DAY 11: FOOD!!!

Today I had that Veggie Burger and Fries at Islands. It was amazingly good--I know maybe I should have had something in between all those apples yesterday and the full-on meal, but it caused me zero problems and was suuuuuuuper yummy delish!

AND HERE'S SOMETHING AMAZING--I didn't add salt!!!! If you knew me, you would know this is beyond miraculous. I add salt to everything--I mean everything--and have since I can remember (I have very low blood pressure). I usually salt both the fries and the veggie patty, but didn't even reach for it--in fact the mayo (not vegan) seemed very salty to me and I used very little. I usually slather it all on.

AND--more miracle--I didn't eat all the fries. What? Me not even think to reach for the salt and me not finish all my fries and look around for more? (Scary, because Islands offers bottomless fries--they'll refill you if you want!)

EVEN GREATER-- I was sort of bummed out after eating all that--since I'd only had juice and yesterday's apples in all these days--but tonight when I got hungry again, I thought, "Well, I'm done with the juice fast. I might as well make some food," and what did I do? Did I reach for another veggie patty? No. Did I whip up some spaghetti? No.  (drum roll) I did what my body wanted--I cleaned and inhaled SIX CARROTS, kid you not. WHAT IS THAT?

What it is is this--I've been rebooted. I've been re-set. I can tell what I want! I really think the reason I went out for the burger/fries is because I've been talking about it on here all week and it was in my head, and now that that's out of my psyche (it was definitely more of a psych thing than a body-hunger thing), I'm all good with that.

As for the HORRIBLE CHOLESTEROL numbers, I think I need to get real and realize it's all the fries and mayo and kinda-vegan-if-you-don't-count-the-milk salad dressing I've been indulging in the three or four weeks just prior to my juice fast. So I'm going to forget about that and push onward.

Hubby still juicing. I'm going to eat whole veggies I think now, since I seem to have a real need for the fiber.

Today's weight: 214.4.  I'm a fan of that. Ten days prior to this weigh-in, I was 224.8.