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    Home » Hydration Week & Brussel Sprout Chop

    Hydration Week & Brussel Sprout Chop

    It's been a great week of serious hydration. I am happy to say that my skin looks much cleaner and my uneven and brighter. My skin definitely shines a bit more and dehydration wrinkles are minimal.

    The best part of this week was the unexpected surprise - my dark spots {pigmentation} got a lot lighter. I wasn't planning on this happening, so I was very excited. 

    This is my final post about it and I wanted share the details of the process because it was a really fun journey. I didn't "detox" per se or even juice "cleanse", but rather I focused on consuming less caffeine, sea salt, packaged foods and dairy and more fresh raw fruits, veggies, lots of water and green drinks without fully removing everything from my diet cold turkey. 

    Here is a daily journal, in case you want to try something similar {if you do try something similar, please send me your feelings on it and if you noticed a difference.} No meat. I don't eat meat, so if you normally eat meat, you can add some fresh fish. Wes eats meat but he did a whole week of no meat. Try it. It can be fun for a change. 

    Day 1

    water + lemon
    green juice x 2
    ran 30 minutes outside 
    more water + lemon

    1 whole avocado {ate with a spoon} 

    sprouted tofu {uncooked}
    avo
    brown rice 
    seaweed 
    little miso mayo 
    no added sea salt

    fresh young coconut
    water + lemon x 2

    kale salad
    steamed artichoke {vegan dipping sauce}

    water in the night

    DAY 2 

    little coffee {kids woke up at 5am}
    lemon water 

    pear, parsley, yellow beet, ginger cucumber juice

    1 egg lightly boiled 
    ¾ avocado
    tiny tiny bit sea salt {man, i have a hard time w/o this}

    lemon water
    watermelon juice

    raw collard wrap from PEACE PIES
    1 dehydrated cookie

    castor oil + steam room + whole body exfoliating brush + cold shower rinse

    argan oil on face

    HUGE kale, butter lettuce sprouted seed and nut salad
    glass of wine
    lemon water

    bed

    Day 3

    ice water with lemon
    green drink {frozen fruit, greens, stevia, citrus, ginger}

    ½ avocado
    cucumber sliced

    lemon water + cucumber
    gym work out - 30 minutes
    lemon water + cucumber

    shower + steam room {oiled up my face and body} with hydrating hair mask
    more lemon water + cucumber {while in the steam room}
    ice cold cold shower

    vegetarian sushi roll
    kale chips

    fruit + handful of sprouted walnuts 
    fresh homemade almonk milk
    raw brussel sprout chop topped with olive oil + toasted hazel nuts + peccorino

    lemon water before bed

    used the clarisonic on my face, covered it in argan oil

    bed

    ---------------------------------- My Green Drink ----------------------------------

    Hydrating Green Smoothie Recipe

    1c frozen fruit {I did a mix of mango, pineapple & butternut squash}
    ½ cucumber
    1" piece of fresh ginger
    handful of parsley
    handful of kale
    ½ lemon, peeled
    1 lime, peeled
    1 orange, peeled
    1 teaspoon honey
    1 dropper stevia
    ½c - 1c liquid {coconut water or water or almond milk or grapefruit juice}

    Blend all of the above in a Vitamix or high speed blender until smooth. Use the least amount of liquid and add more if needed.

    -----------------------------------My Brussel Sprout Chop Salad---------------------------------

    Brussel Sprout Chop

    12 raw brussel sprouts or 1 bag Trader Joes shredded brussel sprouts
    2 handfuls chopped hazelnuts, toasted
    ⅛c olive oil {or barely coated brussel sprouts}
    ½ lemon, juiced
    ¼c peccorino cheese, or to taste
    sea salt & pepper, to taste

    Chop or slice brussel sprouts, very thin. Mix in the olive oil and sea salt. Add lemon and peccorino. Toss and let sit about an hour. Add hazelnuts when ready to serve. It's so tasty. 

    I created this salad after having something similar out on date night at a restaurant nearby. It was an italian restaurant. This dish is very Italian. If you don't like cheese, you might not like this salad. But it can be made vegan by adding avocado and more nuts or sprouted seeds! A different taste but all together still amazing. 

    Enjoy! 

    p.s. my mom made this and used it as a side dish for her lemon talapia fish. she said it paired up really well!

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    Comments

    1. Ellie Heidel

      May 04, 2012 at 7:47 pm

      Amazingly beautiful post! I'm drooling over every shot 🙂 🙂 love it Juli!

      Reply
    2. linda j

      May 04, 2012 at 9:35 pm

      i REALLY loved that you gave us the breakdown of your days. it is very helpful. and as always, highly inspiring!
      i'm working on the hydration now too. thank you!! x keep the great posts coming!

      Reply
    3. Juli Novotny

      May 04, 2012 at 10:07 pm

      THANKS LINDA AND ELLIE!! You both say the nicest things. I'm glad you're liking it. I honestly haven't felt this good in a long time. I'm so obsessed now with these oil treatments in the steam rooms and also oil all over my face!!! I know people always like looking into people's food diary's, so I figured it would be a good time for one. 😉 Hope you two are WELL!

      Reply
    4. Paige Loeschner

      May 04, 2012 at 10:32 pm

      First time on this site. Love to pictures, and the smoothies look delicious. Great job Juli! Hope to see you on Sunday. For the birthday bash! LOL

      Luv,
      Paige

      Reply
    5. Emily

      May 05, 2012 at 5:42 am

      I love that you showed your daily diet and activity and most of all I loved that you didn't take an all or nothing deprivation approach to the week. An all or nothing approach almost always causes a swing Back in an unhealthy direction - or causes one to give up completely if they slip in the wrong direction (such as drinking coffee at 5am - the may see that as ruining the hydration plan and give up completely)

      Well done!

      Reply
    6. Juli Novotny

      May 05, 2012 at 3:51 pm

      Emily, ha. Thanks a lot for the comment. Yeah, it wasn't a "cleanse" as much as just a focus for me this week on hydration. If I don't focus, it won't get done. So I tried to be REALISTIC with my approach so that I could always be more hydrated. Make sense? 😉 Thanks again Emily!

      Reply
    7. Angie

      May 05, 2012 at 10:05 pm

      This is so great, thanks for sharing all this:)

      Reply
    8. Angie

      May 05, 2012 at 10:05 pm

      This is so great, thanks for sharing:)

      Reply
    9. adina

      May 07, 2012 at 3:48 pm

      So I have tried juice cleanse and other cleanse and I failed so this week I am just trying to eat good really good kind of like what your doing. I hope to sucessed and not let life issue make me cave and eat bad. thanks for sharing

      Reply
    10. Gillian

      May 08, 2012 at 1:13 pm

      You have the most beautiful skin! These hydration posts have inspired me! I've been coating myself in argan oil, almond oil (under the eyes) and castor oil (which I like best for my tummy).

      Reply
    11. Juli Novotny

      May 08, 2012 at 4:59 pm

      Gilian, no. my skin sucks. i have dark spots after pregnancy. it's been so hard to get rid of. but hydrating for sure helped with those little dehydration wrinkles and a tiny bit with the spots. anyways...thanks though and i'm glad you're inspired. 😉

      Reply
    12. Juli Novotny

      May 08, 2012 at 5:01 pm

      Adina, you can't "Fail" at a cleanse. Even if you mess up, you still have done a lot of good stuff in the process. It's super hard to stick with something like that. But I know how you feel so I just added more water and juicing to my normal diet. Easier way for me to stick with it!!! 😉 Good luck.

      Reply

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