Make Me Martian Green Baby!

by Stacey Terry

I am flying!!!!

My inbox is FULL!!!!!  And that’s a FABULOUS thing as it says to me that more and more people are interacting with green smoothies and good fun!  And thank you to everyone who is writing in to me and joining to support me for the next 21-Day Green Smoothie Detox.

Every few minutes I feel more excitement building and see good things happening.  When I returned to Diva-land on Monday, I was thrilled when Tera announced that we met our BiG objective of raising $10 000 for the Lower East Side Girls Club!  Today will be the final day that we’ll be collecting last minute donations, but Tera has generously decided to make all the BiG calls available until next year’s International Green Smoothie Day.

Wait until you see ALL the incredible stories, challenges, recipes, and green smoothie events people shared for the BiG contests!!! We are going to have a doooooozy of a time picking winners.  It will definitely take a few days to go through everything.  There are videos, stories, photos, recipes… and all of it FULL of green glowing energy from wonderful people you just wanna hug and squeeze!  We’ll be sharing many of the stories, entries, etc. here on the blog.  And we’ll definitely announce the winners!  SOMEBODY’s got a Blendtec coming!

I too am still feeling the effects of the BiG event and getting excited about my own personal challenge coming up.  AND… I got busy this weekend with starting a green smoothie song!  And knowing that I would need support, I contacted many of our past GSQ participants.  I’m asking as many people as I can muster to join me for this round of the 21-Day Green Smoothie Detox. I want to stay connected, inspired, and firey for the month of September, so I think there are enough of us to share the energy, the encouragement, and the enthusiasm, we’ll all benefit from greater success.

hehe… I know I replied to someone today that I wanna go “Martian green” for this detox.  It’s true… I want to alkalize, cleanse, free my muddled brain and body from bagels, and feel the JOY.  You know that runner’s high that people talk about?  I’ve felt that!  (when I was running… before my knee incident last October that is…)  The first time I discovered how it felt to live on raw food I felt like I’d suddenly been let in on the world’s most blissful secret! I’m hoping I can rediscover that same bubble feeling this time!  But part of that feeling came from discovering amazing people in the forums… people like our very own Doll in customer service.  She and I are original blender buddies!    I’m going to see if we can find a way to pair up people for the 21-day detox in the forums too!

I haven’t yet mentioned that this will be a particularly interesting 28 days as I have a knee surgery scheduled for September 20th… right smack dab in the middle of things.  Due to an unfortunate over-zealous dancing incident last Halloween, I managed to put a tear in my left knee.  And finally, my surgery date is rolling around.

Yesterday I completed my surgery intake form and when I got to the box that asked about “special diet requirements” while in hospital I wrote down, “if I will be required to eat, I will only be consuming raw food… preferably green smoothies.  I LOVE green smoothies!!“  Then I wrote out the basic green smoothie recipe for bananas and spinach.  Then I put a big heart around the whole thing.  

hehe… Wish I could be the intake nurse who reads that…

But… I’m going to zoom on outta here!  The deadline for the 21-day Green Smoothie Detox is coming up on Sunday, September 5, 2010 so if you intend to join me and the rest of the chlorophyll club, you’ll want to sign up ASAP. Of course, as with all Raw Diva programs, you can always make arrangements to take our programs for free through our volunteer/work exchange program.  I’m in full gear getting that program ready at the same time making sure we have all our entries in from Believe in Green.

Things are busy, bustling, and beautiful!  Here’s hoping that when I actually become Martian green from eating copious amounts of kale, spinach, chard, and lettuce that I grow a few extra hands…

… and some more arms for green leafy hugs! 

xox

Stacey