Day 2 of the loading and it's been nuts, nuts, NUTS!!

Today has been an interesting experience as many of you may be familiar with my "eating is cheating" policy. This does not go down well when you are instructed to eat as much as you possibly can for 48 hours. The foods must be high in fats so that the body has prepared itself for the first couple of very low calorie days.

Cheese, macadamias, pecans, avocado, eggs, even as far as some pate and roasted rosemary potatoes, eat every couple of hours and now I feel completely overwhelmed with food!

I am now looking forward to the restrictions as I think my body may be more familiar with them. 

My current night and day routine

Now there are quite a few things that one must give up on this 23 day regime and probably the hardest for me will be my moisturizers. Yes I know it sounds odd but as the skin is one huge sponge it will take the oils in the creams and balms and use them in place of the fats that I am trying to clear from my body. It is the ritual of beauty that I have done for decades and one that makes me feel "special", face wash, cleanse, AHA's or Vit C then either day lotion or eye cream/night cream and the wonderful massage into the face that goes with it. I love to top it off with a really good hair brush and if you haven't spoilt yourself to a self-imposed scalp massage I urge you to try it - WONDERFUL! 

This is what will go onto my skin for the next 3 weeks!

Today has been prep day too, buying the meats and vegetables, looking at recipes and choosing ones that sound satisfying to the taste buds and the mind. Then weighing and packing individually into 100 gram packets to take out as required.

The other part of the 2 day load was one that had me walk down to my parents home in Hamilton and collect Dad's wonderful 2000 S class Mercedes. I have had it detailed and inspected for sale and today I drove it down to the mechanics to correct the odd bits and pieces to get it road worthy for sale. Walking back to home from the garage left me feeling as if part of this process was the clearing of the last major tangible part of my father, and it is at the very least a bitter pill to take. I guess everything happens for a reason and the cleansing reaches many aspects of ones spirit. 

I have to say part of me wants to buy it and sell my little Mini, where commonsense says let it go as it has been part of an era that is no longer with me....