It is official - I have completely lost my mind.

Somehow I thought it would be a good idea to quit eating for 10 days.  OK, so maybe it wasn’t such a crazy idea considering how sick I have been the past two months.

I started to do some research on diets that could possibly make me feel better.  By “diets” I don’t mean the kind to help you lose weight, I mean the true definition of the word - a certain selection of foods.  The first things to pop up were all raw diets.  Lucky me, I know an expert on the subject and immediately contacted her.

My cousin, Joy, is a minister of the Light (ya I love her, but idkwtf that is either) - she has eaten an all raw diet for many years now and sings it’s praises.  So, I consulted Joy and more of the internets and they both agreed.  A master cleanse was the way to go.

I had fully intended on delaying this course of action as long as possible using my move as a good excuse not to do it (ya I’m moving again, the burbs couldn’t handle me).  But alas, my body had other plans.

So Wednesday night I went out and bought the ingredients that would be my sustenance for the next 10 days:

Water - a big square thing of it (what are those things called anyhow?) and 3 - 1 liter bottles

Lemons - I bought 9 cause they were 3 for a buck.  I should have bought more

Syrup - you need the all natural maple syrup, not Aunt Jemima. (I actually bought agala? since it was so much cheaper)

Cayenne Pepper - I’m still trying to find someone that says I can skip this part.

Day 1 -

SUCCCKKKKEEEDDD - no lie.  Don’t listen to all these people that say the adrenaline of starting something new gets you through the day.  Do you know how long its been since your body went without food??  Do you  know what’s in that food?? DRUGS.  Caffeine, all sorts of chemicals - your body has taught itself to function on these drugs.

I would highly suggest that if you try this to do it on a day when you can nap.  I felt desperately exhausted yesterday morning by 9am.  Had I taken a nap then (which as my friend Jess knows I was conjuring up a plan to leave school and skip over to the bf’s house for a nap) I wouldn’t have had issues the rest of the day.  But  no, I decided to be responsible.  Bad idea.

By 10am the headache started to kick in.  You know, the annoying little headache you get when you don’t get your morning coffee?  So I knew it was from the caffeine withdrawal.  What I didn’ t know is that it was going to get worse.

The headache continued and by 6pm I was almost non functional.  I shouldn’t have been driving, but I picked up my chickens, some dinner for them and went home - immediately landing on my bed and not moving till 5am the next morning.  I woke up occasionally to the sound of two little girls laughing and made sure they got in bed - but thank goodness my kids don’t need me to do things like wipe asses, brush teeth and put on jammies.

Anyhow, this morning is much better.  I still don’t feel hungry, the headache is gone.  I came prepared for my 10 hour day at work with extra water and all herbal decaf green tea (which is allowed).

One thing I can’t deal with is the bad breath - so I will continue to chew half pieces of gum to keep myself from puking.

Tomorrow day 2 - and if you’re lucky, I’ll tell you about my SWF (and no, thats not a small web file or single white female.)