Cleanse Day #2

Well, I am less excited today, and a little sluggish, but still committed. It isn't that it is that difficult...I still get to enjoy lots of good food. It's just that I have started craving things that I never crave...coffee, donuts, bacon, granola cereal. This is the reason I can never diet...I want what I cannot have. I just tell myself that this is only for a week, and the cravings tend to subside. I also think it helps to plan ahead, to have a meal or snack ready when I get hungry. I am finding I am hungry a lot!

The following is what we ate yesterday...my husband swears I am starving him to death. He had a major craving for a Snickers bar yesterday--his weakness.

Breakfast:fruit and vegetable protein smoothie
herbal tea
Snack: 2 T. almonds
Lunch: sushi and marinated mushrooms
Snack: banana
2 T. almonds
Dinner: chicken breasts stuffed with sun-dried tomatoes, pine nut "cheese", spinach, and basil, topped with chopped fresh tomatoes, basil, a little oil and vinegar--this was really good!
rice with sauteed vegetables
herbal tea

I actually got up at 6 a.m. to do yoga on the Wii this morning--I usually get up at 6:30 to make the kids' breakfast. That may be one reason I am a little tired this morning. Anyway, I have to go have my steel-cut oatmeal...I don't usually like oatmeal, but the steel cut is pretty good.