18 more days but I think I could do this FOREVERRR!

My roommate ate a CHOCOLATE BAR NEXT TO ME TODAY!!! And THEN, she asks if I would mind if she made a bag POPCORN. I minded. She had almonds.

Breakfast
-This is THE YUMMIEST. I took one brown rice wrap and cut it in two, spread pumpkin seed butter (tastes just like peanut butter, only strangely green, don't be scared...it's tasty), cut up half a banana, drizzled with honey and grilled it in a grilled cheese maker. HOLY DELICIOUS!!!
Lunch
-A little bit of a curry I made last night (recipe is posted), and a giant green salad with the dressing I made using the leftover tofu marinade (recipe posted).
Dinner
-Green stir fry. Heated olive oil with fresh garlic and grated ginger, added water, then onions, broccoli, carrots, bok choy, green chard, and spinach. While stir frying, I added some Bragg's for taste (by the way, Bragg's is a soy sauce replacement, you can use it because it's not fermented and you can get it at any health food store).

Ginger Root is my best friend.



I am drinking SO MUCH GREEN TEA!! I think I pee'd about 83 times today. I joked to my little man friend I was pregnant. I don't think he found that very funny. Dying for just one gulp of coffee, just for the taste, god that first sip in the morning is like better then any drug in this lifetime...but no caffeine withdrawal yet, weird. Craving chocolate like woah. Fondue night at my house in 18 days!!

Check out what these Asians are up to now at the Modern Toilet, talk about eating shit.. http://theuncoolhunter.com/home.php?idioma=ENG&id_uncool=881&PHPSESSID=5190a64162b33e36894381fc3e7d22ae

Day 1 (20 days to go)

I walked by Starbucks this morning, she smiled warmly and waved me in. But I kept walking and quietly whimpered at my desk for a half an hour. So I sucked on a carrot for a while.

Breakfast
- smoothie made with 1 cup natural soy milk, a bit of organic dairy free live bio yogurt, half a banana, a dash of honey, and a bit of gluten free muesli for texture. This I can get used to. Oh and hot water with lemon, the staple of this detox. Fun!
Snack
- Carrots, gluten free rice crackers
Lunch
- Salad (greens, spinach, you know...) with pine nuts, veggies, and dressing (dressing part extra virgin olive oil, part lemon, minced garlic)
Dinner
- Chicken marinated for 30 minutes with fresh cilantro, juice of half a lime, cumin and chili
- Lentils simmered with fresh garlic, spinach, cilantro, onions, and spices to make it Dahl like (cumin, turmeric, garam masala). So, this totally looked like my cat ate spinach off the floor, vomited it up, and I served it for dinner. But it was actually quite tasty on the palate I might say.
- Steamed broccoli

3 large cups of organic green tea, lots of water, lots and lots of water.

Pee'd like crazy all day, my co-worker asked if I was pregnant. Then my roommate asked if I wanted to order Pavarazzi's. Jerk. No real cravings today. Just a chocolate bar. A Coffee Crisp, actually.

No caffeine withdrawal, still happy.

This is nothing.

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!