Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Year older again
Oh, and I did indulge today, it's my birthday after all:
Oscar has come!
Birthday weekend
That’s what we call crisis! The weekend has been fun, but so much naughty food. It was our birthday party this Saturday (me and my husband have 1 day between our birthdays), which meant drinking alcohol. Saturday was a bit stressful anyway, went shopping and ended up in Nando’s where I had vegetarian burger with chips. We had dinner at the pub, smoked haddock risotto again, which was lovely. And lot’s of wine! I was quite tipsy by the end of the night, and fell asleep around midnight, if I remember right. And had a baaaad hangover day after, which called for egg and bacon sandwich and Sunday roast later that day. I even had crisps with dip. So very unhealthy weekend, but I’m now back in track, had fruit salad for breakfast and thinking of Googling some lunch ideas… After that much naughty food I might have to do another bowel flush, this is last week of bowel cleansing program, next week I’ll start with liver flush.
Week Two Crisis!
I have Week Two Crisis! I read somewhere that when changing your lifestyle or when on any diet for that matter, the second week is the toughest, and that’s when many give up. Yesterday some friends came for a visit and we went to the pub. I managed to squeeze in some veggie juice before we left, and had fish risotto for dinner (I kept eye-balling the fast-disappearing huge steak on my husbands plate – who, by the way, was rebelling against all the rabbit food he has been forced to eat and got the biggest steak in the house – but resisted to have a bite). I didn't have any afters either, but I rarely do so no biggie. But once back at home for coffee and a nap cap, I just couldn't resist the lovely Baileys! It was delicious.
Week two
The weekend went ok, not bad not good. On Saturday I had porridge and toast for breakfast, salmon for lunch and quorn fajitas for dinner. On Sunday I had huge exotic fruit smoothie first thing in the morning (and managed to break my blender in the process), and smoked salmon with egg and piece of bread (oh dear, I had bread!). Lunch consisted of huge salad, and dinner of potato wedges, salad and veggie sausages. And no alcohol! (That’s a biggie for me, habit has it that weekend starts with half a bottle of wine on Friday evening…)
So, the flush… I started on Thursday, but nothing happened, Friday rolled by business as usual, and so came Saturday. I got hold of the consultant, and he said that there might’ve been an issue with the patch, and told me to take 2 bowel conditioner tablets. I took these after 8 pm, and around 11 pm my belly started to rumble. I managed to fall asleep, but at 2 am Maya woke up screaming (nightmare?) and I had to rush to toilet, where I stayed for around 20 minutes, emptying my stomach. Finally I got back to bed thinking that there couldn’t possibly be anything left, but had to go back to toilet at 3 am. Then Maya wouldn’t sleep, and I stayed up with her until 4 am, hoping for sleep-in in the morning. She woke up at 8 am (that’s the most sleep-in we’ll ever get), I went to toilet again, followed by another 5 times during Sunday. It was a weird feeling, like my stomach really was empty. That night I weighed myself and had lost nearly 3 kilos. I started then with fibre solution, quite horrible, but getting used to now, 3 times a day. The fibre expands and helps the bowel to move, getting rid of any remaining waste. And I also started with bowel tonic, most vial thing ever! Have to take this twice a day, am and pm, but every time I drink it (mixed with water or juice), I start gagging and want to vomit. Not sure how I can do this for remaining 2 weeks, it’s disgusting. But apparently very powerful cleanser of whole system, including the blood.
Otherwise I feel quite ok, except that I’ve has this flu lurking around, not quite biting, but making me cough, sore throat and so on. Maybe it’s the veggie juice I drink every evening that won’t let it break me down. That reminds me, I need a new juicer, the one we have is not up to the hard core juicing I’m demanding from it, and it leaves wet pulp for me, which I usually put back into juicer to get more juice out. Must find some flavours that are more palatable, but I was told that no fruit and sweet veggies in the evening… =( That leaves celery, cucumber, spinach and other green leafy veggies and few other. Very nutritious, but not best tasting juices.