Elimination Week 3

We went from this nasty stuff and being ready to give up.......

....To a week with meals like this:

Salmon with Broccoli (the boys also had bread, but that was off limits for me)

Lamb Shank with beets from our CSA and black bean noodles (these just looked really cool)

Lemon Chicken with Asian rice noodles and a cauliflower and broccoli mix

We had other good things as well but I am sure you are getting the idea by now.

I have also lost 10lb since I started and feel pretty good.

I did have one night that I knew I was going to cheat going in. I signed up for a 'South Indian Delight' cooking class way back in October that had to open a second class and still has a waiting list. Needless to say I wasn't missing it. I learned all sorts of things about Indian spices, met some wonderful people and ate some amazing food.

Spoiled Rabbit

We own one very spoiled rabbit. Really-not joking. The last few days when it has been in the negative numbers (-18 when we woke up this morning), we moved the the bunny from the cold mud room to the kitchen where her water would not freeze.

She would come in the house and roam around a few times a week anyway, but now she thinks she is queen of the house. Someone needs to tell her that's my job :)


Then there is little man, who thinks he needs to read to her every night before bed. As you can see, she is very interested in the book.

She just figured out there were carrots in her cage.

Clean Week 1: Adjustments needed

For starters, this really stinks - or did, until I made some minor adjustments. On the bright side, I have lost 9 pounds since Christmas, so it is a worthwhile pain--kind of.

Starting out the week, I had a plan and was going to follow it by the book. By the end of the week, I was ready to bail and head for the first fast food joint I could find. So, what went wrong you ask?

For starters, I hated cold soup going into this, and the soups they had on this plan made the ones that I have had in the past look like the best food I have ever eaten. I spent my evenings trying to choke down some of the soup and then tossing the rest into the compost. No wonder I have lost so much weight.

Secondly - and this might be too much information (so feel free to skip to the next paragraph) -the man who wrote the book was adamant that you have a bowel movement every day, and if help is needed go for it. Given my previous history with constipation, I was bound to have a day that would go all wrong and I was freaking out thinking I was going to die. I even invested in castor oil to help things along, however, upon reading the terms "explosive" and "extreme cramping" on the back of the bottle, I decided that there had to be a better way. My alternative: eat a bag of prunes. I would not recommend this option to anyone, ever!

Following the prune incident, and a day in which I was ready to bail on the whole Clean diet, I decided some adjustments needed to be made. I gladly went back to the Elimination stage and life is much better. I am still not eating the forbidden foods for the next two weeks, but at least I am feeling a little bit more in control again. I think the lamb we cooked last night also helped a bit as well :)