7 days of Clean

Today is my 7th day on the Clean diet. I have been following the book touted by Gwenyth Paltrow and many Hollywood stars. It is a detox diet that lasts 21 days where many things are off limits (coffee, alcohol, beef, veal, sushi, bananas, potatoes, wheat). I ordered the book about a year ago, and put it away almost immediately upon arrival after I saw how hard it seemed. I thought a shake for breakfast and a shake for dinner was something just not do-able firstly because it would kill any inkling I have of a social life, and two because the things I was supposed to put in those shakes seemed impossible to find in Italy. Many of which I had never heard of.
Anyway, in an attempt to finally lose the last of the baby weight and start the new year off "healthier", I decided to try it.
You will be surprised to hear that the diet is going well. I make my own nut milk and coconut water using ingredients easily found at the supermarket or the nearest NaturaSi (organic supermarket). I have a shake that usually contains nut milk or coconut water, fruit, some sort of green leafy vegetable, avocado, and lemon for breakfast and a similar shake for dinner. Lunch consists of items on the "elimination diet" approved foods list which include fish, organic chicken (hard sticking to that in my office cafeteria), beans, lentils, and the like. Snacks are allowed if you are really hungry but it is preferred that you have herbal tea instead.
The elimination diet is a pre-cleanse diet aimed at helping you prepare for the cleanse. You can eat 3 solid meals a day all from the elimination diet approved foods list. I did 3 days of this diet before I started.
The good news is that I am still alive, I have energy, I don't feel any hungrier than I did before I went on the diet. The only exception is sometimes the shake for dinner is not that satisfying, and does not fill me up as much as I'd like, but you get over it. The worst part of this diet is that I followed a recipe in the book for butternut squash and apple soup, and it made me want to vomit after the first 4 spoonfuls. The reason for this reaction....the squash is to be eaten raw. It works in that after 4 spoonfuls I didn't want to eat anymore and I wasn't hungry. For some reason the squash totally blocked my appetite.
The best news is that I have lost weight. Overall weight loss from one week: 2kgs! I am back to my pre-baby weight!!!
One down, two more weeks to go....stay tuned.