Blissfully Cruising to the Home Stretch...

Day 16!!!! Yesterday was our 2nd "Weigh Day" and I lost 5 more pounds! Thats a whopping 17 in total so far and only 4 off of the marked goal for the 3 week program. I celebrated the accomplishment by helping our House Mother, Linda, make our 1 p.m. live juice that consisted of cucumber, celery, and carrots...it was yummy. Christine and I both feel fantastic, have gained alot of mental clarity in the last week, and are sleeping like babies at night. After our weigh in yesterday, we went for a sun-filled 90 minute walk through trails in the woods to a beautiful lighthouse and back along the coastline. We talked about the wedding and bachelorette weekend, worked our arms with 5 lb weights on each side, and tracked 800 burned calories along the way. It was so nice. Once we arrived back at the retreat, we gobbled down our "Cream of Broccoli" soup...which is really half broccoli and half cauliflower. The reason why it is called cream when it contains zero cream is because when you mix or blend broccoli is has a creamy consistency to it and so it looks like it has been creamed. I threw a little cayenne, curry, and italian seasoning in it and thought it was delicious. I'm sure you are all thinking, how can this really taste so good Anita? Aren't you just trying to keep yourself psyched up by telling yourself this? I guess that's partially true...I mean it doesn't taste like any of my favorite Mexican or Indian dishes. But when you cleanse, your palette is cleansed too, so you begin REALLY tasting the wonderful flavors in carrots, celery, cucumbers, beets, sweet potatoes, swiss chard, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, and many others. I'm so excited to pack up Sammy Jo and go home on Monday, throw my arms around my Love, and spend time with him. I miss David so much and that's been the hard part of doing this... I'm also looking forward to "Act Two" of my program, which I will explain later. I'm off to the dance capsule with Pam to sweat my rear off. :)