Day 25-
Today's diet:
On waking: Hot water with a slice of lemon.
Breakfast: Gluten and wheat free muesli with psyllium husks, lecithin, rice milk and honey. Green tea.
Morning snack: 1/2 a small wagon wheel biscuit. Peppermint tea.
Lunch: Miso soup (Organic brown rice miso paste & 1/2 a 'Massel' brand vegetable stock cube) with rice vermicelli noodles.
Afternoon snack: Skim Cafe Latte with 1 sugar and 2 chocolates.
Dinner: Homemade burgers- beef mince with salt, pepper & herbs from the garden, white bread roll, butter, beetroot, feta cheese, rocket, grated carrot, ketchup, mustard.
After dinner snack: Lemon and Ginger tea with honey.
At least 2 litres of filtered water throughout the day.
Exercise: None.
Sleep: About 8 hours, woke up twice.




Well, I certainly feel like I have had my 'Day of Decadence', and I'm paying for it alright...

It all started fine with my usual muesli for breakfast, then at playgroup my daughter really wanted a bit of a chocolate biscuit, so I shared one with her. Lunch was fantastic, a tasty, easy and inexpensive option. I'm going to get some seaweed and tofu to have with it next time, yum! But then my husband came home early from work, so we had a lovely afternoon at the art gallery and then went to my favourite chocolate shop for a coffee and a chocolate.

Well, they tasted lovely, after 2 small chocolates though, my body basically screamed "Stop!" it was just way too much sugar. The coffee was delicious and I did get skim milk, but oh boy, the effects! The milk made me feel ill for the rest of the afternoon and the caffeine, well lets just say that my husband and I were speed-talking at each other for the next 2 hours!! Incredible! I used to drink up to 4 of those a day, no wonder I felt like crap! Before I did the detox, it got to the point where the caffeine barely seemed to have any effect, so it was a really strange thing to feel it again.

The dinner, it doesn't seem that bad but, the bread, meat, ketchup and mustard are all banned on the detox, as they are either acidic, likely to cause bloating or difficult to digest. The whole burger just feels like a stone sitting in my stomach at the moment, so yeah I would agree with those projected side-effects.

So what have I learned from this?
- My body does not like milk- I will be asking for soy milk on the very odd occasion that I buy a coffee from now on.
- I have a very low sugar tolerance, which is a good thing- but I still love chocolate!
- Bread is an unnecessary addition to meals, it is too heavy, makes you feel bloated and is probably clogging up my system as we speak.
- I'm going to limit red meat to once a week at the most and make sure that it is good quality-free range, chemical free meat. And a very small portion.
- I can do without ketchup and mustard and probably most condiments generally.
- My daughter can share her chocolate biscuits with someone else from now on...

So there we go, I didn't plan today this way so I will need to write about Ayurvedic practice tomorrow.

As for allowing a greater range of food back into my diet, I think I'm just going to stick as closely to the detox diet as possible and occasionally allow myself the odd little thing not on the 'allowed' list from now on. I actually feel better eating that way.