Day 21-
Today's diet:
On waking: Hot water with a slice of lemon.
Breakfast: Gluten and wheat-free muesli with rice milk and a banana. Green tea.
Morning snack: A homemade vegetable muffin (had to test them).
Lunch: 1 small triangle sandwich, 3 vegetable muffins (2 cups of organic barley flour, 1&1/2 cups of plain bio yoghurt, 2 eggs, 4 teaspoons of baking powder, 2 teaspoons of salt, grated carrots, grated beetroot, sliced leek & baby spinach, all sauteed, 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese, cracked black pepper). Green tea.
Afternoon snack: 1 boiled egg and carrot sticks with dip. Peppermint tea.
Dinner: Roast chicken with vegetables (pumpkin, carrots, parsnip, garlic, broccoli, brussel sprouts and corn).
After dinner snack: Lemon and Ginger tea with honey.
At least 2 litres of filtered water throughout the day.
Exercise: 45 minute exercise DVD- Jillian Michaels "Banish Fat & Boost Metabolism".
Sleep: About 6&1/2 hours- woke up at 5am and couldn't get back to sleep, so I got up at 6am and exercised.
    

Had a bit of an early morning today, had my usual issue of my daughter waking me at 5am and then not being able to get back to sleep. The last time that happened (yesterday) it took me two hours to get back to sleep and I was cranky when I was woken again. So this time I gave up after an hour of trying to get back to sleep and decided it was a great opportunity to get my exercise done for the day, and it was. I got through the entire 7 circuits on Jillian Michaels' 'Banish Fat and Boost Metabolism'. It was pretty good, but lots of jumping and bouncing around, I really must go and buy myself a decent sports bra and a new pair of runners. I think I actually prefer the other DVD of hers that I've tried, 'No more trouble zones'. Lots of mat work...

I had parents' group again today and was at a bit of a loss again as to what to bring. My mother-in-law knows I like to experiment and brought over some barley flour a while ago. I didn't have any idea of how to cook with it so I looked up some recipes online, turns out barley flour is completely interchangeable for plain flour in baking, it makes things slightly more dense and has 3 times the fibre of plain wheat flour. It was a bit difficult to find any recipes without fruit, sugar, milk, butter, etc, but I came across a muffin recipe, and exchanged the milk for plain yoghurt, the  butter for oil and the fruit and sugar for vegetables and parmesan cheese. It could have done with more cheese and some spice, paprika maybe.

So that's the end of the Detox!!!! Yay!!! I made it with, to my way of thinking, minimal cheating and it really wasn't as hard as I thought. I'm going to do my usual weigh-in and charts tomorrow, and though I'm going into the Maintenance Program for another 3 weeks, I will be spending the next 2 days enjoying some of the things I found it really hard to give up. It will be very interesting to note my reactions to different things, I wonder if I will still like certain things I used to, or if my palate really has changed so much that I don't enjoy them anymore. I will be sticking to the Detox rules in general though, I'm not about to go to KFC for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but just for the next 2 days, I will eat meat, chocolate, probably wheat of some kind, drink coffee with milk and sugar and maybe even have a glass of wine....