Day 8: Master Cleanse (PM)

I have conquered a few trials this day. I don't know exactly where the aroma was coming from but this evening I was sitting on the couch imagining the things I'm craving and all of a sudden I smelled a beautiful aroma; I thought it was my imagination, but Jeremy smelled it the same time as me. We sniffed the air and it smelled like someone nearby was grilling...or baking some sort of Parmesan garlic beef steak. I also smelled rice. I may be completely wrong in what it was, but whatever it was, whoever was doing it...it was blissfully amazing and made my stomach growl. I had to chug some lemonade to get it to stop growling.

I do have to admit, being hungry isn't really a big deal to me anymore. It's been 8 days since not really eating anything...technically it's been 6 days on straight lemonade. It's hard for me to even think that I haven't eaten but only drank lemonade for that long and I'm still alive and not curled up in excruciating starvation. There are times where I feel I just have to eat something, but then most of the times I feel like I could go on longer than the 10 days. The lemonade is tasting good to me these days, but I still am looking forward to some yogurt, broth, any other liquids with a different flavor...plus of course REAL food.

Tomorrow's day at the pizza parlor should be a good test for me to see if it's as hard or less hard for me to work there than it was for me last week after just starting the cleanse.

My biggest fear right now is this growing list of recipes to try and foods we're craving. It's going to take us forever to get through this list and I fear we are going to overdo ourselves and not pace ourselves. Many of the recipes are very heavy...healthier than deep fried fatty foods, but heavy still - things like chili in a bread bowl, ribs, mashed potatoes, calzone, etc. I just don't want us to end up with all these leftovers from me making different dishes each day and feel like we have to eat the leftovers and make more dishes to get through the list. We need to know to pace ourselves between heavier dishes and lighter dishes, plus portion control AND leaving a day or two to eat leftovers. (We hate wasting food.)

Anyway, so concludes day 8. Only 2 days left before I can have some yogurt and OJ and light veggies, fruits...and I'm going to attempt a small can of chicken noodle soup. It's mostly broth with very soft noodles and minimal chicken, so I think I'll be okay. Jeremy's last day of lemonade is tomorrow before he plans to go to nothing but broth on day 10. He's not growing accustomed to the lemonade like I am.

The finish line is in sight!!!