Day 5, still pretty easy

Howard says he lost 3 pounds so far, I am not sure I have lost any, I am eating too much in anticipation of the temptations. My weight varies from 2-3 pounds daily anyway...

I know myself and I am not capable of denying myself the occasional hot dog unless I am not the least bit hungry. Running around all day almost everyday with no set schedule makes eating and planning when and what to eat a challenge. I tend to allow myself to get to the starvation feeling before I make getting something to eat a priority. Then of course it is what ever is close and lots of it, so that means hot dogs or burgers or some other junk food at the gas station. I also have an uncanny way of persuading myself that this once is just once and in the bigger scheme of things "no big deal," in this detox/cleanse, just once is a big deal and I have to keep reminding myself of that.

Last night I made Pineapple Fried rice, well the version that is acceptable on this cleanse. No soy sauce....changed it a bit and I think the rice was a bit mushy. Not sure what caused that except maybe I used too much oil. I will try again tonight to see if I can make it more like real fried rice.

I have much more energy now. Last night after spending the entire morning in a continuing education class, looking at 15 homes in 4 hours and meeting with a potential client until 8PM, I had the energy to cook and clean the kitchen, put some stuff away in the living room and do a load or two of laundry and of course check www.electoral-vote.com to see how my man is doing today. I slept really well and feel good this morning too.

Overall.....so far, I highly recommend this.

I keep remembering the story of the guy who moved to the snow country for the first time in his life and thought how fun it was going to be, then day by day with more snow and more headaches he finally snapped and was hauled off to the funny farm. I wonder if that will be me in the second week, let alone the third and fourth...