Ok here goes, as all of you know i am overweight, and my hubby is possibly coming home sooner than expected! eeeeeeeek! So i am getting serious now...
Ok so i feel to fully reep the benifits of any diet you have to detox first. So you start off with a clean system, inside and out. So, to start my diet i have chosen to detox with the Lemonade Detox Diet. It is a book written by Stanley Burroughs, called the Master Cleanse. (ok i have not read the book, i do not recommend doing this without the advice of a medical professional, blah blah blah)
This is kind of a science expirement, im a bored army wife and my husband is deployed, i have the time for this.
Ok so the recipe is:
2 Tablespoons (1 fluid ounce) fresh-squeezed lemon or lime juice NOT BOTTLED JUICE!! (approx. 1/2 lemon),
2 Tablespoons (1 fluid ounce) organic Grade B maple syrup, (i couldnt find grade b so i used a)
1/10 Teaspoon or more cayenne pepper (hot red pepper),
1 Cup (8 fluid ounces) purified or spring water, NOT fluoridated water.
So the deal with this diet is you are supposed to drink this 10x a day, along with a salt water "flush" in the morning and a herbal detox tea in the evening before bed.
for 10 days...not so bad right? we are about to find out!
I decided to wait until Monday to start this diet just because i had just gone grocery shopping and i didnt want to waste all the fresh food i got. So all the cooking i will be doing will be one serving meals for my son, for the next 10 days, i think i can do this...pray for me!
Most people recommend taking before and after shots and posting them, but hell no! Never! ha ha ha ha ah. so here is the journey i am taking to a new me.
Sunday December 14th, 2008:
The night before, tonight i went out and bought a nice water bottle to hold my mixture in so i can take it with me wherever i go this week. I will not be doing the salt water flush in the morning simply because i know it gives you the runs and i have to take a friend to an out of town appt. ya that would be bad. 12:09am: going to bed now, i stayed up all night playing the sims2 ha ha ha i love it! Goodnight World!
Monday December 15th, 2008 7:08am:
Ok so i made the stuff, looks like a drink you might find in Mexico, smells like it too. I havnt tried it as i just brushed my teeth and ya lemonade first thing after teeth brushing is about as gross and you can get. Im leaving now so wish me luck! Wow the stuff was so good, i could most def get into this.
So i was thinking, and in order not to get sick all teh websites i visited advised going to the detox diet, then slowly weening yourself back on solid foods, well as we all know Christmas is 10 days away, that would mean either no Xmas dinner, or i would be very sick that day if i did eat. I think i may have timed this wrong, so what i am going to do is postpone the detox diet until after new years, it can be my resolution!
