Phew!

Well it's over!! The cleanse that is. I know I said I was shooting for ten days but seven was more than enough. I thought I'd go back and review the week and add some photos. All in all it was pretty bad. I was sick as a dog, the shakes were pretty bad, but there is a plus side! Starting about Saturday night I started feeling a little better and by Sunday I was just about back to how I was feeling before I started the fast. But not quite. I was really quite surprised at how good I was feeling and that really was a very welcome, very unexpected bonus!! I'm really hopeful for the future. If this keeps up I'll be runnin' around in no time! So in the end it looks like it will be worth it! Whenever I talk to someone who is having a rough time I always say, sometimes the hardest things for us to do are the best things for us. I suppose it is always easier to dole out advice than take it, especially when its our own. I always think of the analogy of being inside the refiner's fire. It's not comfortable to be inside the furnace and sometimes it feels too hot to bear, but invariably the hottest times are the times we learn the most. Adversity is the best teacher! It's never fun but if we allow ourselves to be humble and keep our eyes on Christ we will become a much better person!

These are the ingredients to my least favorite shake, the 'no cream tomato soup'This is the abomination finished! It's all I can do to gag it down!The tools of the tradeNone of this would be possible without our trusty 'Vitamix' hmmm maybe one day it will turn up missing! ha ha