Day 10-
Today's diet:
On waking: Hot water with a slice of lemon.
Breakfast: Wheat & yeast free muesli with banana and rice milk.
Morning snack: Sunflower seeds and pinenuts, popcorn, lots of detox tea.
Lunch: Chicken and salad (avocado, beetroot, carrot, baby spinach and sheep's feta) on gluten & yeast -free bread.
Afternoon snack: Detox tea, half a carrot.
Dinner: Vegetable stir-fry (broccoli, carrot, bok choy, beans, snow peas, garlic, spring onion, ginger & 2 tablespoons of rogan josh paste) with brown rice vermicelli and tofu fried in olive oil with garlic, ginger, chilli & salt.
After dinner snack: Lemon & Ginger tea with 1 teaspoon of honey.
At least 2 litres of filtered water throughout the day.
Exercise: None at all.
Sleep: About 8 hours but woke up about 5 times thoughout the night.

My daughter had such a restless night and even though my husband got up to her 3 times, I got up to her twice and it took ages to get back to sleep. Still, I had 'Daddy-Daughter Day' today and instead of working, I really did have a day off! A friend came over and we watched DVD's all day. Very nice. Decided to keep lunch simple and maximize the viewing time so we just had sandwiches, and very nice they were too.

So I don't have a lot to report today, but the more I speak to people about this, the more people tell me that they are doing the same sort of thing, but on a more permanent basis. Trying to buy organic, free range and environmentally friendly products and eat in a much more healthy way. It's encouraging to hear and I think that as this sort of food grows in popularity, there will be a greater range and more choice of products. Perhaps even food industry regulations will improve. If a bad diet and bad quality food cause obesity, and obesity is the cause of so many health problems later in life, then surely providing better food and food education would be cheaper than so many unhealthy people putting our already beleaguered health system under more pressure.

I suppose there are signs of improvement. Most primary schools I know of now have a vegetable patch, are taught how to look after the plants, harvest the vegetables and cook them. That can't be a bad thing.