I'm Clean!

I finished my cleanse yesterday. I lost 12 pounds and feel great! I'm really glad I did it. I'm going to take a week off and then start South Beach.
Chase has also gotten over his poop smearing phase. THANK GOODNESS! I remember my neighbor's kid smearing her poop and I thought it was because they were dirty nasty people that abused their kids and although that is true, I've heard of so many people that have poop-smearers or were poop-smearers and they seem normal enough. Now if I can just get him to stop killing small animals.... (Just kidding!)

Cleanse Day 2- and oh yeah, more poop

So i got on the scale this morning and am down 3 pounds. All water i'm sure. i feel better than i did yesterday. i had 3 shakes and blueberries and salad and for supper i sauted an eggplant, yes and eggplant with portabello mushroom and tomatoes. it was edible. salt helped. i am starving. i want a popsicle. me and my friend robyn are teaching a cooking class this fall for the homeschool coop and we were brainstorming what foods each state is famous for. it didn't help. chase was up by 5:45 this morning but i still managed a 1/2 hour on the treadmill. i got a lot accomplished before i had to wake josh and cady up. they camped in the back yard last night in the tent. chase pooped this morning. it was on the floor in his room and i was just happy it was 1 and formed into a shape instead of a plop. we cleaned that up and went about our business. the kids played at mcdonald's with our friends and chase fell asleep in the car and didn't want to go down for his nap. i put him in there and a few minutes later he started yelling "pee, pee, potty, icky, mama!!!!" Sure enough, he'd pooped, taken off the diaper and proceeded to leave plop piles in various areas of the room. Why he can't yell before he does this, i don't know. Anyway, cleaned that up and he eventually fell asleep. he woke up early which is fine because i like to sleep past 5:45 am. when we walked our friends out, there were cows in our yard, AGAIN!!! They were there this morning but i called the sheriff to tell the owners because there property is gated like fort knox. then it started hailing and the tent was uncovered so i got soaking wet trying to cover it up and i got hailed on. so that was our day.

Cleanse-Day one

today was rough. i have been planning to do a detox and today was d-day. The detox involves lots of water, fruits and vegetables, raw. i also take 30 pills and 2 shakes to help the detox process. The detox also requires me to quit coffee! This is a fate worse than death! i've been trying to wean myself off of it slowly. Anyway, the literature i got with the cleanse said some people may get headaches. i'm one of them. i guess i'm really really toxic because this is killing me!
So, this morning i set my alarm for 6am thinking i'd get in 20 minutes of exercise and maybe a shower before chase woke up. yeah right. he woke up at 5:50. Then he dumped my strawberry shake on the living room carpet. but, no poop today. he used it all yesterday.

poop happens...a lot...

many people have suggested i blog about my adventures in poop land. maybe it will help. i'm so fed up with cleaning poop i'm about to sell chase on ebay. he's always been especially gross. he was a happy puker for a year where he'd just upchuck after each meal. he had an oozy eye for the first 6 months. there's always the drooling. he's always pooped more than cady. now he's taken to smearing poop all over his floor and walls. we ripped the carpet out of his room and replaced it with laminate wood. i've used more disinfecting wipes than i can count. he gets up at 6 am and before i can get out of the shower, there is poop every where. i am sooo tired of it.