Day 5 of the "detox cleanse fast" torture.  Still really want a steak, but feeling better.  My stomach must be shrinking because I can eat very little now and feel full.  I can say that starving sucks.  It's hard to focus and you feel weak.  This may be compounded by the fact that the temperature in Seattle has reached record setting highs.  I feel for those people on the commercials where they ask you for adollar a day and show the really skinny kid.  It sucks to be that kid.

That said, I did have the energy to ride my bike to work today.  At this point its mostly the nights that suck because we eat a small dinner of some cucumber and avocado or the like at about 7:00pm and then can't eat anything after that.  It's 10:30pm right now and I would really enjoy a snack.  Like a two pound ribeye steak snack.

That said, we did find a loop hole: quinoa.  You see, we are not allowed to have grains, but quinoa is technically not a grain.  I realize that we are really only cheating ourselves and all that crap but frankly, I don't care.  When I heard that news it was like I found money.  Needless to say, lunch today was quinoa with dried fruit.  Heaven.  I never thought I would consider such a dish heaven but I also never thought I would be starving myself on purpose. 

So there, you have it.  I've resorted to deceiving myself with technicalities and quinoa with dried fruit.  Stay tuned to see if I make it and, in 5 days, I start the Retox Diet: because every cloud has a silver lining and this cloud is lined with beer, bacon, and beef.