Day 5

A.M Report:
Slept OK, but the cats woke me up a handful of times knocking things off of our night stands. Awesome. This a.m. brought a more... shall we say "fulfulling" restroom trip, but still nothing horriffic, painful or dramatic.

I know you totally came here to read about my poop. That's what you all really wanted to know about it. Just admit it.

Oh, and according to my scale this morning, I've lost about 3 lbs or so? Hard to tell without a digital scale.

**Afternoon edit***
The wheatberries have sprouted, so this morning I spent awhile trying to make fake bread. It's in the dehydrator now, so we'll see how it turns out. The "dough" tasted really onion-y.

Lunch was a big salad. I found myself pretty dang testy, but I don't know if that's just because of the huge amount of clutter we have right now with taking down the Christmas decor or if it's diet-related. Since it was the clutter that bothered me the most and I'm not having any cravings, I think the culprit may just be clutter. Or me.

**Evening Edit***
After lunch we did about an hour of gardening since the weather was so warm. We pulled out our entire huge mint patch (I'm sure the effing thing will STILL grow back, no matter how many roots we tried to tear out!) But after that I was exhausted, so I took a really long nap before our family volunteer night at Access Women & Children's homeless shelter.

I didn't really eat much for dinner. Kirk tried an avocado and olive tapanade type meal on lettuce leaves, but it was really not my style. I tried to eat a leftover nutloaf, but after eating it Friday night and all day Saturday I was not in the mood for it--and actually I wasn't very hungry. So I had a handful of dates and some almonds.

We did our volunteering at Access by painting 2 of the bedrooms there and held a Play Dough Bake-off contest with prizes. After that, Kris and his friend Jason held a jamboree. They played guitar and bongos and had a bunch of instruments for the kids and moms, so they all shook along. It was amusing.

Afterwards I had an orange and a big mug of tea--but this time I went with decaf chamomile!