Day 4-
Today's diet:
On waking: Hot water with a slice of lemon.
Breakfast: 2 slices of gluten-free toast with a drizzle of honey. Green tea
Morning snack: Goat's yoghurt, banana and rice milk smoothie with cinnamon.
Lunch: Smoked salmon salad made with rocket, grated carrot, grated beetroot, chopped celery, green beens, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds and flaxseed oil.
Afternoon snack: Peppermint tea, mixed nuts and sunflower seeds.
Dinner: Vege & tofu stirfy made with organic tofu, carrots, beans, broccoli, cauliflower, spring onion, garlic, chilli, lemon and salt, plus a little brown rice vermacelli and some rogan josh curry paste to flavour.
After dinner snack: Lemon & Ginger tea with 1 tsp honey.
At least 2 litres of filtered water throughout the day.
Exercise: none other than running around after my toddler.

Today went really well, slept solidly for seven and a half hours last night. Unheard of, me getting an unbroken night's sleep, so either I was reeeeeaally tired (which I was) or this detox seems to be having an effect.

New things were tried today, goat's milk yoghurt (apparently goats milk is more easily broken down in the digestive system than cow's milk so is not technically considered dairy). Joshi also seems to make allowances for yoghurt in small doses because of its beneficial good bacteria and the wonders that does for your digestive tract. It's a very strange texture, more like cream than yoghurt and I'm not really into the flavour, very rich, but I think I can manage it in smoothies. Also organic hard tofu. I've had the lovely spongy tofu in Laksa before and the silken tofu in Japanese soups, but never this stuff. I actually really like it, you can just cut it up and fry it and treat it just like meat, it absorbs all the flavours.

Had to top up on fruit and veg today, so went to the organic shop in my local village. OMG, the prices! I don't know if it really does cost that much to grow and provide food and our regular supermarket prices give us a somewhat skewed idea of what it costs to produce something, but even taking the store's overheads into account, $4.65 for 250grams of organic butter seems a little excessive. Anyway, I'm going to try to get my fruit, veg and meat organic and free range from now on, but I'm going to have to make compromises when it comes to other things. You'd have to have about $400 a week to spend on groceries to shop organic for everything, I usually spend about $180 for a family of 3.

I don't feel much of an effect from the detox in general though and I was kind of expecting to by now. I might go over the relevant pages in Joshi's book again. Hopefully I'm not missing some big point here. It really would have been much easier if there was a detailed meal-plan to follow, then I could be sure I'm not over-doing quantities of things or eating anything I shouldn't...