Day 20

Well, I've actually given up on the pureed soup as of two days ago. I just can't make it taste GOOD, and it was starting to make me gag. My sister-in-law gave me the recipe for Weight Watchers "free soup" and I made that. Which tasted like heaven after all the yucko purees I'd eaten. I had that Sunday night. I woke up in the middle of the night with the DRIEST mouth EVER. Literally, felt like my mouth was lined with cotton!! I figured that because the soup had veggie broth in it, I'd overdone it on salt, after going without for nearly 3 weeks. So yesterday I drank sooooo much water! I still felt dry all day until last night it felt like I was finally getting back to normal. I had that same soup for dinner last night (watered down a little, actually, because it TASTED too salty to me, which used to be rare.) and I'm a little dry again this morning.

Saw a couple of people at work yesterday whom I hadn't seen in a while--they were impressed by my weight loss! :)

Day 19

Well. I've made it thus far! So we finally went to the fair yesterday, M loved the carousel, had to do it twice, she wasn't totally in love with the animals, which surprised me, since she mauls our cats on a daily basis! AND...I finally got to fulfill my fair food fantasies! :) I ate an ear of roasted corn, which I shared with M, and I had one bite of G's peroschki, and one bite of his Krusty Pup. I couldn't talk him into eating anything else so I could have ONE bite, lol! I was DYING for an Elephant Ear, but he said he couldn't eat more than a bite, either, and I'm pretty sure M couldn't have finished it! So as of this morning I've actually lost the 21 pounds! Whew! NICE! I'm really ready to start eating. I'm still craving yummy healthy stuff, so I hope that continues to be the case once I start adding foods to my diet.

Am having trouble finding Superphos 30 to do the liver and gall bladder cleanse. Would hate to skip that part, but can't see doing it if I don't have all the tools.

Day 15

Yiiiiiikes. This is getting harder. I just can't stomach this stuff anymore! YUCK! The berry splash doesn't bother me at all, but everything else tastes terrible. I've just had disastrous soup experiments. So today pretty much turned into a water fast for me. I took the first berry splash drink, then nothing but water all day until dinner. Which tasted awful as well. :( I tried a vegetarian recipe from my Indian cookbook that sounded so good! Then added water and pureed it. YUCK. Oh MY. And after choking down yesterday's green drink, I couldn't even try today. I hope tomorrow is easier. I'm getting so close! And I'd like to do the strict diet until the end, but I'm not sure I can...

Day 14

Doing ok. Still having fair food fantasies! Today G made dinner for himself and M, and it smelled SO good!!! YUM! It WAS good. I had ONE bite. I've had a weird schedule today again...we got up super early to pick up my brother on the ferry. Then we all went to breakfast at IHOP. OMG, can you say "torture"??? Jeez. But I didn't eat anything. I helped M eat hers, and I just drank my purple, had already had tea. Then we got in the car, and I have only had water since then. I just drank carrot juice and green stuff at 500 for "dinner" along with my one bite of chicken. I just noticed that I'm supposed to do a kidney cleanse today, maybe I'll try to do that before bed.

My Mom noticed that I had lost the weight! She was so happy for me! :)

Day 13

Yay! I only have nine days left!

I was talking to my friend yesterday about the will power issue. Frankly, I have NONE. So this diet has been amazing for me. I think it all comes down the the simple fact that I saw results IMMEDIATELY, and that made it SO much easier to get from one day to the next, knowing that I would keep losing if I kept myself on the diet.

Got home from work last night...again, really hard to keep myself on schedule while I'm busy all day. I missed a couple of supplements yesterday and dinner. But I didn't feel hungry. By the time I got home, it was so late, I just threw veggies into the crock pot for today and then went to bed.

Going to have another challenge tonight and tomorrow, M and I are going visiting. I'm sure everyone will respect what I'm doing and help me out. Gotta love family! :)

I just can't believe how good my body feels. I've had NO bloating or gas. I really think adding foods back to my diet one by one is going to be key for me, so I can watch for allergies. I'm thinking it has to be allergies bothering me? Or maybe the food combining is it. I'm really interested in feeling like THIS for the rest of my life. Maybe I should get my hands on a food combining book...

Day 11

WOW! I'm half way through this detox!!!!!! YAY!

On the drive home from work today, I told myself I was going to CHEAT TODAY! I soooo wanted to! I thought we might go to the fair when I got home, but we aren't. I want fair food SO bad! I was gonna eat one bite of everything G had. I had it all planned out! Isn't that awful!??! We aren't going today, and I'm super hungry, since my day started so early! So I ate 4 raisins. (homemade--no added sugar.) I haven't cheated YET, and I REALLY wanted to!

I worry about the day we do decide to go to the fair.

M and I are going up to Lynden to see family on Monday evening. We'll spend the night, and have dinner and then breakfast with the family, then drive home. I told my Mom that I'm not very much fun to eat with right now, lol! I hope it's not all too tempting.

Day Eight

Was much better. I lost the grouch yesterday, whew! M and I had a good day!!! She doesn't ask "why", but she sure wants to know what a lot of things are!!! EVERY item in my makeup bag today, heehee! "What's zis, Mommy?" :)

I sure am sleeping well! It feels good to lay down, read a page in my book, and then be immediately drooping so that I turn off the light and wake up in the morning! That is VERY unusual for me. I usually wake up for potty breaks, and I'm SHOCKED that I'm not while I'm doing this detox, because during my waking hours, I visit the lav every 15 minutes!!! So if we could just get our little alarm clock Miss M to sleep past 630, we'd all be fine!!!

My first soup disaster. OMG. It was sooo yucky I had to throw the whole thing out, lest I barf. YUCKO. Followed a recipe and everything. Bummer. My juice today was just plain cucumber and celery. Can that really be good for me? I guess if the alternative is a burger and fries, then yes. But it wasn't very good, either.

I'm craving weird things. Things that aren't usually on my list of must-haves. A Gardenburger, for one. A chicken caesar salad. And raw almonds with dried cranberries. What in the world????

Praying for no work tomorrow, since I now need to replenish my veggie supply (darn nasty soup!) and make and freeze juice for the rest of my reserve days!!!

On to the Sleepytime Tea. Yawn.

Day seven is baaaaaaad!

I'm feeling ok physically, but mentally...whew! I'm SUCH a grouch! I feel sorry for M, having to put up with me all day. Granted, she is being VERRRRRRY 2 today, but still. Who was is that said she felt much more patience? I'm the opposite today! I have NONE! :( I sure hope I get it back, because I don't like how I am today.

It doesn't help that I'm cooking and baking. Dad is coming down for dinner, and I've got Mexican Chicken in the crock pot. It smells good. Also, had some brown bananas, and a friend coming over at 1130, so I have banana bread in the oven. Jeez. This doesn't help. I'm not HUNGRY, because I just drank yucky green stuff. But I want to chew, and I want to TASTE.


OK. Thank GOD it got better. Whew. M took a huge nap starting at 1030, and I had some fabulous adult talk time. It was what I needed, especially with someone with totally similar interests and experiences!

I made a great dinner for M and Dad, G had to eat his leftover because of parent night. And I sent lots of stuff with Dad, so we have less left lying around here. Although it's not really tempting me. I feel like I've done this well thus far, and I WILL complete the 21 days because now it's a challenge to make sure I can. And to see how much weight I can lose. Because I already know that this is how my COLON likes to live. I've had NO gassy, bloaty or anything! WOW!!! Not to mention the pain and suffering that I can imagine going through if I just went off it cold turkey right now. Yikes!

Drank loads of h2o today, as well as iced tea.

Day Six

Was fine. Made G and M a super healthy dinner tonight, brown rice, stir fried veggies and baked salmon. G said, "This dinner seems kind of...healthy." I just laughed!!! :) We sure eat a lot of cheesy meals, I guess!

I skipped the 2nd Berry Drink today. I hope I don't feel yucky tomorrow because of that. There's just SO MUCH DRINKING!!!! I'm NEVER thirsty!

I also need to drink the kidney cleanse yet. I'm not worried about it being too icky, because I've already tasted the cherry stuff, and it's good. And strong! Although I have to put parsley in it...

I'm feeling pretty good today, I put on pants and a button up shirt that I haven't fit into in a long time! M looked at it and said, "I like this!" LOL!!! I guess I normally look like a slob? My TWO year old noticed?!

Days 3,4, and 5

Well, actually, being at work is easier than being at home. I was called for a one day trip late Thursday night, and fortunately, I packed my cooler for the whole 3 days of my availability, because it's Sunday and I got home a couple of hours ago. Now my hubby is eating a brat he grilled, and my stomach is growling. :(

OF COURSE my trip went thru Canada on Friday morning (AND yesterday, but we didn't have to get off the plane), so I put on my brave face and LIED to customs. "Nope, no food". Eeeeek! I'm such a bad liar! But my flying partner promised me they never look in our bags. He didn't. He didn't even notice I was carrying a cooler, because he was sitting behind his desk being Mr. Grumpy Gus. So I heated up my soup on the plane the first day and ate it for lunch (my juice was still frozen!) and then had the juice for dinner. Last night I heated up my soup in a hotpot in my hotel room. Easy!

My only problem, is that being in a different time zone several times a day, and then sleeping in a different time zone really messes up my schedule. The first day I missed a green drink, and then yesterday I missed BOTH the afternoon purple drink and the green drink. I was feeling pretty tired, mostly as a result of all the hours we put in, I think, because my flying partners, who were eating "real" food, were exhausted as well. I called G and told him I thought I had to skip my exercise because I was pooped (should I use that word in that context here???) but he TOTALLY supported me and did not enable me, and said I should GO to the gym! So I did. I walked about a mile and a half and even jogged a half. I couldn't believe I had enough energy to do that, I'm NOT a jogger. I ate an extra cup of soup for dinner, and was feeling pretty good, actually!

But this morning, I woke up at 4. What????? Why????? I just wasn't tired anymore. So I laid there for an hour, thinking that I wouldn't be able to lay around for the next few days. Got up and got ready to go, but started feeling icky. I decided to try to switch the purple drink first thing for the green, so I wouldn't have to drink the green while I was on the plane, since I was to be sitting in a passenger seat rather than working home. The mere thought of drinking the green made me queasy. I had green tea. That was ok, but I still felt a bit icky. I wonder if missing TWO drinks yesterday had this effect on me today? Dunno. I still feel a little light headed and weak. Fortunately, no headache.

I had a few hungries this morning on the plane, it was still super early, but I'd been awake for quite a while. So I juiced as soon as I got home, and now I see I have 15 minutes before green drink. I hope I can stomach it now.

Day Two

OK. The colonic. YUCK!!!!!!! That was nasty! It wasn't relaxing, it wasn't refreshing, I didn't feel light and "fluffy" afterwards (the hydrotherapist's actual word) and I was just plain uncomfortable! BLECH! I did "get to watch" what passed by, and THAT WAS GROSS! So I did feel like it was working...I will get the rest of them that I have scheduled, but I won't say another word about them.

That being said, WOW! I lost 4 1/2 pounds! Yay!!! That will make today easier!

So when I got home, I ate my soup, which was pretty good, not as good as the original recipe, but I will definitely make it again and try to tweak it so the flavor is closer. I also did the skin brushing, which feels so good! And I took a bath...mmmmmm. Would have been MUCH more relaxing if the tub didn't have a slow NOISY leak and if my child had been in bed, rather than wailing that she wanted to watch Jeff and Murray.

All in all, I'm happy with the results after just one day. I'm not gassy or bloated, and my stomach hasn't hurt ONCE! YAY! And I only had two twinges of hungry yesterday, one right when I woke up (which I don't have this morning!!) and at noon, so I just started working on the veggie juice a little early. :)

Still Day 1

and still going ok. I felt hunger pangs at noon, so I started my juice a bit early. That and chopping the veggies for dinner kept me busy enough to forget. I tried the other green stuff I bought, and it's just as yuck as the other, lol! I wasn't feeling like I could drink ANYTHING else, though, so I went 3 hours instead of two, I may be off schedule tonight. But the colonic is at 5:30, so I have to get G and M fed before I go, and then I think I'll eat when I get home. I think being done at 730 might be too early for me, since I'm such a night owl. Not such a bad late night snacker, it's just that if I'm up, I'll probably feel the hunger.

*terrified still of the colonic!!!*

Day One, September 5

It's 11 am on Day One, and I'm feeling fine. I woke up hungry, of course. But I made Maisie's breakfast and then drank my berry drink, which I mixed in the Vita-Mix with distilled water ice cubes. It wasn't bad. Maisie said, "Appie juice?" :) I also had berry tea, which I put stevia in. I don't usually sweeten my tea, but I thought I'd try it today. We then went for a walk. I pushed her in the stroller, WHEW! That was harder than the day I carried her on my shoulders!! Then we played around in the yard a bit. When we came in, I was surprised to find it was nearly time for the second round! So we showered, and then I had my green drink, which wasn't too good. I mixed it with about 10 oz of water, and shook the heck out of it. Which made it foamy...maybe not such a good idea. I chugged it! Chased it with extra water, and am now working on unsweetened green tea. Not hungry. Good.