The next 2 weeks

So I have entered a 12 week challenge at my gym, and what I didn't realize was that for the first 2 weeks I would have to do a detox! And a scary one at that!!!

For the next couple of weeks I  have to live on soup. And toast. And water. AGH!!! This is gonna be a test on the old willpower especially since it has been lacking of late.

it looks so............ugh...................healthful.

The ingredient list is:

2 Tbsp cold pressed olive oil

1 large onion chopped

30mm knob of fresh ginger,grated

Fresh parsley chopped

1 tsp Tumeric

2 small tomatoes chopped

1/2 turnip and 1/2 a parsnip

1carrot grated

1 cup pumpkin cubes

1 zucchini cubed

1 large potato chopped.

-so heat oil cook onion till it goes glassy then chuck everything else in.

then add:

2cups water

2Tbsp tamari

2 brussel sprouts chopped

2 cups cauliflower chopped

1 chopped head of broccoli

1 leaf of silverbeet chopped including stalk

500gm frozen peas

garlic cruched

green beans

1 tin of lentils drained.

- hiff this in and stir and then add

1cup spinach

3 Tbsp Miso paste

5 strips wakame

1tsp ground nutmeg

4 cups water and return to the boil stirring.Reduce to simmer until vegetables are cooked. Keep lid on turn heat off and let cool.

So I have this for a everything I want to eat apart from breakfast when I can have gluten-free bread or rice cakes with: banana&nut butter,avocado,hummus,tahini or gluten free baked beans. I think with the soup I might leave some chunky so its like a stew and have it at dinner time so that I feel like I am having a semi decent meal.

I am not going in to the forbidden list because that will just make me depressed, at least I dont have to give up my sparkling water and if I get the urge I can force myself to choke down a green juice..................but I highly doubt that will happen.I went and warned my bosses that I am going to get hangry, and they laughed but they will soon learn its no laughing matter.

The other part of the challenge is that I have to attend 1 group fitness class a week at either of the 2 gyms, now normally I avoid group fitness because normally I find one that I like and they bloody well cancel it. I figure that to make it fun I will do the classes and then rate them on my blog, you know just coz I can. I think the first one I do will be cross fit, because I have been itching to do it for a while and since I am on holiday from my school at the moment I finally have the time to do it.