The cleanse - your questions answered!

I took a diary of how I felt, what I ate and what it made me want to do during the 3 day cleanse.  Here are my notes....

Day before Day 1
- I am super excited to start something that finally makes total sense to me.  No counting anything.  No adding points.  Just blindly listen to someone else who has successfully made other people feel good.  Its like a psychologist for your stomach.  I bought everything I need for the next 3 days, looks a little daunting as none of this food I have ever cooked like this before.  The coconut milk is probably the scariest to me as I completely despise ANYTHING that tastes like coconut shavings.  barf.

Day 1
Wake up excited
Weigh myself
Not so excited anymore
Drink 16 oz of lemon water
Drink Dandelion Tea
Eat 1 cup of homemade granola (which really isn't granola as there is no oats in it)  It is just Flaxseeds baked with raisins and 1/2 cup of blueberries.  I am too scared to add the coconut milk, so I eat it dry - meh, not bad
this is my routine for the next 10 days.  Exact same, every morning.

Lunch
Carrot Ginger Soup with sunflower seeds
Steamed Broccoli with some lemon juice
Salad with 1/2 pear (what a tease) and some pumpkin seeds
On the salad,Oil, garlic, pepper and you can't put vinegar so I substituted with lemon juice.
Not bad, but for me thats a lot of food to eat...

Snack
an apple

Dinner
im effing starving
Sauteed Kale with Mushrooms (mushrooms should be banished from this earth because they are so gross, so I didnt add them)
with Spicy Coco sauce (this was delicious!!  coconut milk with ginger, cumin, pepper, cinnamon, onion and reduced for 20 min... YUM!!!!!)
Beet and Carrot Salad - barf.

I drank 2.2 liters of water - which wasn't that hard for me as I was drink 3 liters before.  I have to stop drinking at 7:30 which is going to be a bitch.

9pm, im tired, irritable, cranky and want chocolate and a coffee - did I mention I went off coffee?!.  This better be worth it tomorrow. (video of my day 1 in previous post below)

Day 2

Wake up exhausted, Frankie needs to push me out of bed
Weigh myself
YAY 2 LBS LOST!!!!
skip downstairs :D
Drink 16 oz of lemon water
Drink Dandelion Tea
Eat 1 cup of homemade "granola" Flaxseeds baked with raisins and 1/2 cup of blueberries.  I am STILL too scared to add the coconut milk, so I eat it dry

Lunch
Carrot Ginger Soup
Salad with 1/2 apple and 1/4 avocado
Leftover broccoli with lemon

STARVING

Snack
1/2 pear (ugh whats the point)
almonds (this is the first test)

*I feel like the worst PMS mixed with the Flu - I have neither at this moment.

Dinner
Sauteed Kale from yesterday
1 cup of brown rice (yay!)
Pumpkin Seeds
Beet and Carrot Salad (barf)

Drank all my water, found it super hard to do it today, I still have a massive headache from the detoxifying and lack of caffeine.

Day 3

Wake up feeling better
Weigh myself
what what another 1.5lb down!
Drink 16 oz of lemon water
Drink Dandelion Tea
Eat 1 cup of homemade "granola" Flaxseeds baked with raisins and 1/2 cup of blueberries.  I am ok with Almonds (meaning I didn't gain any weight today from eating them yesterday) so I add unsweetened original almond milk - aahh so much better!!

Lunch
Baby Romaine Lettuce with 1/4 avocado, pumpkin seeds and carrots
Spicy Vegetarian Soup (yum!)

Snack
10-12 almonds

Dinner
2-3 oz of chicken!!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!
Salad
1 cup of Roasted Italian Winter Veggies - omg, I didn't want to stop at 1 cup - so good!!
This was the best dinner so far.

Drank all my water, no worries.  Headache gonzo!

So thats the cleanse ladies and gentlemen.  Not too hard, but just different than what I am used to.  I think I would have punched someone in the face for a coffee, which scared me to feel so dependent on something.  I drank coffee again on the 4th day, which is when you introduce coffee, goat cheese, chocolate and RED WINE!  yes, all 4 in one day.  I told you the cleanse was worth it!!!!
I was so excited, giddy even, to make the espresso in the morning.  Everything down to the crema on top was perfection.  I took my first sip and nearly barfed.  I was so sad.  I got an instant headache and couldn't finish the cup.  Thats a sign that it is a trigger food for me - but I can't do it.  I don't care if I had to give it up to loose 10lbs, it ain't gonna happen.
The other thing that I am sure most people would be happy with is no exercise!  You need to reserve all of your bodys energy for repair.  Yay for you!

If you can dig deep enough and make this change for just the 3 initial days, the rest will be a breeze.  It feels so good to loose weight and feel good inside.  I think in the past 3 days my mom, dad, brother, his gf, and my best friend (almost... common jos!!) have started the diet.  They all feel like shit.  But today, my parents lost 2lbs each and that makes it worth it.  The ebook link is below if your ready to start!  If you do, comment or msg me on facebook so we can follow along together!
I am also making a list of questions I have along the way in the hopes of emailing the author to ask her, like... when I REALLY need a snack, what can I have?!  Is there a certain time of day that is best to have a bad food? on and on... so msg me your questions too.