In Recovery

I had the food poisoning real bad. From Joan's, I think. Mybe from WHole Foods, but I'm pretty sure it was Joan's.

It's Been A While

Hello there. Well, after my first night of soup (see previous post), I woke up feeling terrible. Really terrible. I had a horrible rash on my face, I felt exhausted, really really exhausted, and just generally broken. I was worried that I had made a horrible mistake and that my insides would be forever ruined. I suffered through the day, picked up Clare Woods at the airport at 9pm, and forced myself to eat a green salad before climbing into bed. I woke up the next day, however, feeling much better. I felt very bloaty for a couple days there, but in general much much better.

I ended up not going to Blue Velvet or AMMO, but I did have an incredibly delicious dinner at Hungry Cat on Sunday. Squash Gratin!

My weight has held steady at 160. I'm still kind of holding my breath.

The Morning After

So, after a day of just fruit juice, I made a really humongous pot of vegetable soup. I had a bowl at around 10pm. It was so strange. It kind of felt like an out of body experience. Like, I knew I was eating and even tasting, but somehow it wasn't registering on a concrete level. Maybe it's just because I don't like vegetable soup. Justin came over and ate some too, and then called me this morning to tell me that every time he eats something I cook he feels sick the next day. So charming.

Afternoon Delight

YUM ORANGE JUICE!

Feeling incredible.

The first day of the rest of my life

I have just enjoyed my first grapefruit juice. While certainly delicious, I can't help but notice that it is still only liquid. And maybe not as filling as the lemonade. We'll see how today goes. Philip Martin told me that he ate the vegetable soup in the evening of day 11, so I think I'm going to try to do that.

I got on the scale this morning and am happy to report that I clocked in at 159 (actually when I shifted a little bit it went up to 160, but whatever). As this was my exact goal, I am feeling pretty satisfied.

The APC sale starts today.

At Last

Finally, I feel euphoria. Like, really, I am ecstatic. I don't know if it is because the cleanse worked, or because the cleanse is finally ending. In any case, I am in a great mood. I just spent 45 minutes browsing at Whole Foods, buying ingredients for my vegetable soup. It is a glorious place.

Ready for delicious

These are the things I can't wait to eat, in no particular order:

bacon
omelettes from Madame Matisse
cobb salad from Alcove
Lebanese food from Carousel
Trader Joe's turkey meatballs
oysters at Hungry Cat
cashews!
Body Fuel smoothies
Emergen-c packets
CHEESE, LOTS OF CHEESE
steak salad from Malo and Alegria
everything from Joan's
lentils from M Cafe
chicken sausages
chunky peanut butter Think Thin bars
brown rice sushi
lamb at Canele and Speranza
salami (and I never really liked salami before)
chopped salad from La Scala

My new thing is going to be picking up dinner from Whole Foods in Glendale. Every time I've gone in there this week I have marveled, MARVELED, at the selection.

The whole time I have been doing this I have craved really bad Chinese food, but as of today that desire seems to have gone away. I mean, an egg roll would be so delicious, but the thought of it is kind of grossing me out.

I can't believe how much time I have spent thinking about food these past 10 days.

I am feeling, btw, A-1 fantastic today.