Today I started feeling the effects of the cleanse - both positive and negative. On the negative side, the laxative herbs are starting to work and my insides felt somewhat churned up at certain times today. On the positive side, I feel better and lighter already. The scale showed I'm a pound lighter than 3 days ago. When I walked in to the yoga studio today to teach a class, my studio manager comment on how svelte and radiant I looked. I'm glad my appearance mirrored my sense of wellbeing!
When I first did this cleanse 2 years ago, I followed the instructions to a "t" and took 2 of each of the 3 herbal caplets plus the drops twice a day. A week and a half into the cleanse, my bowels were still convulsing so I dropped the dosage to 1 laxative caplet twice a day and my body calmed down. In subsequent cleanses, I've kept with 2 a day. For this cleanse, I'm experimenting with 3 a day (1 in the morning and 2 at night). We'll see how long this lasts!
For breakfast today, I ate puffed millet cereal with almonds, apple chunks and soymilk. It's amazing how sweet apples can taste when you're deprived of sugar for a few days!
Lunch was kitcheree and carrot sticks dipped in lemon tahini dressing. Lemon Tahini Dressing is THE most delicious food in the Wild Rose cookbook. You can put this versitile dressing on just about anything: veggies, meat, rice... it is wonderful!
So wonderful, I ate it again for dinner, which was: Brown rice, TVP (textured vegetable protein), snow peas and lemon tahini dressing. If you are an omnivore, you could use chicken instead of TVP. See below for the Lemon Tahini Dressing recipe.
In a few minutes I'm off to teach my 7:15 Flow & Yin yoga class. More tomorrow!
Lemon Tahini Dressing
Ingredients:
2/3 cup unsweetened soy milk
5 tbsp lemon juice
1 garlic clove
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup tahini
1/2 tsp sesame oil
Method:
Place all ingredients in a blender (or hand blend) and puree for 1 minute at high speed.
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