I am giving up my happiness..

..and detoxing for 21 days, it's true.

I am following Dr. Joshi's Holistic 21 day Detox, which is intended to flush out all those nasty toxins and fats that your body has stored, and restore the bodies Ph from acidic to slightly alkaline. So, essentially...I'm cleansing my body and liver of years of partying, booze, etc, ahem. It's a healthy little regimen that limits you from any wheat and gluten, dairy, fruit (except bananas), some veggies (mostly nightshades), red meat, coffee (even decaf), sugars, anything artificial and processed. Sounds like I'm gonna live off spinach and water, huh? Yeeeeah that's what I'm sayin.

This will be the ultimate test of my self control. Until today, I didn't know I had any, indulging is my favorite pastime. One time Jen and I tried the South Beach diet, we made it to the second or third night before we caved and ate an entire package of bacon, we didn’t even need to talk about how over it was, we both just knew. We were amazing.

The problem here is, I have a very passionate and deep love affair with coffee that Joshi expects me to simply give up, bastard, this is probably what will kill me if the hunger doesn't. I've heard about the withdrawal headaches. Yikes. I actually started to panic about an hour before I had decided detox would begin over the whole coffee bit and ran out for one last emergency coffee coupled by many, many cigarettes. I cried to Dana about missing coffee and she said to me 'Don’t think about what you're not eating or consuming, think about what you are'. That's my new motto. That and 'I need a carrot.'

Everyone is asking how my silly diet is going and since I had a hard time finding recipes and ideas online (the book is pretty useless for suggestions as to what you CAN eat), I'm blogging the detox along with recipes and meal plans, some I found in other people blogs. Don't detox without reading the book!