Glad you're down, was it from 170 lbs as I recall?
Funny, last week I decided to go on a detox diet, I was so fed up with the way I was feeling, so I started on Wednesday half day, just eating fresh fruits, raw vegetables, a little cold pressed olive oil as dressing and water to drink. No salt, sugar, meat, dairy, nuts, coffee, tea, refined carbs of any sort, etc.
Thursday I developed a hideous headache that went into feeling pukey and I puked up my "fruit" breakfast. As I had students to teach, I took two paracetamol, which I was hoping to avoid, and then soon after I puked them up too!
I had to put a student off and go to bed. Luckily I woke up reasonably OK in time to pick up D from school. I had thought about ringing one of the other mothers to ask her to pick D up, then remembered she was away herself and I had promised to look out for her daughter!
To cap it all, just after I started my detox plan -
1) I got an invite to a very lovely resaurant here in my city that I have wanted to go to for ages, and it is very pricey and you have to book ages in advance and all that, definitely out of my league, but this is an organised do with a limit of 20 participants and a set price. I wrote back saying that I was no more a member of the group that publicised the evening (it was memebers only) and the guy wrote back to say there would be spaces free for me and older guy... That's on Wednesday evening, so I have already arranged for D to sleep overnight at her friend's place.
2) I got asked to cater for a party of 18 people, so all Saturday I was busy busy busy cooking like the devil, eight separate items, and my kitchen is an ordinary domestic one, albeit nice. It was difficult juggling all the pots and pans to cook at the same time, and I sure peeled and chopped a LOT of vegetables, then had a mountain of washing up to do! I didn't eat a single thing the whole day after my fruit breakfast, and when it was done I licked the spoons before washing!
I am now on Day 4 of the detox and am surprisingly doing quite well, considering my low intake and full day. I hauled back 50 kilos of food shopping on my bike yesterday, in two trips.
I have lost a couple of kilos in the bargain. My modest aim is to get into last year's summer clothes, and if I feel good and able to carry on, to lose more weight as well!
Sorry Ellie, I seem to have hijacked your thread.
Livnlearn
"The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates
That's on Wednesday evening, so I have already arranged for D to sleep overnight at her friend's place.
