Last night I saw a container of noodle soup that I'd made for my husband while he was sick over the weekend still sitting in our fridge as I was poking around looking for dinner.
So as to "not waste it", I decided that instead of 'blasting my dinner, I'd have some of that soup--AND a couple slices of a nice Tuscan Boule (that's a fancy bread, in case you didn't recognize it) with butter.
UGH!
That was a typical meal for me in the recent past, except that often instead of a slice or two of bread, I'd have the whole loaf. After all, they're small. :-)
I need to remember the next time I have such a brilliant idea how GROSS I'll feel afterward. I can't believe how many years I spent eating like that, yet not making the connection between that and my huge, bloated belly, my aching joints, and the fact that I usually felt like a piece of crap in general. Actually, I think I just didn't *want* to make that connection. Eating that crap was my solace after a stressful day at work. Whenever anything was eating me, I'd eat crap.
This morning, I woke up with a salt/bread hangover. I didn't even pig out--I had one bowl of that (nasty, salty, packaged, processed-beyond-belief) noodle soup and just the 2 slices of bread. And I felt ok about it because I *planned* consciously to eat it, and I ate normal portions. But that didn't matter--I still felt awful afterward and this morning.
I guess I've started training this ol' bod to crave better treatment. That's a big victory!
I got up today determined to (a) remember this lesson, and (b) go right back to eating the GOOD stuff. So here's what I made for breakfast:
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| Mmmmmmm ... chock-full o' goodness! |
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| Isn't it beautiful before it blends? |
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| The end result |
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Recipe:
- Spinach - 1 C
- Cherry tomatoes - 8
- Zucchini - 4 slices
- Orange - 1/2
- Bartlett pear (1)
- Pineapple - 1 spear
- Sunflower seeds - 1T
- Chlorella - 1/2 t
- Apple juice to max line
- Frozen red grapes just to make it colder
I try to get at least 3 veggies into every morning 'Blast. It's no trouble at all getting the fruits in. And I always try to either add a protein source (hemp seeds, chia seeds, maca powder, sunflower seeds, etc) or eat something in addition to the NutriBlast to get the protein and some good fat in, like a hard-boiled egg or a slice of turkey.
This was the first time I've used Chlorella. My sister recommended it after reading about its benefits. Just 1 teaspoon is all you need.
After that great start, I had 2 slices of turkey breast on half a flax whole wheat lavash bread spread with avocado for lunch. I snacked on pumpkin seeds.
Then for dinner I made an orange-themed 'Blast that I'd looked forward all day. I had visions of creamsicles dancing in my head. I put in:
- Oikos Orange Greek Yogurt
- 1 orange
- 1/2 orange bell pepper
- 5 grape tomatoes
- Baby carrots
- 1 spear pineapple
- 1/2 T maca powder
- Almond milk, unsweetened, to the Max line
When I tasted it, though, instead of a creamsicle, it tasted like tomatoes and carrots. So I added a whole Bartlett pear and a handful of frozen grapes.
The end result was very pretty, but still nothing to write home about. I guess if I hadn't been expecting it to be sweet, I would have liked it better. But I still drank it--it was just palatable enough to escape the label "Nasty Blast" that my sisters and I have come up with to describe our "mistakes"!
