recipe, please email him at Mike@ourspecialgarden.bizland.com) Beef (Im not sure what the cut of beef was) cubed, dredged in paprika, cracked black pepper, sea salt and rice flour and browned off in olive oil. Can of tomato paste and 6 cups of beef broth. Simmer. Add 2 celery stalks and leaves, diced onion, garlic and 2 bay leaves. After it has simmerd for about 2hours add in 1/2 lb. carrots, cut into bite sized pieces and about 1 lb red skinned potatoes also cut into bite sized pieces. Cook until carrots and potatoes are tender. Add in 2 cups of frozen peas (thaw and drain) and serve with large salad.

Fluids: lots of water with liquid chlorophyll - i worked out for 90minutes - very important to keep hydrated with exercise

Breakfast: Whole egg (Thank you Mr. Allen - Stephanie’s teacher for the awesome organic brown eggs!) with ezekiel toast

Lunch: Chicken chunks on baby organic greens with lemon and olive oil

Dinner: Sauteed veggies with firm tofu chunks; yellow squash, green zuchini, red, yellow and green peppre, red onion and garlic

Liquids: water with unsweetened cranberry juice or with fresh lemon juice

Breakfast: Whey protein shake with Green Cuisine (greens and fiber)

Lunch: Natural peanut butter (I know, I know… no peanuts but there was no sugar and I was in a hurry ;)) on 2 brown rice cakes

Dinner: Broiled chicken (dry rubbed with cracked pepper, sea salt, oregano, marjoram and fresh minced garlic and lemon juice), oven baked red potatoes; cut into bite size pieces and coated in olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt and cracked black pepper - bake until lightly browned, salad of organic baby greens dressed with lemon and olive oil

Fluids: lots of pi mag filtered water

Breakfast: 2 egg whites - with sauteed yellow squash, green and yellow peppers, onion and a dash of italian herbs and 1 tsp of grated 7yr old cheddar cheese

Lunch: 1/2 can of tuna (packed in water), diced cellery, carrots and green peppers with 1/4 cup of plain unsweetened yogurt on baby spring greens with diced tomatoes

Dinner: broiled burger with water packed hot red peppers. salad of baby spring greens dressed with lemon and olive oil. zuchinni and onion sauteed with olive oil and oregano, garlic and margorram and finished with 1/4 cup of vegetable broth

Liquids: lots of water with lemon