Tomorrow and Sunday I will be prepping my bowels! Yippee. That means I have to drink a bottle of magnesium citrate before 2 PM tomorrow. My diet for the weekend consists of cranberry grape juice, sugar free popsicles, sugar free jello gelatin, G2 Gatorade, Powerade Zero, beef broth and OH, don't forget H2O.
The protein shakes have really been sustaining me and keeping me full enough not to turn into a complete bitch. So this weekend will be challenging. I hope my husband is prepared. LOL
As of this morning; however, I am down 11.4 lbs! And BOY do I feel it. My go to jeans felt great today.
So I have to ramble a bit about my recent thoughts. Right now at this very moment, I am craving food, of course, but not just any food. I am craving healthy foods! It's already like my brain is saying, "ok, fine, I guess we're going to do this healthy thing!" I daydream about fresh salmon and green beans, edamame, asparagus, shrimp, salad...you name it.
Sure, I am also thinking about Waffle Chicken Fingers from Popeye's (limited time only, people!) and General Tso's chicken, Publix subs, pizza, and Reese's cups.
But you know what? This whole 12 days that I have been essentially food-less has given me a new appreciation for food. Seriously! I imagine my self truly savoring each bite and letting the smell of food touch my senses in a new way. Good thing, too, because I'll probably only be able to have 3-4 bites of food at a time when I start having a regular diet in mid-August or so.
I will admit I did cheat while on my liquid diet. Four days ago or so, I had an M&M. Yup, just one. And I let it sit on my tongue, rolled it around a bit, and eventually it melted. I savored and appreciated that M&M.
Today I sucked on a french fry at work -- just to get the flavoring on my tongue. I just wanted to have a different taste in my mouth.
I stop at doing anything "worse", for example, a #1 Big Mac meal at McDonald's with a chocolate shake (large combo, of course) -- because I know after this long time on a liquid diet, eating that way would make me very, very sick. And I know it wouldn't be worth it. And I'd be mad at myself.
So I've made it this far -- what's two more days? I can do this.
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