trying something new

Hello friends,

How was everyone’s weekend? It was a lovely weekend for the both of us.

Over the weekend I grabbed some local eggs from the farmers market and yesterday Michelle and I wanted to try something new. We have never really had raw eggs yolks before and have heard from other friends how beneficial they can be. Remember you need high quality eggs when eating them in the raw form so make sure you know where they are coming from!

Here is what we did:

Savory Raw Egg Yolk Green Smoothie

• 1 avocado
• 2-3 cups water (depending on how thick you want it)
• 1-2 raw egg yolks (organic free range, and/or local)
• 4-6 stalks kale
• 1 skinned cucumber
• 1/4 tsp green stevia powder
• lemon juice
• fresh ginger
• 1 tbsp sunflower lecithin
• 1 tsp spirulina (optional)

Place all ingredients into a blender and blend till smooth.

We decided to make our typical savory green smoothie but try the addition of a raw egg yolk and see how we do.  I must admit Michelle and I were a little nervous about doing this but we were just curious to see what happens with our energy levels etc.

Verdict?

Smoothie was good.

Though Michelle and I really did not see a huge difference in how we felt from eating the raw egg yolk in our smoothie. We feel we need to have it a few times before we really notice the benefits. We plan on trying this raw egg smoothie from time to time.

Plus we got some L-Glutamine powder to take daily to rebuild our stomach lining in hopes that our bodies will start recognizing nutrients again. Since we are starting to realize that might be one of our main issues – our body is just not absorbing nutrients like it is supposed to!

*And we remember we do not claim to be vegans; we are not 100% of anything so we disregard putting any labels on ourselves even though we eat a majority of a vegan diet. We can not call ourselves one; we are just individuals who strive to feel our very best by eating a high raw plant based diet with the mix of traditional cooked food and with the occasional eggs and fish.

Enough about food and diet (we will share more about our diet and candida later on). Moving onto our workouts lately.

We took the weekend off besides going for walks and Michelle helping a friend move.

The end of last week we did get in some really good workouts!  One workout we just took our Gymboss Interval Timer and created a cardio jump rope interval routine with walking push-ups. It was a killer! I really enjoyed doing a mix of jump roping with some strength training. When we do another workout like this I will share what we did in terms of the intervals segments.

Another day Michelle and I  re-visited a bodyrock tv workout that we loved called “let’s burn some fat” a 12 minute workout.  Again we set our Gymboss Interval Timer for 24 rounds and 10/20 second intervals and let the sweating begin. This workout is great for full body and legs.

Twins Question: What is the last thing you ate or drank that was new to you? Would you ever try raw egg yolks?

Well I am off to go take the car in for some work.

Do you like taking your car into the shop? Do you like doing miscellaneous errands like that?

Till next time,

Lori