Time to start Marathon Training

Happy Monday everyone

Well we had a good night last night…the wine totally helped us relax after a long week! We both got up feeling rested, although cannot believe another week has come and gone.

Today we had another colonic session, and both are feeling good, but still have a journey of healing our bodies. As I have mentioned before we are taking a new probiotic, it is liquid base so gets absorb better than pills or gel caps. It is called Rest Easy from Go Beyond Organics. You can order off the website.   We have been taking it for almost a week, and have already noticed  some improvemetns, mainly in our sleep. Michelle used to really struggle with getting good sleep, so she is happy she is finally sleeping through the night and getting deep sleep! So if you or anyone you know struggles with sleep, I highly recommend this probiotic. Plus it doesn’t hurt that everyone takes a probiotic plus turmeric…everyone has their own stomach issues.

Although, the brand we were taking before was MegaFoods. And you can get this brand at most local health food stores.  We like this brand, it also has a digestive enzyme that we used to take too when we ate cooked foods.

During each others colonic sessions we brought our books to read.  Both of us learned a lot from the few chapters we read. I read Brenda Cobb’s book as Michelle read Victoria Boutenko. We cannot wait to share our thoughts on these books. Let’s just say we all need to retrain our minds to understand what is a healthy body, what is a vegetable, what is fruit, why meat is bad, etc.  Over the past 2 years we both have really come to appreciate our new raw foods lifestyle, despite the detoxing and all, we are really truly happy with our lifestyle. We just get so excited to eat a big green salad or raw yogurt with raw granola….nothing gets better than that : )

But honestly we sometimes cannot believe we eat the way we do, because just a few years ago we were eating fish (being from Florida you are surrounded by it), whey protein, bars (which we know there are some decent bars on the market, but we still feel anything that sits for a long time on a shelf is not always the best choice…grab an apple). Anyways I will save this for another post.

Today we wanted to share with everyone our preparation and training for our Disney Marathon in January, which is 12 weeks away. Yikes! I guess we better start running : )

The plan was to go for a run today but we both were a little sore from yesterday’s jump training and still recovering from sleeping so much, we are not used to that. Instead today we went for a 40 minute walk outside (we survived the cold with some tips from Whitney and Angela, which we are participating in her project Snow, meaning will do most of workouts outside in the cold) and then we did some calestheics. Jump training and calestheics are great things to add to your workout for cross training. We did jump training way back in high school for volleyball….we feel it is one of the best ways to tone your legs.

Twins Marathon Training

One day a week will be our long runs (probably Tuesday). Plan to run 12 miles tomorrow.

One rest day – Saturday

3 days of running (miles and temp will vary) – Sunday, Thursday, Friday -6-8 miles

2 days cross training (yoga and calisthenics) – Wednesday, Monday

Buying new wardrobe…which we will talk about tomorrow. We have to first decide…it is a tough decision. If any one has their favorites please let us know. We have some things in mind, but would love to hear suggestions.

Recap of our eats:

Breakfast green smoothie: blueberries, parsley, swiss chard, turmeric, hemp oil

Pre-workout snack: Pure2Raw workout bar

Post workout meal: Rice protein shake with coconut oil and acai powder

This was our 1st time having rice protein, I liked it but Michelle did not. She did not like the flavor, said it tasted like dirt. But I loved it….interesting normally we like the same things….hmm.

After colonic meal: Raw yogurt and raw granola

The plan for dinner is steamed broccoli…with a side of raw sauerkraut and a salad. We are going to slowly add “cooked” vegetables back into our diet…one to slow down detox but also because the colder weather! We also will add hot tea into our diets and occasionally hot cocoa (which we love).  For the most part, we are still trying to stay away from coffee, it has been at least about 6-8 months!

Well we report back tomorrow with how our bodies did with steamed broccoli.

Till next time

Lori and Michelle