Day 5

The taste of the lemon drink has been really getting to us. So much so that it grosses us out to drink it. Michelle has dry heaved a few times while trying to drink it down the last couple days. From the get-go she was going to do the cleanse for 7 days and I was going to do it for 10. I don't think I can last that long anymore as today I could only bring myself to drink two of the drinks. I might do 7 days along with Michelle now. On top of that we have both felt weak and rotten today. As a result I've down-graded my detox from the version I was doing to another version we read about where you can drink vegetarian vegtable broth for dinner in place of the lemon drink. I had some of that broth for dinner. Michelle is determined to stay with the version we've been doing but since it grosses her out so much today she simply drank one drink and she didn't even have the pepper in it. Tomorrow I'm going to try really hard to get her to switch to broth for dinner or lunch. She can't just not drink the drinks. It's not healthy and will let her blood sugar level go way down again. All day today my mouth tasted like death. It was seriously the worst taste I've ever tasted. They say that when your tongue gets really coated on the detox you get really bad breath. Boy were they right. The bad thing is no gum or mints or anything are allowed on the cleanse so there wasn't much I could do about it. My tongue is totally coated white as a result of the detox and I've been brushing it like mad when I brush my teeth but it doesn't help. That is one of the reasons I decided to do the broth for dinner. It's nice to finally have a different taste in my mouth. Anyway, today was rough and led me to change my cleanse and led Michelle to not really take in anything but water. Things here at the Stinehart camp are not going well. We'll update tomorrow. As always, thanks for reading.

-Kevin