I wasn’t able to weigh myself on the same scale while on the road trip so I am merging the recap of these two days into one entry.

Thursday, I was true to the program starting the day with a delicious green juice that I made at home before I left.  I had a handful of nuts mid day, and then we were off to VIP reception at the 2012 Empire State Games.  The food options at the reception were not friendly for rebooters, however I did find an antipasti with some numbs, artichokes, salad, and a red pepper bruschetta which I ate without the bread.  So I was pleased that I made it through mostly unscathed.  I did have a couple of glasses of wine and a bourbon / bear cocktail, so a few more calories than I wôuld have liked, but overall a success.

In addition, I started my workout initiative Thursday am, a couple of days ahead of schedule.  20 minutes walk/run on the treadmill, and 10 minutes on the elliptical machine.

Friday, I had part of a tomatoe, celery cucumber juice that I made a few days before, but it didn’t taste great.  I think that saving these juices more than a day isn’t a good idea because they are natural and have no preservatives.   So as a substitute, I picked up a Naked Green juice and a KIND bar from Starbucks.  Outside of water and a new SOBE coconut water product that I wanted to try, I had nothing else but water until I got home.

Once home I had a large spinach salad with fresh vegetables, white beans and sautéed shrimp.  Delicious.   It’s amazing home good a salad can taste and also home  full it can make you.

For Saturdays recap, I will be back with another weight check.  I would not be suprised if it shows no weight loss or a little gain, due to the over aggressive weight loss that I experienced the first 10 days.

Another good day.  Lost another pound this am.  Took the road trip to lake placid and had an awesome fruit juice in the am, and green juice for a late lunch.  A handful of sunflower seeds on the drive to keep me sane.

For dinner it was a beet salad and an incredible mushroom soup with tofu and beans.

I decided to introduce one glass of white wine with dinner and one glass of red wine after dinner to see how that goes.

Morning weight loss 1lb.  Total weight loss 14lbs.

Feeling much more alert and energetic now as my body is getting used to this routine.  The strange thing is I am not hungry really at all.  In the event I start to get hunger grumbles, I slug a bunch of water and it goes away.  It has occurred to me that using the juices, and drinking them slower throughout a longer period of time and lots of water in between almost completely eliminates the desire to eat.  I have even been around folks eating delicious looking food, that smells great, and have not had the urge to dive in at all.

It is possible that the above is more about the mind control knowing that I am on a mission to complete my goal, but I think that internally my body is actually satisfied that it has what it needs from the supercharge of micronutrients.  I’m sure there is a lot to this that the mind is responsible for, but hey, it’s good to know will power is still there.

I also think that this is a good exercise in self discipline.   On Tuesday, a friend of mine offered to open a bottle of Chateau St. Jean Cinque Cepages.  Very tempted, but I politely took a rain check and explained my reboot.  He was very impressed and instead of insulting him by saying no thanks, I believe I impressed him with my dedication to cause.

The next three days will be the big challenge – road trip to Lake Placid for meetings and a VIP reception kicking of the 2012 Winter Empire State Games.  Being on the road and in hotel living situations should be interesting.  My plan is to pre-juice and my juice pack in a cooler, and stay the course juicing all day, and having a salad for dinner since I will be with people.

Tuesday I started the day with a banana, some Acai superfood juice.   For lunch I had a tomato, celery, cucumber, spinach, broccoli, carrot juice and I added a dash of Tabasco to kick it up a bit.  May have been the best one yet!

Morining weight loss 1lb.  Total weight loss 13lbs.

Monday was the start of a week 2.  Definitely a different mindset going into week 2.  Clearly this is doable, and I actually feel different already.  Lighter on my feet, walking faster, and amazingly, not hungry.  The mind is powerful and can outperform the stomach.

This day started with a beet, carrot, orange juice.  Later in the day, I was running so I grabbed an Acai super juice from hannaford, and kept running.  A salad for dinner.

Morning weight loss was 1lb.  Total loss 12lbs

Was disappointed to wakeup to zero weight loss this day.  At first I though that perhaps the been soup from the night before was the problem, but then when I reflect on the quantities of food I would eat prior to starting the reboot, and still not gain weight, it occurred to me, that this really must be a natural plateau.  Clearly 1 bean soup could not be enough to kill the momentum.  Must perserveer!

So for day 7, I started the day with a carrot juice, and mid day and evening had a great mixture of celery, apples, pear, broccoli, kale, Swiss chard, ginger root, carrot cucumber.  I have to say, I am really starting to enjoy these green juices.

And other than my cold, I’m really good.  It’s amazing, I can already tell my clothes are fitting different, just as Joe Cross said in the documentary.

Day 7 weight loss – 0lbs.  Total weight loss 11lbs.

Saturday was day 6.  Woke up with a headache again, but now I figured out that this is because I have a little head cold, post nasal drip all night.  Once my head drained by 9am after a decaf tea, I felt much better.  Breakfast was fun today because, my son got a kick out of making juice.  My daughter had fun with it the first day we got the juicer, but this was my sons first try (with out his older sister on his case!).  He picked cataloup and mango, so we juiced away and it was great.

Lots of running on Saturday between kids basketball and work but I managed to stick to just water throughout the day to curb hunger, and then around 3:30pm, made a fresh carrot juice.   I have to say that the carrot juice is probably my favorite so far.

For dinner, I decided to take the kids out.  They wanted to go to Cantina in Saratoga.   One of our favorites.  My dinner, bowl of the black been soup and a house salad with club soda with a splash of cranberry juice.  It was amazingly good inspire of the fact that I usually have margarheritas, habenero shrimp burrito, and a corona or two.  The kids had beef tacos, and I took them to Plum Dandy, so everyone was happy!

Morning weight day 6 – lost 1lb, total loss 11lbs.  (don’t know of momentum is slipping or that is my body getting used to the routine)

Day 5 was another successful day.  Felt the best today out of every day so far!  Had a tomato, celery, lime, carrot juice in the morning, a salad with oil and vinegar (no croutons, cheese, egg or meat) from Salad Creations in Clifton park.  That place is pretty good.  Highly recommend it.  Dinner was kale, carrot, green apple, Swiss chard, tomato, cucumber juice.  Again, lots of water.  Feeling good.

Morning weight loss was 2lbs.  Total weight loss 10lbs.

FYI -Friday nights are tough with no weekending bourbon.  But all is good.

Today, I woke up and the headache was back, not as bad, but certainly annoying.  This day was going to be tough because I had to go to a Saratoga Chamber networking event with 400 people who are drinking and eating all night.  Of course no eating and drinking for me!  I solicited support from my Facebook friends and my real ones to and made it through in grand fashion.

Drank fresh juices from my new juicer all day, then at the event drank club soda with a splash of lime and had a salad.   Got home and was tired but felt good.

Morning day 4 weight check, lost 2lbs, total loss of 8lbs.