21-day sugar detox

Tomorrow we are starting a 3-week sugar detox program. The allowed foods are meats, vegetables, and dairy, but not fruit except green apples and bananas. I am excited to get back into healthy habits after eating too many donuts at home last week! I made up a meal plan including recipes for chili, beef stew, pad thai with spaghetti squash, and all sorts of delicious things to keep me interested and away from junk for three weeks. Today we’ll go grocery shopping and get all set to start tomorrow morning. I’ll cook up some of the meals that can be refrigerated and eaten throughout the week, and roast a chicken that can be turned into quick weeknight dinners. I am hoping that getting back into good eating habits will help me have more energy!

Here’s the list of Yes/No foods. I am following a modification for pregnant women which allows a starchy vegetable serving from the “No” list. This was my meal plan for the first week of the program:

Day 1:

Breakfast- scrambled eggs with chicken and onions

Lunch- cinnamon beef stew

Snack- green apple, almonds, whole milk

Dinner- ground beef curry with sweet potato and spinach

Day 2:

Breakfast- leftover curry

Lunch- leftover stew

Snack- apple streusel egg muffins

Dinner- roasted chicken with mashed cauliflower

Day 3:

Breakfast- leftover curry