Boho Beautiful Detoxify Recap

Last week my husband and I completed the Boho Beautiful Detoxify program. Through a 7 day schedule of clean eating meal videos & recipes combined with daily detox yoga classes, DETOXIFY has been designed to help you find your new potential of health, vitality, and daily energy. There is so much to discuss you guys! First off, it was incredible. Truly life changing in so many ways. But it was a lot of work! Not just to eat plant based for 7 days and do daily detox yoga routines, but also to organize and execute 14 new meal recipes, 7 new juice recipes, and 7 new smoothie recipes during those 7 days!
But with a little prep (ok, actually a lot!) and some organization it is defiantly something I would highly recommend to all.

By day 7, Ryan had lost 9 pounds and was feeling ready to re-introduce meat and alcohol. ;) I was down 6 pounds and ready to continue on a more clean eating path going forward. My skin has never looked so good, my inflammation and bloating are way low, not going to lie, my vegan body is a favorite of mine! So for now I'm vegan and taking it day by day, but even it you just want to try this for the detox, it's 100% worth it.

Here is a little break down of everything and my thoughts. I even have some tips if you are planning to do this detox too. Ok, let's get into this, shall we?

YOGA: I love doing Juliana's classes. She is an incredible athlete and really has a way to keeping both my husband and myself motivated. This 7 day program kicked our butts in the best way ever. Five classes are advanced and challenging, two are on your mat and stretching classes. Lots of deep stretches, twisting, and abs/core work all through the week. I am so glad I own these so I can go back and do them whenever I want. In the end, they were really great classes that not only challenged us, but really got that digestive system and metabolism moving. Worth every penny!

RECIPES: I'm not going to lie, it's time consuming. I spent a good 3 hours a day in the kitchen prepping, juicing, blending, chopping, and cooking...but here's the thing, it's magical. There is just something about looking at so many beautiful colors for hours each day. It's rejuvenating. It's truly wonderful working with produce and organic grains and nothing processed or packaged. I learned so many great ways to feed my family better and learned my kids love a lot of vegan food too! I never felt hungry or dissatisfied which was a concern of mine before I started. 

Now let's talk food. It is seriously delicious! There were maybe 4 out of the 28 recipes that my husband did not love and only 1 that I just couldn't do. I did have to make some substitutions because of food allergies, but overall, I kept it as close to the original recipes as I could and all the food was very good. Like gourmet good you guys! My top five are: Garden of Vegan Aioli, Ziner Chocolate Protein Smoothie, Lava Smoothie Bowl, Brown Rice Pudding, The Boho Buda-ful Bowl. The program is worth it just for the recipes alone. 

 

I learned so much about food during this week. I also learned that I really do enjoy eating and cooking vegan! 

SHOPPING AND PREP TIPS: 

Give yourself a week or two to read all the material and get supplies ready after you make this purchase. We are still in a pandemic so it is difficult to get these items quickly if you are not already eating plant based. There is a shopping list, but there are no amounts on the list. So I did have to spend a couple hours going through the recipes and adding up the amounts I needed of each item for all recipes from this week. This familiarized me with the menu though. There are 14 food recipes and 14 drink (7 juice and 7 smoothie) recipes during this detox. Yes, that is 28 new recipes to take on in one week. It can feel overwhelming, but as someone who just did this, I am telling you, it is very doable. And very worth it! 

 -Each night, look at the menu for the following day making sure there is nothing you need to prep. There are a couple days that require you to refrigerate items over night.

-Prep for the full day of recipes each morning and label everything properly. I started doing this by day three and it really helped me with time management throughout the day. Each morning I would do yoga, make the breakfast recipe and eat, then prep all veggies and fruits needed for the smoothie and juice. I would even look ahead to the dinner recipe on a few of the days and get the chopping out of the way so that nights cooking was a bit quicker. 

-Keep you juicer, blender/ninja/pans on the counter for the week. You are using all of these each days save yourself the hassle! 

-If you are doing this with your spouse like I did, have them do all dishes to take some of the work load. There are many dishes each day and using plastic or paper just isn't an option we were going to take. In addition to yoga and plant based diet, there is an Earth challenge as well! 

-Take a day (or two) off of yoga leading up to the detox week. Your body will thank you later. ;) I forgot to do this! Live and learn. 

-Shop local if you can. We went to a Windy Acres Farms in Geneva and picked up over half of our produce for the week. Then, we did "delivery" from Walmart and found they were out of a few items we needed so we added an Aldi trip in as well. Oh and grabbed a few on Amazon as well. There are links in the PDF for shopping items on Amazon so make sure you utilize those if you are having a hard time finding a few of the items. 

-If you shop for all seven days like I did, freeze some produce! I ended up freezing my (steamed) cauliflower, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, mango, pineapple, bananas, and broccoli. This was helpful with smoothies, I no longer needed to add ice and all my produce stayed fresh for the week to boot. 

-Let the kids try! My husband and I did this detox, not the kids, but I did make extra each day and let them try. In the end, they ended up eating most breakfasts, smoothies, a couple of the juices, and a couple of the dinners. I was blown away at how open they were to trying plant based food and now I will continue to give them more options! 

So that's it folks! This week was truly a labor of love and it's just another pivotal point in learning more about mine and my families health and our food choices. Have you ever been vegan? Have you ever tried a detox before? If you do try this one, I really hope you love it as much as we did! 

Here is a video recap of the entire week of recipes and yoga: 

Thank you so much for stopping by the blog today, I hope you make it a great day! xoxo