Day 6

Day 5

It's lunch time.... How lovely it would be to be in Atlantic City at White House Subs...

But I'm not... I'll walk home... Maybe have some left over rice pasta and some pineapple...

And I'm noticing. I think my appetite is decreasing. This might get easier.

Day 4

What I would have given for a blueberry muffin this morning! But I settled for just the blueberries, no muffin.
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Fortunately, I do love fruit. Not sure I will still love it after 28 days.

Day 3

An easy day on "the program", except for that powder stuff that we need to ingest... It's not that it tastes so bad, it's that gritty texture.... But I feel good -- yet, how much better would I feel if I could have had bacon and eggs for breakfast?

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Broiled chicken breasts, green beans, green salad for dinner... And now I'm sitting here with my lovely cup of herbal tea -- "sweet dreams", it's called.

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Jerry is blogging about these 28 days also... Check him out at http://jerryperspectives.blogspot.com/.

Day 2

Jerry called me sometime this afternoon and said, "I want a hamburger!".... The poor guy, he was starving.

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But we held out, made it through another day sticking to the detox restrictions...

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Tonight, I made a pasta dish (with brown-rice pasta, of course) with beans, carrots, onions, and tomatoes -- all organic, gluten-free and not bad.

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No headache all day. I guess I wasn't addicted to caffeine after all.

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Was kinda sluggish this afternoon... But that isn't unusual for me, can't blame that on the diet.. :-)

Day 1

There are a multitude of things we can't have on this detox diet, but the one most noticeably absent from my Day One is the morning coffee... No coffee at at all, no caffeine, no sodas... The only kind of tea we can have is herbal decaf tea, so I had two cups today. Herbal tea may not give that morning kick, but at least it's a warm cup to hang on to!

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It's evening of Day One now, and so far (knock on wood) I don't have a caffeine headache... I'm expecting that on Day Two.

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Food today: cashew-butter and organic strawberry jelly on gluten-free bread... Not bad! We can have unlimited fruit (anything except oranges) and vegetables (except corn)... I'm not much of a vegetable-lover (except corn) but have had lots of fruit. Tonight we'll have chicken and rice for dinner.

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Oh yeah -- did i tell you about the gritty stuff we have to drink?.. and the pills?..

but so far so good.

it starts tomorrow, Sunday, the 26th of October, 2008

OK, my naturopath wins... Jerry and I start de-toxifying... I'll give you the play by play -- if you can handle the pain!!

tonight i had a big toxic dinner and a big slice of German chocolate cake... But that's it. The cleanse is coming. :-(