Day 56

Sunday, June 29, 2014 @ 12:05pm

On Friday I attempted the juice cleanse again.  Once again I made it through the entire day by only drinking the juices provided.  I started drinking the juices around noon though and was only able to finish five of them by the end of the day.  I was so hungry I tried chugging the fifth drink and ended up making myself feel sick.

I went to bed around 10:30pm feeling very hungry, tired, with a headache.  Overall I felt pretty crummy.  Just the thought of drinking the cucumber/spinach/kale/parsley drink for breakfast made me sick to my stomach.  I wasn't sure how I was going to manage, especially since I had a funeral to go to the following day.  I decided not to worry about it and try to get some rest.  I was woken up at midnight and was so hungry and miserable I could will myself back to sleep.  I gave in and ate a small bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats which made me feel much better.  But I didn't stop there.  I then grabbed a piece of the pepperoni pizza my mom had ordered earlier that night and popped it in the microwave for a few seconds just to warm it up a bit,  It wasn't the pizza I was craving but the pepperoni.  My stomach had shrank from not eating much of anything for five days so I wasn't able to eat much of the pizza- about half of it.

After eating I felt better but was kind of disappointed that I had given in to the hunger.  I figured I could still continue the juice cleanse the following morning but that didn't exactly happen.  I woke up around 7am feeling much better than the previous few days and I was sure it was in part due to eating my midnight snack.  I took the last six juices out of the freezer, leaving juice 1 and 2 on the counter to defrost quickly and juices 3-6 in the fridge.  Around 8am I cooked up Swedish pancakes for my kid's breakfast.  I was starting to get pretty hungry but my juices had not defrosted yet.  By 11am I was really hungry and the juices were still pretty frozen.  My boyfriend arrived at my house a little past noon to pick up the kids and I to head to the funeral.  The juices still weren't defrosted and the hungry was really starting to bother me.  I decided to forgo the juices and opted to pack a small lunch for the kids and I consisting of raspberries, carrots, crackers, cheddar and turkey slices, and a few other snacks.

The drive to the funeral took about thirty minutes.  In the car I ate the container of raspberries and they were soooooooo good.  My boyfriend's father told us to get to the funeral hall by 1:30pm but when we arrived at 1:15pm no one was there yet.  He called his aunt and found out the funeral didn't start until 2:00pm.  It was starting to get pretty hot out so we found a bench in some shade and sat down to eat some lunch.  The kid's weren't that hungry so they only ate a few crackers and turkey.  I on the other hand was pretty hungry but only managed to eat a few crackers with turkey and cheese since my stomach had shrank so much.

The service was very nice.  I was a little nervous that my six year old would have trouble sitting still but she did amazingly well.  After the service everyone went to my boyfriend's aunt's house where they served a delicious feast of barbecued chicken, caesar salad, homemade chili, pasta salad, and warm dinner rolls.  I started out with a small caesar salad (which was delicious!!).  My older daughter filled up on a large bowl of chili so she didn't touch the chicken on her plate.  Not wanting the chicken to go to waste (wink wink) I started picking at it.  It was cooked beautifully and tasted wonderful.  My six year old fought me over the skin, which was the best part.

After dinner they served cookies.  I told my kids they would have ONE and they of course managed to con their great uncle into giving them a second and then third.  There were a bunch of kids there and they all put their feet in the pool to cool off as the day went on.

We ended up heading home around 6:30pm.  By the time we got home everyone was pretty tired so we rented the Lego Movie and relaxed on the couch for a bit.  I barbecued a couple little steaks but only my younger daughter and i were hungry.  After putting the kids to bed my boyfriend and I watched Pain and Gain (which is a pretty weird movie) and I eventually went to bed around 1am.

The kids were bummed that they couldn't swim in the pool yesterday so we agreed to take them swimming today.  My boyfriend is picking us up in twenty minutes so I actually need to start getting ready.  Starting tomorrow I should be back to my usual self and that means back to my low fat diet and daily exercise.