Day 9

I slept alright until about 3:30am, having to pull myself out of bed for the AM BM. But luckily I slept sound until my alarm went off at 5:00. I was again pretty tired, but I tried to get myself going quickly, not wanting to be late again. I got the SWF down around 6:00, finished making my juice and decided, instead of waiting until the SWF had done most of it’s dirty work, I would just hop in the shower. I was determined to be early if nothing else.

Just as I jumped in the shower and got my hair wet, though, the SWF perked up. Dripping, I jumped out, toweled as fast as I could and made it to the toilet, just barely. I then made a pledge to myself to take the fastest shower ever, which I did, and finished just in time. That’ll wake you up if nothing else does. Whew. I managed to leave for work on-time-ish

I felt good all day at work, which was nice, and the SWF did what it needed to. I’d decided to strain every tiny pulpy bit from the lemons this time, and I think it helped both my digestion and the fermentation, which was far less noticeable. The most unfortunate part of the day, however, was that evening. A favorite co-worker and friend was leaving the office, and had his going away ‘bar-bash’ that night. Lots of people from my office went out, and I was the only non-eater, non-drinker of the event. It gathered a number of funny looks and prompted questions, to which I nonchalant as possible tried to say “oh, I’m trying not to drink alcohol or caffeine for a while.” This didn’t satisfy anyone, and at this point, I didn’t want to go into it. Early in the night someone asked “is this your whole juice diet thing?” I couldn’t tell if (a) they’d figured it out and the whole office had gossiped about it for the past week-which is plausible-or (b) it was a joke. I just said, in my most sarcastic tone, “yep, that’s it,” and turned to chat with someone else.

As everyone was starting to bar-hop and get thoroughly trashed, I decided to head home. It was getting cold and I not drinking around everyone was a little more bizarre than I’d anticipated. I usually keep about par with everyone, so this was a pretty big departure from normal. It was about 8:30, and I was looking to be in bed early anyway. I headed home, drank tea, and snuggled into bed.

Total lbs lost: 7.5

ps. look at the archive for the rest, blogger is being dumb...