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Anyway, I have done a lot of soul searching since my last post, not even necessarily about the cleanse. Assuming that I make it through with no problems (very safe assumption – one thing I DO have is willpower), I would like to share my success with anyone and everyone. I decided to put together a cookbook with one challenge in mind – 30 recipes in 30 days. I will prepare a different dish every day and formulate the recipe utilizing only the ingredients that are “YES foods” and without using the “NO foods”. The portions will be exactly what is recommended for the diet and I will use the freshest and best ingredients I can find. I am fortunate enough to have made a very large organic garden at my home, so many of the ingredients will actually be home grown, which is sorta fun for me.

In reviewing the “YES foods” list, one thing stood out to me…Ezekiel Bread. Yep – I never heard of it either. So, I made the trek to Trader Joe’s and bought a loaf to try before I kicked this thing off. Probably like you, I expected a tasteless, cardboardy, dry bread that will grow mold in my pantry over the next month because I will never touch it again. Well, while it is certainly more dense than traditional bread, and not quite as moist as “normal” bread, I actually really enjoyed it. I spread some almond butter on it at first – not bad. Then I grabbed some homemade lox (I love making lox) and tried it with capers and onions – really great. Then I tried it toasted and the possibilities began running through my head. So I decided to showcase this new friend on the menu for the first dinner – I will make slow roasted Rosemary Bison Meatballs (using Ezekiel Bread Crumbs) with a salad of mixed greens, peppers, onion, cucumber and tomato with a balsamic vinaigrette dressing and garlic Ezekiel Toast Points. I’ll post a pic with the day one entry 🙂

Excited to get started – the “goods” arrived today and I am going through the box as we speak..well…type…

Excited, nervous, tentative. These are just some of the feelings going into this. The saving grace is that I have been watching my wife do it for the past eleven days and she looks great, and feels great.  I CAN tell you that I am excited to show off my cooking skills and make some serious meals for the next 30 days. I vowed to make a new meal every day of the cleanse so that should be fun. I’m thinking slow roasted bison meatballs with quinoa on day one. I still have 2 days to sort that out…

I wouldn’t say I’m fat but I am certainly not in the shape I used to be. Recently the opportunity was presented to me to try a 30-day nutritional cleanse – a Ctrl-Alt-Del of my body so to speak. At first I was very skeptical. Is it healthy to do this? Will I do more damage than good? Most importantly, can I eat during this time??? Well, somebody very close to me began the same 30-day program eleven days ago. She looks great and seems to be having an easy time with it. So, reluctantly but with an open mind, I have decided to go full tilt and join the millions of folks who have done nutritional cleanses.

My cleanse will begin on July 11th, 2014. While I am certainly not a journalist, I have decided to share my cleanse with whoever would like to read about it. I promise to be nothing but truthful and honest and you, the reader, promise not to make any pre-judgements or wildly offensive comments. I will NOT disclose what cleanse I am doing on this blog. If you would like to find out, please email me at bweiss07@gmail.com and let me know where I can reach you by phone and we can discuss.

THE GROUND RULES:

• I will not share my actual weight. I will, however, share some important details like BMI, waist size, etc. as they are important to this journey. My goal is to lose between 25 and 30 pounds. I will provide all of the details on day 1 so that we can track together.
• I will provide a before and after picture at the end of the 30 days. For those of you that think everything is a sham, I would be happy to share my facebook profile with you at that time as well so you can see real pictures to see what the before is.
• I will make every effort to report everything I can within reason. If you think I am not giving you the whole story, stop reading and move on.

So, here we go…