Shaking Things Up

Today, I begin a week long venture to really shake things up along my weight loss journey. 

First, let me just say, Ben is the best husband ever - he is playing along with me during this week's experiment, so that I don't have to do it alone. 

We are doing the GM Diet.  In case you haven't heard of it (which I hadn't until Friday night), it was created for employees at General Motors through a grant from the FDA, and research done at Johns Hopkins.  It is 7 days long and involves eating different foods each day (fruits, veggies, protein, etc.) and drinking basically nothing but water.

Since I was thinking that I needed to "shake things up" a bit, I did quite a bit of research, looking into detox and cleansing options, and happened across this.  I have a week of (at home) vacation ahead of me, so now is as good a time as any to give something new a try. 

Today, Day 1, we are eating nothing but fruit.  Any fruit, as much as we want (except bananas), all day.


Day 2 is the vegetable day.  After we begin with a baked potato for breakfast (yum), we eat nothing but veggies all day. 

Day 3 is the best of both worlds - fruits and veggies (no bananas, no potato for breakfast).

Day 4 will be interesting - we are to eat bananas, milk, and a vegetable soup that we will make ourselves.

Day 5 will likely feel like a feast - we can eat lean beef (20 oz) and tomatoes!

Day 6 we can eat unlimited lean beef and vegetables

Day 7 we can eat unlimited brown rice, fruit juice and veggies

And so, the journey begins.  Considering it is about 100 degrees outside, eating cool sweet watermelon, apple slices, cantaloupe, pineapple, and grapes all day isn't going to be much of a hardship. 

I have no idea how the rest of the 7 days will go, but hopefully this will be just the jump start I need to "reset my body's computer" and move ahead with my weight loss!