My Morning Routine Timelines and Variations

My Morning Routine

This is what I eat each morning for the Liver Rescue morning which consists of:

Drinking 32oz. of lemon water
Waiting 15-30 minutes.
Drinking 16-32 oz. of celery juice.
Waiting 15-30 minutes.
Taking supplements.
Drinking a smoothie or other breakfast option.
While I wait 15-30 minutes between drinking things, I prepare more food for the day and clean the kitchen as needed.

The timeline for this varies depending on whether or not I have work. I can spend 1 up to 4 hours doing my celery and lemon water and smoothie in the morning/afternoon.

I have an ASMR Youtube video on my morning routine as well as a Voice Over if you prefer to listen to this content rather than read it!

Work Routine

Each morning while getting ready for work usually takes me about 45 minutes to prep and drink my lemon water, prep and drink celery juice, and prep smoothies for breakfast and lunch. Sometimes I get a salad or grab leftovers for lunch.

Then it takes me about 30-40 minutes to prepare for work and take my supplements before heading out the door. I then sip my smoothie throughout the morning because drinking a liter of liquid keeps me pretty full.

Weekend Routine

I take my time on the weekends doing this routine so this can take a couple more hours to complete. Sometimes I wait too long after I wake up and I break my fast with food rather than doing the lemon water and celery juice.

On the weekend, or day I don’t have to be somewhere, I can take up to two hours doing what usually takes me 45 minutes.

My next goal is to try and keep my routine even when I don’t have to get somewhere so I’m ready to go for the day! I need to remember this in the summer because I tend to get out of a routine then and I always gain weight in the summer as a result. My goal this year is to stay in a routine so I can be more productive.

Continue reading to find out more details on the timelines of my morning routine as well as their variations. I will also discuss how these timelines have changed through the years before finding MM, during Covid, and after Covid lockdowns.

Next week I will cover the supplements I take and how I came to take them.

Detailed Timelines

In this next section, I list a detailed timeline of my morning to see how long things take me. This helped me think about how long it actually takes me to do these things as well. Sometimes I feel like it’s forever when I take my time with it, but looking at the time this way made me realize how long it actually takes.

First I’ll review a typical morning during the workweek, what a late wake-up looks like when I don’t feel like getting up early, and then what my weekends or day off looks like.

Typical Morning:

Overall it took me about 45 minutes to prep and drink celery and lemon water. Then it took me 15 minutes to do my hair and makeup, 5 minutes to get dressed, another 5 minutes to take my supplements, then 4-5 minutes to gather my things and head out the door.

6:30 AM Wake up
4 min to get celery juicer together and make lemon water.
By 6:40 I have drunk my lemon water. I start washing and making celery juice.
While I start making celery juice I make my smoothie or smoothies.
5 min to wash celery and run one’s leftover from yesterday.
5 more min to make close to 32oz. I also started my HMDS at this time.
Now it’s 6:52 and I’m about to make my smoothies while I let my celery run a bitlonger to process all the juice.
Then 6:55 I strain the juice and clean the celery juicer 6:58 I’m done.
I usually clean my celery juicer while I’m waiting for the 20 minutes between my lemon water and celery juice.
7 am is 20 min gap.
7:03 While my smoothie is blending I start eating my celery juice and finishing my extraction smoothie.
7:09 I’m making the 2nd smoothie and prepping honey thyme water.
7:12 I’m done with my celery and making my 2nd smoothie.
7:27 I did my makeup and brushed my teeth.
7:32 I’m dressed and loved on my beagle!
7:36 I’m taking my supplements goal is to be on the road by 7:45
7:40 I’m finished and gathering things to go out the door.
7:42 out the door
7:43 – 7:53 on the road
By 8:20 I’ll have sipped at least 1 cup of my smoothie. Sometimes I have two cups. Then I’ll sip it through the morning.
11:15 Early Lunch – Sometimes I’ll finish the smoothie during lunch or after school. If I don’t have a salad or something other than another smoothie I’ll put it in the fridge and drink it on the way home. The HMDS makes about 32 oz. so this one takes me longer to drink than some of the other ones.

Waking up late @ 7:05

In this rushed state, I only took 20 minutes to prep and make things and take supplements. 12 minutes to do hair and makeup, 5 min to get dressed, and 5 min to gather things up and get on the road. Then I take my time drinking celery juice. It takes me 25 minutes to get to work so I’ll sip it the whole time and hold it in my throat at times to get it working in that area.

7:07 – Lemon water only drank 16 oz while making celery juice.
7:27 – I finished making celery juice; a watermelon smoothie with already cut watermelon in the fridge. I also took supplements but not all of them.
7:39 done getting hair and make-up done and teeth brushed.
7:49 on the road.
I drink Celery juice on the way to work in this scenario.
Then I usually wait at least 30 minutes before sipping my smoothie in school. Sometimes I wait an entire hour after Celery juice in this scenario because I don’t get a chance to drink a smoothie while I teach.

The Weekend

I’ll get up anywhere between 7-9 AM. Then I take my time with the morning routine. For the sake of the timeline, I’ll do this according to the 9 AM wake-up time. The following timeline is on a lazy day when I have nowhere to be in the morning.

9 AM wake up then I’ll play on my phone looking at social media or other things for 1-2 hours at times when I’m being lazy.
11 AM ish Then when I get up I’ll have the lemon water and drink that while I prep celery juice. I’ll sip the lemon water more slowly so it takes me 20 minutes to drink a lot of times and then I wait 30 minutes after I’m done sipping it to drink the celery juice.
While I drink my lemon water I make my celery juice, but I’m not in a rush so this takes me longer than usual. I’ll also sometimes prep a smoothie here too.
11:50 I’ll sit at the TV while I drink my celery juice.
11:30 I’ll be done with my celery juice and wait 30 minutes to have my smoothie while I watch TV or play games on my phone.
12 PM I’ll start sipping my smoothie and I’ll drink that into 2 PM ish. Many times my husband and I will grab lunch at this point as well.
Sometimes I forget to take my supplements on lazy days, but I try to take them during my smoothie time if I do take them.

When I have something to do in the morning I usually stick to my 45-minute preparation. If I’m not making smoothies this time gets cut done a little but not by much.

When looking at this timeline it can seem overwhelming to see how long things take and where busy people would fit that in their schedules. Convenience is killing us! Is it easier to grab a bagel at Wawa and not prepare your own food, YES! Is it worth your health? NO.

I feel great when I stick with my morning routine. If I fall off it for a week or two because of vacation or something going on, headaches start to come back and so does the acid reflux. This stuff works!

How this timeline has evolved through the past 2.5 years.

This section is organized in my before Medical Medium era, During Covid, and After Covid. My timeline has changed a lot due to these circumstances.

Before Medical Medium

I usually needed about 45 minutes to get ready before I found Medical Medium. All of this time was spent on getting ready, preparing lunch and breakfast for the day, and going to work. I was always rushing as I’m not a morning person and don’t like getting up.

My breakfast before Medical Medium usually consisted of a coffee and a protein bar or shake. Sometimes I’d grab a bagel or sandwich from Dunkin or Wawa. These are not very healthy at all.

I thought I was healthy with the protein bar, but it turns out that Whey protein is terrible for you because Whey is from milk.

I probably spent 15 minutes max getting my food prepped for the day, and most of that was on coffee! My other things were always grab-and-go. This included me planning out my lunch by grabbing leftovers, a protein shake, or buying lunch (and usually breakfast if I was stopping there) at Wawa before the school day.

After Finding Medical Medium During Covid!

I found MM during the Lockdowns so my morning routine has evolved quite a bit in these past couple of years because of the various circumstances of the morning commute. I was fortunate to learn these things during the lockdown so I could bring it into my habits in a regular schedule as well!

During Lockdowns

I found MM during Covid lockdowns in August 2020. I was fortunate to be able to have some more time to learn his information and apply it because I was working from home so I didn’t have to commute or get completely dressed for school!

I also read parts of Cleanse to Heal during August in 2020 and completed my first 369 cleanse before school started so I felt like I knew a good amount before I had to get into a routine with school again. I was working from home that school year for half of the year, but I did spend a good portion of my days teaching classes online like regular school.

We went back to school in November teaching virtually while having to drive to school. The kids started trickling in with social distancing around January 2021. Then, more kids came back the following year and there was still a good amount of learning virtually. This year (2022/2023) was like a normal year with only a small handful still doing virtual learning.

Working from Home Routine

While I was working from home, I didn’t have to plan my lunch ahead of time because I was home. I don’t usually have time to go out at all for lunch so I always bring it to school. My morning routine does consist of me getting lunch ready as well. I try to have something planned the night before so I don’t have to think about it in the morning.

My morning routine timeline was taking all school day to complete. I would get up and do my celery juice. Then I would teach 1st period and try to drink it during class (which usually didn’t happen). I ended up drinking it during my prep 2nd period.

Then I would go downstairs and make a smoothie. Since I just finished the celery juice I had to wait at least 20 minutes before having my smoothie. Then I would get pretty hungry for lunchtime and I’d snack on different things while I taught.

It was nice having that time to learn the recipes and being able to go downstairs to grab something if I needed it!

Working from School with Virtual Learning

I had to stick to my routine outlined above, but I could leave a little later. Most offices and things of that nature were still online so my morning commute was 15-20 minutes most days. I’d leave around 8 and get to school in plenty of time for first period which started at 8:30.

I usually got up around 7 AM for this schedule and I usually drank my celery juice in school and still took a long time to complete the morning routine.

After Covid Lockdowns

As things started gradually opening up I had to get up earlier to accommodate the longer commute to school which is what my current routine is! If I’m running late I’ll drink my celery juice on the way to work.

Overall, I love this routine. If I don’t stick to it because I’m on vacation or something, I start to feel the negative effects of not having my lemon water, celery juice, and fat-free smoothie! Headaches and acid reflux can come back up especially if I’m indulging in baked goods and cheese. I’m still figuring this whole lifestyle out!

There was a slow process in releasing lockdowns. This 2022/2023 school year was the first normal year since 2020.

The timelines listed above are my routine after these lockdowns. Traffic to school has increased my commute by about 10 minutes each way so had to leave my house earlier than I was when the lockdowns were still in place.

I hope you enjoyed learning about my routine and I hope you are inspired to try it out! Remember every small step counts! Try it out, you might just feel better!