Keep It Fun And Healthy

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! I sure did! It was nice being with the family. Here are a few pictures from our Christmas: One week from today I will be starting the Detox. If any of you are following along with the 28 day Detox on wholeliving.com you may have noticed that it’s changed a little. This year they are focusing on 5 to 6 small meals and a few extra things. The foods to avoid are still about the same (sugar, processed foods, alcohol, caffeine, wheat/gluten, eggs, dairy, peanut products, fruit juices, soy, corn) I’ve decided that I’m going to do a little combination of last years and this years. Monday through Thursday I’m still going to do the smoothies for breakfast and dinner. After all I got a new blender for Christmas! Check it out! I also got a Whole Foods gift card! Thanks, Kyle! I started making out my grocery list today! Tonight I made Veggie chili. I was craving something warm and cozy. I found this recipe online and tweaked it a little. It’s su...

Hello again! So, I’m off for Christmas vacation and I’m loving it. My roomate, Kyle and I were able to knock out some leaf raking yesterday. It needed to be done! It looks great. Now if we could get the 30 bags of leaves picked up soon it would look even better. I decided to experiment with a liquid breakfast this morning. It was pure improv with want I had on hand. It’s only a week and a half till the real detox! Today consisted of these ingredients. Here’s the recipe for 2 servings Whatever you have on hand smoothie! 1 frozen banana 1 cup of frozen berries 1 Tb organic peanut butter 2 C non fat milk ( I can't have milk during the detox. I didn’t have Almond milk on hand) I thought it was pretty good. I liked the seeds from the berries in it. Kyle thought it was just okay. He said it wasn’t sweet enough. But seemed to drink it up and then asked if there was anymore. It kept me pretty full until lunch time. I was happy about that!

Hello again! I hope I have some of you on board to do this with me. :) Just think of how you will feel by eating healthy every day for a month. Then, just hopefully you would have created some lasting healthy changes. I think I may have even convinced Kyle (my boyfriend) to eat healthier for the month of January.   He’s not in to the whole detox thing though.  Today I’ve been thinking of some meals I can cook for the first week of this detox. I guess there won’t be a whole lot of cooking but lots of blending . I thought I would share some of the recipes I’m thinking about making. Breakfast and Dinner smoothies: I will probably be going to Whole foods a couple nights this first week to get a fresh juice from the juice bar for dinner. Mango Smoothie 1 ¼ Cup Soy Free Almond Milk ½ Cup Coconut Water 2 Leaves Kale (I may use spinach instead because I’m using it for the green smoothie recipe) ¼ Avocado ½ Mango chucks (frozen if I can find them) ½ C Ice (if you Mango is fro...

This is a new thing for me. I follow a lot of blogs but have never blogged myself. I felt like this was the perfect opportunity for me because I will be starting a new healthy eating plan in January. I want to document the whole process. First of all let me tell you a little about me. I am a health educator working in Little Rock . I just recently graduated from the University of Central Arkansas with my Master’s in Health Science. For my job, I help a lot of people change behaviors. My favorite part of what I do is guiding people to healthier eating habits. I like to eat healthy! I love it when someone gets just as excited about healthy eating as I do. I know I’m a geek. Well, I get a lot of questions about certain diets and detox diets. I don’t like these words. I think they are scary. I just try to direct people to the basics, the food pyramid. But a coworker of mine has convinced me to try a 28 day detox. She convinces me to try new things and keeps me on my toes on all the late...