Green Smoothie Cleanse - Willow's Day Two

Two days down! We are almost done with this cleanse. I woke up very tired this morning. In fact, Andrew had to come in a couple times to make sure I actually got up. Last night I started to have a headache right before bed. My head still hurt a bit this morning. Once I got up and moving I was just fine.

Andrew requested the Cinnamon Cherry Green Smoothie again. I made it about the same as yesterday, except for some added wheat germ. While Andrew was in the shower, I got the brilliant idea of surprising him with a delicious Chocolate Peanut Butter Green Smoothie. He loves Reese's... so he'd love Reese's as a smoothie, um, with some spinach... okay, it seemed like a good idea at the time. We'd run out of non-dairy milk, so I used water. The cocoa powder was bitter, so I added some chocolate protein powder. Still not quite right. Here is where I start being dumb. I decided to add some oats, a pinch of cinnamon, and a dash of vanilla (like chocolate peanut butter oatmeal cookies). Yeah, it was gross. Andrew tried it and thought the same thing. Since he wasn't going to drink it, I added a some banana and it actually helped.

For lunch I decided to branch out from the purple and green smoothies that we've been drinking. I started thinking about how carrot and ginger go really well together. After making a Carrot Apple Zinger (yeah, I'm awesome at naming smoothies), I drove it over to Andrew's work. I thought it tasted good, but Andrew said it wasn't smooth enough. The apple I added at the end hadn't become liquefied I guess. There wasn't much carrot smoothie left after pouring Andrew's into a bottle, so I made our Signature Green Smoothie again for my lunch (too bad I didn't finish it before going to the gym, left it out on the counter, and it was disgusting by the time I got home).

For dinner I decided to try a Tropical Carrot Smoothie. Andrew told me that he was tired of drinking smoothies and therefore didn't care what I made. At first, I blended up a bunch of fruit with some almond milk (went to the store earlier in the day) and coconut water, but I then realized that it wasn't a a green smoothie. I needed to put in some veggies. So, In order to keep the color and preserve the taste, I added a carrot. Voilà, instant green smoothie! I should add that a "green smoothie" in my mind just means a smoothie with vegetables it


By the time Andrew and I finished our last smoothie it was 9:30 pm. We added up our ounces for the day. I was short by about two cups and Andrew was short by one. It was too late to drink more smoothie. We'll do better tomorrow.


Side effects: I had enough energy at the gym, but at about 7 pm fatigue hit me like a brick wall. Andrew got tired at about the same time. I was in the bathroom a lot, so was Andrew, but Dr. Christopher's Lower Bowel Formula must be pretty mild. I wasn't sitting on the toilet all day like I'd expected. My mouth didn't feel as bad as yesterday. I did have to brush my teeth partway through the day to get rid of the weird filmy feeling.

Today was better than yesterday. Actually, today was pretty easy. I caught myself thinking that I could probably keep this up forever... that thought didn't last very long. At the end of the day I was tired of making and drinking smoothies. Andrew said that today was worse than yesterday. He had a lingering headache throughout the day. I told him it was all the toxins being released by his body. It could also be the stress of being on a cleanse while at work, who knows.

Recipes (you know you want to drink some chocolate, peanut butter and spinach together):

Cinnamon Cherry
(see yesterday's post)

A&W Signature Green
(see yesterday's post)

Chocolate Peanut Butter Green Smoothie (40 oz)
2 cups water
3 Tbsp. peanut butter (made with just peanuts)
Two handfuls of baby spinach
1 Tbsp. cocoa powder
1 Tbsp. chocolate protein powder
2 bananas
small amount of agave or honey (to taste)
(ingredients I shouldn't have added below)
1/4 cup oats
pinch of cinnamon
dash of vanilla

Carrot Apple Zinger (32 oz)
1 cup almond milk (what I had on hand)
2 cups fresh pineapple
2 carrots
1" piece of ginger
1 gala apple
dash of agave or honey
some water
small handful of ice

Tropical Carrot Smoothie (62 oz)
1 cup almond milk
1 cup orange juice
16 frozen strawberries
2 cups frozen sliced peaches
2 cups fresh pineapple
1 1/c cups frozen mango
2 bananas
1 carrot
agave or honey (to taste)

Total water for the day: 64 oz
Total smoothie for the day: 109 oz