ONE Month...

...down!
3 to go. =D

Today is the official one month mark. *excited smile* There is hope!

Only a month and a week and I get to have...wait for it...*drum roll*...legumes. And dried fruit. But, most importantly in 5 weeks....

...I can have juice and vinegar. Juice means smoothies! And, vinegar? Well, a bunless, cheeseless burger...WITH pickles, mayo, ketchup and mustard is VERY exciting. Believe me. I really underestimated the whole not having vinegar thing. You don't fully comprehend how much something means to you until it's no longer there. Yes, I just used a mushy, love line referring to vinegar. I agree, it was odd.

You wouldn't believe how much tea I've consumed since starting this thing...I used to drink it pretty much daily...but, now? I have a tea cup at all times. It's ridiculous. I've found some good ones but, I'm always open to suggestions? Any good teas you love?

I got a chocolate one for Valentine's day that wasn't horrible...wasn't great either...speaking of not great...I've found some doozies of teas too... *disgusted sigh*...nasty. I try to be adventurous *sips regular, old black tea* and experiment...but, I've had some bad ones...nauseatingly, revoltingly, nose scrunchingly bad ones.

When eating out...it's been mostly burger patties...with lettuce, tomato and onion. Funny thing is...I've never liked tomatoes or onions...but, now...in an effort to make the burger substantially more palatable I've come to appreciate them. Like I said...looking forward to that vinegar!

Today I was home all day...and my diet consisted of hot rice cereal, left over prime rib from yesterday's Valentine's day meal, more hot rice cereal, rice cake crumbs (I was going to eat a rice cake but, after eating a few of the crumbs I decided, "what's the point?"...it's like eating air...), tea, more left over prime rib, hot rice cereal, tea, and...*takes a bite of now cold hot rice cereal and sips once hot cold tea*...oh, the monotony!

I think there was some fruit in there somewhere...I hope.

OH...AND...so...the sauna at the gym was down for about 4 days...so.....I used the steam room. WOW. Craziness. The first time I went in with no idea what a steam room was and hadn't put any thought into what it would be like etc...I didn't realize it was a little room that housed a cloud. *wide eyes* I walked in and just stopped....what was I in!? I stumbled around looking for a seat....finally getting to one...I realized there were other people in there with me....though they were maybe a foot or two away I could only make out general people shapes but, there were voices and though I could have gone with the first humorous conclusion...I was in Heaven with angels around me...I decided to go with the less dramatic, entirely more practical conclusion of...I was surrounded by a bunch of strangers. Finally, after hearing every one's life story and all about their in grown toenails and other dangerous diseases...everybody left and I explored the cloud a bit more freely. My eyes started to adjust...no wait! The cloud had just disappeared a bit. Then...*loud hissing steam noise* the cloud was coming back at full throttle. I tripped back to my seat....and sat there in steamy, cloudish, wide eyed quietness...as new people joined me I found they knew the art of steam rooming. You see apparently it fills up the steam for a minute then stops. During that time it gets comparatively less warm. Hence not quite as effective for the whole sweating thing. Well, some of these seasoned veterans passed on the art of tricking the "when to steam" thing...by squirting cold water on it to get it to just keep trucking. By the time the sauna was back up and running I had a gold star and a new love for the sauna.

I also tried turkey hot dogs. Let me just say they didn't make the grade. The taste was okay...but, the texture was that super cheap, nasty, mushy hot dog texture. Yeah, no.

In case you have no idea what I'm talking about...not sure these will help...
Post 1 about THE Cleanse
Post 2 about THE Cleanse

Well, I'm gonna' tottle off now...hope everyone had a beautiful Valentine's day and hope you have a great week!

God bless,
~Unknown Artist