Day 22

Weight: 14 stone 2 lb

Lost: 1 lb

Total weight loss since day 1: 13 lb

Woke up feeling better today but had a slight background headache, you know the ones that just sit in your brain like a dull heavy ache that you just can't shake...but the rest of me felt great.

Made a big mistake by skipping breakfast (I wasn't hungry) and went straight round to a friends house after walking the dogs. I didn't get back home till 2 pm and I was starving, so I made myself 1.5 litres of green smoothie consisting of 3 bananas, strawberries and spinach which I drank through the afternoon. 

Well by the time 5 pm came around my head was throbbing so much it made me feel sick. So I made myself a cup of manzanilla (Chamomile) tea and retired to the bedroom. By the time the evening had drawn in my headache had gotten a lot worse, so I put myself to bed at 9 pm with 2 ibuprofen in my stomach and Tiger Balm on my forehead.

I know exactly what's brought this headache on as I make this same mistake EVERY time, like a fecking idiot by drinking decaf coffee, which I had quite a few cups of over the weekend. 
For some reason my body is very sensitive to caffeine and even a decaf coffee (which still has a small amount of caffeine in it...plus the awful chemicals they have to use to draw the majority of the caffeine out of the coffee beans) really messes me up when I stop drinking it and every time this happens, I get the headache from Hell. 

However, this is the last time as this doesn't fit in with my new raw lifestyle.

I really must make sure that I have breakfast in the morning for 2 reasons:

1) To get enough green smoothie into my body as, if I'm going to live off only green smoothies all day, I need the time to consume enough of them and not just in the afternoon.

2) I need to keep my energy up, otherwise my body will go into fasting mode...and I don't want to fast at the moment as I don't feel I'm ready for any major detox. This is something I will do further down the line.

Lesson learnt!

Hasta pronto