Well, I finished the cleanse one week ago Saturday. Let's just say the honeymoon is over. On the last day of the cleanse...David and I woke up at 6am to finish the last two shots of crazy homeopathic laxative that kept us running to the toilet all night. We also drank 3/4 cup grapefruit juice mixed with 1/2 cup olive oil. DISGUSTING! This was to bring out the liver and gall bladder stones for our final session of hydrotherapy. I had about 20 - 25 stones come out and a couple of them were the size of a kidney bean. I was told that I needed to go back for another stone removal in 3 months. I don't think that is going to happen. I was on cloud nine because my weight was down 29.6#. I was able to wear the jeans that have been hanging in my closet for two years.
Saturday and Sunday we were on a pretty limited diet of Pineapple/Apple salad with cottage cheese/flax oil mix and lightly cooked vegetables. After Sunday I was ready to branch out and have some soup, salad and fruit smoothies. I decided I would give the vegetarian thing a try since meat sounded pretty gross to me. Besides I had a squeaky clean colon and I didn't want to muck it up. Well, you have to remember that the only thing I had been eating for 1 month was juice...veggie or apple and I should have remembered that my body was basically starving.
Long story short...It is one week and two days since I have finished the cleanse and I have gained back 12 pounds eating an 70% raw vegetable vegetarian diet. I don't know how that is possible, I guess my metabolism was virtually non existent. Now I need to focus on exercise. Even though I have gained almost half the weight back, I still feel amazing. My biggest obstacle is food planning and preparation and exercising. So today, Monday Feb 28th 2011 is the first day of the rest of my life eating healthy and exercising regularly. I am still enrolled at weight watchers online and that is really helping me track what I eat. I get on the scale every morning so I can be accountable everyday to prevent any backslides. Wish me luck.
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