Die-ting: Day 1

Finally after several years of thinking and talking I, along with Arina, started my first-ever cleansing or detox diet (which includes no alcohol or any other substance)! For those unfamiliar let me briefly explain how detox diets work. They are not designed for weight loss but rather for letting your body clean itself (kind of like the self-cleaning mode in ovens). As such cleansing diets include an intake of some sort of easily digestible calories and minerals so you're not completely starving.

The particular diet we're on is called maple syrup diet. It's about 60 years old and is very simple. I learned of it from one of my teammates at work. Our plan is to go 10 days however we'll have to play it by ear after first 5 days since this is our first time doing such a thing. I also plan to keep a daily blog of my experiences, if anyone is interested. And if not, who cares, I'm doing it for myself :)

And the first day is almost over. Surprisingly I don't feel crazy hungry as I feared. I obviously would love to eat something tasty but it's not an overpowering emotion but rather a state of very light hunger which is easy to battle. Of course it's just the first day... Nine more days ahead!