Day 0 and Day 1

Day 0 was Monday.
I went to Sprouts and bought a bunch of vegetables and fruits plus some lentils, brown rice and coconut oil...all this time I thought coconut oil was to be avoided. Hm. I also bought Spring water...it is so clear compared to the tap water I've been drinking.


Then I got busy Monday night - cooking butternut squash, yams, lentils and chopping up fruit and vegetables for my lunch the next day.



I was actually very excited about starting...and I am so glad I practiced last week - finally, no more caffeine withdrawal headaches.

Day 1
I took my pills first thing and then headed to the gym. 1 hour on the treadmill plus some lunges and stretching. My polar watch stats: 499 cal burned, 45% fat, Max HR 152, Ave HR 129

Breakfast was a shake with fruit and 1/2 banana and a tsp coconut oil
I did not eat a snack.

I figured my stomach was empty by 11:00 so I took the second batch of pills

Lunch at about 12:15 was 1/2 cup lentils, 1/2 yam, butternut squash, a "glad container" of vegetables, 1 orange, 1 apple. The vegetables included 1 carrot, 1 sm zucchinni, 2 celery ribs. All of these are raw and cut into spears.
When I first put together all this food, I thought "wow, this is alot of food" I thought maybe I'd bring some home. Nope. Ate it all.


Dinner was spinach and mushroom salad with the apple cider vinagrette recipe in the patient guide booklet. And I made another shake with 1 orange, 1/2 banana and some cherries - pitted, of course.

I'm feeling just fine. I was worried that the pills would upset my stomach. Not at all.

Wednesday - is my hike day, I do a 3 hour hike after work and so I'm increasing my lentils at lunch time and adding a nectarine to eat before my hike.