This is my second time doing the Dr . Oz Detox Cleanse. I think I’ve mastered making the smoothies in a way that make them more palatable. For the lunch time smoothy, for example, I take out the fibrous stands from the celery and peel half the cucumber before blending. -no one likes a mealy, chewy smoothy 😛
Breakfast and lunch are down. Only have dinner and some warm glasses of green tea to go for today…. Here’s the info for any of you who’d like to try.
Day 2 of my 3 day Dr. Oz Detox Cleanse and I’m having olfactory hallucinations of buttered toast and coffee….
Don’t get me wrong, Its not that bad. I just REALLY want to eat something warm that also requires chewing. Is that so much to ask?! On a positive note, I’m not unbearably hungry and I’m glad that I took my friend’s advice to do the cleanse during the work week rather than the weekend so that I have something to distract me from thinking about all the foods I’d like to be eating. Another bonus, I already feel less bloated and cleaner and the dinner smoothy is actually pretty delicious! I’d drink it even on a day when I wasn’t trying to purge my system, lol.
The biggest pain in the butt is the prep. There’s a lot of chopping and measuring the night before in preparation for my breakfast and lunch the following day. I just don’t have the time in the morning to be doing all of that work.
To my chagrin, celery plays a key role in the lunch smoothy. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I love to eat celery but find its juice completely repugnant. The fact that the lunch smoothy also includes a whole cucumber and cup of kale, made it pretty fibrous and unbearable the first day. It was so unbearable, in fact that it took me a good 2 1/2 hours to sip and get through it. My students actually laughed at me as I drank it at my desk because they could see me wincing as I swallowed. One very loud girl asked “why are you making yourself suffer?!” I just laughed but, she was kinda right….
I made a few alterations as I prepped the lunch smoothy last night and it was MUUUUUCH better today. Here’s what I did: 1. Use only those stalks from the heart of the celery. They are much more tender and less fibrous 2. Take about 50% of the peel off of the cucumber before chopping it up for your blender. 3. Blend it a really, really, really long time. Believe me, its worth it.
Here is the actual cleanse worksheet as provided on the Dr. Oz web site.
I’d love your feedback if you decide to try it! Place a comment under this post!
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