When Oh When Will The Next Detox Start?

This is always a dilemma for me: when to start the next detox? I'm always in need of one (hubby agrees), and they always seem too short, even the first one that lasted almost two years! (I was really sick and needed it.)

Money is definitely an issue, especially since I need to be on one ideally for at least two months, but so is the timing. The end of summer, I think, should be the best time--no more traveling during summer vacation. No holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's to contend with. And no birthdays or Valentine's Day that begin on Ground Hog's Day, the start of our birthday marathon that lasts until mid April.

Sure, September begins the school schedule and the stress of making sure all three kids (who are learning disabled) are not only studying for tests, but doing their homework and actually handing it in! But there's also touching base with their teachers and counselors, weekly. And the parent teacher conferences..., and IEP meetings.. .

Okay, advice to self: Next time hubby says we can "swing" it, order the supplements, and just start doing it! And don't worry about any issues, just deal with them as they arise.

Detox--Day Forty Five

Breakfast
11:00 Shake
Puffed millet, cashew butter, and honey

I'd been up helping Hubby get the two older cherubs ready to go to their cousin's wrestling match, then folding laundry, and answering a few emails. It's not unusual for me to get absorbed in other things and forget to eat. :-P My youngest enjoyed the puffed millet, too, but I put too much honey in hers and she couldn't finish it.

Lunch
1:00 Shake
This is the last shake I'll be taking.

Snack
Finished my puffed millet from this morning.

Dinner
6:00
Turkey soup, garlic, parsley, marjoram, and rice
Mary's Gone Crackers (organic wheat/gluten free herb) brown rice, quinoa, brown flax seeds, brown sesame seeds, garlic, herbs, wheat-free tamari (soybeans, salt, alcohol), sea salt

Water: 123456
Activity: Walked 40 minutes with my neighbor under slippery, but sunny and windy, conditions. About 40 min later, Mister Poochie and I headed over to the park and walked an hour in the snow on the trails. :-)

Detox--Day Forty Four

Breakfast
9:00 Shake

Lunch
12:30 Shake
Turkey

Dinner
5:00 Shake
Potato Soup--potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, garlic, and rice flour
Salmon Pinwheels
White Pistachio Cranberry Bark (NOT approved for on a detox :-P)

Snack
Turkey

Water: 12345678+
Activity: None

Detox--Day Forty Three

Brunch
11:15 Shake with 1/2 Sustain, 1/2 Ultra Clear Plus
I'm out of Sustain, so for the remainder of the detox, shakes will be made with Ultra Clear Plus.
Sweet potato casserole (sweet potatoes, maple syrup, walnuts, olive oil) and Quinoa Waffles with maple syrup.

Dinner
5:15 Shake
Salmon, onions, olive oil, avocado

Water: 1234???
Activity: None

Detox--Day Forty Two

Breakfast
10:00 Shake

Lunch
12:30 Shake

Dinner
5:30 Shake
Turkey, sweet potato casserole (sweet potatoes, maple syrup, walnuts, olive oil, and butter), rice stuffing (rice, celery, onions, sidepork, turkey drippings) and homemade cranberry sauce (cranberries and maple syrup)

Water: 1234???
Activity: None

Detox--Day Forty One

Breakfast
8:30 Shake

Lunch
11:50 Shake
Cheeseballs, GF crackers, homemade parsley dip, sip of sweet cherry wine

Dinner
Didn't record...

Water: 123
Activity: None

Detox--Day Forty

Breakfast
8:30 Shake

Lunch
11:50 Shake

Snacked on turkey, sweet potato casserole (sweet potatoes, maple syrup, walnuts, olive oil, and butter), rice stuffing (rice, celery, onions, sidepork, turkey drippings) and homemade cranberry sauce (cranberries and maple syrup). Guess this was dinner! :-P



Water: 123?
Activity: None

Detox--Day Thirty Nine

Breakfast
10:00 Shake with Ultra Clear Plus and Ultra Balance Protein

Lunch
12:30 Shake
I finished up all the Ultra Balance Protein, so I will be using Unipro Perfect Protein for the remainder of the detox.

Snack
Smoked salmon
Unfortunately, I wasn't thinking as I was picking at this while making hors d'oeuvres for Christmas Eve Day.

Dinner
5:00 Shake

Water: 12345678
Activity: Walked 35 min in -2F with my neighbor and her dog. I wouldn't be walking in this cold weather without them!!! :-)

Detox--Day Thirty Eight

Breakfast
8:00 Shake with Ultra Clear Sustain and Unipro Protein
1 Quinoa Waffle and maple syrup, see recipe below

Our church's youth group (which two of our children are involved in, as is my hubby) had a pancake breakfast fundraiser going on, this morning. So, as they were preparing for their breakfast at church, I was making my favorite gluten-free waffles as a treat for me at home! As you can tell by my posts, I'm not really much of a breakfast eater after the shake which pretty much fills me up. (So do the glasses of water!) But your nutrition is all in the shake and easily digested, so that's all good. :-)

Lunch
1:40 Shake with Ultra Clear Sustain and Unipro Protein
2 Quinoa Waffles with maple syrup

Dinner
5:00 Shake with Ultra Clear Sustain and Unipro Protein

I was making cheeseballs for Christmas and had to taste both versions I made of them after accidentally shaking too much garlic salt in one of them. Of course I had to make sure I got the other one right since I can't count on anyone else's taste buds but my own. :-} Soooo, I (cringe!) ate some sour cream, cream cheese, scallions, dried onions, Canadian bacon, cheese, garlic salt, gluten-free Worchshire sauce, parsley, cayanne pepper, and walnuts. I was making these balls right before running out the door to go to our daughter's high school orchestra concert.

This recipe for Quinoa Waffles is from The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook by Marilyn Gioannini:

3/4 C Quinoa flour
Baking Powder
Cinnamon
Apple juice (I used cider)
Oil (I used olive oil)
Honey
1 Apple, grated

Water: 1234???
Activity: None

Detox--Day Thirty Seven

Breakfast
9:00 Shake
Puffed Millet, cashew butter, and honey

Lunch
1:40 Shake
Salmon, garlic, sesame oil

Snack
2 Kiwi

Snack
Fresh cranberries, cilantro, red onions (raw), apple, lime zest, red pepper
1 Black olive

Today was a bit strange. We spent the morning vacuuming and then shampooing the carpets. I've heard good and bad things about doing the wet shampoo because of allergies..., but we've done it for years and were always glad we did it. then we quickly went shopping before caroling with the teens in our church, ringing the bell for the Salvation Army for two hours at Mega Foods. But wait, there's more! The Youth Group then had games, a meal, wreath decorating for a silent auction tomorrow at church (which, DV, will take place at the teen's fundraising pancake breakfast), and then a gift exchange. I hadn't planned to stay past the caroling, so I didn't bring my shake along.

Dinner
10:00 Shake

Water: 12345678
Activity: Cleaning? Caroling???

Detox--Day Thirty Six

Breakfast
9:00 Shake

Lunch
2:00 Shake
Raw cashews

Dinner
5:00 Shake
Grilled lamb chops
Sauteed mushrooms with olive oil

Snack
Puffed millet, cashew butter, honey, and cinnamon

Water: 12345?
Activity: Ummm, shopping with my hubby all afternoon??? :-P
I'm glad--my doc says the inflammation in my neck is not bad at all--that the detox is really helping it! :-)

Detox--Day Thirty Five

Breakfast
9:00 Shake
Crispy Rice Snakes

Lunch
12:30 Shake
Salmon, onions, and sesame oil
Jicama

Dinner
5:00 Shake
Black Bean Soup, onions, jicama, olive oil, garlic, and cumin

Water: 12345?
Activity: Nothing

Detox--Thirty Four

Breakfast
8:00 Shake
Crispy Rice Snacks

Lunch
2:30 Shake
Avocado, smoked (salted) salmon
Crispy Rice Snacks

Dinner
6:30 Shake
Mary's Gone Crackers (organic wheat/gluten free herb) brown rice, quinoa, brown flax seeds, brown sesame seeds, garlic, herbs, wheat-free tamari (soybeans, salt, alcohol), sea salt

Water: 123456+
Activity: Running around the school for an hour doesn't count... . :-P
My doc says the inflammation in my neck has improved and is not bad at all because the detox is working to keep it down! :-) I was a little worried because I normally have to take Inflaguard on a daily basis. I'm supposed to stay away from as much "stuff" as possible so the detox will work better. The first time I did a detox, I had to be on a lot of herbals, which is much better than trying to detox using traditional meds.

Detox--Day Thirty Three

Breakfast
10:40 Shake
Raw cashews
This morning, I got carried away working on yearbook. You know the scenario: you're only going to quickly look at something, get absorbed in it, then realize a few hours have already gone by!!!

Lunch
1:30 Shake

Dinner
5:oo Shake
Salmon, sesame oil, onions, and garlic

Snack
Crispy Rice Snacks--look below for ingredients and recipe
A few (salted) pistachios

I find it easiest to modify recipes I already use than to follow new ones, but often modify ones I find as well, out of necessity. Forget asking about the ones I make up--I take after my grandmother, great aunts, and cousins (who drove me nuts, at first) when they'd say, "a pinch of this" (more like a handful, in some cases!), or "you'll know when it looks just right (color/consistency)--there, like that, see?".

I had bought Arrowhead Mills Puffed Millet for making this very treat, but couldn't find the recipe anywhere. :-P For this part of the detox, you're not supposed to consume rice (I also have a mild intolerance to it, as does my son, which is rare). I bought the organic puffed rice for Butterscotch Crunchies to make for our company at Christmas, and when I saw this recipe on the back of the box, was ecstatic--it's almost the same recipe I had for the puffed millet! (I also subbed the puffed rice in the place of cornflakes for the Butterscotch Crunchies.)

Modified Crispy Rice Snacks

1/2 C Cashew Butter (this in the place of peanut butter)
1/2 C Honey
1/2 C Nuts, chopped--I used pistachios, and only a few
2 C Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice Cereal
(I forgot to use 1/2 t vanilla extract and 1/2 t cinnamon, but it tastes just fine this way. The other recipe I have doesn't use either of these ingredients, nor does it use the nuts.)

In a bowl, mix the cashew butter and honey. Gently stir in puffed rice 'til cereal is coated well. Keep hands wet and a bowl of water where you are working. Form walnut-sized balls out of mixture, and place on lightly oiled cookie sheet or wax paper. Allow to harden. Store in an air tight container.

Variation: Use Arrowhead Mills Puffed Millet in place of puffed rice.

Enjoy!


Water: 1234567+
Activity: None

Detox--Day Thirty Two

I've been up and (barely) at 'em since 7:15. Youngest child was feeling sick from GERD. I didn't realize she ate spaghetti for lunch at the church's pot luck the day before! Poor kid! I was too busy taking pics for our interm pastor's farewell gathering, and couldn't eat anything, including what we brought, 'cept for the shake. It usually fills me up, so I was fine. :-)

There are two favorite gluten-free recipes in my GF cookbooks I've been looking for that can be used during a detox. They are both hard to find, so I had written them out on recipe cards, but I didn't look through them since those got moved to a less convenient location other than the kitchen, for some silly reason. :-P

Breakfast
10:45 Shake

Lunch
1:00 Shake
Chicken

Dinner
5:40 Shake with Ultra Clear Plus--the Sustain was beginning to make me constipated. :-P May try it, again, toward the end of the detox.
Chicken soup with quinoa, mushrooms, garlic, ginger, parsley, and marjoram
I use a lot of garlic for two main reasons: I love it, and it replaces salt really well. :-)

Water: 12345678+
Activity: Walked 35 min in maybe 0F. The wind chill factor was earlier reported at -35F to -40F. :-P

Detox--Day Thirty One

Breakfast
8:30 Shake
Strawberries

Lunch
12:00 Shake

Dinner
6:00 Shake

Water: 1234
Activity: Nothing much :-P

Detox--Day Thirty

Breakfast
10:00 Shake using Ultra Clear Sustain
I was never able to use the Sustain, but since it was given to me to try..., I wanted to see how it would be tolerated.
My face feels like it's going to explode--weather related. My pain levels, however, have not increased, more than likely thanks to the detox! :-)

Lunch
1:30 Shake

Snack
Smoked salmon--Lots of salt in it which is a big no-no, but I was hungry and was out with the girls so they could get their hair cut for Locks of Love.
Cashew Butter
1 smidgen of fresh pineapple

Dinner
5:30 Shake
Salmon, Sesame oil, and onions

Snack
Strawberries

Water: 12345+
Activity: None

Detox--Day Twenty Nine

Breakfast
10:00 Shake
I've been up-and-at-'em since 6:30, this morning, and was even doing the encouraging,"Keep running after the bus and she'll see you and stop!" bit from the door to my frantic son. It was -8F at that time!!! Oldest child was already standing at the corner and was picked up, thankfully, unlike on Tuesday when she was running after the bus and son wasn't even out the door!!! It's dark and frigid in the mornings up here in the frozen tundra, so I don't blame the kids for waiting last minute! :-} After youngest left for her bus, I started working on yearbook. Once I start, it's sometimes hard to stop! :-P

Lunch
1:30 Shake

Dinner
5:00 Shake
Chicken


Water: 123456
Activity: Walked about 20 minutes in snow flurries, up two steep hills, and around the neighborhood with my neighbor and her poochie.

Detox--Day Twenty Eight

Brunch
11:30 Shake
Couldn't get up, this morning. There's a lot of pressure in my head and it was heavy, as were my eyes. The weather must be changing... .

Snack
Chicken
2 dates
I eat a whole lot more fruit when its in season in the summer. I should in the winter, too, especially while on a detox.

Dinner
5:00 Shake
Chicken soup with onions, garlic, quinoa, parsley, and marjoram

Snack
Quinoa with maple syrup and a dash of cinnamon

Water: 1234567+
To me, water's been tasting really blah which makes it harder to fill my daily quota of 8+ glasses. You need water to help rid toxins either by elimination and perspiration. Exhalation is the third, but not dependant on agua.
Activity: Took two walks back-to-back. First went with poochie to the park on snowy trails for 30 min under sunny skies, then came home and walked with my neighbor and her poochie for about 35 min under clouds. My body feels good, but brain fog is bad and head is not happy.

Detox--Day Twenty Seven

Breakfast
9:30 Shake
My pain level is up, today, as is the brain fog. It's a good day to do more "mindless" things, like choosing pics to upload for my youngest daughter's school's yearbook. It was -1F at 7:00, this morning, but that is life up here in the frozen tundra of northern Wisconsin!

Lunch
1:30 Shake

Snack
Apple cider

Dinner
5:30 Shake
Chicken, garlic, parsley, marjoram, and cayanne pepper

Water: 12345???
Activity: None

Detox--Day Twenty Six

Breakfast
7:50 Shake

Lunch
12:20 Shake

Snack
Apple cider

Dinner
5:15 Shake
Spinach salad with duck, avocado, and cashews
Today was the third day taking the Unipro Protein instead of the Ultra Balance Protein. So far, so good! :-)

Water: 12345+
Activity: Walked and ran around yard of 5-6" snow with poochie about 15 minutes--not quite enough, but better than nothing. It was an absolutely crazy day!

Detox--Day Twenty Five

Breakfast
9:00 Shake

Lunch
1:30 Shake
After running my youngest in for blood work, this morning, and then to school, I was totally exhausted. That used to be the norm for me before I did my first detox, but is not normal at all for me, now. I wasn't sure what it was 'til after the kids came home from school and were all talking about a snow storm coming through just south of us later this evening. So, this lethargy, blah and such can indeed be blamed once again on the barometric pressure.

Dinner
5:15 Shake
Duck soup with quinoa, garlic, mushrooms, and spinach
Totally whipped. Face hurts and I feel like a wet noodle. :-P

Water: 1234??? No idea how much, today
Activity: Too busy and worn out to do anything but take poochie out and walk him around in the yard which is white with about 2 1/2" of snow.

Detox--Day Twenty Four

Breakfast
8:30 Shake

Lunch
1:00 Shake
Duck

Dinner
5:30 Shake
Duck

Water: 12345+
Activity: None

Detox--Day Twenty Three

Breakfast
9:30 Shake

Lunch
11:40 Shake
Chicken Soup--chicken, garlic, onions, quinoa, spinach, mushrooms, marjoram, parsley

Dinner
5:30 Shake
Duck, garlic, marjoram, parsley
My youngest was getting grossed out as she watched me pull stuff out of the bird before throwing it into the oven. Honestly, at that age, I had felt the same way several times when I'd watch my mom prepare turkey for Thanksgiving. Ditto the first time I actually did it, but imagining myself having done it many times by watching my mom helped.
The thing with it being duck is a very different story. I had a beloved pet duck while growing up that was given to me as a birthday present by a friend. Unfortunately, we could only keep him for a few months because we were zoned residential..., and had to bring him to a farm... . :-( My great aunt and parents had tricked me into tasting "kacsa" (Hungarian), but in Switzerland, I bravely ordered "caneton" (French) to try it.
Yup, I did that with escargot, too, in a soup while in the Bahamas. Kind of rubbery, but not bad. Still, I had to keep the word "snail" out of my thoughts while eating it! Motivation: I had kinda regretted not trying turtle soup when our neighbors made it and invited anyone who wanted to try this possibly once-in-a-lifetime entree. Hey, I'm not gonna fix either of those for supper!!! :-P
Oh, and rabbit--the day I made it for the first time (while on my first detox) was a few days after watching a bunch of crows raid, kill, and devour a nest full of newborn baby bunnies, which made me positively sick. I had witnessed the parents build their nest by the side of the house, and watched a couple younger rabbits leaping around as the dad gingerly checked on the mom either while or after the babies were born.
I hope this isn't grossing anyone else out! This kind of talk always makes me want to consider becoming a vegetarian!!!

Water: 12345? I feel parched, but I often am in the winter--in a different way than in the summer--probably 'cuz the house gets dry with the heat on. :-P
Activity: Baking and cleaning??? :-P

Detox--Day Twenty Two

Breakfast
8:30 Shake

Lunch
1:30 Shake
Chicken, garlic, marjoram, parsley

Dinner
5:30 Shake
Salmon
Fried potatoes with onions and sesame oil
Some types of potatoes just don't sit well with me. I have an allergy to potatoes, so only try and eat the varieties that don't bother me as much. I often pass potatoes up when I serve it for dinner.

Water: 123+ Was under 8 8 oz for sure, but not sure how much I really got in, today.
Activity: Shopping and weightlifting/carrying 50 lb bag of kitty litter! :-P

Detox--Day Twenty One

Breakfast
10:30 Shake
Yes, I really should have taken my shake before doing anything else!!!

Lunch
12:00 Shake

Dinner
5:00 Shake
Chicken, garlic, marjoram, parsley

Snack
Apple

Water: 123456789+
Activity: Walked about 35 min in 19 degree F weather. The sunny skies made it easier for both my neighbor and me!

Detox--Day Twenty

Breakfast
10:00 Shake
3 Dates

Lunch
1:30 Shake

Dinner
5:30 Shake
Avocado, cashews
I have just not been hungry enough to eat anything much after the shake, which I always find filling and satisfying.

Snack
Apple

Water: 12345678+
Activity: Walked a little over an hour in the snow under sunny skies which made the cold more tolerable! I wouldn't be doing all this walking without my wonderful neighbor!!! :-)

Detox--Day Nineteen

Brunch
11:00 Shake
Okay, bad, bad, bad. You caught the "brunch", didn't you? Hubby later informed me snow was headed our way. Barometric pressure changes always mess me up, in many different ways!

Dinner
5:30 Shake
Potatoes, salmon, sesame oil
3 Dates

Water: 1234+
Activity: Walked about 35 minutes

Detox--Day Eighteen

Breakfast
8:30 Shake

Lunch
1:30 Shake

Dinner
5:00 Shake
Turkey soup, turkey, garlic, parsley

Snack
Cashews

Water: 12345
Activity: Does running a bunch of errands count???
Our kitten had an eye injury and the dog needed shots, so I was at the vet's for a little over an hour. Also brought our van in for bodywork. About a month and a half ago, we hit a deer and were going to live with the few chipped dents on the grill made by the doe's hoofs... 'til we were told the headlights were damaged in the accident. :-P I needed my weekly adjustment, too, so I ran off for that. Youngest child also home because of GERD and she felt awful. Both of my daughters have inherited my stomach problems. :-P

Detox--Day Seventeen

Breakfast
9:15 Shake

Lunch
12:40 Shake
Spinach salad with avocado, mushroom, turkey, and cashews

Dinner 5:30
Shake
Turkey

Water: 1234567+
Activity: None

Detox--Day Sixteen

Breakfast
8:30 Shake

Lunch
12:30 Shake
2 Mangoes
Accidentally ate a small piece of Almond Roca candy (minus the chocolate) I was making... . --Butter and sugar. :-{

Dinner
5:00 Shake
Turkey

Water: 1234567+
Activity: Mini trampoline

Detox--Day Fifteen

Breakfast
8:30 Shake

Lunch
1:00 Shake
Lamb, garlic, rosemary
Apple Crisp

Dinner
5:00 Shake
Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy

Water: 123456+
Activity: Black Friday. Shopped 'til we dropped, then shopped some more. :-P

Detox--Day fourteen

Breakfast
10:30 Shake

Lunch
12:10 Shake
Naked Blue Machine Juice Smoothie--Blueberries, blackberries, apples, and banana

Dinner
4:30 Shake
Turkey, garlic, bay leaves, marjoram, parsley
Rice stuffing, modified--white rice, onions, celery, side pork, turkey drippings
Home made cranberry sauce with honey
Mashed potatoes, turkey drippings
Apple Crisp

Water: 1234+ Too busy to really count--and probably drink--today... . :-P
Activity: None

Detox--Day Thirteen

Breakfast

10:30 Shake

Pomegranate seeds This is not listed as an approved item to eat on this particular detox.., but it's only available to eat this time of year. This is the second time this fall we've had them. They are sooooo good!

Lunch

1:30 Shake

Dinner
5:30 Shake

Chicken Soup--Chicken/cornish hen, mushrooms, garlic, marjoram, parsley

Water: 12345+

Activity: Walked about 75 minutes under a not-a-cloud-in-the-sky day!

Detox--Day Twelve

Breakfast

8:10 Shake

Snack

11:50 Naked Blue Machine Juice Smoothie--Blueberries, blackberries, apples, and banana

I was parched, having run around taking pictures for the elementary school's yearbook for 2 1/2 hours. There were are few things I needed from Sam's Club, and this item was suddenly placed at the top of the list! I didn't have much, but this drink hit the spot! :-) I love the Mango one, too, but it has too much orange juice in it. For this detox, I'm supposed to stay away from citrus stuff. Unfortunately, some of the Naked juices contain wheat/gluten, so read labels carefully if you're celiac or gluten intolerant.

Lunch

1:00 Shake

Cornish hen

Naked Blue Machine Juice Smoothie

Dinner

5:00 Shake

Chicken Soup--Chicken/cornish hen, mushrooms, garlic, marjoram, parsley

Snack

Cashews

Water: 12345+

Activity: None

Detox--Day Eleven

Breakfast

8:15 Shake

Apple Crisp (little bit of "crumbs" that were left)--Apples, sesame oil, cinnamon, rice flour, maple syrup

Lunch

12:50

Salmon, sesame oil

Dinner
5:00 Shake
Lamb, garlic, rosemary
Metazyme

Water: 123456+

Activity: Walked 35 minutes with my neighbor under cloudy and darkening clouds. Snow flurries toward the end of our walk. Two deer and a long line of turkeys crossed the road in front of us! :-)

Detox--Day Ten

It was a very busy day, today. Before rushing out of the house to go to church, I had to make sure the huge pan of lasagna I made last night (for the twenty two people coming over for a reunion for friends from out of state!) was in the oven to warm up before we arrived back home.

Breakfast

8:35 Shake

Lunch

1:15 Shake

Spinach salad with cornish hen, mushrooms, avocado, cashews, and sunflower seeds

Apple Crisp--Apples, sesame oil, rice flour, cinnamon, and maple syrup

Dinner

5:00 Shake

Spinach salad with cornish hen, mushrooms, avocado, cashews, sunflower seeds, and a couple craisins (unfortunately, sugar is added to these) and a few pieces of carrot

Snack

Raw Cashews

Water: 123456ish --Too much responsibility and running around to get 8+ glasses in, today :-P

Activity: Bounced around on the mini trampoline for about 5 minutes--better than nothing!

Detox--Day Nine

Breakfast

9:30 Shake

Chicken broth, marjoram, garlic

Pieces of apples, here and there

Lunch
1:15 Shake

Dinner

5:30 Shake

Cornish hen, garlic, marjoram, bay leaf

Apple crisp--look below for ingredients

Sadly, we don't have any apple trees like we did in Illinois. The ones we planted here 4 years ago (and replaced a year later only to die on us, again :-() died because we have extremely sandy soil that needed more than just good compost and sphagnum moss; it needs clay, too. Happily, a friend from church gave us a large bagful of apples she was trying to find a home for. :-)

I've had to modify my mom's recipe for Apple Crisp to use gluten free flours (like almond or rice) as well as use a substitute for sugar (like honey or maple syrup) since I'm also intolerant to that.

This is a very tasty treat, but try not to overindulge as it is rather sweet and should be limited during a detox:

Recipe:

Modified Apple Crisp

Grease a 10x6x2" baking dish with sesame, apricot, or safflower oil. Place 4 cups of sliced apples in a 10x6x2" baking dish. Sprinkle about 1 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/4 cup of water.

In a bowl, combine 3/4 cup of rice flour with 1/3 cup of same oils as above. Blend with a spoon 'til crumbly. Slowly add about 1 cup of either honey or maple syrup and continue to mix with spoon.

Drop mixture on top of apples, and bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.

The nice thing about this dessert is you don't have to be exact about any of the ingredients. You could add more apples, or use less; make more of the crumbled topping, or less; add more cinnamon or sweetener, or less of either of them.

If you try this recipe, I hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do!

Water: 1234567+

Activity: none

Detox--Day Eight

Yeay! Today I can eat more choices of foods! This detox is going really well, and I'm feeling good, especially my stomach! :-) (Chronic brain fog and chronic pain in my neck does not go away with this, but overall achiness from Fibromyalgia does lessen.)

Breakfast

9:30 Shake

11:00 Salmon, olive oil Probably should have had my shake at this hour, but didn't.

Snack

11:40 Raw cashews

Lunch

1:05 Shake

Dinner

5:00 Shake

Chicken, garlic, marjoram

Snack

9:00 Raw cashews

Water: 123456+

Activity: Walked about 35 minutes with my companions under sunny, blue skies.

Detox--Day Seven

I've been up and about since 7am, but have been distracted with looking things up on the internet, chatting with friends on Facebook, and reffereeing the 16 yr old and 6 mos old purrballs.  Am I hungry? Yea... but stuff is happening, and I don't want to miss out!  :-P

Breakfast

9:30am  Shake

11:00am  2 Kiwi

I'm excited about eating something other than fruit and veggies, tomorrow.  A cornish hen is thawing in the fridge, and I plan on fixing that early tomorrow morning.  Nummy!!!

Lunch

2:10  Shake

Dinner

5:30  Shake

Spaghetti squash, rice, olive oil

Snack

9:30  Rice, olive oil

Water:  12345+

Activity:  Walked with my wonderful neighbor in the snow flurries and bone-chilling wind for about 35 minutes.  Thank goodness for faithful friends and flannel jeans!!!

Detox--Day Six

Breakfast

Ugh. I actually fell back to sleep after my youngest cherub left for school..., and woke up when my oldest called me from school around 10:30!!! I'm totally whipped. Took my first shake at 11:20!!!

Lunch

2:20 Shake

I still feel like a slug. Must be the weather/barometric pressure. :-P

Dinner

5:10 Shake

Cauliflower, rice, olive oil

Water: 1234567+

Activity: None

Detox--Day Five

Breakfast
I was up late, last night and was zapped, this morning, so I didn't have my shake 'til 9:30am. Our six month old kitten has been trying to play with my oldest daughter's betta fish which is in an uncovered 10 gallon aquarium in her room. The night before (also a late night), his back legs and tail had fallen into the betta's abode.  Thankfully, it only has about 6" of water in it! The fuzzball has been sleeping in our room the past two nights. Last night, he slept on our bed, and I kept checking on him 'cuz I was afraid he was going to get squashed by my hubby who moves around a lot at night!  :-P  I shouldn't worry--he was born on an alpaca farm and thus used to larger animals, and is also very careful to stay away from a prancing pooch!

Lunch
1:00 Shake
Watermelon

Dinner

5:30ish  Shake

Cauliflower, rice, and olive oil

Water: 12345678+
Activity:  I bounced around on my mini trampoline... .  --At least I was moving!  :-)

Detox--Day Four

Breakfast

8:00am Shake

10:30am watermelon

Stomach feels really good, today!

Lunch

12:10 Shake

Dinner

5:30 Shake

Green beans, spaghetti squash, olive oil

Water: 123456+

Activity: Does dragging, lifting, and carrying large, heavy pumpkins around count? :-P Okay, this is legit--walked 1 1/2 hours as it was snowing with my neighbor Pat and her dog. :-)

Had an adjustment, today. Also took Inflaguard because my lower back, and of course my neck which is a given, were not very happy. Dr. Dan has told me to try not to use this while on the detox. Vitamins and enzymes are good, though. Dr. K had me on several enzymes and also vitamins when I started my first detox six years ago. Once I was tested, it showed that Metazyme was the best choice for me, so I still take this. TymeZyme, I was told, was the second choice, and would be a first choice for anyone who is seeking a really good enzyme. You can get it here, too.

Detox--Day Two

A much better day, today!

Breakfast

10:00 Shake

Lunch

1:30 Shake

Snack

Ate a pear around 3pm

Dinner

Shake at 5:50 with Probioplex--yeay, it's in!!!

Acorn squash, green beans (more raw than cooked) and olive oil

Water: 1234567

Activity: Stretching on my exercise ball, but I know that doesn't really count.

Detox--Day One

I'm feeling really miserable physically for the second time this week. It mainly has to do with storm fronts/barometric pressure that have figuratively been pummeling our area, or more accurately, me! My doc reminded me on Wednesday that low pressure systems are going to make anyone with Fibromyalgia feel really lousy. Pain levels up, increased cognitive difficulties, face feeling like it's going to explode, headache, and body-wide achiness. Draggy, lethargic, debilitated. It drives me nuts because there's so much I need to do, yet I can't do it. A long, hot, steamy shower would help, but it takes a lot of effort to even do that, and then I'm left exhausted.

Breakfast

Crawling out of bed at 10am, I had my first breakfast shake at 11am. I can't eat when I first get up in the mornings, even if I've been awake and am just vegetating. I hate feeling like a slug, and always feel guilty when I don't "rise above" the "blah" and lethargy and act like a normal person would. But this unfortunately is normal for me, especially this time of the year. While it may be a "bad" day for me physically, it's one that I still can--and do--rejoice in the Lord.

Lunch

I took my second shake at 1:15 even though I wasn't hungry, then took a nice long shower. My stomach now feels happy, relaxed, and calm. It gets that way when I've eaten totally gluten -free meals, especially at our friend Olive's home, and also at her daughter's gluten-free, allergy-free reception and dinner which was catered by her friend, Sueson Vess.

Snack

Even though I wasn't hungry, I had three kiwi around 3:30.

Dinner

Took third shake at 5:00, and had acorn squash with olive oil. My kids aren't big fans of squash, so this is a treat for me! (Actually, don't tell them I snuck it into their stew tonight, okay?)

Glasses of water: 4

Activity: None

My First Detox

Almost seven years ago, I started my first detox with Metagenics products and a super chiropractor/nutritionist doc. I was very, very, very ill, and my traditional medical docs didn't know what to do for me. My fingertips were a dusky brownish color, not healthy pink. I could not walk halfway out into our backyard without my legs getting heavy and cramping, and being short of breath. Eating was exhausting and a real chore--I had to force myself to eat, but all that effort literally went in one end and out the other due to mal absorption. I lost weight, and I was thin to begin with.

Also, every month when I started ovulating, I got sick, and then sicker with each new month. My friend, Dr. Devin Starlanyl, told me it wasn't coincidental, that there must be a hormonal issue. It was a very frightening time in my life. When my three very young children needed me the most, I was barely even there for them. I was dying and I was only 39 years old!

My doc put me on several enzymes to help aid digestion, which was clearly a problem. The liquid detox was much easier to take, and since it's very easily absorbed nutritional food, my body was getting what it needed even if that was the only thing I could "eat". The tiring part for me was actually making the detox shake. But it was worth it!

After being on this for only about two weeks, I was feeling stronger, more alert, and my fingertips were losing that dirty, tinged look and were turning pink! Within a month, I was allowed to start exercising by taking walks. Two months after starting the detox, we went to Matthiessen State Park, got lost on one of the trails, and ended up walking for three hours!!! (I think I was the only one happy about that!) The thrilling thing is I could have kept going!!!

It was nearly two years later when I finally finished the detox. It was an extremely long time, but it was very necessary for me. Was it expensive? Yes. Was it worth it? Very much so. My hubby still tells me that was the healthiest he's ever seen me in the 17 years we've been married.

This will be my third detox using Metagenics products. It literally saved my life.

It's been almost two years since I last did a detox, and it's long overdue. My stomach's been whining and complaining to me for months, and the constant discomfort and feeling really blah has convinced my hubby to say, "It's time."

I've also been more than a little lethargic; the other day I finally dragged myself out of bed at 11:30am!!! It could very well have been the storm front that was creeping upon us, the colder weather that's settling in, the chronic anemia, adrenal fatigue, chronic fatigue, or fibromyalgia that plague me. Another unwelcome constant companion is chronic pain due to chronic myofascial pain. I'm honestly not complaining. I've accepted these life-long, er, "companions" and have learned to look beyond them. And, besides, these kind of things build character! :-)

Seven years ago, when I was 39 years old, I was a wreck, physically. My doc in Chicago validated my lethargy when an Energy Level Panel test, done through Great Smokies Diagnostic Labs, (now known as Genova Diagnostics), verifying that my mitochondria was not being fed. Other tests revealed that I had high levels of Uranium, Lead, Aluminum, Tin, and Strontium. Food allergy testing showed that 77 out of 88 foods I was tested for I was either intolerant or allergic to! And anything I put into my mouth made my stomach turn, even water!!! At that time, this doc told me he couldn't help when it came to nutritional support. I was extremely thankful for what he was able to help me with, as well as the informative tests he ran. My traditional docs had already given up on me, saying they had no idea what to do to help. Fortunately, my friend, Dr. Devin Starlanyl did, and gave me the name of two docs in my area she highly recommended.

Processed foods, junk foods, and getting gluten contamination are some reasons my liver has been working overtime, and it's ready for a well-deserved break!