Day 5: A New Phase Begins...

Good evening one and all.  I am pleased to announce that Phase 1 is over and Phase 2 has begun.  As such, I took the liberty of weighing and measuring myself.  I have lost (drum roll please, thank you) 8.5 pounds and lost 1.5" overall.  I'm feeling much better and my mood has definitely lightened.  I was down right perky today and I had to waste two hours of my life in a mandatory class at work.  So things are definitely looking up.

On Phase 2, I get to have three Classic Green Smoothies per day.  I got to add mixed frozen berries to today's green smoothie.  Much better!  Tomorrow, I will get the mixed frozen berries and two bananas!!!  On Sabbath, it will be mixed frozen berries, two bananas, and two apples!  I am salivating right now just thinking about it.  Is that wrong?  To be so excited about adding fruit to a green smoothie? 

The really great thing is that even when I start to get hungry, if I drink water, the hunger goes away.  I drink quite a bit of water anyway, but I admit, I did drink a little bit more today.  So, yes the visits to the bathroom were a little more frequent than usual.  Bye-bye toxins!

Phase 2 is a total of three days, so I don't know what the weight loss will be like for only three days.  Although...Phase 1 was four days and I didn't do so bad.  We'll see.  I'm just jazzed because I feel like I'm getting somewhere.  This is definitely going to get me back into the healthy eating mode. 

I have had one really weird, but in a good way, craving:  Last Sabbath, I had lunch at my folks' house.  We just had sandwiches.  Mine was tomato, avocado, and onion on toasted sprouted wheat sour dough bread.  It was fabulous.  I am craving that with one addition:  alfalfa sprouts.  Don't ask me why I'm craving it, all I know is that is the healthiest craving I have had in a long time.

I must close for today, but never fear, I will be back tomorrow with more.  After all.  This is an adventure, not just a journey.

Tally ho!
Nevada Smith