I didn't get to do it this morning like I usually prefer, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuut sometimesyoudon'tgetwhatyouwant.
Anyway.
You all know how I love to refer you to Zuzana.
Since it's a million o'clock my time I wanted to make it short and sweet so I could get to bed at a reasonable hour. Six minutes is short. I just blasted off a fair amount of calories....that's pretty sweet. I think I'm winning. Super. Click on this link right here and you too can feel your legs melt off. I hope you bust it out with me and quit being weak. Just do it. You could be done by now.
I'm going to bed. I hope everyone is really happy and positive and awesome. Don't eat any fried hogs tomorrow. You'll thank me later. Peace, love, and fat blasting.
I just got through with a super brutal workout. Zuzana really knows how to treat a girl. Seriously. I had to pace circles around my house to cool down enough to even stretch it out afterwards. This sucker was only 12 minutes long and I damn near passed out towards the end. I love bodyrock.tv so hard. I've never come across any other workouts that can prove themselves to be so intense and effective in such a short amount of time.I never get bored, and I never even have to leave my house. All I need is my interval timer and I'm good to go.
This is what just happened to me.
These workouts are super short and rewarding. PLUS Zuzana is way hot and you get to watch her break them down for you. I'm so thankful that this site exist and that I happened upon it one fateful day. Her constant encouragement, good attitude, and motivation has most definitely helped shape where I am at today. Not to mention the diet tips, which are imperative to achieving and maintaining your fitness or weight-loss goals. I love that anybody can write in and post their pictures and tell their story. It's truly inspirational and helps me stay on the right track.
ALRIGHT. Enough with the sappy nonsense.
Click right here on this link. It will take you to a land where all your dreams can come true. To a place where miracles happen and fat turns into energy and just flies right off your body. Like I said before; this workout is ONLY 12 MINUTES LONG. Just do it and get it over with. Don't you want to feel super strong and ultra hot? I know most of you people have a fancy iPhone or Android or something. Quit playing your lame prancing unicorn versus space hogs game and download an interval timer app. Do something beneficial for yourself. And when you do PUSH YOURSELF TO THE LIMIT. 12 minutes. Make it count. If you puke then you know you did something good. Here's the link again in case you somehow missed it the first three times.
Oh, and put down those Cheeto's. Nuclear bio-cheese powder isn't doing you any favors.
Good to see you here. How was your day? Oh?...... Yeah?....... Wow. That's really awesome.
Now let's talk about something else.
I went to the farmers market a few days ago and got stocked up for the apocalypse. So. Much. Food. It's great. While perusing the aisles (and getting my mind completely blown) I happened across some coconut flour. I've come across several delicious sounding recipes that call for this particular ingredient and it was dirt cheap so I went ahead and threw it in the cart. Good move. I have since made several tasty treats. First one being these delicious pancakes right here. I didn't take any pictures because I was pretty much gobbling them up straight out of the pan and, quite frankly, they were ugly. If you click on the link it will take you to some kind of coconut flour genius' blog were you can discover all sorts of wonderful things. I subbed out the eggs for ground flax seeds to make them vegan and used up the last of the maple syrup I had leftover from my cleanse. These things were awesome and packed full of protein and fiber so they kept me full all day long.
The next coconut flour adventure took form in the shape of coconut lemon cookies. These things were great. My band mate and I finished them off pretty quickly last night while we were practicing.
The actual cookies didn't survive long enough for photo evidence, but here's a little glimpse of some serious dough action.
I have about a trillion lemons leftover from my cleanse lemonade drink so I'm trying to use them in as many things as possible. I found a coconut almond flax cookie recipe and decided to make them coconut lemon flax cookies instead. I also cut out the sugar. Here's the original. Mine went like this....
1/4 cup ground flax seed
3/4 cups water
1/2 cup coconut oil melted
3/4 cup agave nectar
1/4 tsp sea salt
juice from 1 lemon
1/2 cup coconut flour
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut flakes
Mix all that good stuff together. Plop spoonfuls on a baking sheet. Stick in an oven that has been preheated to three hundred and seventy five degrees Fahrenheit. Let them hang out in there for about 15 minutes. Take them out of the oven. Behold their beauty. Wish they weren't as hot as the dickens. Let them cool down before you go sticking your grubby little hands all over them. Shove them in your face.
These cookies stayed super moist, kind of crumbly, and extra yummy.
Shall we move on to coconut recipe number three? I think so.......
I feel like posting photos of the food after I've already started eating let's you know that I truly think it was irresistibly delicious.
That is a Cilantro-Lime-Coconut Adzuki Bean Stir Fry. A recipe that I modified from here. This was seriously delicious. I had to hurry up and put the leftovers in the fridge so I would quit stuffing my face. The original recipe called for mangos but mine aren't ripe yet so I just used it as a guideline to create my own dish. Here we go......
The Sauce
2 inch piece of ginger minced
1 clove garlic (or more) minced
1/2 cup cilantro
juice from 1 lime
1/2 cup coconut milk
1 Tbs agave nectar
Everything else
1 onion sliced
1 1/2 cups or so adzuki beans
handful of snap peas
2 carrots sliced thin
1 Tbs coconut flour
Tamari or soy sauce to taste
handful toasted peanuts
For the stir fry; put your onion, snap peas, and carrots in a wok with some hot sesame oil. Cook for about 10 minutes. In the meantime blend together all your ingredients for the sauce in a food processor.
Once your onions and everything are nicely cooked stir in your adzuki beans and sauce. Let them simmer up for a minute and stir in the coconut flour to thicken it up a bit. Add your Tamari to your liking. I used about 2 Tbs' or so.
Plate it once everything is good and hot then top with sliced avocado, toasted peanuts, and Sriracha. Eat it. Love it. Then eat it some more.
Hope you enjoy all these coconut themed recipes. They're truly delicious. After pigging out it's important to make sure you're blasting off some calories with a good workout. Today I did a pilates video that had my abs and buns burning like wildfire. I'll let you know what I decide to bust out tomorrow. Something good, I'm sure. Yesterday I did 100 burpees (10 variations 10 times each) and 20 minutes of interval skipping. Burpees are a great full body exercise that will definitely get your sweating.
Check it out and sweat it out. Here you have Zuzana breaking down all the different burpee variations. Pick a few that you love then get at it.
Hope everyone is having a super day. Good vibes to all and tidings of grain free goodness. Thanks for reading. See you next time.
I made it through the master cleanse. All ten days.
Thanks for tuning in. All your good vibes for sure helped me stay on track. I feel great now and think it was definitely worth the effort.
There have been some technical difficulties and other happenings that have delayed my blogging. So I'm glad to be back. I did my first post-cleanse Bodyrock workout yesterday. It was awesome getting back into it.
This is the workout I came back with. Check Zuzana out.
You can get the workout breakdown by clicking here. The whole thing was only 12 minutes long. Super short, but super effective. I hope you guys will do it with me.
I went to the farmers market a couple days ago and got super stocked so I've been making some new and interesting recipes. I only have a few minutes until I have to get ready for work so I'll be posting some tasty recipes later on.
Hope everyone is keeping those good vibes rolling. I'm especially trying my best and focusing on the good right now. I'm in the process of making some life changes that I believe can turn out to be super positive. When a door closes a window of opportunity opens. I'm working on getting some bigger and better things accomplished in my life, so my main motto needs to be carried out in full force right now.
Hope everyone is staying away from stuff thats not good for you and stretching out those legs. I'll see you in the near future with some recipes and sweat inducers.
I'm here, folks. But barely.
I am more glad than you will ever know that tomorrow is my tenth and final day of the Master Cleanse. I am even more glad that I mustered up the willpower to see this thing through. I feel pretty proud that I have made it this far.
Not eating for ten days (almost) is an interesting feat to take on. My brain is ready to chew and swallow.
I feel pretty weak at the present moment and intend to lay/sleep as much of the next 24 hours away as I possibly can. I intend on drinking my juice type beverages at midnight tomorrow for the official ending ceremony. So a bit more than 24 hours in actuality. My face is ready.
Thank you to everyone who has been reading along on my little journey and sending me all of your positive vibes. Having people behind me has really aided in my giving this my best shot.
I've made it through day number eight of the Master Cleanse. Almost there.
I'm so thankful to all my friends and family who have supported me through this so far and sent me all the positive vibes. Without people rooting for me I may have caved by now and jammed my face with God knows what.
I'm really stoked that I only have two more days until this beast is over. I went to the store today and got prepped for my return to the world of eating food. You're supposed to take three days to transition back in. Day one is supposed to be orange juice feast, so I got some of that. Then soup for day two and raw food on day three. We'll see how that goes. I've got about thirty thousand meals planned out in my head right now and a grocery list as long as a bus.
I was pretty drained today and found myself to be quit homicidal while at the grocery store. This is probably in part to my pizza face. I was warned that the cleanse can push toxins out of your body in the form of breakouts. But, severe acne is no fun even when forewarned. They're beginning to clear up now, which is good, but had managed to knock my confidence level down a few notches. I guess we all need a little dose of humility every now and then. Here's mine.
Hope you're having a lovely and peaceful day. Don't be eating any processed sugar flavored sugar, and keep those good vibes rolling.
It's the seventh day of my Master Cleanse. I'm holding in there.
I've been thinking about what I'm going to eat on Friday once I've completed this shindig.
Food has been engulfing my brain all day now, but I've been strong. Making food for other people and smelling it kind of helps ease my anxiety for whatever strange reason. You'd think I'd turn into Godzilla and go on a feeding frenzy having to handle so much tasty stuff. Fear not. The townspeople are safe in their beds.
I want fruit. Bananas in particular. I'm also planning on making this butternut squash and red lentil dal. Don't ask me what dal is. I don't know. I've got pretty much all of these ingredients here already and it looks delicious so I'm gonna go for it.
I'm looking forward to getting back to bodyrocking also. There are some great new workouts up and I'm itching to get my energy back on track so I can blast some shiz out. The cleanse has been doing it's job at helping me lose this last bit of fat I needed gone, so I'm confident that I can get super tight once I get back in the game. It'll be interesting to see how and if my endurance and strength were effected. I'm sure I can be back in working order in no time.
Keep the positive vibes coming my way. I only have three days left to go. I'm getting pretty restless. Like senior-itis.
Hope everyone is having a peaceful and productive day.
Good vibes to all.
It's Sunday and I've been laying around all day. I ventured out briefly to pick some lemons earlier, but other than that I've been enjoying not doing one single thing. This is typical of most Sundays for me.
My energy is a little low today. I think this is probably in part to my over doing yesterday. I wasn't doing anything real crazy or anything. Just some hula hooping and yoga, but I felt the effects soon after. Doing abdominal exercise while on a cleanse is not a great idea.
Since then, I have recovered from my little episode and am now making sure I take'r easy today.
I feel good about what I have accomplished so far and am still looking forward to finishing out these last four days. I watched some videos on Youtube earlier about people who have gone to complete 40 days on the cleanse. 40 days makes my 10 look pretty weak in comparison so you won't hear any complaining from me.
I'm not really hungry. The cayenne is still doing it's job there. I grabbed some limes while I was out too. You're allowed to substitute them in for the lemons so my next batch will be a limeade. Hold onto your hats!
It's been a peaceful day for me. Hope it's been the same for you. Happy Mother's Day if you're a mom.
(The following is copied and pasted from the Youtube description box. I'm not qualified to translate on my own)
Embodiments of Love! Understand the truth that love is Atma and Atma is love.
"Love is the path.
Start the day with love.
Spend the day with love;
fill the day with love.
End the day with love.
This is the way to God."
Sathya Sai Baba
The Atma is ever present at all times, but people ask: "why can't it be seen?"
By mere asking is anyone able to get the glimpses of butter present in milk?
If butter has to been seen, then certain processes have to be gone into - boiling, curdling, churning etc. So too, by certain Spiritual disciplines, like repeating the name on the tongue, He who dwells in the heart can be visualised; the Immanent God can be experienced as Real.
Sathya Sai Baba
There are millions of living beings in this world. All of them have originated from God. Therefore, the same God is present in all of them. People give many names to God as Rama, Allah, Jesus, etc., but God is only one. Atma is another name of God; it is the same in everyone. The real name of Atma is love. Love is only one, but it is present everywhere and can alleviate all sufferings. One who is endowed with love is free from all sufferings.
What does Atma mean? It means love only. It is love that unites all. If you imbibe this principle of unity, then all will become one. When you attain this unity, you will have purity. When you have purity, then Atma Tattwa (principle of the Self) will manifest in you. Therefore, you must have unity to attain divinity.
Develop faith in the Atma Thathwa. From faith comes love. When faith and love go together thus, your desires will be fulfilled. Both faith and love are most important for a human being. All others are like passing clouds, which just come and go in between. Do not attach much importance to them.
In fact, faith is the reflection of love, and love is the very form of God. Hence, Love is God, Live in Love. Truth is truth for all times -- past, present, and future. It will never change. That is why it is said, "Truth is God."
Do not think that God is present somewhere in a distant place. God is not separate from us. The entire universe is an embodiment of Divinity. Therefore, constantly contemplate on that Divinity, who is none other than Unity.
In this manner, one with faith in God will never be put to harm. Hence, develop unflinching faith. Your firm faith in God confers on you all types of knowledge. Where there is faith, there is love. Where there is love there is Atma. Atma has no specific name or form. Similarly, faith has no form, and divinity is also formless. Love is God. Live in Love. Truth is God, God is Truth. The entire creation has emerged from truth.
The creation emerges from truth and merges into truth,
Is there a place in the cosmos where truth does not exist?
Visualise this pure and unsullied truth. Sathya Sai Baba
The same Atma is present in all. When you take the Atmic principle into consideration, all are one. So many individuals are present in this Hall. The Atma in all of them is one and the same. There is one sun in the sky. It gives light to the entire world. Similarly, God is like the sun who illumines the life of everyone. We engulf ourselves in darkness when we criticise others. Therefore, love all and serve all. If someone abuses us, let him do so. Abuses will merge in thin air. Therefore, always think that nobody can criticise you. Have faith that God will always protect you. Develop unflinching faith in God. There are many people who deny the existence of God. If there is no God, where have you come from? What is the place of your origin? If you don't have faith in God, all your life becomes a waste.
Sathya Sai Baba
Man should get rid of Ahamkara (the feeling that he is the doer). As long as the ego is dominant, the Atmic consciousness will not develop. The egoist cannot recognize the Atma. It is egoism that is at the root of all of man's troubles. It is delusion based on the misconception that the body is real and permanent. The truth is otherwise. One should recognize the evanescence of the body and the senses and control the desires prompted by the sense organs. Desires are insatiable. The pursuit of wealth, power and position can only end in misery. Instead, one should take refuge in God and dedicate all actions to the Divine.
Sathya Sai Baba
It's been weird. I was kind of delusional for the first half of the day and pretty sluggish with sudden spouts of energy. I'm feeling pretty normal right now. I've upped my dosage of cayenne in the lemonade and I think it's helping a lot.
The past few days are kind of blurry. Each day has felt so long that it's hard to comprehend that this is day three. It's like they're all smashed together.
I've felt really slooooooow for a majority of the day. And I haven't really wanted to talk. Typing is fine. It's the actually forming of words and making them come out of my mouth. Definitely something different for me. An ideal environment to complete this cleanse would be somewhere completely isolated and very sunny and warm. Starving yourself on a deserted island would be tops.
I had a mild flash of doubt earlier that I could see this through. I'm not sure what sprung it, but the doubt is gone now. I've been working on eliminating all negativity from around me. WORKING on it. I've not achieved such a great feat as of yet, but I hope to only form positive and productive thoughts from now on. I don't like being negative and it seems that when I actually do or say something not so nice I end up sticking my foot in my mouth or have it come back and bite me in the ass. SO. Let's just play nice.
One of my best good friends lent/gave me a great book a while back. I read it again the day before I started the cleanse as a little uplifting leap.
This book is great. It's about an oppressed flower and a lucky cricket. There is a Buddhist (I think) prayer in the book that I really like and say frequently. I'm sure it could translate into whichever faith you're going with. It's pretty legit and straight forward. It really melts my anxiety and helps bring me peace of mind when I put it on repeat in my brain. It goes....
From the unreal, lead me to the real.
From darkness, lead me to light.
From death, lead me to eternal life.
Simple as that. I've seen variations of this all over the place. Most recently in a book on yoga that I've had for a while. It's a good one.
I was searching youtube for that prayer and came across this. The translation is in the description box. It's pretty beautiful and sums up what I'm going for at this point.
I hope everyone is having a peaceful and happy day. Good vibes to all.
I feel reeeeeaaaaaaaalllllly slooooooooooow. And like I need to stay that way.
I've been burning a lot of sage. It helps clear my sinus' and cancels out negativity simultaneously. Double duty.
Also, hippie deodorant doesn't work but I use it anyway so I'm not poisoning myself with aluminum.
I'm ready to take on day three. Not with much energy, but with endurance and will power. I'm not hungry, but I feel weak. Today would be perfect for a mugging. I'd probably just give them my purse freely without a fight.
Murphey Browntown is really cute.
Hopefully my calm and tranquility will infect all the children I am scheduled to sit on today.
I'm charging my crystal in the sun.
I have rocks in my pocket.
I'm making Bela Bartok my soundtrack until I want to make someone else my soundtrack.
I need stamps.
Can you carry me?
Grandmas are neat.
Did you know that you can have up to 75 chickens in the city here?
My left armpit sweats more than my right. Why is that?
Where are my hardrives when I need them?
These are some of my thoughts and statements of the morning. Were they weird? Probably.
Thank you for the positive vibes being sent my way. I'm sending them to you too.
Hey.
It's the second day of my Master Cleanse. Going well.
It was a bit more tricky for my brain today than yesterday but I held up just fine.
Being around and making food actually kind of helped ease any anxiousness, as odd as that sounds. We'll see if I feel the same way tomorrow.
I went to the store to buy more lemons earlier. I'm allowed to have decaf tea, so I got a couple of those as well. For some reason buying the tea made me really excited to see this thing through.
Party time.
I've been practicing the yoga sequence I posted in this blog from the other day. It's going well. I love back bends but my handstands need some work. I'm trying to prevent the loss of too much muscle mass while on this thing without doing anything too strenuous. The yoga and pilates seem to be doing the trick.
I'm excited to see what I can achieve once I'm able to start Bodyrocking again.
I think it's going to be good.
Well.....that's all I have to say.
Keep sending the positive vibes my way. I'm sending them to you.
This is going to be short and will, probably, contain no pictures for your fancy little eyes.It happens. I have a special guest in town and I don't want to be rude.
The point of this is; I am attempting to complete The Master Cleanse. I wanted to give a little insight every day to let you know how I'm holding out. So. Here it is.
I haven't strayed from the lemonade concoction. Neat.
I'm not really hungry physically per-se but mentally it has been a little tricky.
The lemonade is pretty good and I think the cayenne in it helps numb my insides properly so I don't feel like I'm starving to death.
From what I understand, the first two days are supposed to be the hardest to get through. I will admit that at this point ten days is seeming like a hot minute but I'm going to do my best to stay on track.
Any and all positive vibes of strength and good tidings sent my way are much appreciated.
I started writing this yesterday and didn't finish it.
You should listen to this.
Someone showed me this video a couple days ago and I am forever grateful. I've been trying to incorporate more dance parties into my life. This helps with that.
I got a lot of exercise in yesterday. It was great. I'm feeling it today. I did 100 burpees, 30 minutes of skipping, a lot of walking around at a festival, and a ton of yoga.
I just picked my favorite types of burpees from this video.
So my workout went like this-
PART 1
10- One Leg Burpees
10- Starburst Burpees
10- Sumo Burpees
10- Commando Burpees
10- Frog Burpees
PART 2
30 minutes of interval skipping
PART 3
Repeat part one
I'm preparing to start the Master Cleanse this week. I've been practicing a lot more yoga and meditation. I think the two will help me get through the 10 day fast and reap all the benefits the cleanse has to offer.
I really like this series. I'm not quite on this womans level, but I hope to perfect this series through lots of practice.
I got some locally grown beets from a little stand a couple days ago and roasted them, along with a parsnip, with garlic, shallots, mint and rosemary on 400 for about 45 minutes. They turned out fantastic. I'll be eating the leftovers as one of my last meals today before starting my cleanse.
I hope everyone has a beautiful day. Hopefully I can stay on track and give you daily updates on my cleanse journey. I've never attempted one before, but I think I'm in the right state of mind to complete the entire thing.
