8/3...DAY 12, 10:15am

ok, so i drank my OJ all day and on my way home in the car i was seriously shaking and about to pass out...which is cool if youre doing 75 on the ocean pkwy. so i called antha and asked her to heat up some broth, boil some brown rice and cut up some veggies cause it was now time to test the waters. i could wait no longer, the OJ was not going to get me through the rest of the day into this morning.


my soup looked and smelled awesome... antha took a picture of the first spooonful, for posterity...



so i had one bowl of soup, about 2 cups and 2 rye crackers. it felt so good to chew, it was better than i could have imagined. after dinner we went for a long walk down around the marina, came home and put the boy to bed. woke up this morning and the "plumbing" seems to be working fine...i'm back to my old routine with no problem. had a rye cracker with a little organic peanut butter on it (pretty much smushed up unsalted peanuts in a jar for $7... but its been in the fridge for months now cause its so bland) and now im about to have some cantoloupe, honeydew and pineapple. i brought veggie soup for lunch and i made up a container of it to bring to my brothers house tonight. thank god i dont need to suffer through another BBQ with no food.... it feels good to get back to "normal" living. now i just need to maintain some of the willpower i proved to myself that i actually have. i think beer can be classified as a vegetable, no?