day -1 (negative 1)

My name is Richard and I am a 24 year old student and I also volunteer as a counselor/teacher. This is the start of my 2 week journal of my process through the Lemonade Diet. This is primarily for myself, but also for anyone else interested in reading.

Through some years of college (unhealthy eating for sure) and working at an office (not very physically intensive) for a couple years, I've put on quite a few pounds. I guess you can say I have a naturally larger frame and have always been bigger, but never grossly overweight. I was very active with sports and working out in high school, but not so much anymore.

A week ago, I read a comment on facebook from a friend about a 'lemonade diet'; it seemed interesting enough, so I looked it up. From there, I researched on it and read the journal by this guy. For days, I contemplated whether or not to put myself through it and decided I'd do the diet to see how it was. Tomorrow will be the first full day of it, but I'll be following the steps from the link above and in similar fashion to the aforementioned blogger.

For those of you unfamiliar with the diet, you basically drink water with lemon, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper (1 gallon/day) for 10 days. Nothing else. It cleans out your system from all the bits of filth you ate during life and meanwhile, you lose weight (because you eat nothing else). I guess I'm doing it for both reasons.

Here are pictures of items I purchased (and have lying around) to prepare for this:
Everything but the lemons are from Whole Foods; the lemons are from Costco. It's probably a better idea to go organic with this. The kosher salt (unionized salt)and water in the morning 'flushes' the sytem in the morning and that box of 'Organic Smooth Move' is some Laxative Tea for the evenings.

I'll post this at the end of each entry as well:
weight: 269 (6'2'') @ 9/18 6pm