I was supposed to post about this topic last week Sunday and I was kinda over thinking it. The reason is, I am about to let you guys in on my actual morning routine, it has given so-much success but it does feel a bit like over sharing 🙃.
Hi guys,
thank you clicking and taking a moment to basically take a stroll in my head. So, I have always been someone who kept a strict easy to follow morning routine- with my workouts. When I had a gym membership, I trained at 5am every morning for 5days a week. Now training at home, my workout routine now starts at 8am and I train for a maximum of 45min sometimes 30minutes depending on what’s on my training plan. As the years went by, I changed it up a bit to suit my needs. I was missing something though, a routine for my gut health. Sure, I had a phase where I drank celery juice but I didn’t stay with it for long, I guess I got bored? 🥱
In 2023, I learnt about how important probiotics are important for the gut so I tried kombucha and damn I liked what it did to my overall health. I just couldn’t keep up with it cause I didn’t know how to start my own ‘scobi’ that’s spelt wrong 😭😂 but it’s fine.. let me continue. Yes… kombucha, I resolved my digestive issues with it and when it finished I had to find an alternative, that was 1. Cheap to make 2. That would last 3. That I could eat with most my meals, since I could only drink so-much Kombucha.
Thats when a good friend of mine, who is a chef told me about Sauerkraut. Let me tell you something, I was hooked! I have a sweet tooth and I thought I wouldn’t like it - I typically don’t enjoy anything sour. But Sauerkraut? Babyyy I was in love, I realised that fermented foods don’t bother me. I then decided to create a routine to have a spoonful each morning, to watch & gauge any changes. This is what happened:
• Bloating decreased
• My gut felt lighter and healthier
• I started absorbing nutrients better, I know this cause I stayed full for longer and craved less sugar.
I doubled down with making sure I drink water first thing in the morning and that routine has changed my life. I must confess it felt not enough still, so I added intermittent fasting. I do like 5hours of water fast- once or twice a week. That’s another blog post on its own cause, it was when I implemented it that I saw real change in my belly fat and just overall brain fog started lifting. This is so long already but isn’t that the whole point of this blogging? 😂 Okay, on a serious note- these steps are what make this meal plan so effective, especially when done with the detox and adding fasting if you wanna step it up.
Until next time, of which I will go in-depth with how I do my intermittent fasting. 💋
Xoxo
Sli.FitChef 🫶🏾💋