Day 14-
Today's diet:
On waking: Hot water with a slice of lemon.
Breakfast: Gluten & wheat free muesli with rice milk, lecithin, psyllium husks and honey. Green tea.
Morning snack: Carrot sticks. Peppermint tea.
Lunch: Jamie Oliver's spinach and feta pie (N.B without the butter or chedder cheese, still delicious). Peppermint tea.
Afternoon snack: Nuts and seeds.
Dinner: Chicken satay with fried rice (brown rice, spring onion, garlic, ginger, 3 different coloured carrots, cauliflower, beans).
After dinner snack: Lemon & Ginger tea with honey.
At least 2 litres of filtered water throughout the day.
Exercise: 20 minutes of running up and down the hallway with my daughter.
Sleep: About 8 hours, woke up once during the night, but then got up at 7am.



Another good day, though was very tired all day despite getting a really good sleep including...wait for it.. a block of 6 hours uninterrupted! Brilliant! We had parents' group this morning and I decided to make Jamie Oliver's spinach and feta pie. I make this quite regularly, and if I take the filo pastry off, (which I admit I didn't) the pie is completely within the Detox rules. Anyway, I got about 4 small pieces as it was swooped upon by parents and children alike. Delish.

I did manage to knock back a coffee too, even though it smelled divine as it was brewing. But I just sat there and sipped my peppermint tea. It sounds really bad to say this but, as soon as I have finished these 3 weeks I'm having a day of decadence before starting the Maintenance Program. That is supposed to be another 3 weeks minimum, but the idea is that you will have changed your eating habits permanently by then. Well I have completed 2 weeks of the Detox and I'm still not sure about that, I still badly want coffee, chocolate, red meat, tomato-based pasta and the odd glass of wine. But I'm doing good things for my body here and I'm feeling pretty good too. What will stick are some of the habits, washing fruit and veg, drinking filtered water, reading labels more carefully and drinking green tea.

The coffee habit is a particularly hard one for me to kick. Up until a couple of months ago I had a daughter who woke (and needed to be soothed back to sleep) a minimum of 5 times a night, every night, for 2 years... it was awful. The sleep deprivation was like living in a fog, lack of concentration, short term memory loss and mood swings were all part of my day and I stabilized myself with coffee. I really did use it to get through that time and it's very hard to believe I don't need it now. Though it is a little concerning when I read what Joshi has to say about caffeine: "The trouble is that caffeine makes your own natural stimulants (your thyroid and adrenal glands) redundant and lazy. Eventually, these will cease to work properly and what was once a healthy, stimulated metabolism becomes, instead, slow and sluggish." So, possibly caffeine and lack of sleep are part causes of my slow metabolism, lack of energy and weight gain...interesting.

Didn't get a chance to do my liver flush today either, I just have trouble finding time to go for a 20 minute walk, make and drink this concoction and then lie down for 2 hours. My husband isn't working tomorrow, I'll try to get it done then. It's also time to fill in the charts and weigh myself again...