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Day 5
I did it! Day 5 and pure craziness overwhelmed me! I showed coffee the door and enjoyed a cup of tasty black tea with milk for breakfast while munching on my plain whole-grain roll. After all, a plan is nothing less than a guideline, right?
After being hungry for 4 days, my stomach finally worked out the pattern and thank god adjusted to it. Today was the first day, I actually felt really, really good! I felt normal – no lack of energy, no headache, no tiredness, no hunger – just normal, happy and well. And I truly enjoyed all my meals today. Ok… it was not all sunshine in detox-wonderland: Since I decided to take my strict menu-plan as a guideline, I felt it was in line to make some adjustments addressing my chicken problem. And while being at it – why not solve the tuna issue as well? Again: I enjoyed my leaf salad with balsamic vinegar, a tin of tuna (without any oil of course) and two hard boiled eggs for lunch, but as I swallowed the last bite, I swore not to eat any fish or chicken anytime soon again. I might swap them for feta cheese and tofu next week – anything will do. I’d rather nibble on a piece of Styrofoam before opening one of those tasteless fish coffins again. Anyway, dinner was the highlight of the day: I was allowed to have as much fruit as I wanted to with 100 gram of ham on the side. So what I did was robbing my fruit and veggie shop for most of their products after work and celebrating a fruit massacre in my kitchen resulting in a fruit salad – THE fruit salad. Grapes, pears, nectarines, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, an apple and a honey melon with Serrano ham – the tastiest, juiciest, healthiest and most delicious fruit salad EVER. And to be honest, it doesn’t need a detox-diet for me to choose that for dinner.
Since it was Friday night, my boyfriend and I went out. We decided to go to the movies and this time I could follow the whole film, without being distracted by food fantasies. I found myself content, well and feeling healthy today. Which is a really good feeling, by the way. Speaking of – now that I have just got used to the diet, I feel like my discipline is being put to the test. Believe it or not, my dinner plan for tomorrow states: “FOOD. No matter what or how much.” I was playing through different options on my mind and these are the courses I eventually came up with – yes, there a courses: crispy, aromatic sweet potato chips as a starter, followed by a bowl, a seriously big bowl of pasta with lots and lots of cheese before indulging on Ben & Jerry’s ice cream (I will decide between cookie dough and brownies in the very last minute, we don’t want to be hasty here) and finally some popcorn for the transition from food coma to falling asleep on the couch! I still won’t drink alcohol of course, but I will definitely reward myself with a glass of passion fruit or mango juice without wasting any thought about the fruit sugar it contains. I’m afraid though I might feel bad afterwards, having been so strict and disciplined the whole week. But for one: the menu demands it! I don’t think it is to be interpreted as a guideline there – the statement is quite clear. And furthermore: The purpose behind this is to prevent the body from getting used to permanently dealing with so little food. But to be honest – whatever the explanation is, I’ll take it! To be continued…