Day 3: 

Juice: Ocean Deep

Ocean Deep:

4 Apples
1 Teaspoon of Spirulina Powder

Oceans Deep is good ole Apple Juice with a boost of Spirulina, one of the worlds super-foods.

Spirulina has actually been reclassified as Arthrospira, but the colloquial term of Spirulina has remained. Regardless, Spirulina is a free-floating blue-green algae found in tropical and subtropical lakes with a high PH. It is believed that the Aztecs were using this wonderful little plant some 400 years ago. Why? Because it is chock full of vitamins, minerals, carotenoids (More About Carotenoids), antioxidants and a healthy dose protein. Nowadays, Spirulina is farmed is controled environments so we, the people, can enjoy the benefits all year long. *But PLEASE make sure you research the brands before you buy it.* Being an algae it is subject to the water it is grown in, so it can absorb heavy metals and toxins, which is no good. The opposite of what we want to do.

Being an algae, it has a deep greenish blue coloring which instantaneously make everything you add it to green as well, but don't be put off by the color because in a teaspoon you are getting: "B complex vitamins, beta-carotene, vitamin E, manganese, zinc, copper, iron, selenium, and gamma linolenic acid (an essential fatty acid)". (More about the Health Benefits of Spirulina). Whoa, right? Basically it is an immune boosting cocktail.

So it should come as no surprise that mixing a spoonful of this little algae blended with the sweet (maybe tart, depending on the apples you use) can have immense nutritional benefits, helps you body detox the bad, great for your skin and...it's delicious. Especially on a dreary morning when you don't want to get outta bed. It'll give you the kick in the pants you need to take on the day.

Totally gung-ho about Spirulina? Check out this great paper I found about the Nutritional and
Therapeutic benefits: (It is a PDF).

Emotional Lifestyle:

Okay, so I have a crazy busy day today. You know, like leave the house at 8am and get back at 11+pm, depending on the trains of course. So, I am writing this all day at home this morning, at work, at a coffee shop and on a late night train...yay... 
But I find these days that hardest to eat healthy and fuel my body for the day. I have been trying to ween myself from 3+ cups of coffee to one and occasionally a second, so now it's even worse. However, this morning I am determined to be an adult about this and plan. I packed a lunch and every thing I could need throughout this day.

Thus my purse becomes my turtle shell. The house I carry on one shoulder.
 I had:
Work shoes: heels to wear for giving tours and sneakers for commuting (a true working girl).
Food: snack, lunch, snack dinner.
Phone: not an iphone - I have an LG Cosmos, so basically a 16 year-old's phone. The kind that slides into a keyboard. Yeah. That's right. It was free from Verizon. 
Drawstring bag: Deodorant, Lotion, roll-perfume (for those afternoon applications) and emergency vitamins, you know, essentials for anywhere you go.
Make-up bag: - Make-up (but to be honest I don't really used it), hair ties (used them for sure) and chapstick (I am addicted to Bert's Bees Chapstick!).
iPod & iPod Touch: Got an iPod Touch for my birthday, but it doesn't hold all my music, so I like to bring both just in case. Also, I was afraid the batter might fail on the iPod Touch.
Wallet: which it totally falling apart. In the metropolis that is NYC somehow I have not come across another wallet I like.
Sunglasses & case: because, obviously, my $5 dollar sunglasses from target could get crushed without a case.
Reading Glasses & Distance Glasses: Yep, I'm an old woman. Just call me Ethel.
Keys: For my house, obvi.
Gum: For my breath, obvi.

It was ridiculous...and heavy...and I saw about eight or nine other girls on my subway car with purses like mind, bursting at the seams with junk. And it struck me...1.) Planning sucks 2.) Did I actually need all of that? Did they need all of that? 
No.
I didn't need it, though, as you just read, I had a lovely excuse or reason for each item. So, this morning and most mornings I feel like I do. But maybe part of a "healthy lifestyle" - or at least a sane one without massive shoulder pain - is being able to let stuff go. I'm not trying to go all "leave the material world behind you" on you, but I think people may plan to much. I know it isn't nice to smell, but do I really need deodorant and perfume? Or heaven forbid my hands get dry and cracked...however will I survive a day with dry hands? A whole make-up kit, when chapstick is all I use from it.

I think tomorrow I'm gonna try and lighten the load.