Hello Week 3

Well yesterday we tried our first raw food restaurant.  Yeah.  Not good.  I don't really want to talk about it.  Moving on...


We've finished week 2!!  Half way there!!  Yay, gluten free grains and eggs here we come! Tonight I made us this.  I love wild rice.  Definitely something I want to eat more of.  


As far as my week 2 assessment, I'm still down about 8 pounds from my pre-cleanse weight.  Pretty much the same amount of exercise and same energy level.  And I still have hives.  I don't think I've mentioned on any of my other posts that I've had chronic hives for over a year now with no known cause of them.  I've been to multiple doctors many times and taken many blood tests, but nothing.  I had not tried cutting any certain foods out of my diet thus far because I'm on so many antihistamines that it would be hard to tell if the experiment was working (and the last time I wasn't on antihistamines I was in the ER) since I'm not actively breaking out most of the time.  Once I decided to go on the cleanse I thought this might be an opportunity to see if something in my diet was causing the hives, especially after I watched this documentary.  But no go.  Hives are still surfacing periodically.  Ahh well.  


Recently I was thinking about why on earth I'd commit to doing this cleanse for a whole 4 weeks when Whole Living clearly calls it a 3 week cleanse (Week 4 recipes are a bonus). I'd be 2/3 of the way to the finish line right now rather than only halfway there.  But I'm going to do my best anyway.  Matt and I talked about trying to make that 4th week a test week where we try easing back into our normal eating habits but incorporating some of the things from the cleanse into it.  For example, we could try out some of the dishes that we'd normally cook but start to modify them.  That would probably mean mostly cutting out more dairy and gluten than we're used to.  I think we'll continue using almond milk after the cleanse and I'm hoping to continue to bring my lunch to work everyday.  After the cleanse, I'd like to see myself eat by the cleanse rules about 3 full days per week.   


For those of you on the cleanse, I'm wondering how you hope to move back into your non-cleansing self?