Day One

...has been pretty interesting. I really don't know where to start in all of this!

I woke up at around 8am-- surprising after closing last night and not getting home until around 2am. The first set of drinks left me with a horrible stomach ache... I think it was because I drank them much too quickly. By the time I burped a few times the vomiting feeling went away, so I'm convinced that's what it was!

Either way, continued drinking everything I needed to on time. Considering I don't normally eat breakfast--- all I do is drink water, I didn't really have any hunger pangs. However, around my usual "lunch time"/snack time, I had the munchies. I wasn't HUNGRY- I just wanted to eat something. Kind of making my usual eating habits obvious to me.

For my juice I juiced up a couple carrots and half of a large cucumber. The initial taste was a bit bizarre, but by the end of it, I didn't think it was half bad. Also, if the taste ever got too strong, I just alternated juice and water sips.

The dinner soup was interesting... I started boiling up some different colored potatoes ((I wasn't aware there was a purple potato!--- its purple inside, too)) a few hours before my scheduled soup time, adding a few basil leaves and oregano. I also added the left over carrot pieces that the juicer throws out ((basically shredded carrot)), a full zucchini, and a 3rd of an onion. In the book, it says that our pureed soup isn't supposed to be consumed until around 6pm, but at home we usually eat around 4, no later than about 5pm-- so actually having my "meal" later was a bit of an issue for me. I ended up drinking about 3 cups of the broth just to hold back the hunger pangs and by the time 6pm came around, I reluctantly drank down the puree. It wasn't bad tasting... it just was that I wasn't that hungry anymore.

I missed my cup of tea during that time since right after I downed my puree, I went for a walk. The walk was sort of nice-- I didn't realize how big the park near my house is. I don't know how far I walked, but I figure it must have been over a mile. I read somewhere that a mile is about how much you walk in 20min- 30min at a leisurely pace. I walked over 30min pretty quickly, so maybe a mile and a half?

Either way, I got back home and drank another cup of tea, this time with Stevia which is actually more delicious than I thought it might be! I figured it'd be like Raw Sugar but no- tastes sort of like Equal/Sweet and Low and I can't help but be afraid there might be a catch, but I guess there really isn't one!

I think over the course of the day, I've been to the bathroom about 7 or 8 times, all the times my urine getting lighter and lighter. This last time I've gone, my urine was virtually clear. I know I went--- A LOT--- and when I got up, the sight of it was a little startling.

I haven't taken any herbal cleansing pills because I got the wrong ones from the store the other day... tomorrow I'm going to exchange them for the ones I think will work. Also, I have a bunch of leftovers from today's soup so I put it all inside the fridge and will have to use them up tomorrow as best I can. I may boil up an ear of corn to make up for my lack of broth for tomorrow and then blend in the corn pieces with the veggies I have left over.

Tomorrow will be a test to see how well I can do this detox outside of home. I have to work from 4.30am- 11.45am... I'll have to take all my powders and have them at the ready at work. I guess to some extent, I should be glad I work at Starbucks--- free teas and water and maybe it'll be ok. At the same time, leaving my post because I have to run to the bathroom is going to be a hassle, as well as the fact that we have a drive thru and stopping to mix a drink may be an issue.



Sooooooo~!

1/ 21!

((oh, and I'm only going to weigh and measure myself once a week))