21 Pounds in 21 Days

No weight gain today and I feel great. It’s funny but it’s only been 4 days since I stopped the diet and I’m already planning on going back on it in a month. My clothes fit really great now and I am just so glad I stuck with the diet for the 19 days. Next time I’m going to try a 14 day detox diet instead of 21. Too many things come up within a 3 week period and I think 2 weeks is reachable. I’ll start my blog up again on Sept 10 when I detox again. Good luck to everyone on the diet and thanks for checking in on my site. Kate

Okay, almost everything I ate yesterday was laced with salt – very heavy on the salt; sushi, seaweed salad, salmon and for that I paid a price – weight gain of 2 ½ pounds. Yep, that’s right, I have now gained back 3 pounds since I stopped my detox diet and I haven’t eaten any bad foods. No sweets at all, no chips at all, no sodas, just healthy food. But with that healthy food is olive oil, salt and fat. I did eat more than my allotted 1500 calories I was going to stick with, I think it was closer to 2000 calories and I will have to be very careful with going over my 1500 limit from now on. Oh well, I’ll have to try harder, we’ll see how it goes from here. Kate

I am so happy. This morning I only gained ½ pound and I was thrilled, after all, I added all that food yesterday and know it contained salt and protein that I hadn’t eaten in the last 3 weeks. I was sure the salt would add more than ½ pound. Today, I had a grain cereal for breakfast, high in calories – 250, I was so surprised at how small a serving was, just ½ cup, I’m sure I have been eating a whole cup every morning for breakfast, no wonder I was gaining weight. I never measured my food before I started my detox diet; I am now making sure that I stay true to a serving so I can eventually lose the additional weight I need to reach my goal. My food intake is definitely taking a lot of will power because I am still very hungry today. After my sushi and seaweed salad for lunch I could have eaten a lot more food. So far so good with not eating any more than I should, but honestly I was still hungrier than I like after lunch and finally filled up at dinner. Kate

I woke up feeling sick to my stomach this morning, very sick. I knew there was no way I was going to be able to get down the berry drink or a green drink. I decided I’ve had enough of the diet and said “no more” I just can’t drink any more of the drinks. No matter what I did I could never get that nauseas feeling to go away after drinking the berry splash and the green drinks I just hated. I am starting on real food today and I feel good about it. I made 19 days lost 12 ½ pounds total and am on my way to a nice healthy life by eating right; I am truly resolved on that matter. This morning I ate a bowl of instant oatmeal and was a bit surprised that I was still hungry. I really wanted a piece of toast to go along with my oatmeal but I had the will power to not eat it, I believe this is what the diet has taught me – will power which I was truly lacking before. I drank lots of water and ate a piece of pineapple a couple of hours later, then got sick again. I now wonder if the pineapple has too much acid in it for my stomach since I also ate a couple of pieces last night, that might be the reason I became sick overnight, so I will have to be careful for a while of what food choices I make. At lunch I ate a low fat bean burrito and it was the best thing I have eaten in a lifetime, well at least if seemed that way after all of the drinks. It actually took me 20 minutes to eat it; I just enjoyed the flavors so much it was heavenly. Something I found very interesting is I figured on this diet I would shrink my stomach and would only need a little food to feel full. That is definitely not true, I am totally hungry. After eating the burrito I could have continued eating more food, I was still hungry – so I’m a bit surprised at that finding. For dinner I had roasted chicken, cottage cheese, tomato, peas and a roll. Everything tasted so wonderful it was unbelievable. After dinner I really felt great and finally full, I think I was so lacking in protein. I can see how people who come off the diet eat way too much and can gain a lot of weight back quickly, food just tastes better than it has tasted in a long time. I’m going to take it slow and easy maybe 1200 to 1500 calories a day. I will continue blogging for a while just to track how much weight I regain and watch how I eat each day which I think will help me keep on track of being true to myself and my goal. I believe it is reachable. Kate

Facts about my diet:

Chug the green drinks – they taste terrible

Add extra water to the berry splash drink and drink it slowly otherwise can cause stomach aches

I drank one berry splash, one green berry and one wheat grass drink most days. I noticed I had less energy when I eliminated the wheat grass green drink

I drank ½ to 1 drink of B Monster drink each night. I think it helped my energy level and I didn’t experience any moodiness

Take a vitamin pill every day. I didn’t do this in the beginning and I had problems feeling a bit like memory fog, vitamins got rid of that problem

3 days during the diet I ate watermelon in the evening

The last week I ate fresh tomatoes with my soup

The inner cleanse pills are important to keep you feeling full

Lentil soup seemed to fill me up and give me more energy than other soups

I didn’t drink any of the liquid from the soups

I didn’t measure how much soup I was to eat

When I walked I saw more weight loss than when I didn’t

Grew tired early in the evenings, had to go to bed extra early many nights

Keeping a running journal of each day really helped keep me focus on continuing the diet.

Reading other’s journals helped tremendously

Was this diet worth it – definitely!�

Another whole pound, I can’t believe it 2 pounds in 2 days, I haven’t done that since the beginning. I’m now down 12 ½ pounds – yahoo! I am still very hungry for food, haven’t gotten over my craving for the sushi yesterday. Maybe it’s just because I only have a few days left to the diet and know I will be able to eat real food soon, but this morning was very hard. Today is the first day I didn’t drink the berry splash drink and I was hungry all day. The drink just bothers my stomach so much and I’m just sick of the sweet flavor that I thought I would do without, but looks like I better not. This evening I ate a couple of pieces of pineapple to just get me through my cravings for food and it tasted so good I was finally satisfied after a long worn out day – dag! Kate

One whole pound today, that really made my morning. I am now down 11 ½ pounds. Only 3 days to go, I am thrilled. Again I woke up with lots of energy and my walking pace seems to be a bit faster. One thing I did add yesterday was a vitamin pill. I have noticed for a while that I didn’t feel as alert as I usually do, not part of the energy level more of a thought pattern level. Today I feel as alert as before I started the diet, so definitely something was missing that I needed and thankfully the vitamin seems to have solved that problem. I still have a very hard time shopping in the grocery stores. Today my son wanted sushi, one of my favorites and I was so tempted, probably the closest I have gotten to going off the diet. It looked wonderful and it smelled so good when he opened the soy sauce. Salt is something I am missing probably. But I can tell you not to take one little piece of sushi was so hard for me. But I had more will power than I thought I had and now at the end of the day I’m happy with my decision to hold off. I can chow down on some good sushi next week and I’m really looking forward to that. Kate

I lost another ½ pound so total now 10 ½ pounds. Lots of energy today which I really appreciate after all those days in the beginning when I was so tired. I have added ½ tomato to my soup meal and I’m still drinking the B Monster drinks. I saw my hydrotherapist today and she stated that one of the reasons the book suggests strongly that we start out very slowly with food after the detox is finished is because some people after they get started with eating tasty foods don’t want to stop and they pig out the first couple of days and get sick. She said that’s why one food a day is added back to the diet beginning on day 22. I can see that could be true. Just thinking about eating again makes me happy and if we were allowed to eat good tasty food all day long on the first few days that could probably be a problem. Although, I am considering adding oatmeal on my first day and then oatmeal and cottage cheese on my second day. The reason I feel it would be okay is that I’ve already added the tomato and I drink a fruit drink at night, which is basically the items you add one at a time on day 22 & day 23. Well, that’s my thoughts for today, Kate

Hot Dog!!! - I finally hit a loss of 10 pounds, I thought it would never happen, hopefully I don’t gain this ½ pound back tomorrow. Good energy today, walk was really nice. I think I’m beginning the mentality of counting down my days and that’s definitely helping me feel more positive. I truly haven’t starved at all on this diet, but all the drinks and soup that I consume makes me not look forward to those times of the day. I’m already thinking about what I’m going to eat when this diet is done and greens and salads are something that doesn’t appeal to me at all right now. Actually bland foods are starting to sound kind of good, like baked chicken, cottage cheese, oatmeal. I am taking time to relook at how I eat and since I still need to lose another 20 pounds to hit my goal I am going to try to stay true to myself and the work I have put into this diet. I’m going to try and forgo mayo on sandwiches, salad dressings, butter, any of the items that really don’t have to be there to enjoy a meal and I can add back carefully when I’ve hit my goal. I feel energized about starting a good diet plan – of course with real food involved - totally yummy! I’m really glad I went on this diet, Kate

Lost ½ pound down to 9 ½ pounds, so back to square one from 3 days ago. My husband’s sandwich looked wonderful and I really wanted to make one for myself. I’m actually having more problems with sandwich cravings then dinners, I think it’s the bread I’m missing, oh yea and the turkey and the cheese and well you get my point – food in general. I only drank ½ my B Monster drink last night so I was worried about my energy level today, but it was perfect. I went for a really nice brisk walk and it felt refreshing when I was done. I just can’t believe how good I feel today. Only 6 days to go! Kate

Lost ½ pound yesterday, gained ½ pound today – okay I’m getting frustrated. I suppose my B Monster drink might be holding me back because it does contain a lot of calories but I really feel it helps me keep my energy level up. I know this diet is good for me because it truly is teaching me how to eat less. I’m sure when it’s over I will be able to better control how much I eat and make better food choices than I was doing before. My will power has greatly improved which surprises me more than anything else since I didn’t seem to have any will power over food before I started this program and I just didn’t seem to care anymore, all that has changed. So I have much to be thankful for, I just wish my number would start dropping, it helps when you see the scales in the morning say some kind of loss, so okay a little depressing today. Kate