Day 4: Master Cleanse (AM)

I woke up with a bit more energy than yesterday morning and my stomach isn't hungry anymore. Usually it gets hungry in the evening time.

I'm down 1.4 pounds from yesterday with a total loss of 3.4 pounds. Woo!!! I'm now back to my pre-Anchorage weight. Hahaha.

Jeremy has been having the "effects of the psyllium husk and tea" more than I have. I really haven't experienced the "frequent bathroom trips" yet and I'm taking my "stuff" twice a day as directed. I asked him what he's doing and he said he's taking the tea and the psyllium at the same time and it's working for him, so I think I'm going to try that today since I don't work.

The only chores on my agenda today are grocery shopping and a quick trip to Walmart and the Post Office...then I can come home and catch up on some Katie hobbies.

Still feeling motivated. Yesterday was our first full day without ANY real food and I have to say it was easier than I expected. It took some real discipline while I was at the pizza parlor, but I think it REALLY helped that we took the first two days to ease into it.

I sure hope the commissary has lemons this morning. I'm NOT paying $2 a lemon for the remainder of the cleanse. I need about 10 per day...(only 5 today since I had 5 for Jeremy this morning)...with a total of 65 more lemons for the remainder of the diet. It makes grocery shopping easy, but it's a real pain in the butt peeling all those lemons.

Jeremy likes it super pulpy, so for him, I peel the lemons and get out as many seeds as I can, blend it all up and add it to water with half the daily amount of syrup. Then he shoots the other half of the syrup along with the daily cayenne pepper mixture. After his lemonade is gone he drinks tea and water the rest of the day.

For me, I peel the lemons as best I can, get the seeds out, blend it all up the strain out all the juice and add it to water with half the syrup...so on and so forth. I just can't hack all the big chunks of pulp that won't blend up. When I drink the lemonade I chug it for a few seconds so it hits my stomach for an instant feeling of full for a while. And it's hard to chug it with lots of pulp. It chokes me up a bit.

Anyway, so far so good for day 4. I'm in better spirits today because I don't have to work at the pizza parlor tonight. Today should be pretty easy for me. I'm still craving a juicy burger and fries, though. Jeremy is starting to lose his craving for junky foods. Hasn't happened to me yet.