The Joanal

The first in the lot of paintings I’ve been working on for my aunt’s restaurant is now complete and sitting ‘in the studio’ for you to see. Feedback welcome.

Well, so much for that battle! Looks like I lost the war. I woke up this morning and was so hungry for solid food that I decided to end this cleanse. Whatever willpower I had in the past to carry out this feat no longer exist. I want food! I love food! I will have [...]

Oh man! Doing this cleanse is so difficult this time around. I was starving! So much so that I cooked a pot of rice mixed with veggies. Wuffed about half of that down with the balance of the popcorn from last night. Oh my gosh! I can’t believe how hard this is. I don’t think [...]

Well, it looks as if my self-fullfilled prophecy became a reality after all. As I had imagined my night at the movies turned into a dive into a large bag of buttered popcorn. Umph! I’m so mad at myself. . .well, not really. I must admit, I enjoyed every morsel of what was once a [...]

Wow! Day 4. Today presented some of the most challenging temptations. Everywhere I went I saw food I wanted to have. Right now, my mouth is watering for buttered popcorn. I’m suppose to be going to movies tonight and all I can think about is buying a huge bag of popcorn when I get there. [...]

An uneventful day today. Urinating more often than usual such as getting up in middle of night and going more than once throughout the day. Not as many stomach pain as yesterday but the cravings are still noticable. Had a few errands today so that distracted me from most of the hunger pangs. Drank all [...]

I’m starting to see now, again, that this is not going to be easy. Suffering from cravings and withdrawals. I could eat a whole bucket of chicken right now. My stomach pangs hasn’t stopped. They come and go and are quite uncomfortable. I’ve had maybe four cups of the lemonade so far as I’ve only [...]

Half way through to day 2 of the cleanse and surprisingly, I’m not feeling very hungry. I haven’t drank any of the cleanser yet as I just woke up and I have to drink the tea first. Experiencing, however, slight headache and some stomach pangs. I can feel my belly churning like crazy at times. [...]

Spent quite a bit of time this morning making a batch of the lemonade drink to store in fridge so I don’t have to make it all the time. I made enough to fill a large jar. Prior, I had made sure there is next to no food in the house (forgot about the apple [...]

This is my first post and, wouldn’t you know it, I’m starting with my cleanse. For the third time in as many years I have decided to go through the “Lemonade Cleanse” in an attempt to get healthy and out of this depression I have found myself in for too long.
This is a very [...]