Well, it has been about a month since I written. I wanted to give myself time to adjust to my surroundings. I realize at this point I am just going to have to make the best of the situation and wait out my time until we get new orders. In the meantime, I have decided to do my yearly Lemonade diet cleanse...why do you ask?

First of all, I do not have any false hopes about this cleanse. While losing weight is a benefit, I do it to clear out my system and reboot my digestive system. This is the 4th time I am doing this cleanse so I know what the expectations are at this point. Every time I have done the cleanse, I have lost about 20 lbs and combined that with reasonable eating and lots of exercise and not only am I able to keep it off but I actually keep losing weight. I didn't get to do the cleanse last year around this time because I had my daughter who is now a year.

I have always struggled with weight and have been on every "diet" you can think of. So now I am going to log my progress during this 10 day process...hopefully I can make it that long. I usually get to about 7 days and quit but I am feeling confident that I can focus and achieve my goal.

Day 1

I actually started with a juice cleansing for the first day to ease my body into it. I didn't particularly like it because it gave me a headache and I ended up eating a salad for lunch and giving into a scoop of vanilla ice cream (that is my weakness..ice cream), that night I did the tea and the next morning started with my salt water flush.

Day 2

Nothing happened until about mid morning. I like the lemonade so much better and was able to make it through the day without any food. No headache and I was not hungry. I probably only drank about 6 glasses of the lemonade but drank 2 liters of water on top of that. Ended the day with my tea.

Day 3

Woke up early. I am feeling energized and this morning as soon as I did my flush...I almost instantly had a flush. I am having a little cramping but I can already tell a difference in my body. Now you may be asking yourself how the results are so instant. Well, right now I am flushing any retained water out of my system and with it, it is clearing out my colon. I have tried the colothin pills and other things to cleanse but I always come back to this.

*See my main problem is food. I have a sweets addiction. I love desserts and ice cream is just something I cannot give up.

I do well with everything else, we drink skim milk, eat whole wheat only including pasta and eat a lot of turkey and chicken, vegetables and fruit.

I also work out a lot but I have an addiction to sweets. I know there are substitutes to having dessert but it just isnt the same.

Well, I will write to let you know my progress and final results. I should be done with the cleanse by the middle of next week.