7-Day Detox Programme: Day 4

29 December 2007


The 4th day brought the same old routine with the exception of about 45 mins of yoga before my breakfast. I had to stop cos my boiboi woke up and started "pressing button" on my body to test which "button" he presses will make me tumbling down whilst I pose plus he was laughing at me too *roll eyes*

Today, I only had some papaya and watermelon plus the detox drink for breakfast. I had forgotten about having yoghurt.

Oh dear, now I knew why I might be having a major sore throat... after reading the product label. It seems that this drink had loads of vitamins and minerals added to it. Darn!!! My body, essentially the Chinese called it "hui patt zhau po", cannot take vitamins supplements of all kinds. I will feel very heaty and sore throat is one of the major thingy followed by fever etc etc... no matter how much water I've pumped inside. So far, I've down more than 3 litres of water on a daily basis and yet... sighhh. So I kept gargling salt water as often as I could. Thank goodness by now my boiboi had recovered!

Came lunch, I had some fresh salad topped with raw almonds and sunflower seeds with papaya and watermelon. This time, other than balsamic vinegar, I drizzled in a bit of olive oil (no need to mention, its the extra virgin kind). At least they're more palatable now.

As for dinner, I had a medium bowl of pumpkin soup (neh the leftover) and some stir fried celery, carrots, cucumber and enoki mushroom with a little olive oil and garlic.

I had so much energy in me that I spent the whole evening after dinner ironing 2 weeks worth of clothes. Funny, I don't even feel sleepy. I noticed I've also yawn less. In fact, I watched thru Miami Ink and the new LA Ink until 2am AND I didn't even doze off. Very unusual. Prior to this programme, I can easily doze off until the telly watched me instead!!! Yeah even if it's at 9pm, I can just doze off. So I guess it must be the diet of no meat and carbs. Looks like I need to cut these off as much as possible from my daily diet especially carbs. I still need my protein of fried chicken and rendang heh.

**Some gross stuff ahead... read at your own risk as I need to document this for myself**

As in the big biz department, the morning was pretty usual and it's yellow floating stuff. Later in the afternoon I had the urge to purge but it's only a bit. I had this nagging feeling of purging towards the evening but it's those controllable kind. Had a bit of floating stuff out during one of my bout of urination. Luckily I'm at home, at least can dash to the toilet when I have such urge.


7-Day Detox Programme: How It Got Started
7-Day Detox Programme: Day 1
7-Day Detox Programme: Day 2
7-Day Detox Programme: Day 3


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7-Day Detox Programme: Day 3

28 December 2007

Day 3 & 4 Recommended Menu

Breakfast
Detox Programme Drink
1 piece of fruit with low-fat live yoghurt

Lunch
Large salad of fresh vegetables with some raisins
OR 2 pieces of baked sweet potatoes

Dinner
Detox Programme Drink
Lightly stir-fried vegetables or plain tofu dish with small amount of brown rice

Entering Day 3, I had much better sleep. Waking up less to check on my boiboi since he has gotten well. For breakie, I had detox drink, a slice of papaya and a cup of yoghurt. Then on to the usual chores.

Had steamed vegetables ie. carrots, cucumber, celery etc for lunch. By now I noticed I had a bit of sore on my tongue (right side), looks like a major sore throat is coming my way!

As for dinner, I adapted a pumpkin soup recipe into my way... a rather healthy version I would say. I fried some chopped onions and celery in a bit of olive oil. Tossed in a bay leaf which lent a very aromatic fragrance to the soup. Once the onions turned translucent, I added in cubed pumpkins. Stir a bit before adding just enough water to cover the pumpkins. Put on the lid and simmer for about 20 mins till pumpkins softened. Add in a wee bit of salt to balance the sweetness of the pumpkin.

Removed from stove and cool a little before I pureed them using a handheld blended. Next I poured in some low fat milk and put the pot on low heat until the soup came to a gentle boil. You may adjust the consistency of the soup by adding more water if you prefer a diluted version. Mine was rather thick.

**Some gross stuff ahead... read at your own risk as I need to document this for myself**

So for dinner, I had a hot pumpkin soup for a change with a small portion of steamed vegetables. No hunger pangs either this time. Still feel the same... nothing extraordinary. However, I did felt having a metallic taste in my mouth and my big toilet biz is as per claimed floating yellowish waste. Noticed that I've stopped passing any gas for today.


7-Day Detox Programme: How It Got Started
7-Day Detox Programme: Day 1
7-Day Detox Programme: Day 2


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7-Day Detox Programme: Day 2

27 December 2007


I got up at 8am and said good bye to hubby then continue to sleep till 9.30am. Have my breakie of one slice of papaya and detox drink at around 10. The fart got up at 10.30... fever seems under control. Did the usual yada yada...

Went out to buy some barley to make a cooling drink for boiboi, oh my passing by TWO nasi lemak stalls and the stupendous yummy hokkien char stall IS not a good thing. I've no idea why I had sudden craving for nasi lemak and hokkien char *sobs* never even had cravings during my pregnancy! Arrghhh temptations!!!!

Lunch, I had a slice of papaya and a bowl of raw almonds, sunflower and pumpkin seeds. Have a bit of raisins left from my baking, threw that in as well.

Drank loads of water and running to the toilet very often to relief myself off the large amount of water drank. The big bisness part of the toilet went smooth. Nothing unusual BUT the gas passed is urrghhh smelly!

Tried to get my boiboi to nap in the afternoon but he had loads of energy bouncing and rolling about on the bed. Had wanted to catch 40 winks but unsuccessful. Anyway, my boiboi was well and running.

Dinner, I had a salad of some salad leaves, carrot, celery, cucumber, green and yellow capsicum, long beans and baby corn. I had only sprinkle in some balsamic vinegar and black pepper. Boy, this salad is hard to swallow!!!! It's too dry... I suddenly felt like a cow :( Down the detox drink half an hour later. No hunger pangs tonight.

I still felt like usual but I noticed I wasn't lethagic at all thru out the day even the lack of sleep!!! At least one good thing eh?


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7-Day Detox Programme: Day 1

Happy new year to all! Hmm I've been trying to logon to blogger to post this up yesterday's afternoon but I can't login. Anyway, maybe it's good to start this off on a brand new year. Before I start, I wish to congratulate Audrey of Audrey Cooks on the arrival of her newborn baby boy on Boxing Day!

Dear Audrey and family,

A new baby boy will change everything.

Except its own diapers hehe.

Congratulations, and let the fun begins :D

And so here we go on my Day 1 of the detox programme...

26 December 2007

Day 1 & 2 Recommended Menu

Breakfast
Detox Programme Drink
1 piece of fruit

Lunch
1 piece of
fruit every 2hours
Some raw almonds or sunflower/pumpkin seeds

Dinner
Detox Programme Drink
Steamed
vegetables or vegetable soup with small amount of brown rice

Woke up early today around 7.30am. Drank half a mug of water. Waited for boiboi to wake up but the fart only woke up around 8.30am. Got him to get ready and have him drink his milk before going to the market to get the remainder stuff and also to get breakie for boiboi.

At about 9.45am, I had a small green apple and the recommended amount of the detox product. The detox product is shaken in a tumbler (came with the pack). I was worried that it will have the texture of those powdery hard to dilute protein drink but thank goodness it wasn't. Rather pleasant to drink as it's lemon flavoured. Kinda like it.

I knew I had drank 1.1 litre of water by lunch time. The programme recommended to drink 8 glasses of water a day or more which on a normal day, I would have more than 8 glasses in a day! So drinking loads of water is not really an issue to me.

By 1.30pm, I was feeling a little hungry. So I got myself half a bowl of raw almonds, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds (not flavoured ie. salted or honeyed) and a slice of papaya. I didn't bothered to have fruits every 2 hours *roll eyes*

It was also around this hour that I discovered my boiboi was running a fever. I gave him some fever med but it doesn't seem to help much. He even puked once right after the med. Sighhhh... I monitored his temperature and had no mood to even do any yoga as per recommendation. Did the usually house chores though of sweeping and mopping the floor.

Come dinner time (7ish), I had a plate of steamed vegetables of long beans, baby corn, leaf amaranth (bayam) and celery. Easy peasy, just cut them up and place on a plate. Sprinkle some water over and cover with cling wrap. Microwave on medium for 2 mins. Voila... just a light sprinkling of salt and some freshly grounded black pepper will do. I tend to have my vege this way if I'm eating alone at home. Nice! Half an hour later I drank the detox product concoction.

I did not feel tired nor sluggish, no experience of any vomitting nor diarrhoea, no headache... everything as per normal, well except the frequent urination part which really irritates me.

Took boiboi to nearby clinic. The darn GP gave so much meds to the poor kid. Boiboi puked again right after the meds. Made him rest a bit and just gave him the fever med. Checked the fridge and saw the suppository there. Will make use of it if boiboi's temperature rises above 39C. He was still hovering around 38.4C, darn!

Oh dear, by 11.30pm I was feeling a wee bit hungry. Maybe my vege portion was too small. Anyhow, I down more water. I guess by the end of the day I had most prolly drank close to 3 litres of water.

I slept with boiboi in his room. I didn't really sleep, most time just lelap (close?) my eyes. Every couple of hours I woke up to feel his forehead. I was finally relieved that his temperature had gone down... yeah I stuffed in the ear thermometer at 6am and the reading came 36C. Joy!


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2008: Happy New Year!!!

To a joyful present and a well remembered past. There is no time more fitting to say "Thank You" and to wish you a New Year of health, happiness and prosperity. Best wishes for a magnificent New Year!

7-Day Detox Programme: How It Got Started

It's funny how I got suckered into an ad placed in our local newspaper... I was reading and saw this detox ad. Read on and got myself into the detox product website. I left the website running, hubby read about it. We discussed a bit on it and I was saying that I'm in bad shape - lack of exercise, long hours at work, body aching all over, forever feeling lethargic... you know the gist. Next thing I knew, I had a box sitting at my kitchen counter. So, that was how I got myself into a 7 days detox programme!

To cut long story short, I'm gonna document my experience of this programme on a day-by-day account of what I did and ate. I had wanted to start on Christmas Day after calculating the days needed before I get back to work but being the lazy me, I only opened the box and read the booklet in the morning. It was kinda late to get myself out to buy the fruits and vegetables (this spelt EXCUSES, no???)... yada yada so I only got on to the programme on 26 Dec.

I decided it is best to have this done when I'm at home since the detox product booklet mentioned that one may experience unpleasant short-term reaction in the first 3 days ie. mild diarrhoea, frequent urination, extreme fatigue, sleepiness, irritability, headache, nausea, vomitting etc!!!! Did they freak you out??? Actually there were more gross stuff but I decided not to put down here hehe...

Looking at the bright side, I was hoping to achieve at least 4-5 of these:

• - increased energy and vitality
• - regular bowel movement
• - better digestion and elimination
• - better immunity
• - better sleep
• - improved skin tone and radiance
• - improved sense of well being and clearer mind

Pea did asked me if this programme will make one lose weight. The programme booklet did said one could but this is not a slimming programme. The weight lost was merely from old feacal matter in the intestines where one could accummulated up to 10-25 pounds of such waste. Anyway, losing weight is not my aim for this detox thingy. As I've told Pea, I do not own a weighing scale hence I won't be able to tell if I have lost any. She asked me to test by squeezing myself into the tightest skirt hahaha... ok Pea, I will do that, just for you.

The programme mentioned that it is not necessary to change one's diet during the 7-day period but since I'm on it, what the heck, I decided to somehow TRY to follow the eating plan. Not entirely but pretty close. *sobs* that means I had to drop any big makan plans which includes the floggers' Retro party on 28 December. Sorry guys but I just have to do this to flush out all the negatives and start anew eating my way to a healthier 2008.

The next few posts will see my day-to-day account of my experience. I will not name the detox product here as I'm in no position to endorse such product or programme to anyone. However, if you wish to know the name of the product, do drop me a line.

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Shortbread and Gingerbread Cookies

I've made some Shortbread and Gingerbread (yikes they ryhmed :D) Cookies right before Christmas. I've used the recipes from Donna Hay's Modern Classics Book 2. I just loved this book! All the recipes in this book worked except for the cookies haha... well the dough turned out to be too soft, maybe due to our weather, just like the supposedly-to-be-star-cookies. I could have store them in the fridge for more than 4 hours before shaping but I just don't have the time. All I did have was a mere 30 mins.

Anyway, I cheated and dusted flour on the dough after rolling so that I can press out the cookies in the cutters. So as I went along... the batch towards the end came out rather hard. Sorry to the few of the recipients of these cookies :P

Tastewise, the shortbread was nice BUT the gingerbread smelt so great whilst baking! So Christmassy... The gingerbread cookies were a tad hardy but crunchy, kinda like it as I crunch along finishing the star.

My boiboi "decorated" these shortbread with colourful sprinkles and coloured sugar.

So here are the recipes if you wish to try them yourself ;-)

Shortbread

220g chilled butter, chopped
2/3 cup caster sugar
2 cups plain flour
1/2 cup rice flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg

Pre-heat oven to 160C. Process all ingredients in food processor (Ive used my mixer instead, worked as well) until a smooth dough is formed.

Place dough on a lightly floured surface and knead gently.

Press mixture into a 20cm x 30 cm (8in x 12 in) slice tin lined with non-stick baking paper. Smooth the surface with the back of a spoon and score the top into long bars. Bake for 1 hour or until golden. Cool in tin. Slice along the score marks, makes 22 slices.

Or you can roll into balls, place on baking trays lined with non-stick baking paper and flatten slightly with a fork. Bake for 22-25 mins or until just golden brown.


Gingerbread

125g butter, softened
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup golden syrup (I replaced with honey)
21/2 cups plain flour, sifted
2 tsps ground ginger
1 tsp baking soda (bicarbonate of soda)

Preheat oven to 190C. Place butter and sugar in bowl and beat with electric beaters until light and creamy. Add golden syrup, flour, ginger and baking soda and mix to form a smooth dough. Refrigerate for 10 mins or until dough is firm.

Roll out dough between sheets of non-stick baking paper to 4mm (1/4 in) thick. Cut out shapes from dough using cookie cutter. Place on baking tray lined with non-stick baking paper. Bake for 8-10mins or until golden brown. Cool on tray.

Ref: Donna Hay, Modern Classics Book 2, page 12 and 32

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