Quick Breakfast Staples

What’s your pie in the sky for Day 8? Is it pie? A piece of bread? Elbow macaroni? 13 shots of espresso? For me, it’ll be pretzel rods dipped in mustard. Washed down a green juice of course. Don’t laugh people, I’m pregnant!

Now that you’re a Detox pro on Day 6, it’s a perfect time to start thinking about what happens the day after tomorrow. Will you go back to your pre-Detox eating? A modified version? Take today and tomorrow and make a plan for what you’d like to do long-term. Here are some popular, healthy, and realistic post-Detox modifications to consider:

1. Go back to drinking the morning cup of coffee you missed, but with vanilla almond milk instead of cream and sugar. Try this creamy, dairy-free concoction. Or, enjoy green, white, or black tea as your morning caffeinated beverage. Check out this amazing version of Starbuck’s green tea latte. Oopsies, guess I should’ve told you coffee lovers that one of those this week was *ok* if you were really jonesin’ for some jo!

2. Continue eating the level of fruits and veggies with a giant heaping of cooked veggies at either lunch or dinner, and a giant serving of raw veggies at the other meal. Shoot for HALF your plate being veggies (either raw or cooked) at mealtime.

3. Continue with shakes or smoothies in the morning, but add a protein powder such as this hemp seed one from Trader Joe’s. High in protein, fiber, and essential amino acids, and makes your morning drink more filling. Another fave powder was created by superstar triathlete Brendan Brazier: Vega One French Vanilla. It’s got 10 grams protein per scoop, is fortified with lots of different vites and mins (including calcium), and is sweetened with stevia. My morning power smoothie is Vega + Frozen Banana + Handful of Kale + Water. Filling and sweet! Try these two too.

4. Add a more substantial morning meal such as gluten-free oatmeal (Trader Joe’s has amazing gluten-free oats that seem exactly like traditional rolled oats) with a handful of dried cranberries for sweetness, raw cashews, cinnamon, and cooled down with a dash of unsweetened non-dairy milk. And here’s a Baked Oatmeal version you can make ahead of time for oatmeal-on-the-go. Or heat up a cup of cooked quinoa from the previous night’s dinner with dried fruit, nuts, cinnamon, and non-dairy milk.

5. Enjoy a raw food bar in the afternoon to satisfy your sweet tooth–they’re easy to keep on hand, easily survive life in the bottom of bags, and can be stepped on without changing shape. Examples: Larabar, Pure Energy, and KIND. These can all be found in any old grocery store, TJ’s, Whole Foods, or natural health food store.

6. Continue with the Detox as your constant (developing your own menus using the guidelines), and veer from the Detox for special weekend days, when you go out to eat (trying your best to keep with the guidelines, but allowing yourself those treats you may have been missing), have potlucks, or attend parties.

7. Do the Detox 1-2 days per week or 7 days a month, and a modified version on the other days.

What else will you do to carry on the healthy changes you made once the Detox is done? If it’s only more water and more veggies, you still won! xoxo