The Daniel Detox

          

My Daniel Detox

           I have been MIA for a long while. I am finding it difficult to get on my computer when there is so much going on around me. I am going to make an effort to blog again. So, here I am. Last time I was here it was just turning into the holidays. Always a busy time for us all. Rather than skip back I will move forward from where I am at now in life.
           I just finished a 7 day body detox. My church is doing a church wide health change. It is obviously voluntary but, it is a good way to change your health. (It is part of their Decade of Destiny). They have brought in 3 big name Dr.s to come up with the menus, and all of the particulars for us. There is a website if you want to look at what they are doing. The Daniel Plan 
          One of the Dr.s involved, Dr. Mark Hyman, has written several books and is a believer in functional medicine. Basically, the belief the food can heal you as well as make you sick. I agree with this belief. So I started looking at his books and found out he published one that was a 7 day detox or a kickoff to his other diet plan. The 7 day detox is called The Ultra Simple Diet . Well, it is all about toxicity and inflammation and getting rid of those things in your body that make you feel bad as well as fat. It is a lead up to his other book, Ultra Metabolism .
           I was going to use this detox as a worship or fasting for God. I knew that doing this by myself (my husband got pneumonia and couldn't do it completely) was going to be next to impossible with 4 kids in the house. Not to mention the sick husband. I tried to recruit others to do it with me but, only got one taker to do it at the same time. My dear friend jumped right in. I really think it went great. It wasn't so hard until half-way through day 4 and all of day 5. I was exhausted and grouchy. Terrible grouchy. I had already given up my sweet tea (for the time being) several weeks before. As well as sugar, most gluten, and processed foods. This wasn't the hard part. (Although, I still think about drinking my tea on a daily basis). I wanted to eat something, anything other than brown rice and vegetables. I was tired of chicken. The usual problems on any diet. Well, I made it through with lots of  prayer. I fizzeled out half way through day 7. I was done. I texted my friend- "DONE. I am through."
          She calls (she was a day behind me and now that was 2 days she didn't have a companion to dream of chocolate), "You can't be done. I need a partner. Misery loves company. I'm Misery, you are company. Get it!?"
           Well, I should have blogged the adventure but, I was wanting my sweet tea and looking at the title of this blog made me cringe every time I got near doing it. I lost 4 pounds, and a couple of inches on my waist. I felt better day 8 then I have felt in awhile. And I am ready to jump into the next phase of Hymans diet. It should be way easier then the first one so I will be excited I think to do it. The next phase lasts 3 weeks. So, I will blog as I go. Hopefully, it won't all be about sweet tea and chocolate.
           I think tonight and tomorrow in preperation of the next part of my Daniel Plan, I will read and spend time praying about Daniel and remind myself that this is about God and his incredible strength and power. It is about my absolute inability to do this on my own. I want to loose all of the weight that has accumulated over the last 2 pregnancies, and the huge stress of the last 2 years (we all know nothing puts on weight like stress that we have no control over). I also want to feel good. I want to wake up ready to chase my 2 year old and 4 year old around the park. Not just stand there directing where they can go. I want to encourage others that with God's infinite power, you can truly do anything.