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Day 16 of Ultimate Reset! --- Food: ☑️ Breakfast: fruit plate! ☑️ Lunch: Moroccan Carrot Salad over Mixed Greens - one of my absolute favorite meals so far! Super easy to make and pretty filling. And if you put it over salad greens, you don't even need to add dressing! ☑️ Snack: skipped. ☑️ Dinner: blue corn nachos & Balinese peanut bowl Mood: pretty energized all day except I was a little sleepy around 10am but it was fleeting. Cravings: not much today except when I saw a sign with burgers and fries on the way back from the hospital 😆 --- Met up with a friend from IG who's also in PM&R tonight for dinner! She introduced me to this amazing vegan restaurant called Oness Foundtain Heart. You can make half the menu gluten-free too which is amazing! The vegan cheese on nachos were delicious and so was the vegan beef. Tastes basically like the real thing! It's so cool how social media brings people together to form these connections. ♥️
Happy Monday! What a beautiful rainy, dreary day ☔😂 But at least I started my day off right! Still going strong on my 21-Day Cleanse! Eating a lot of fruit this week for breakfast which I'm not a huge fan of but that's okay. This week is all vegan AND gluten-free so I'm a little scared. So I'm focusing on eating whole, raw fruits & veggies and starting to reintroduce some pre and probiotics back into my diet since I've been dairy-free since last week. Almost done though and cannot wait to share the results!
Day 15 of Ultimate Reset! --- Food: ☑️ Breakfast: fruit plate! ☑️ Lunch: Microgreens salad without the sunflower seeds (because I was too lazy and hungry to get them from across the other side of the building 😅) ☑️ Snack: tempeh & edadame ♥️ - super filling snack and much-needed in the midst of a busy day! ☑️ Dinner: curried cauliflower & lemon kale! Definitely will be making more of this in the future even after this cleanse. Mood: a little sleepy by the late afternoon but other than that, pretty good! Cravings: I wasn't craving anything in particular but I had a fleeting thought of wanting to eat "real" food on the way back from work 😆 like pizza or something but then it went away. It was bizarre. --- Cannot believe this is the last week of my 21-Day Cleanse! My results have been amazing so far and I feel better than I've felt in a LONG time. I'm re-learning a lot of great recipes that I'm going to try to incorporate into my usual meal plans once I'm done too!
Day 14 of Ultimate Reset! --- Food: ☑️ Breakfast: vegan Huevos Rancheros from Honeys in Philly - sooo delicious. Even if I weren't vegan, this still would've been an excellent choice. ☑️ Lunch: skipped because breakfast was super filling. ☑️ Snack: skipped. ☑️ Dinner: Nothing like a home-cooked meal. Fired up the grill tonight for Father's Day dinner but unfortunately couldn't eat the grilled salmon or ribs 😭 luckily there was a ton of asparagus and green beans. This is my absolute favorite way to eat green beans ever since I was little! Mood: pretty energized and awake for most of the day! Only now getting a little sleepy on the bus ride back to NYC. Cravings: really wanted the salmon but I resisted! --- One more week left of this cleanse! This weekend was a bit rough with going out to eat for most meals and having to choose vegan options at the restaurants. I certainly appreciate how difficult it can be to find good vegan restaurants now and even more difficult, vegan AND gluten-free, which is what I'll be doing this coming week. Eeeeek
Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful fathers out there! My family is a little unconventionally conventional in today's society. My parents divorced when I was in 2nd grade, so I didn't have much of a father figure for most of my younger years. For me, my step-dad, John, is more of my father than my biological father. He came into our lives when I was in 6th grade, and he's been so supportive of both my mom and me through all these years. I'm so glad he's in our lives! Love you, John aka Big Butthead (running joke since middle school... Don't ask). 😆
Sunday breakfast in Philly! 😍 Vegan Huevos Rancheros - actually super delicious. Better than yesterday's breakfast burrito IMO.
Day 13 of Ultimate Reset! It was tough today because we went out to eat for all the meals but I stuck to my vegan, dairy-free, & whole grain diet. --- Food: ☑️ Breakfast: vegan breakfast burrito - delicious and super filling. Only could eat half. ☑️ Lunch: skipped. ☑️ Snack: Franklin Fountain vegan chocolate peanut butter ice cream - splurge and delicious! But afterwards, I felt a little off. I think it was because I haven't had sugar (besides a little bit of maple syrup twice and fructose from fruits) for almost 2 weeks so it was a little bit of a shock for my body. But now I know I don't react too well to it so I should be more conscientious of what I'm eating after this cleanse. ☑️ Dinner: caught up with friends at V Street - delicious all vegan restaurant food! I'm glad my friends are so accommodating. 😁 But also it's a great restaurant that I'd been meaning to try for years now. Definitely recommend it! Mood: spent most of the day outside so I felt a little tired in the early afternoon. Cravings: none today because we had delicious meals all day!
It is sooo nice out! Decided to treat myself today even though I'm on my cleanse. Still stuck with the vegan, non-dairy diet though and got the vegan chocolate peanut butter which was actually pretty decent. 😋