An On-Purpose Opps

If you were to hang out at our house on Sunday nights, you would be expecting breakfast for supper.  Some weeks it is strawberry waffles, other nights it is blueberry pancakes or eggs, grits, and bacon.  The whole reason we do breakfast for supper is that I LOVE breakfast foods, but rarely have time to cook them (and then enjoy them!) in the mornings, so it's a happy medium.

Tonight was no exception, but on the menu was sausage, egg, and cheese biscuits.    I caved; I had fought off hamburgers for lunch, but the smell of fresh baked biscuits and frying sausage was too much.  So I had one, as well as a cup of coffee with real sugar and vanilla creamer.  It was delicous!  Well, it was delicious eating it.

Might I recommend NOT coming out of a five-day juicing feast with fatty protein, dairy, and simple carbs?  Within five minutes I was nauseous, within fifteen, I was in the bathroom.  Needless to say, I will go back to raw veggies, fresh juices, and veggie soups tomorrow.  Oy vey!

So Far, So Good!

Day Three is coming to an end, and so far, everything is going pretty well!  Today was my second day of just doing liquids (juices and soups) and my hunger pains are pretty much starting to diminish.  In fact, the detox part of this hasn't been nearly bad as it was last summer when I did a raw food diet with lean protein for six weeks.  I was dreading that part of it, but it hasn't been too bad.  I have caved the past two days and had about half a cup of black coffee, mostly to fight off the caffeine withdrawl headache, but even today's headache wasn't nearly as bad as it was yesterday.  The biggest thing I'm fighting is the desire to simply eat for the sake of eating!

I'm fighting horrid seasonal allergies right now, which isn't making this any easier, but it some ways it is.  I should be just drinking juices, broths, and soups, and spending extra time resting, so it's nice to have an excuse.  And I never need an excuse to have an extra long soak in the tub in the evening!  Of course, I'm adding some Epsom salts right now, so my skin is super soft; I think I need to start adding them to every bath.

Dinner time hasn't been as difficult as I expected it to be, so far at least.  I've been hitting up some vegetable broth and sipping on that as I eat, and then start juicing up my veggies when the family sits down to eat.  My biggest complaint (and then at at breakfast) is that the moment I finish making the juice, they all want to drink it!  I nearly cried this evening when Ethan took the partial cup I'd given him and dumped it onto the floor because he didn't like it.  Juicing on a budget is a challenge and I hate seeing it wasted.

I'll try to post another update at the end of day five, so stay tuned for more!