Thursday, 16 August 2007 (9:30am)

I woke up energized today and excited for the day. The funny thing is, its so cloudy outside. The weather typically affects my mood and when it is cloudy, I usually never want to get out of bed. I felt so good.

My nose is still sniffly but my tongue looks like its clearing up more. I am getting so excited about healthy foods. I have so many ideas of which kinds of salads I want to make and recipes I want to try! My mom is getting into the raw foods, as well, which makes me so happy. It will be so much easier to share recipes if we are doing the same thing.

I think I will either running or climbing today. I would have gone running yesterday if I had not worn myself out by cleaning the entire house. THEN I decided to organize all my drawers, shelves & closet. I got halfway through the overhead storage before I decided to call it quits. I’m glad though, because when I woke up today everything was in order again. I saw two of my roommates and got to catch up with them. One of them asked what I was making. I just said, lemonade. I didn’t want to get into all the details at 8 o’clock in the morning.

Thursday, 16 August 2007 (2:06am)

“coming off the detox can be very dangerous. You could go into anyphylactic shock if you eat something that has toxins in it. That means your body reacts to the toxin or food that you might have an allergy to. Your air passages become inflamed and you have difficulty breathing. People can get very sick of they don’t follow directions very carefully. PLEASE be very careful what you have as a first meal. My book suggests a whole week of gradually getting back to eating, and no more toxic foods at all. I can photocopy the pages for you if you like and send it to you.”
- excerpt from an email my mom wrote to me last night

I’ll have to look into that. The book by Burroughs does describe what to eat for atleast the first few days, not sure about after that though. I will be careful though.

The tea woke me up again tonight. That makes this the second time (I think) that this has happened. My nose had so much stuff in it that I had to blow it several times. My back is hurting a lot, too. And I just checked my tongue- the white is darker and fuzzier in the center but receding on the edges.

Going to try to go back to sleep now… Over and out.