The Lemonade Diet, Days 7 – 9

I’m still following the Lemonade Diet, though there have been ups and downs. I find myself very bored with the lemonade. I dream about food at night. If I could just suppress the desire for food, it would be so easy. LOL. Isn’t that the plaint of every dieter?

I am seeing much progress. My face is thinner and less puffy. My T-zone is almost free of clogged pores. I have lost weight. I don’t know how much — I weigh in tomorrow morning after the salt-water flush. Most of the time, I have more energy than usual.

Yesterday, I was terribly listless, though. Found it hard to get interested in anything. I finally just went to bed, figuring that maybe some particularly foul toxin was being liberated and befouling my body. When that happens, the body wants rest so that it can contain and eliminated the bad stuff.

I know I am metabolizing fat, because my Ketostix turn a lovely dark purple. That means there are ketones — a by-product of fat metabolism. No matter what anyone tells you, if you are trying to lose weight and you don’t have ketones in your urine, you’re not metabolizing fat.

And metabolizing fat is both a good and a bad thing. Good because, of course, I’m losing weight. Bad because it frees toxins. You see, when your liver can no longer process toxins, it starts storing them — by binding them to fat molecules and stuffing them away in various parts of the body. So when you metabolize fat, you start letting these toxins loose, and your liver has to process them and eliminate them. Which means you can feel pretty crummy while the toxins circulate through your body until the liver processes them out of your bloodstream.

I’ve also been feeling kind of down, so I’m wondering if I’m “liberating” the Zoloft that I took two summers ago for depression. The Zoloft made my depression worse — I went from being depressed because my life was in a shambles to being depressed because I no longer cared that my life was in a shambles. I took the Zoloft for only two months, and then decided that the cure was worse than the disease.

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