ToDAY was another good day for me. The day time seems to be pretty easy to get through drinking my lemonade. The evening time, however, is what is going to make this cleanse come to a halt early. There are several reasons why. First, doing the cleanse with Scotty, as he with me, is both a blessing and a curse. We help each other get through the rough times, but are also each others’ Achilles heel. If one of us is having a hard time, the other will either be a great strength or will say, ‘if you want to quit then I’ll support you and quit too.’ This cleanse is a total mental game. The hunger doesn’t usually set in until the end of the day, but all day long you notice the food commercials, the food truck driving down the road, and making food for the kids gets really hard. Today it wasn’t as wonderful of an experience as it was yesterday — what the heck was I thinking?! And finally, the evenings are very difficult because we have so much down time. It gets dark out around 5:30 so doing any activities out of the house isn’t really possible. So we are hanging out in the family room, right by the kitchen, and usually making dinner for Kayden and Kloey. The hunger has set in and the lemonade is usually gone by then. Irritability also sets in around this time of day. So while the cleanse is getting difficult, we are still holding on for now. In spite of the bad, we are experiencing some good as well. Without getting too graphic, it is clear that the toxins are exiting our bodies — thank you disgusting salt water flush! There are times with great energy and as expected there has been some mild weight loss to top it all off. So with the bad, there is some good. We’ll see which one wins out tomorrow!!
