A Cleanse and Some Tacos

Nate and I made it through our seven day cleanse!  You are supposedly guaranteed to lose 10-17 lbs, but we only lost 6 lbs each.  I am totally happy with that though, because during my weight watcher days I only lost 1-2 lbs/week.  It was a great jump start to our new healthy eating plan…. and I really did feel cleansed.

We did the GM Diet March 5-11.

The GM Diet was originally created by GM and only for the employees and families. Somehow GM (biggest company in the world at the time) got a grant from the FDA and the Department of Agriculture to create this. Johns Hopkins was involved and the diet was approved and launched in 1985.

The GM Diet is designed to flush your system of impurities and give you a feeling of well being.

Here is the plan… (For a longer, more in depth version click HERE)

Day One All fruits except bananas. Your first day will consist of all the fruits you want.

Day Two All vegetables. You are encouraged to eat until you are stuffed with all the raw or cooked vegetables of your choice. There is no limit on the amount or type.

Day Three A mixture of fruits and vegetables of your choice. Any amount, any quantity.

Day Four Bananas and milk.

Day Five Today is feast day. You will eat beef and tomatoes.

Day Six Beef and vegetables. Today you may eat an unlimited amount of beef and vegetables. Eat to your hearts content.

Day Seven Today your food intake will consist of brown rice, fruit juices and all the vegetables you care to consume.

It was pretty hard to get through the first three days, but we made it.  I taught myself to like veggies and fruits that I thought I hated, and I even tried a banana (maybe for the first time in my life).  When day five got here, we had never been so excited to see some meat on our plate.

I learned that I like to cover my food in sauces and eat crunchy things.  It is something that needs to change, but it is also something that I missed terribly during the cleanse week.  It doesn’t matter what I’m eating I like a nice condiment for dipping.  Whether it’s ketchup, ranch, gravy, or chick-fil-a sauce, I am the dipping queen.  And who knew that apples aren’t crunchy enough for my weird mouth.

Anyway, we were super proud of ourselves for making it through the whole week.  We even had to go to a restaurant and order “the veggie platter” on the last day.

To celebrate our conquering food week, I made a taco feast!  It was so delish… making tacos even more my favorite food (or at least at the top tied with pizza).