Cleanse: Days 2-3

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

Day Two of the cleanse was pretty uneventful.  I’m feeling that this is much easier than I had anticipated.  I ate an almost identical diet to day one.  I did discover that the best baby puree (again, I used Plum Organics in the little pouch) is a pear base.  This tasted so much better in the shake than the funky blueberry combination.  Something about the greens with the berries just didn’t work for me.  The pear is so mild and just sweet enough that it masks the sweetness of the greens powder- which is my least favorite flavor.

Day Three:

Something is missing here, I call it Dinner!  A liquid dinner just doesn’t satisfy me the way a normal meal would.  It is starting to feel strange to prepare foods for my baby that I can’t eat.  Usually we play a game where I take a bite of something and make funny faces over how delicious it is- he loves this!  During dinner on day three I felt a little sad just having my liquid meal- chewing is fun.  I have made a decision to finish the cleanse according to the instructions, but reconsider my original goal of continuing the Elimindaiton Diet for a full 21 days.

What can I say, I’m weak.

My one suggestion for anyone new to cleansing like me is- Don’t watch TV!  There is so much food on TV, the commercials become torture.  Even things that I would normally never eat are starting to look appealing.  Fast food ads, chain restaurants, so much cheesy goodness everywhere, my biggest craving now is for Mac n’ Cheese- the good kind with lots of crispy bits.

Ok, enough about food.  I’m trying to reach my water goal for the day ( which is half my body weight in ounces), but that has definitely been a challenge, though getting better.  I did make one small mistake when following the cleanse instructions and I did 2 scoops of protien powder for dinner instead of one, I guess I’ll just be a little hungrier at the end.  It is getting close to my all liquid day…fingers crossed!

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