Day 15-
Today's diet:
On waking: Hot water with a slice of lemon.
Breakfast: Gluten and Wheat free muesli with rice milk, lecithin, psyllium husks and banana. Green tea.
Morning snack: About 20 almonds.
Lunch: 2 brown rice, avocado and chicken Nori (sushi) rolls.
Afternoon snack:  Miso soup.
Dinner: (Homemade) Pad Thai with chicken. Lemon and Ginger tea.
After dinner snack: Lemon and Ginger tea with honey.
At least 2 litres of filtered water throughout the day.
Exercise: 2 hours of shopping...ummm...
Sleep: About 7 1/2 hours- woke up twice.

Feeling good and going well despite a couple of slight cheats. So, after 2 weeks on the Detox how is my progress?

- My cough has lessened even more. In fact (sorry to be graphic here) there is definitely less mucus floating around in my airways in general.
- I now weigh 104kg, so I've lost 5kgs in total so far.
- My tongue still looks vaguely purple and has dints down the sides, so no change there.
- I still crave coffee, chocolate and red meat. Not concerned about bread of any kind.
- On the progress chart where you can mark your improvement in areas such as bloating, headaches, exercise, insomnia, mental clarity, skin problems and a number of other things: My mood has definitely improved and I feel like I'm sleeping better. No longer getting headaches, exercise levels have only slightly improved, I am less bloated and have lost weight.

I have also noticed some changes in my palate, I ate the nori rolls today and they tasted sweet! I've never noticed before, but of course there is mirin seasoning in the rice, which is slightly sweet. Shows what having no sugar for two weeks will do for you.

Again, Week 3 of the Detox Plan is the same as Week 2, except Joshi wants you to try to exercise at the beginning of the day, after hot water with lemon and before breakfast. Apparently exercising at this time boots your metabolism for the day ahead and burns more calories.

He also wants you to begin meditating as it relieves stress & illness, lowers blood pressure, boosts immune system and calms the mind. I have done the odd bit of meditation before, different ways and types. Mainly the type where you relax different parts of your body from your toes to your head and face and try to think nothing, or at least not get involved in the thoughts that run through your mind. The other type of meditation I'm reading about at the moment is called 'creative visualization'- put simply- manifesting the changes you want to see in the world by visualizing them as already being in existence. It's more complex than that though, and very interesting.

This is what Joshi asks you to do before you go to bed each night for the 3rd week:
- Sit comfortably, cross legged if possible with your hands resting gently on your thighs.
- Close your eyes and start to relax your body from head to toe.
- Start to breathe gently and slowly.
- Try to think about inhaling energy and exhaling stress.
- If your thoughts wander try to harness them to your breathing, focusing anew on each inhalation and each exhalation and evenly releasing tension through your breath.
- When you feel completely relaxed, open your eyes and stay still. Then after a few minutes make your way to bed for a good night's sleep.

There are more complex meditations in a later chapter, and it seems they have to do with creative visualization, so I might do the simple meditation each night for this week and then work on the visualizations.