Tim & Julia - Day 3 : We're Going... We're Going... We're done.

Okay okay... so Dot spilled our beans. :)
On Thursday, after work/school, Tim and I finished up. We were actually still gonna keep going, but Tim wasn't feeling too well (and so he couldn't concentrate at school). Plus, when Tim got home from school, he noticed that our Lemonade (which we forgot to refridgerate) had started fermenting. Uck! In fact... we might have been drinking fermented lemonade for a little bit.

So the whole time up until we stopped, I kept thinking of all the great food I could eat. Potato Salad... Big Macs... Burritos... Pizza... French Fries... Salad. Well, to finish our diet, we ate some vegetable soup that Tim's parents made. It was good...but not as good as I had expected. Then we went and got me a small taco from Taco Time, and then over to Beto's to get Tim a breakfast burrito. It wasn't as good as I remembered. After that... I really didn't crave much. I felt kinda sad that we couldn't go longer. Now, I feel like I'm pretty picky about my food. I don't snack too much at work anymore... I feel like eating less meat, and more fruit. Hmmm... interesting. Anyway. Tim would like to do it again sometime... As long as the lemonade is refridgerated, I think I could do it. It's definately easier to do it TOGETHER. :)

yummy OJ!!

So, my first day "off" the cleanse...I still have a sore throat, but it's tolerable. I drank a YUMMY glass of OJ this morning, then for lunch the same...plus a few wheat crackers and 2 fish sticks...my stomache was feeling ok...found some hidden swedish fish, yum!...made some oatmeal cookies with the girls--had 2 of those...mmmm...for dinner I made Chicken Noodle soup...again, yummy...off to a birthday celebration where I downed a chocolate cupcake...then I snacked on carrots and ranch for the rest of the night...oh, and here and there a tall glass of water!!! I thought I was doing great, my stomache was fine and etc...until 10:30pm...oops!

Today...my sore throat is gone, but I still sound croakie...I'm taking it a bit easier...OJ and toast, salad for lunch--with lots of goodies (peas, mandarine oranges, a bit of chicken, carrots) --and I just had a few grahams...we'll see what my stomache does tonight...

My First Day!!

So...today is my first day...I don't think it's too bad...I was able to drink down 1/2 quart of salt water really quick. It wasn't too bad...didn't really have to poo till about 2 hours after I got to work...that's about it.

Right now the only hard thing is thinking about food....I'm not sure how long i'll last..but we'll see.

pulp or no pulp???

Well, I've decided that-although juicing with my vitamix was a lot easier than by hand and VERY convienient to juice several lemons at once-I really don't like ALL of the pulp in there. So, today I've gone back to juicing by hand thus, a little bit of pulp with more juice--much better!!

Woke up with a bit of a headache, not too bad...exercised...blah blah blah...

Am still peeing a bunch, that's all...maybe I need to be a bit more diligent like Julia and get better? results...my tongue doesn't seem to be as white, nor is my mouth "fuzzy"...but I still have my sore throat...trying to decide if I'm closer to being detoxed or not...and...I don't have so many cravings to snack. Don't know if it's more "habit breaking" or detoxing...o-well...

Still hate how my teeth feel...

UPDATE
so, julia called me and said they were done...so, about 10 min ago, I decided I was done too...7:50pm...I ate some green beans from last night...YUMMMMMMM!!! and now I'm munching on a piece of whole wheat toast...MMMMMMMM!!!!!

what made me decide to stop...well, my tongue was still pink and my hunger pangs were killing me! I'd go from, "oh, I'm a bit hungry" to "I'm starving and I'm going to die from it" in less than 5 minutes, then it would take 1/2 hour to recover after drinking the lemonade (meaning I'd have a major tummy ache). This was the last 5 hours...so, I'M DONE!!

Tim & Julia - Day 3: Easier and Harder at the Same Time

1. I woke up at 6:00a this morning with the cramping/gassy stomach. Sat on the toilet for about 45 minutes. It hurt. My first poo's were gooey! Oozing out! They almost looked black... then I turned on the bathroom light and saw that it was a dark dark brown. Finished up, and crawled back into bed.
2. Tim and I were both exhausted, and slept till about 8am. We made our drinks: Tim had a quart of salt water, and I made 1/2 quart salt water. Weird Thing--It wasn't too salty for me today! Good thing? Bad thing?? I really had no problem drinking it. I'm sure I put in the correct amount of salt.
3. Tim had some good bowel movements this morning. I tried looking in while he went to see how his stool was, but he wouldn't let me and flushed while still sitting there.
4. Today we're actually feeling a little... ugh. Yesterday, we were just saying how GREAT we felt. Not tired, not sluggish... just normal. And so I think we slacked off on drinking or lemonade. (Plus, we ran out of Cayanne pepper, and so he used some of my Cayanne capsules and put it in his drink. I think it was too strong, and so he only drank about 1/3 c of his drink). Today, we were both feeling a little weak. So we'll see if drinking ALL of our drink today helps.
5. FYI: Pooping now is kinda like blowing your nose--you gotta push and push until it suddenly blows out. :)
6. We're thinking of going the full 10 days. But like Dot... we'll take it one day at a time. Do you think we should do a real fast on Sunday? Healthy or no? Or should we keep with the diet?
7. BTW: I think my normally-high Blood Pressure is dropping to a more normal level. We're using Tim's parents blood pressure monitor to measure.

1:30pm

1. Tim called earlier. He says he's not feeling well, and once he finishes his homework will go home to sleep. He feels fatigued, and can't think.
2. I've had to pee all morning. Just a few minutes, I ran to the potty for a poo. It oozed. It sat like a hershey's kiss at the bottom of the bowl until it spreaad into an algae looking puddle. My stomach hurts a little... I think I need to go again. Ugh.