The Detox Kitchen - day five!

Nearly through to the end and I'm actually, and if I'm honest, starting to feel that it has had effect. I have spent the beginning of the week feeling bloated and the bloat has now gone, so my stomach is a bit flatter and I feel, well, lighter somehow. I don't think I've lost much (if any) weight but I do feel that this has kick started my metabolism after Christmas and I can now move on to do so...
So last day and what did we have...

Breakfast was a watermelon and raspberry juice with a pot of sunflower seeds. I am not sure about a juice for breakfast I must say as I was hungry and chomping my way through my snack of carrot and celery with hummus by half ten, so it was a bit of a long way until lunch. Thank goodness for the herbal teas!

Lunch was a chicken breast with pesto brown rice and pearl barley which was filling and made up for breakfast and my afternoon snack was a bit of a strange concoction of butter bean mash with mint and corriander. Tasted okay but would have liked some more veg to go with it really.

My last supper was a delicious butternut squash curry with quinoa followed by Canteloupe melon with blueberries.

It's over. I will miss the bags outside my door every morning and the fact that I haven't had to think about what I am eating. I have made a few minor transgresions I will admit, I have always been a bit of a rule breaker. But they were only minor and not major mortal sins and have kept me going through to the end. I feel less sluggish and set for a more weight loss regime. If you want to detox without thinking about it then give The Detox Kitchen a go.

The Detox Kitchen Day One
The Detox Kitchen Day Two
The Detox Kitchen Day Three
The Detox Kitchen Day Four

The Detox Kitchen - day four

Yesterday was a bit of a disaster trying to stick to The Detox Kitchen regime as the evening found me at two events both with champagne and I am afraid I drew a line at sticking to water. So I retoxed, not badly but I did retox and do I feel bad for it? Do I heck! Today a grey dawn dawned and I promised to be better and back on track so my day started with a shot of beetroot juice, the ubiquitous tablets and a breakfast of porridge oats with blackberries and raspberries and almond milk.
My snack was a tub of cherry tomatoes with beetroot and apple juice which was really refreshing then lunch was meant to be a lightly steamed broccoli broth with ginger and garlic and a pot (a very small one I might add) of hazelnuts. This didn't happen as we don't have a microwave at work so I did break my fast and have a soup from Pret - I really am not a cold soup lover I'm afraid.

My afternoon snack was Edamame beans - oh I really do love these.

Supper was a smoked salmon fillet with sesame fried vegetables and puy lentils - this was great as I prefer salmon fillets smoked and I love puy lentils. I gently warmed it in the oven and it really was good.

And then the snack was grapes, raspberry coulis and flaxseed. I am still not taking the clay as I just can't but it feels good to be a bit more back on track.

One more day to go!

The Detox Kitchen Day One
The Detox Kitchen Day Two
The Detox Kitchen Day Three
The Detox Kitchen Day Five

The Detox Kitchen - third day

Well I am feeling bright and chipper and a little less bloated so something in this diet from The Detox Kitchen must be working. I have, however, failed in that I cannot drink clay last thing before going to bed and I am sure I would be seeing more benefits if I was to do so. But I just can't so I think we'll have to agree to disagree on that one. Call me a wimp, accuse me of copping out, but I will be sick and as a way of losing a bit of weight it really isn't great. So I will stick to the regime of pill-popping, tea-drinking and munching my way through the delicious daily food boxes thanks very much.
Breakfast - a shot of wheatgrass followed by a juice of blueberry, apple and kiwi with a pot of cashew nuts and dried mango. Now I must admit that after yesterday's delicious porridge this was a bit meagre, but I just imagined I was sitting on a veranda over-looking a bay in the Caribbean and it seemed to get me in the right mood for all this fruit.

The mid-morning snack was steamed broccoli with semsame and flaxseed which I must admit it's a really weird choice for a snack, but there you go. Then lunch was a delicious stir-fried Asian spiced prawns and vebgetables with brown rice.

The mid-afternoon snack was toasted pumpkin seeds then dinner was chick pea and quinoa salad with red cabbage slaw followed by strawberries and pistachio. This was the most disappointing meal to date - if I'm honest it lacked flavour and seasoning and I love chickpeas but they need to be whole not crushed as was the case. Never mind.

I must admit I'm a big of a snacker during the day and nothing has lived up to the vegetables and houmous of the first day but I am very proud that I have avoided the Krispy Kreme's which were delivered to the office this week and have been malevolently staring at me from their box by the kettle...

The Detox Kitchen Day Five

The Detox Kitchen Day Four

The Detox Kitchen Day Two

The Detox Kitchen Day One

The Detox Kitchen - day two

The Detox Kitchen day two and I haven't cracked yet!

So I woke up this morning and I must admit I wasn't hungry (which I was fearing) and my stomach felt a bit flatter. I have, since Christmas indulgencies really, been feeling bloated and sluggish and I can definitely feel, even after just one day, things are beginning to take effect.

Today's bag contained the usual tablets and potions - the supplements are a Biocare Adult Mulitvitamin & Mineral tablet, 2 linseed oil 500 capsules which contain omega 3 fatty acids, 1 Biocare Bio Acidophilus which is a probiotic full of 'good' bacteria.

I must confess I couldn't face taking the Bentonite Clay last night, this aids internal cleansing and detoxing, but I just couldn't face it. Today's resolution is to take it and not make a fuss.

Breakfast was a shot of beetroot juice, the tablets and a porridge oats with agave raspberry and apple compote and almond milk which was filling.

Today's snack was carrot, celery and apple juice and lunch (which was my favourite one to date) was roasted root vegetable tagine with almond and pearl barley - which was stuffed full of crisp sweet potato and quite delicious.

Dinner was very filling but healthy, chicken with a smoked aubergine and puy lentil bake with rocket and a snack of kiwi with mint and blueberries. I feel healthier just typing this...

The Detox Kitchen Day One
The Detox Kitchen Day Three
The Detox Kitchen Day Five
The Detox Kitchen Day Four

The Detox Kitchen - a week of detox

I am doing a detox this week for a brand new diet delivery company in London called The Detox Kitchen. They deliver outside your front door early in the morning so you will have stuff for breakfast onwards and everything is balanced in terms of nutritents - they even supply you with some tablets and Pukka teas to keep things balanced and healthy. I will be blogging how I get on throughout the week - though how I'm going to live without coffee I do not know!

Each detox box that is delivered daily for 5 days contains

• Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner and pudding/snack
• Detoxing herbal teabags
• One little tub of psyllium husk (we are huge fans of this wonder powder!)
• One little tub of detoxifying bentonite clay
• A Biocare supplement program
• A 'shot of the day' - wheatgrass, beetroot juice, aloe vera and many more

You have to follow the sequence of breakfast, lunch and dinner and before breakfast I mixed Psyllium Husk with juice. This acts as a broom for the colon (nice!) and gets things moving as it were. I also have Bentonite Clay for bedtime for internal cleansing and detox. Yum.

For breakfast I had a beetroot, celery and apple juice with a little pot of brazil nuts - surprisingly tasty.
My mid-morning snack was humous and raw veg...
Then lunch was a delicious Quinoa and carrot, pepper salad with a dressing of coriander, soy and ginger vinaigrette.

My mid afternoon snack was a pot of Edamame beans which I love then I had to survive on a detox tea and lots of water until supper.

This was a Sri Lankan vegetable and prawn curry with lime pickle and saffron brown rice - it made a nice change to have some hot food. I was also sent a baked apple with cinnamon and nutmeg and a trace of a raspberry coulis - very nice indeed. Welcome little touch was a little pot of fresh mint leaves for making a mid-evening drink, these guys try to think of everything.

Will let you know how I feel tomorrow and what's on the menu!

The Detox Kitchen Day Two
The Detox Kitchen Day Three
The Detox Kitchen Day Four
The Detox Kitchen Day Five