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Sunday, January 24, 2016

After the Cleanse to New Years 2016 Detox

Like everyone, Mike and I both had goals of cleaning up our diet even more and doing the 21 day detox again as part of our New Years plans. We ended the last detox protocol the day before Thanksgiving which was both parts wonderful and horrible. Wonderful in the fact that after small portions we got to engage in entire day of eating. Our buddy Bruce recently moved to Austin from Kansas City and Thanksgiving is his BIG holiday of the year. He even stayed overnight so that he could get up before dawn and start smoking our holiday turkey and duck.

The smoked turkey team 

We had a wonderful time with really fun friends. We Ate! We Drank! We had Sugar! We had Bread! We Drank More! The food spread was truly impressive and we went for it. Bruce made a ton of side dishes. There may have been vodka and native headdresses.







The down side of course was the next day where we felt dead and bloated. And there were many many leftovers - we were hung over, we layed around and grazed all day. So truthfully - two very glutinous days in a row.

After we recovered from Thanksgiving, we ate fairly healthy thru the month of December. The first thing I added back in was Greek yogurt. Mike did not and he has mostly stayed away from dairy since. The main thing I noticed when adding dairy back into my diet was that my chin broke out again which had cleared up completely on the cleanse. We stayed away from most gluten. We bought gluten free bread, beer, and snacks. Mike has also switched to Gluten Free Beer and Scotch when he drank. He favors Austin Beerworks - Fire Eagle - this is considered low gluten - not gluten free. He also tried many types of Apple Cider drinks & Omission IPA - he says it's not bad but not his favorite. The Cider gets sweet on the stomach fast.

We traveled to Kansas City for the Christmas holiday and mostly threw the diet out the window. We ate really good Italian Food, my moms home cooking and holiday sweets. We saw Star Wars and had huge sodas and movie theater popcorn. Mike had holiday scotch.





Our drive home from Kansas City was a white knuckle 15 hour ride from hell. We left ahead of a storm but caught up to it at the Oklahoma border. It started with sleet and quickly turned to ice and snow. Cars and semi's were spinning off the highway every 20 minutes or so. We were in the middle of nowhere so  had to just have faith in Mike's driving skills and go slow. We hit the Texas boarder and the snow turned to rain. By the time we got to Dallas it was monsoon levels with flooding everywhere. I-35 was down to one lane more than a few times. As we hit Waco we could see large storms in the distance along with terrible backups. We decided to take a 2 lane back highway and ran into insane hail!


When we finally pulled into our driveway, our nerves were shot and I could feel myself getting sick. Within 24 hours, I was at Urgent Care with a horribly swollen throat. Long story short - Tonsillitis with 10 days of heavy duty antibiotics and steroids.

This story is only relevant to why we weren't able to start the detox for a few weeks. We have to fast the first day and it makes no sense to "Detox" while taking heavy medication. There were some extra nights of fun and drinks and a few more BBQ meals but we were ready to go on the protocol again! Please follow along with us while we give it a 2nd try. Thanks for the support and happy to answer any questions. Here we go again!




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