Day Three -- Morning

Thank God I got through last night!! My mind was telling me to quit and my stomach was rumbling around 10pm. I went to bed at 11:00, only to be waken up at midnight because the girl who lives above me was knocking on her walls. I don't know what she was doing, hammering nails in or something? And I don't know why she felt she had to do it at 12:00 at night.... I was getting so mad that I just wanted to pound back, but I put my earplugs in and went to sleep instead. So I didn't sleep as well last night as I did the first two nights. It seems whenever I am woken up from REM sleep I never sleep well the rest of the night.
But anyway, I think I made it through the morning... :) I slept in till 8:15am, and only got out of bed because I was feeling the effects of that Sienna tea.
I decided to up the salt in the SWF to 3 tsp, I didn't think that I was expelling it all, but retaining some and I definately don't want to retain all that salt! And even though it was hardly drinkable by then, I was still able to keep it down, thank God! I did lick the lemon, then take a swig of the salt water. That seemed easier to get down, but only a little. Anyway, it's 10am now and I have been dashing back and forth to the bathroom for an hour now, so I definately agree that the extra teaspoon of salt helped. My bm's are still bright yellow, I suspect this must be bile?
Anyway, I am extremely thirsty today!!! And my throat feels coated and I keep hacking stuff up from my lungs as if I have a cold, and yet I don't. Guess it's clearing out my lungs. My tongue - I don't know about it yet - I scrubbed it with a toothbrush last night because it was nasty and white from detox. So it just has a film of white on it right now.
Day three is called Hump Day, cravings will likely be the worst today, detox is starting. If I can get past day three it's supposed to be a little easier as far as the hunger - it will go away. Then the detox will start though and I'm not sure where that will take me, I hear mixed reviews.
I opened a new bottle of maple syrup today, one that didn't say Grade A on it, but I decided to try it out. It has that strong flavor, but I think I either put too much in or something because the lemonade was really sweet. I'll have to measure more carefully for the next one I make.
Let's see -- the first day I had 7 glasses of the lemonade, and the second day I had 10 glasses. I did make a glass of peppermint tea last night and added a bit of maple syrup to it.  It was good for the first few sips then it was way too sweet for my tastes. I had it about an hour before I drank the sienna tea too, so I think that the sienna kicked in faster, I had to go to the bathroom before I went to bed. Normally the sienna tea brings it in the morning. No cramping by the way, not like yesterday morning. I think I shall continue to take the tea around 10:45pm or so, that seems to work best.
I'm so glad that I planned it so that days 3 & 4 (the hardest days) would be on the weekend. That will help. I'm not feeling hungry right now anyway, that will probably hit me around 5-7 tonight. I am bound and determined to make it through this day without eating!!!!! :)
I did run to the store last night and picked up a cheap $15 citress juicer. Who knew how much easier it would make my life! :) hehe. I think on the Ease-out phase I will just buy a bag of oranges and squeeze my own juice, it will probably be better and healthier than orange juice from the store. They say that the enzemes in fruit start to die about 10 minutes after you cut it open. I am seriously thinking about revamping my eating lifestyle after this -- to vegetarian at least - but I will probably keep eating turkey and chicken and dairy. But no red meat at all. Or just listen to my body and see what it likes the best. I also want to kick the sugar highs. :) I want to go back to the dark chocolate only and nothing else is allowed! Dark chocolate gives me the fix, but the bitterness of it also keeps me from eating the entire bar!
Also, when Dana oftered me a dark chocolate candy yesterday, I had to decline her. And everyone looked at me - "what! melia turning down dark chocolate???? What's wrong?" And I told them, 'I'm giving up chocolate and suguars for the next 20 days.' And then Sue heard about it as she was walking through our cell and said, 'oh, you poor thing.' I'm like - no! No woe is me! 'It's by my own choice!' It just makes you stop and think - that as a society - how we view eating sugar and processed foods as a great thing - when in fact we don't recognize that it is bad for us and our health and we don't recognize the things that it does to our body. In fact-  I have not had even the slightest headache for three days now - and I have not had any sugar for three days now (asisde from the maple syrup - but that is a natural sugar and not a processed sugar)-- so it would probably be fair to consider that maybe it was the sugar addiction that is giving me those bad side effects. My back hasn't hurt in the last three days either, it feels great. I am surprized that I haven't had worse withdrawl symptoms from not eating sugar, other than being tired - or just 'craving' it now. I guess it helped that I have weaned myself off of pop at least three years ago - that helps a bunch. And the past week I hadn't been eating too much sugar, other than maybe a handful of chocolate chips. Ok - I do recall eating 1/2 a package of oreos during the course of 5 days. But normally I would have been eating reeses peanut butter cups or M&M's or something as a snack every night and I haven't done that the past two weeks. So that could have helped lessen the withdrawl symptoms a bit. But it's only day three of course...