Monday, Day 8

Medication: 2 Byetta 10mcg (1 morning, 1 evening) I missed my Byetta while I was traveling. I forgot it at home. I also didn’t take the herbs and supplements my wife usually lays out for me.

Weight: 225.8

Last Few Days:

Was out of town working a show.  Juiced in the evenings. Drank V8 during the day. Smoked hookah (shisha tobacco through an Arabian waterpipe).  I didn’t get enough sleep.  I had an intense headache Saturday when I woke up. Sunday I had a milder headache.     

Food Log:

Celery, apples, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, tomatoes, kiwi, kale, cabbage, broccoli, brussel sprouts, parsley, ginger, oranges, limes, lemons, carrots, green pepper, spinach, grapes

Water:

I don’t think I’m drinking enough water.  I need to establish more of a regimen for drinking water.

General Thoughts:

I haven’t lost any weight since the first big losses.  I actually gained a little and then came back down to where I was just before the weekend.  The good news is that I was “good” all weekend and didn’t go off my diet.  I didn’t eat any solid food (okay, I tossed a small grape and a blueberry in my mouth that fell out of the juicer as I was juicing).  I remained on the liquid diet.  I have avoided all animal products. 

And that’s not easy to do when the primary food item at a gun show is beef-jerky and beef-sticks!  When I’ve established a 4 year old pattern of eating snacks and meals made up primarily of jerky on these weekends. 

I also didn’t get enough sleep.  I’m feeling that affect right now.  Sluggish and tired.  I think could still be detoxing, based on how I feel, but also on what my body is removing…

On that topic, I’ve had more solid waste in the last couple days.  It’s nice that I’m no longer worried about farting—never trust a fart!—but I have to wonder about what’s coming out.  If I’m not putting anything solid into my body, why do I have solid poo?  I don’t get much pulp from the juicer.  And one grape and one blueberry cannot produce what I’ve dropped into the toilet in the last few days.  I can only surmise that my body is still cleansing my colon and removing excess material that has collected there. 

I’m looking ahead to the end of my first 10 days and seriously contemplating my next steps.  I would really like to keep going, to lose more weight, to get more healthy, to cleanse my body even further.

I’d also really like to chew something!

Oh, and let me reiterate, brush and floss daily!  Egad.  Miss a day and you’ll have “furry teeth”.  There’s no chewing to scrape residue off your teeth.  Oddest, weirdest sensation I’ve ever felt on my teeth…

My office is having a luncheon for our team tomorrow.  Taking us to a restaurant, paying for our lunch, and I’m still on my first 10 days and not willing to go off.  I’m taking some cans of V8 with me.  I may just drink some V8 instead of eating—or possibly just drink them before the meal or after the meal and not eat while everyone else is eating.

The isolation is hard. 

Eating is such a social activity. Take steps to ensure that you can be part of the social culture while you’re juicing. Sure, in the first few days, just avoid anything that has to do with eating—but after you’re through that, your willpower should be strong enough to let you participate in the social culture without participating in the eating.