Cravings

Yesterday was really hard for me. Still trying to figure out why, but I found myself on a slippery slope. I kept thinking about junk food, hamburgers, fries, crackers...SALT! Just when I think that I am done with the detox period, it gets worse.

I did read that it could take up to 6 weeks though, so I will stay strong. I find that I am not hungry in the mornings and that true hunger doesn't come until around 10:am or so. This is good. In the past, I have forced myself to eat breakfast even when not hungry, which led to overeating throughout the day. I am always more hungry in the evenings. I really like that I am getting in touch with my body and eating when I am truly hungry and not because it is 'time' to eat. I like that it is okay to eat dinner at 9pm if that is when true hunger arrives.

Here is what I ate yesterday:

Breakfast:
cherries, grapes, orange and 1 oz raw cashews

Lunch:
I made a poor choice for lunch. I was going to go to Copps and get a salad, but when coworkers said they were going to Panchero's for lunch, I decided to go with them. Like I said, my cravings yesterday were horrible.

I had a taco salad with romaine, black beans, pico de gallo, guacamole, corn salsa, and fajita veggies and I had corn chips too. I ignored the voice in the back of my head and got the corn chips. They don't even taste good! Old habits die hard. I know that this could have been much, much worse, but still was not an ETL friendly meal. The guy at the counter said, "wow, you are really healthy". If he only knew what I usually eat :)

Dinner:

This meal was one of the best ETL meals that I have ever had. My g/f had the day off and decided to make dinner for us. It was so wonderful. I can safely say that I have the best g/f ever :) We had:

• Spicy carrot/orange salad -She used unsweetened mandarin oranges instead of the tangerines and substituted the mandarin juice for the orange juice
  
• Maple Grilled Tempeh - Used wheat free tamari and grade B maple syrup. The recipe said to serve this over a grain, but we just ate it plain, since I am grain free.
  
• Yellow Gazpacho - She substituted 1/2 avocado for the oil and used red wine vinegar in place of the sherry vinegar.
• Balsamic blueberries and peaches- this was the best dessert! She used date sugar instead of refined sugar and only used 1 tbsp instead of 3. The black pepper was a welcome addition.

I would readily make any of these recipes again. I think the gazpacho would be excellent with sweet sungold tomatoes and dessert was absolutely to die for.

We went to the movies after dinner and I was so satisfied that I couldn't even begin to think about popcorn. In fact, it didn't even smell good. Now THAT is a change.