Brain Drain : Day 21 #100daysofwriting

I've felt drained for weeks and frankly, I'm tired of it. I'm not good about taking vitamins and I like the idea of fresh source nutrients, so I dusted off my juicer.

I grabbed 5 of my favourite ingredients and started with a beetroot-apple-carrot-lemon-ginger combo.

Beetroot is the kind of vegetable I've avoided most of my life - but it makes a great juice. Full of iron and claiming to aid recovery after a work out, its a winner. And really does help with exercise recovery!

Apples keep the doctor away... And anyone else if you aim right... But seriously, sweet but lower in kljs than other fruit - grey ingredient.

Carrots are full of vitamin A for crazy eye health - need I say more?

Lemon is full of vitamin C and always top of the pops for detox drinks. Juice with the skin on for a tart flavour! So fresh!

Ginger puts the zing in your blood and aids digestion.

I've got enough juice for a glass tomorrow morning - think I will add a dash of cayenne pepper to really get my motor going!

Here's to a healthy winter! xxx

Sasko Sam... you best hide yourself....

Dear Devoted Reader

I seem to have been boldly throwing around the word “Dukan”… and now I’m screwed. Totally  screwed…. Don’t sign up for stuff before you have read the fine print with a telescope… I nodded sagely through “no carbs”, “no alcohol”…. And just lost my $h1t over the idea of “NO FRUIT”…. Say whaaaaaaaaat? What about an apple a day? 5-a-day? Ok, I can eat veggies…. Eventually…. But fruit? We’re looking at 3 months sans fruit and only if I can lose at least 15kg in 3 months.

 (I don’t know how long that apple has been sitting on my desk.... but I just inhaled it)

Brother is doing it with me…. And seems very excited about phase 1… which is where we eat ONLY PROTEIN for 5 days…. I was a vegetarian for 5 years…. Meat-only seems positively criminal. But, what’s that? I could lose 5kgs straight off? *mouth forms into a little O shape*

 People say don’t focus on what you can’t have, look…. You can have low fat bacon

 

*sniffs the air* “BACON?”

 And quark…. “What’s QUARK” …. No-one knows, it must be foreign…. *googles*

 “Oh, it’s a soft cheese… we like cheese….”

We have said we will start on Saturday… so I need to go eat a kilo of apples and the Sasko Sam mascot…..

xxx

PS: I know fad diets are totes un-PC, but this one works and it's only a few months of craziness....

Arty Apples

http://thinkoutsidetheboxtoday.com/fruit-skulls/

http://www.picturebulk.com/arts/15-gorgeous-examples-of-fruit-art/

http://adrastia217.blogspot.com/2011/04/kiwi-duck-failed-carve-attempt.html

http://pictures.labho.com/amazing-fruit-art-collection/amazing-fruit-art-collection/