Gut Healthy Foods and Drinks - Gut Reset Diet | Dr Mona Vand

So I have been traveling a lot lately and I just needed like a reset. Some kind of like reboot, reset, a healthy detox. I didn't want to do an intense detox so I want to share the last 10 days what I've been doing with the Cicar Life 10 Day Reset and just how much better I feel. The reason I wanted to make today's video is because I think that a lot of times people feel like they just need a reset. Kind of like you know maybe you've fallen off the wagon or you've been eating a certain way and you know sometimes when you get off your path or you're eating unhealthy for a long period of time or off your routine it seems so hard to just get back on track and this is why everyone kind of goes into that like I just need a deep detox. I need something like intense to like kickstart me back in and that's why I wanted to share this because I'm really not a fan of intense detoxes, artificial detoxes, and this is one that I think is super gentle. I'm so aligned with everything this brand carries all their products their food so I wanted to share a little bit about the 10 Day Reset. So a little backstory on why I even wanted to do the 10 Day Reset. I've been traveling a ton this summer like a little more than usual and even though I you know feel like I know how to eat healthy and it's something I've been doing for years I actually have really been struggling staying on my routine. Not only do I have to find a grocery store I want to find like a clean grocery store like what do they carry do they have the same brands. Sometimes I'm staying in hotel and I can't order out so just a bunch of things so I felt like it was perfect for me to do the 10 Day Reset. I've talked about Cicara Life for a while on Instagram. I've known Whitney and Danielle the founders for years. We actually met at the Mind Body Green wellness retreat almost three years ago now and I just like fell in love with their story and their theories. They were both having struggles like different areas one with weight one with skin care and you know it all goes back to what you're putting in your body and how you're treating your body. So they created Cicara Life which is actually a meal delivery service. I've talked about this before I'm not big on many meal delivery services because usually they send you like frozen or a week at a time. This is literally delivered fresh every single day. I actually don't know how they got that down but it's pretty amazing. One day I thought it didn't come and I was like 9 a.m and then I realized it was actually sitting outside my door since 4 a.m like they're really on it. So the meals are great but back to this video sorry kind of gotten a tangent. They can be a little bit pricey for some people so I thought the 10 Day Reset was perfect instead as like an alternative. It's much more cost affordable, it's a little more realistic and it's perfect to just kind of get you back on track and then you can go from there. It comes with different recipes, different meals, you've got snacks, you've got tea. So let's get into a little bit of how it works. So after you've had a little bit of water and you've hydrated they have a great daily probiotic blend. So what I like about this because there's lots of probiotics the cool thing about is that it also has the enzyme blend in there and I think that when you're doing a reset making sure your gut is working is so important. It's not just about probiotics. A lot of people oftentimes have trouble digesting certain food and enzymes are what digest and break down our food. So having that as like a little bit of aid it can be really helpful especially sometimes eating high fiber foods or plant-based foods sometimes it can be difficult if you're not used to it to digest. So all the probiotics are probiotic, prebiotic, enzyme is in here. It comes with 30, you take two a day for 10 days so you don't want to throw this packet out if you're going to try it. Now let's go on to breakfast. Basically this recipe is one packet of the life source powder, a half of banana, handful of spinach, a cup of almond milk, a tablespoon of a healthy fat, so I'm going to use almond butter. Now remember in terms of food combining this is all still working here. Banana is the one fruit that you can combine with proteins or fats because it's digested very slowly and the way you can remember that is you can't juice a banana. Obviously it's like a little more dense so bananas are the one thing that I will mix with any kind of like protein. I'm going to put a few ice cubes and then they have optional to add sweetener like a little bit of raw honey. I don't need sweetener when there's a banana it's more than enough. So the 10 day reset is exactly what it sounds like. It's basically a reset to get everything feeling better in your body, your microbiome which is the good bacteria in your gut and we've all really learned and actually the microbiome is still somewhat of a new area of research but we're learning so much about it and if you aren't digesting your food then there's really no point in eating healthy food. You're only what you absorb, you're not what you eat so if you have to get a healthy gut to be able to absorb all the amazing food you're eating. So it has probiotics, a recipe book and it's got so many amazing recipes in there. One thing I like about it is that a lot of the recipes are really simple. You guys probably know me by now I am not like the best cook ever. I like things that are really easy. A lot of the ingredients you can have in your kitchen it's not like you need a teaspoon of this spice and that like I just can't get into anything that complicated. Okay today I'm making one of the lunches on the sakara 10-day reset I wanted to share. I'm picking out my favorite one that I've made from all these. This is the lemon and kale detox caesar. One thing I love is that minimal ingredients so it's super easy and I love caesar salad. It's one of the things that was hard for me to give up even going plant-based so finding super clean ways like all these ingredients are whole foods, really easy just look at that creaminess. Sometimes we think we can't have eating plant-based that's my favorite part. So the ingredients are three loosely packed cups of kale de-stemmed and cut into one inch strips. Then we're going to do one large carrot shredded, one lemon wedge and the dressing is kind of where the magic happens. As you can see these are like the cleanest most amazing ingredients and one thing when you're doing or learning how to kind of reset and eat clean you forget that natural food in its whole state has so much flavor you just have to take advantage of it and use different things. So now we're going to make the salad dressing. I know a salad can seem light but this is a lot of beans like if you can see in this bowl it calls for a lot so you're going to get a lot of fiber a lot of protein it's going to you know keep you full and we got some shredded carrots. Okay now we'll add the dressing. Just to warn you guys this is very garlicky if you like garlic great if not just be careful maybe have it at home not around your boyfriend girlfriend. In general overall it's going to give you a little boost of energy kind of detox you you know get your gut healthy again and just get you on the right track. Okay so we're still on the 10 day reset today I want to show you an example of an amazing lunch. This one is a simple steamed veggies with lemon tahini sauce. I love this one because I think it's a really good example of a meal that you wouldn't think would be satiating or like yummy but it really is. Taking something like veggies that are really light and pairing them with like some kind of plant-based creamy sauce like tahini is the perfect one to do. This naturally has a lot of fat it's naturally sesame seed so it's got like 17 grams of fat in one serving and so when you pair like a good heavy sauce like that with something light it's just the perfect combo whereas you know some people will do like a creamy sauce with like a pasta and you know that can be a little bit heavy so I wanted to show this example specifically. You can have this as like a side dish or if you want this as your full meal you can put it over some brown rice the fats and rice actually pair perfectly. In this recipe they just kind of show the veggies but I just wanted to show you how I make it my own into a full meal. You don't want to boil your veggies you just want to use the steam it's also important to put your um your top on here so that the nutrients aren't just getting out into the air so I'll put a little bit of water in here throw the veggies in and it's as simple as that. So for this sauce you can actually just mix it in a bowl I mean you always have the option of blending it but I think for now I'm just going to show you how easy it is to mix it in a bowl. This is actually one of the quickest meals. The brown rice I already made so you can just boil the rice it's easy too. I'm actually going to try a little bit of sauce. Yum. If you've never had tahini it's almost got like a little bit of a peanut taste but it's just like ground up sesame seeds and a little fun fact sesame seeds are great for boosting your own collagen so it's a great one they're like to just help you kind of get that plumpness in your face. Here is the final product it's still really hot there's a lot of steam coming from it but this might be one of the simplest like nourishing easy meals to make. A lot of flavor definitely very filling you could even do like a little bit less rice because between the tahini and all the veggies the fiber is definitely going to keep you full. So like I said you can make this a side dish but for me this is going to be my lunch today. One of my other favorite things that the 10 day reset comes with is two different kinds of water drops you've got a beauty drop which is silica like 72 different minerals it's really just like a beauty drop it really hydrates you. Silica is amazing for your skin you can find it in certain foods like cucumber a lot of skincare will try to incorporate it and then it's got chlorophyll drops which is amazing for heavy metal detoxing especially if you eat a lot of fish that's not always wild there's a lot of things that that can just kind of help detox you with. For this 10 day reset if you want to do this in your real life I think it's perfect because you don't necessarily have 10 days to just sit home and cook all day and like do yoga and meditate that would be amazing but this is more like a realistic 10 day reset and actually making the recipes yourself I think is really good because it's teaching you to be able to do this in your own life. So for me the 10 day reset was really perfect and I just think it came at the perfect time because I just felt better honestly like traveling and eating out I noticed that every time I was eating even when I would order healthy food like I still order plant-based I would still order gluten-free organic it still sometimes just wasn't sitting well because you never know what you're getting when you're ordering out and I think you know traveling and when you're not making your own food so just kind of getting back on track with that 10 days it really helped me feel better I wasn't getting like random stomach aches throughout the day like I didn't have like discomfort like painful bloating so it was good for that sense but also mentally it just kind of got me back like refocused because you can be the healthiest person in the world but you every everyone falls off sometimes everyone like has times where they're off their routine or they feel unorganized or like a little bit disheveled and I think almost committing to something is also what's so important like I committed to that 10 days I did it for myself and when you finish that you just feel good so don't ever underestimate like what you do for yourself and you know that commitment to yourself because that's the most important one and you'll realize that it makes you feel the best so for anyone watching this who kind of feels like they need that restart and also just wants the inspiration to start cooking their own meals and especially if you're trying to look to go more plant-based even if you don't want to go fully plant-based but you just kind of want to try out some great new recipes like you know like the creamy caesar is one of my favorites definitely give it a try if you guys want to try out cicara life I will leave my code below this video if you have any questions on any of the recipes that I shared please leave it below anything else just want to say hi leave it in the comments and I'll see you next time