Days 6 & 7

So today (day 7) starts the really restrictive portion of the food plan.  From here on my sources of protein are only wild-caught fish and legumes.  I am sort of iffy on the legumes because I cut them all out as part of the auto-immune protocol of the Paleo diet, but since I am so limited I might gently add them to some dishes, or go full force to make a nice lentil soup - however I am also missing my onions this week and I have never cooked without onions!  My sources of starchy carbs are sweet potatoes and yams, beets and winter squash.  ALL my favorites so no problem there.

I am up to three shakes a day and have started to have one for breakfast.  I cannot have my frozen berries which made the shakes so delicious but I am allowed peaches, so I threw some frozen peaches in this morning, and although not as yummy, still quite tasty.  I read the calorie count for the shakes and although each one has 23 grams of protein, it only has 145 calories so I am convinced (although I already knew it) that these shakes are not intended as meal replacements.  My plan today is to have a regular lunch (I have wild caught salmon -- that I sauteed up at 7:30 this morning  -- sweet potatoes and beets, roasted cauliflower, and a huge container of a variety of sliced melons.  I will make a shake before going home.  Then for dinner I am going to stop by Legal Seafood and if I can get some wild caught trout that is what I have a hankering for, but if they don't have it I will have the rest of the salmon and sautee up some Swiss chard that is itching to be cooked (again no onions - which is what I usually sautee it with).

Everyone is asking me how I feel.  Well ... I feel the same!  I think the detox is working on me internally at cell level, which is what it is intended to do.  Except for the eggs I had already cut out a lot of the foods that I am sensitive to and would have been culprits with any stomach upsets.  Anyway, today is day 7.  Yesterday, which was Day 6 I had a nice surprise which I suppose does have to do with "how do you feel?"  I noticed at about 10PM I wasn't even tired.  I think I have more energy.  I suppose that counts.  AND, on the way home from work, even though I hadn't had a shake in the afternoon AND had a grueling one hour PT session, I wasn't famished as I drove home from work.  As a matter of fact I stopped to grocery shop and I didn't get home for dinner until 7.

Hmm... more energy and not hungry.... I guess I AM feeling a difference!  How about that?

Miriam