Day 1. . . not counting yet

Okay. It's day 1. I'm excited.

I've been feeling pretty tired lately, and have been afraid that I might be coming down with something. Yes, Channing, that has EVERYTHING to do with you. So far so good, though, on that front - no major infections (viral or otherwise) that I can tell. I've been having a rather difficult time rousing myself from my bed in the mornings, and my tongue has had a nice thick white coat on it, but that's the extent of my imagined impending illness thus far. While this tiredness obviously has nothing to do with the fast, it has everything to do with me NOT wanting to get out of bed in the morning. Compounding matters is the Warm Bed + Really Cold Bedroom equation. A few more taps of the snooze button, please.

BUT - this morning, I found myself compelled to get out of bed 1) because I was past the point of being certain that I would still make it to work on time, 2) because I was itching to get up and make my first serving of master cleanser lemonade, and 3) because there was some suspicious/curious activity going on in my intestine. The tea works!!

I pooped 3 times this morning in 30 minutes. It was hovering between the very soft/liquid varieties. That's what a day of eating nuthin-but-fruit will get you. But it felt really awesome to get it all out.

In between mad dashes to the ladies', I mixed up and drank my first lemonade of the day. It's actually quite tasty. I skimped on the maple a little bit (dude, that shit's got a LOT of calories), and I think I may have overdone the cayenne. Emeril would have approved, I guess. It gave me a little morning kick.

Speaking of morning kick, I actually feel really great this morning. Pretty energetic, not yet hungry at all. Uh, yeah, but we'll see how I feel after sitting at my desk for a few hours, desperately attempting to stave off the ADD. The constant need for distraction usually takes the form of wanting to get up and make some tea or snack on whatever or blah blah blah (hence the 10-15 lb weight gain since I started working here two years(!) ago). There's chocolate on the counter.

Gonna go for now. Will probably check in later with the first hunger pang.