Saturday, July 5, 2008

21 pounds in 21 days

when i've decided to do the martha's vineyard diet detox i was looking all over 
the internet to find a journal, day by day, posted by a fellow dieter.
since i couldn't find any, i've decided to write my own. who knows? maybe you're
glad you've found this...

1.day
what an idiot! how can you start it with an empty fridge?
don't do it, people!
because of that fact, the first "food" in my mouth was at 2 pm. before that i only had destiled water and peppermint tea.
i got a fresh squeezed orange-mango-passionfruit from jamba juice.
and i am proudly announcing that i had colonics!!!! it isn't that bad as
i thought it would be. it isn't bad at all! 
i have to admit that i expected to have a flat stomach and minus 21 pound afterwards but
those hadn't happened. i can't have a flat stomach(duh!) because i am about 50 pound overweight.  and this is my first day, soooo...
i purchased the fruits, the veggies, the green cocktails ;-) and the enzymes and i'm about to cook the soup.
i tasted the green cocktail. i can't drink that stuff! the taste is ok but the texture??!!like sand mixed into water. no thanks! i hope the fresh veggie juices substitute that stuff.

soup is done. i guess i'm not the best chef, it tastes yuuuuuuuck! i miss salt :-((((((((
i'll drink it later. at least the fruit juices are yumm. 
ciao.

2. day
why, oh why must coffee be bad for you? i started my day with peppermint tea, not the same!
i had my berry drink-fresh squeezed strawberry-raspberry-blueberry juice- and i tasted the soup again. well, it tasted soooo much better today. or maybe i was just more hungry ;-) 
i had a wheatgrass shot and fresh squeezed jamba for "lunch" around 1pm but i couldn't wait to get home at 5pm and drink something. anything!
i had a fruit juice (1 orange, 1 apple, 3 celery sticks, 2 carrots) and it was divine! it didn't stop my hunger so i made myself a veggie juice. it was unexpectedly super good! i mixed 5 celery sticks, 1 fennel, 5 red kale leaves and a few broccoli florets. i ended my "meal" with a cup of soup from yesterday. 
i have a slight headache. i blame it on coffee withdraw and roni deluz for not allowing coffee in this diet :-)
i think i'm done with food for the day. let me sum up what i've had so far on this lovely sunday: 2 cups of vegetable soup, 8oz berry drink, 2x16 oz fruit juice, 4oz vegetable drink. i took 2 digestive enzymes (the 3rd is to come) and drank tea and water. wow! i am a hero!
cheers!

3.day
i was such a good gal!!!
i have to admit, though, i hardly ate...ooops, i mean drank anything.
i had my berry drink in the morning (i make it the night before because i don't want to clean the juicer early in the morning) and a jamba juice for lunch. for "dinner" i had some leftover vegetable juice.
that's it! i couldn't force myself to drink the green cocktail nor eat the flavorless soup. i rather went with nothing. i am still hoping that the veggie juice substitutes  that green thing.
i started worrying that i haven't had the cleansing tea yet. maybe i should get some.
i'm afraid the only thing i'm doing is drinking fruit and vegetable juices and it might now give the desired effect. heeeeelp!

4.day
i cheated! yes i did. :-(
in the morning i had my regular berry drink and the jamba for "lunch". i feel quite energetic and good but i ...dunno, i miss eating i guess. i wanted to stay on the detox diet so i made a soup for dinner. it didn't have any green colored vegetable in it and it did have a teeny tiny bit of salt.
it isn't so bad, right?
oh, and i'm planning to have a dessert, too. half of my berry drink for tomorrow. 
what a rebel, right?

5.day
how am i doing this? i hardly eat anything but still function perfectly and i feel more energetic than ever. hmmmmmmmm...(thinking noise:-))
i religiously have my berry drink in the morning and i try to have a wheatgrass shot and a fresh squeezed jamba every day. interestingly, that's all i had all day!!! nothing else. i felt full. go figure!

6.day
i've never thought in a million years that i will go that far. moreover i don't even think about quitting. weird... that's not me!
finally on day 6 i purchased some cleansing stuff. it's not tea but capsules. i wonder if it changes anything.
i must have some vegetable juice today since i didn't have it yesterday. maybe a celery-fennel-broccoli-spinach combo? most likely...
just a short notice: i've lost 7.8 pounds so far. yey!

7.day
oh-ooh, it' getting harder and harder. it's pretty sure i can't last 21 days. i can't wait tomorrow when i'll convince myself that a 7-day-detox is almost as good as the 21. yeah, right! loser!
i didn't have time to get berries the day before so i had a vegetable juice for breakfast.
i continued my day with the regular wheatgrass shot and a jamba. around 6pm i was still at work and dying of hunger so i ate a banana. i fell asleep at 9pm. maybe because of the lack of energy?

8.day
here i am at 3:14 pm and eating bread and cheese and hungarian peppers. i am in heaven on earth. when i woke up this morning i wanted to do the detox so badly. i didn't have any fruits to juice so i only had my detox capsules and water. i went to the farmer's market and got so dizzy i thought i might faint. at that point i've decided to name my 21 days diet detox the "7 days diet detox". 
i failed and i feel disappointed but i'm also looking forward to a healthy and balanced diet.
i desperately need to lose weight but i'll try another path:portion control and workout.
we'll see...





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