Day 5 and worst night ever!

Ok, it all started on Day 4.  I was getting over my sugar cravings for the most part, but I was starting to get some physical symptoms that were very strange.  I was really tired, and I kept getting major episodes of vertigo.  It felt like my head was going to float away and/or I was going to pass out.  I was jittery and shaky, and just felt really cruddy.  By the end of the day I had to just go to bed (hubby made dinner for the kids...I could hardly stand).  Long story short, I kept having these symptoms in overdrive all night long and I could not sleep at all!  I was trying not to freak out, but the physical symptoms were making me crazy!  Around 3 am I couldn't stand it anymore, I thought my blood sugar must be at some all time low and I had to get something substantial to eat!  I made me a bowl of homemade oatmeal with just a touch of stevia (boy it tasted good) and it helped me be able to fall asleep by 4 and give me at least a few hours before I had to get up with the kids and bring them to school.  So I emailed Steve! about what happened, basically freaking out

and he 

sent me 

this:

 
I need to walk you through this, and I need you not to panic.  It will pass.  Actually, you are detoxing, BIG TIME .  But you will get through it.  A sugar detox is like a drug detox, especially when it is an addiction.  Don't give up!   I would like you to come in so that I can show you some breathing and relaxing exercises you can do.   It would be better if you do not give in to cereals because they are refined carbs.  You are eating carbs when you eat fruits and vegetables.  They are all carbs, and the fruits are sugar.

You made it through a bit already!  Let your body know you mean business! 

We will work together.

 

Awww, isn't he sweet???  He had me come in and we talked about meditating and calming techniques, and 

he's

letting

me

have 

prunes!

Ok, really, who'd have ever thought I would be excited to eat prunes?  But hey, I NEED more snacky foods, or I'll   

DIE.  Ok, probably not die, but be very, very, unhappy.   

 

Ok done with the talking, onto the food!  

 

Breakfast: Chicken sausage and strawberries

Snack: Banana with a touch of almond butter

Lunch: Chicken Avocado Grape Salad and Repairvite smoothie--coconut milk, frozen berries, repairvite

Dinner: Butternut squash, Chicken, Kale, and onion Hash

                It's pretty much what's in the name, I just threw a bag of frozen cut up butternut squash in a pan with onions and coconut oil, and stirfried until the squash was cooked through and added some shredded chicken, kale, and sea salt and pepper.  (This tasted...ok)  :)

 Night Snack: Apple cut up sprinkled with cinnamon (on this diet, this tastes just as good as apple pie)

 

~I'm hoping to try some homemade salad dressings later this week and some fish (not a fish gal); I bought some individual packages of salmon, tilapia, and some other whitefish I forgot the name of.