Yesterday we didn't prepare anything fancy for breakfast, just brought a bunch of fresh fruit with us. I had a pluot (plum-apricot hybrid), an apple (Pink Lady--my fave), and two bananas. I'm starting to realize that I enjoy having several small breakfast items that I spread out over a couple hours, rather than one big breakfast at one sitting. I may try to copy that in the future. (Of course, big weekend brunch meals will be an occasional exception!)

Lunch was a salad of spinach, avocado, mango and red onion with the Italian-style dressing we had the first day of raw. Very yummy! I highly recommend the mango-avocado combination for a treat.

For dinner we made a "southwest skillet": cooked buckwheat (kasha), onion, green bell pepper, garlic, zucchini, tomatoes, corn, cilantro, avocado and spices. Really delicious; this is a meal AS and I made several times a few years ago but then forgot about. I ate it too fast so my belly felt tight for a few hours.

Sorry I've been so lax about posting recipes; I'll try to get some done this week.

Today when we weighed ourselves, AS had lost 1.5 lbs. and I'd lost a half a pound. That brings our totals to 8 and 4.5. I really think some of this is actual weight loss and not just getting rid of water weight. Now if only we can maintain once we're off this! The success will hopefully spur us not to go totally nuts when it's over.

I am ending the no-drinking part of it a little early; a friend we love who's hard to get hold of is having a birthday happy hour on Friday. Only two days early, so I don't feel that bad.

This morning as we were getting ready, AS was saying that she was really missing coffee and caffeine for the first time during this cleanse. We go down on the elevator and in the condo lobby, there's a stand set up giving away free gourmet coffee! The smell was outrageously delicious. We barely escaped without succumbing to temptation! Luckily, coffee is thought to have some health benefits, so I'll have no compunction about getting right back into it at the end of this thing.