Mike Liebner’s Positive Think Tank

Day 15… It’s Wednesday, August 22nd and I thought I better give an update on my 13 day detoxification/cleansing/nutritional plan while all is fresh on my mind.

It’s over! My 13 day nutritional event ended 2 days ago on Monday morning.

When I weighed in I was at 194 lbs. That means in the 13 days I lost 8 pounds.

Oddly enough I woke up with sniffles. Gradually by night time it had blown up into a cold. A “summer cold” and was more an annoyance than a full blown cold. But I did have occasional sneezing attacks and a runny nose.

A friend suggested the “cold” may a part of the detox cleansing process… a way to blow out that excess muscous crap… hey, that may be true.

Since Monday morning when the “event” was officially over, I have still pretty much stayed on a sound and healthy diet with mostly whole foods – raw – uncooked and unprocessed with few exceptions.

The only exceptions or changes were that I had actual meals for dinner the past 2 evenings. Plus I resumed taking vitamins and juicing in the morning (it was water only before that).

I still had some lunch meat in my refrigerator from before the 13 day event and figured I may as well polish that off. So I bought some low carb tortillas and made wraps with some lettuce mix.

I used Vegenaise which is an incredible replacement for mayonaise and it tastes as good or better. Look for it in the refrigerated section of your grocery store. I found it at Ralphs by the lunchmeat. Great stuff if you like Mayo. Better than the light crap they sell which still is loaded with junk.

Other than that I did buy some Havea Tortilla chips and made home made guacamole and ate it along with my sandwich.

Yesterday I lost an aditional 1/2 pound and this morning stayed the same with no loss.

Eventually I will work my way back on having “regular meals” but for the most part will try to adopt my new healthy lifestyle 90% of the time. For example I have not returned to using the artificial hazelnut coffee creamer crap I had previously used. Also I am still at one cup of weak coffee black, instead of my normal 2 strong cups of Joe with milk and creamer crap.

Also, I will try not to touch dairy for a while. No milk or cheeses for the most part. I won’t avoid it completely but will make conscious choices to eliminate it where possible.

I am looking forward to a cheeseburger some time soon, so on occasion it will be fine. But no more cheese on every sandwich I make at home. No more milk in my coffee etc.

I’ll be looking into raw “unpasteurized cheeses” but so far have not tried any. I guess the cooking part is what makes the cheese virtually nutritionless. Same with milk. If they pasteurize it (boil it) they kill the good stuff, so why bother if it is just crap.

I guess you can find raw unpasteurized milk and cheese if you look hard enough…

I’ll keep reporting on my lifestyle changes and if I keep losing weight. I do plan on incorportating more exercise into my lifestyle.

That’s all for now.

More details on the plan are at:

http://www.positivethinktank.com/2007/day-2-of-nutritional-program/