Day 12-the Finale
Wow-already 12 days and I am on my last day. It is so nice to see the herbal pills containers get empty-with just enough for today! Thankfully I didn’t have any weird reactions to the herbs-a few times ago, I would always get sickly and feel nauseaous when I would take the pills. This time went nice and smooooooooooothly!! Well, I woke up this morning with that tinge of heartburn left over from last night-NOT a nice feeling-the thing is, I cannot take anything for it because the PEPCID AC (which is a miracle for it), has all that stuff I cannot have. That has been another down of this detox..not being able to take throat lozenges and such-I am thankful that my Fisherman’s
Friends are acceptable because those keep my throat nicely moist. But some days you just feel like a Hall’s or a piece of gum!
That is ok…we are on the last day for sure! I woke up from an odd dream last night-and the end of it had me eating a niiiiiiiiiice chocolate from Purdy’s-I felt guilty in my dream and when I woke up..I thought I actually had one and cheated!! Nice sleeping for me! haha I guess I am just hoping that I don’t go entirely off this plan because this time it has really worked for me and I have pretty much enjoyed it 90% of the time, which is a FIRST!
I started off the day by eating my usual breakfast of a peach a bit later than planned. I forgot that I would have to leave the house at 2:00 and not be home till around 8:00. I was up early enough but just didn’t think of eating-so I snuck in my peach and a few hours later HAD to eat something so I wouldn’t be hungry! I had my usual rice cake sandwhich and some mixed veggies-but not too much. Whatever I didn’t finish I brought with me to work.
Thankfully I had some time in between my meeting (which they made me come in an hour and a half early for when all I had to do was re sign my contract and talk for 10 minutes to the boss!) to munch on my almonds, soy beans and cashews-Lisa’s trail mix, if you will! When the night was over, I was starting to get hungry.
As I went home I was able to have a late dinner-I actually had some steak which I rarely eat, but needed the protein and iron-and then it went with those small potatoes that are cooked the way my mom does them best, some tomatoes and a little bit of spinach. Yummy!
As the night wore out I started getting heartburn once again-from the potatoes being salty-I HATE that feeling so I have to be careful.
And now I am done…12 successful days of a cleanse-even despite the fact that my boss said I looked TIRED when I got to the school…maybe it is the lack of self tanner on me that is making me look sickly!! It hasn’t been that hard to follow this plan and it was really no problem at all.
Now the next phase will be to keep the GOOD habits-sure I will have some real stuff when I can, but that will have to be a REAL occasion kind of thing. I was 128 pounds when I was eating normal food (not THAT much of it, but not overly limited to zero starch etc.), and I am still 128 pounds after the detox (I am really assuming that I was about 5 pounds heavier when I started) with eating that healthy way-so there IS a balance…the extreme is not a good thing either.
I must point out that people who go on this for weight loss WILL lose the weight, at least 10-15 pounds. I lost what I gained during my 2 weeks of eating..ANYTHING-lol. Even though it may have been 5 pounds for ME, it was still something to get me back to my own comfortable weight. I think I am at my limit for weight loss-I cannot go lower than 125 or so, I don’t really need to either-funny how that happens-you can’t go under your weight but you sure can go over it-anytime!!
I still have a bit of the herbal liquid left which I am supposed to finish taking which should be quite a while.
I am glad that I am off the herbal laxative that they give you in the box (I still have a few left though), because now with teaching I don’t have to worry about getting a cramp and having to leave the studio to go and fix it. Today before I had to leave I was feeling those cramps-and when you get the cramps you have GOT to go to rid them, you can’t just hold them. So GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD thing that part is over and done with!!
Other than that, I will make sure to get myself in a nice pattern-I read that it takes the body 21 days to rid itself of the cravings…and now that I am done, I am not really CRAVING anything. That is a good sign-I just hope I can keep that thing lit!!!
GO ME! On to health…now I can start taking my vitamins again-I didn’t want to take them while I was cleansing-but had hoped that I was getting them with the food I was eating!
Tomorrow I am going to the health store to stock up on the healthy stuff-the good junkie food…the nut bars with honey (I have SO missed not being able to have honey)….the cereals with the cane juice….the breads without the gluten….all that freaked out healthy jazz!!
And THAT concludes my detox diary-I guess I will pull it out again to update it next year! See ya next time! 
