Adventure starts next Monday!

Just wanted to share a couple of things about the Adventure cleanse next week. There are 4 levels you can choose from if you want to do this with us. It sounds like there are a lot of people who want to try it!

Adventure Level one - 50/50 - raw to cooked ratio

Adventure Level two - 70/30 - raw to cooked ratio

Adventure Level three - raw till dinner, then 80/20

Adventure Level four - 100% raw with a mini juice fast



Level one is pretty much half of the food and juce you eat in a day is raw fruits and vegetables. You could have fresh fruit until afternoon, then a salad for lunch, maybe some nuts and dried fruit for a snack and then for supper chicken and steamed veges and more salad. Kris wants everyone to eliminate all meat and dairy for this month but she also said if giving up meat is too difficult limit it to two days a week.



Level two is a little more raw foods than level one. You can have cooked veges or grains during the day as long as it's not more than 1/3 of what you're eating total for the day.



Level three is what I do and will do during the challenge also. Raw til dinner means that everything you eat or juice during the whole day is raw; fruit, veges, nuts, dried fruit (just make sure it doesn't have added sugar or sulphurs) you have to read labels on that. Then have a big salad or dish of veges for supper and you still have 20% cooked to use after you eat some raw supper. Always eat your cooked food after your raw food, it will digest better.



Level four is 100% raw with a mini juice feast on Wednesdays of each week during the cleanse. I wouldn't recommend this level to anyone just yet...



An example of what I eat as a level 3;



Upon rising until about 4pm

Fresh fruit (a lot!)

Fresh vege and fruit juice from the juicer (bottled juice is heat processed with added sugar)

Lots of water with lemon



about 4

dish of cold veges like cauliflower, carrots and broccoli with salad dressing from previous blog



about 6 or 7

gigantic salad; lettuce, spinach, mixed greens from Sams, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini,

red onion, red bell pepper, with salad dressing from before.

about 9 or so
Raw Revolution Bar ( like a raw brownie) they have them at Hyvee in the Health Market and once you try them you can get them on amazon.com

Exercise is important to make time for too! I feel great even on this new chemo and I have been lifting weights and running and it's helping! Have a good weekend and see you Monday! Heather.