End of Week One

Basically this cleanse omits, caffeine, sugar, dairy, wheat and alcohol. It’s not that bad. Here is a typical day:

Breakfast

Antioxidant cocktail: a smoothie made with one cup of orange juice and a pile of berries.

Bowl of bran cereal (it’s hard to find one without sugar but I got something at the health food store) soy-milk (go for the low-fat vanilla), handful of prunes.

Snack - two pieces of fruit

Lunch-

Chelating cocktail-( freshly squeezed carrot, beet and apple juice).

A big bowl of coleslaw, onion, beets, watercress, a little flax oil, lime juice.

A small portion of lean protein- 3 oz of tuna

Snack- two more pieces of fruit

Dinner- start with the chelating cocktail or have a serving of Super-cleanse soup-( a watery blend of onion , potato,spinach and watercress)

More of the massive amounts of veggies- big stir-fry- light on the oil

Small amount of brown rice

Small amount of protein- tofu

Snack-Piece of pumpernickel toast with 1/2 banana and bit of honey.

That’s it- a lot of food- don’t you think?

Also: 30 minutes before breakfast and lunch you start with drinking a glass of water mixed with psyllium husks- this helps with the cleansing part. I’m also taking a good quality multivitamin and I’m supplementing with 4000-5000 MGs a day of CLA- Conjugated Linoleic Acid. More about this later.

Well- it’s not been a great week- although sticking to the diet was not the problem.

I picked up a cold on day #5 and felt like crap! Actually I was feeling like crap before the cold because it took a few days to come off of caffeine. My body was used to one fine cup of espresso each morn or at least two good cups of English Breakfast tea. I suffered with nasty headaches for a good four days and the muscles in the back of my neck felt like they’re made of knotted rope covered in shellac.I had to relent and take some Ibuprofen, hoping that one of those chelating food would just flush it out of my body!

I guess that you get the picture- I was miserable and sick but never-the less I enjoy the diet There is a lot of fruit so you don’t really get that hungry. Often I would skip one of the snacks but I tried to follow it closely. Rarely would I have the bedtime snack because I kept on forgetting to buy bananas.

Now- If you thought that I ran out and bought a Champion juicer- you must be nuts!!! In a perfect world one would have the time and money to plunk down on a Champion juicer but even I don’t have the time to be juicing everyday and I’m currently unemployed!! Since I’m unemployed I certainly don’t have the money for a juicer. When you’re juicing , a lot of the fibrous part of the fruit ends up in the compost. It seems wasteful and too expense for me, especially since I’m trying to buy mostly organic fruits. So for the juice part I bought a nice veggie juice and an organic apple juice and mix then together.

By week’s end I had lost 9 lbs but as you know much of that is water weight and weight lost from the body going into shock because it has not been fed it’s usual serving of one million grams of fat each and every day!! Poor thing!!