Days 11 and 12 - the weekend!

Had an interesting weekend.  I don't know whether it was easier or harder to be home with this plan.  I was fine on Saturday - except that I didn't have my third shake of the day. I had gone to visit my daughter and by the time I got home and in bed it was late and I was tired and was NOT hungry.  I actually brought dinner to make at her house and it was wonderful:  We had Chilean sea bass and haddock, a vegetable dish (carrots, celery, chard, zucchini) and something else that I don't remember now (lol) - might have been sweet potato.  She thought everything was delicious, as did I.  I drank a shake in the car on my way to her house so I wasn't that hungry to begin with, and certainly not hungry when I got home.

Sunday morning I was having a mini pity-party...oh how I miss my coffee and "normal" breakfast.  My friend was quick to point out that normal is a changing situation, and now my normal is a shake - deal with it! LOL  Once I got through the disappointment of my new normal, I was fine.  As a matter of fact, I did some of my NORMAL Sunday afternoon cooking for the week, that I had been missing:

Fish chowder
Sockeye salmon
Butternut squash
Sweet potatoes
Roasted brussels sprouts with apples
Baked apples
Roasted cabbage

That sort of does me for the week.  I made up three lunches-to-go of salmon, sweet potatoes, roasted cabbage and brussels sprouts.  I made an extra big pot of the fish chowder because I actually thoroughly enjoyed that last week when I made it, so that will be dinner with butternut squash and baked apples.

Actually this strict phase (the metabolic cleanse) is almost done and I made it!  On Wednesday I get to add back in ALL vegetables, ALL fruits and white rice.  The chicken/turkey/lamb and other grains do not make it back in until the last week of this.

My husband said that it looks like I have lost weight but I don't want to be a slave to the scale through this, so don't know what is doing in terms of numbers.

What *I* notice is that I have much more energy (except this morning... must have to do with being Monday and having to use my alarm clock this morning!) AND I had a pesky rash under my belly that has gone away without any ointment.  I think it was something yeasty - so that has totally cleared up!  So far so good...

Miriam