Joan

Thanks for the support everyone! Reading your posts have helped a lot. It’s nice to know that someone else is in the trenches with ya!

It’s funny how it was a huge step for me to drink OJ today. I was thinking “Last chance, SWF or OJ?” But I don’t have enough time before work for the SWF now. Ah, OJ never tasted so good. The smell is really intense, like all the other smells.

I actually fell asleep the other night without finishing my tea, so yesterday AM I didn’t get an official Smooth Move movement. I guess this morning made up for the other day.

Bringing my big jug of OJ to work. Hang in there everyone!

Whew! Okay seriously, I’m so ready to eat. I decided today, but let’s see how I feel in the morning. I was working at a store today, and all I could think about were the pop tarts on the shelf. I haven’t had one of those in years, but they look oh so good.

So this is a pivotal point for me. This is the “keep going or stop” point. I’m feeling like I’m done for now.

So today, I had to do a presentation, and even though I didn’t feel nervous, I think my body had a case of the nerves. I don’t think I got the LA in every 2 – 2 1/2 hours like I usually do, so I was starting to get headachy today, the first time since I started.

I think if I’m going to stop, this would be a good time. I made it through 10 days. woohooo! But I’m getting the feeling that since I have the skin stuff, I need to get back to consuming more omega fatty acids, because my skin has just been super dry. No skin improvements for me unfortunately, but I think it’s because of the eczema. My tongue is a lot better though! It’s been white most of the days.

It’s been a nice confirmation of my own discipline. And it’s been really cool to see that I can be in a stressful situation and not have to resort to food! Actually, the fact that I wasn’t eating food helped.

I will probably still post about the post-cleanse process, seeing as even though I want to eat EVERYTHING right away, I have to ease into it. I bought some soy yogurt for the probiotics and some vegetable broth. I’m ready!

Yesterday was pretty hairy. The Good – All day during the day, I was totally fine. I’ve been in work training, and I’ve been really happy about my energy level being sustained all through the day. Where normally, I would have been weak or dying of hunger when I couldn’t eat when I needed to, I just walked over to my jug of LA and took a swig. I find that really amazing, because I know my body’s normal reactions under these circumstances.

The bad, I’ve had eczema a long time. On the MC, I had some hives on the inside of my arms, day 2. Nothing too bad, went away by day 4. But yesterday, I woke up and my skin was super irritated and itchy. Normally I attribute that to eating something I was allergic to, but I haven’t eaten anything! hah! I know it’s stuff coming up, but oh it sucks when it happens.

For the most part I’m allergic to eggs, but if I touch them and wash my hand I’m usually fine. Yesterday I was handling eggs and thought I was fine. But I got home took a shower because I was super itchy all over, and I was rubbing my eyes in the shower and came out with swollen/allergic reaction eyes. I took some antihistamines put on some cortizone and used my homeopathic eye drops. Didn’t want to resort to that, but I still have to work. Seems the MC won’t stop me but sometimes the reactions might.

So anyway, Day 10 is another day. Felt better after a couple hours, and much better in the morning.

Today is my first day out in the field, and on the MC. I’m preparing my jug of LA, and going to feel out how today goes. If it goes well, I might do it for a couple more days, seeing as I have so many lemons and limes!

Day by day…