Today, for our final day, we were supposed to eat only fruits and veggies, and we could (finally) incorporate some fruit and vegetable juice as well. (Thanks to Amanda for pointing out that it was vegetable AND fruit juice!)
For breakfast, Ande made a smoothie in his bedroom because Caitlin had fallen asleep on the couch downstairs. How considerate.
The smoothie was frozen peaches, carrots, watermelon, and orange juice... Ande has interesting combinations when Caitlin isn't around to guide him. He says that it was really good though, so we'll just go with that.
Lunch was pretty light for both of us.
Big ol' glass of orange/carrot juice and a banana. Surprisingly adequate until dinner time. Note: we aren't sure if we're supposed to have bananas or potatoes today, but it didn't say we couldn't, so we did. We ate them both! Lots and lots of both of them! Bahahaha!!
We soon realized that, as our last evening meal was approaching, we were a) out of vegetables and b) really wanting to eat some Toxic food at midnight. Off to Hornbacher's again!!
As you can see, we have some delicious dried apricots, bananas, green peppers, some Bolthouse fruit and vegetable juices, and carrots on top. And on bottom (we separated them by their naughtiness) we have coffee ice cream, potato chips, french bread pizzas, and supplies for Caitlin to make FRENCH TOAST BAKE! Look for our next post about everything we gorged ourselves on at midnight as we retoxify our bodies, because it will exist. And it will be awesome.
Anyway, for dinner we chopped up some vegetables (seems like we do that a lot) and decided to roast them again. Caitlin had a bit of leftover garlic from the cacciatore, so we used that for some nice flavor.
Tasty meal! One of the tastiest we've had all week. We aren't really sure if that's because it's the LAST ONE or because it was just really good. Either way, we would probably eat that everyday. Potatoes, carrots, green peppers, and some zucchini. Mmmm. The green drink you see is a Bolthouse Green Goodness (like Naked's Green Machine). We know that maybe Bolthouse isn't the best drink in the world for you, but it's a good way to get in a lot of fruits and veggies without having to buy tons of ingredients. See: we're lazy.
We'd like to wrap up this week with a few stats and figures... superlatives if you will.
Total money spent for 7 days of meals: $115 (split in two is $57.50 a person for 7 days of food) Pretty damn good.
Total water drank: A lot, we have no idea. But it was a lot. We averaged 7 waterbottles a day.
We also didn't drink any coffee, tea, soda, fruit juice (except for today) or have any caffeine of any kind. Surviving a week without coffee is quite a feat for us, and it definitely saved us some money too.
Total weight lost: Ande lost 5 pounds and Caitlin lost 12. We think this can mostly be attributed to the lack of grains, sugar, and for Caitlin how easy it was to feel full. We rarely had second helpings of anything, which is quite a change from the norm.
Favorite meals: Caitlin - Chicken cacciatore was just SO good. We aren't sure if the pictures really do it justice, but make that at home, people. Seriously. Get in the kitchen and do it. Also banana ice cream, and the chicken lettuce wraps. We had some tasty food this week. Ande - His first banana smoothie after not being able to have bananas for the first three days.
Least favorite meal: Caitlin - Didn't hate anything, but the veggie stir fry thing from Day 2 was kind of soggy and she was REALLY not in the mood for it. Ande - Salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. In case you didn't hear, Ande HATES oil and vinegar as a salad dressing.
Highest point of the week: Caitlin - Banana ice cream, of course. Ande - When we found out we could have Wonder Soup and not have to eat fruit for dinner.
Lowest point of the week: Caitlin - When all of her coworkers had chicken bacon ranch subs that were all toasty and cheesy and ranchy, and she had cold fruit. Ande - When there were donuts, cookies, and cupcakes at work and he couldn't eat ANY. Damn office birthdays.
Three words to describe this week: Caitlin - Difficult. Painful. Appreciative. Ande - Deprived. Hungry. Fun!
Food we're most looking forward to: Caitlin - Sandwiches!! Ande - Chinese buffets!! (Shocking, we know)
Food/drink we thought we'd miss but didn't: Caitlin - Pop of any kind. Ande - Coffee.
Food we like more now: Caitlin - Craves water more than ever before. Ande - Yellow peppers
Permanent change we might make: Caitlin - Going to seriously cut back on pop and sugary drinks all around. Maybe get rid of them all together. Ande - Going to start eating breakfast everyday.
Advice to the masses: Caitlin - It's super hard to go from eating whatever you want, to cutting out all grains, caffeine, meats, cheese, milk, chips, pizza, etc... So we just tried to look at every day individually instead of the big picture. Rather than thinking, "Wow it's a whole week until I can have a sandwich again," we just thought, "Okay so today we can have vegetables! What can we do with that?" My second piece of advice if you want to do this detox, or any detox/diet type thing, is to do it with a friend. Having Ande around to bounce ideas off of and commiserate with while at the same time having someone else to hold you accountable was really the thing that made me able to finish this detox with as little discomfort as possible. Just merely knowing that there is that someone else who is at work suffering over a bowl of raw veggies while your coworkers get free Applebee's for lunch just makes you feel better. Additionally, it helps if you're a decent cook, or at least willing to spend the hours in the kitchen making semi decent food. If you don't want to eat the Wonder Soup or just plan on eating raw vegetables whenever a vegetable day comes up, it's going to be a really long week for you. We tried to vary our meals enough so that we didn't get bored, and at the same time we wanted to make our meals into something to look forward to, rather than dread. Not every moment was torture. A lot of it was, but a lot of it was fun, and I would personally try this, or another detox, again.
Ande: Live. Laugh. Love. All-you-can-eat chinese buffet.
If you managed to stumble across our blog in between your Facebooking, Tweeting, Pinteresting, or watching porn and it's your first time reading, or you've stuck with us all week and somehow found time to keep up with our shenanigans, we just want to thank everyone for reading, commenting, texting/sexting :), and even starting your own detoxes. We've been really surprised, impressed, and humbled by how many of you have been following us on our little adventure, and it's really made the experience so much better. Starting this blog was the best choice we made all week, and it was a definite motivator knowing we had you all to report to each day.
We want to keep writing blogs in the future if you all want to read them. So if you have any ideas for future detoxes, work out programs, diets, whatever, we'd like to hear them!
Tune in tomorrow (or midnight o'clock) for Day 8: Midnight Snack
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