Day 3-
Today's diet:
On waking: Hot water with a slice of lemon.
Breakfast: A bowl of 'Liver Cleansing' muesli, with rice milk and a chopped banana. Green tea
Morning snacks: Raw carrot sticks with home-made hommus, peppermint tea, a banana, nuts & seeds.
Lunch: Chicken breast with leek and barley risotto and vegetables (carrot, brussel sprouts). *
Afternoon snack: Peppermint tea, dahlbaht lentil curry & naan bread **
Dinner: 2 chicken satay sticks and a chicken and vege rice paper roll.
After dinner snack: Lemon & Ginger tea with 1 tsp honey.
At least 2 litres of filtered water throughout the day.

*Total no-no- according to Joshi, eating leftovers is a bad idea as most of the food's nutritional value is gone.
** Naan bread is also a total no-no, but it was only one small slice and it looked soooo good...

So yes, I cheated, but at least it was only naan bread and not pizza and a bottle of wine. I got 5 and a half hours sleep last night because my daughter woke up at 4am and was, apparently, no longer tired. I tried for an hour to soothe her back to sleep to no avail....ahhhh....

I can tell that a lot of my eating today was to keep myself awake, must try to get to bed earlier, but feel like a fool going to bed at 9pm. Hopefully there will not be a repeat of the 4am wake-up.

Anyhoo, my brain is mush by now, so I'll make today's blog a short one, but I'll leave you with this home-made hommus recipe, much better than the stuff you but in the shops with preservatives etc in it:

 Hommus recipe- everything is a bit approx because I never measure but this should be about right:
- 1 tin of chickpeas
- 2 tablespoons of tahini
- 1/4 cup of olive oil
- 2 heaped teaspoons of minced garlic
- the juice of 1 lemon
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- cracked black pepper
- 1/4 cup of water
- sprinkle smoked paprika on top
chuck it all in a blender and blend on the lowest setting until smooth and creamy. If it is too thick to blend easily, add a bit more water at a time until it runs smoothly.