Count me in!
and Stewart...you will do great because you have the advantage of being a MAN!  You guys seem to loose so much more that we do.  (Maybe that's just an excuse invented by women thru the years?)

I am going to continue my daily coffee because I can' stand the headache.  I'm afraid if I give it up, I will give up the eating plan as well!

I was thinking of omitting the banana day but now I think there must be something to it or it wouldn't be included in every single version of this plan right  Who am I to try to invent my own diet! 

What are your feelings about substituting fish or poultry for the beef?  Now I'm afraid to make any changes, but I guess if any of us do things a bit differently, the results will show us what worked and what didn't and we can learn from each other.

RIGHT ON BROTHER!

What about the unsweetened cranberry juice?  If you're going by the book then I guess it's imperative but it's very hard to find.  It wasn't until recently that Ocean Spray came out with a "No Sugar" C.J. but it has a very high calorie content.  I wonder if it's chemically neccessary or just a bonus. When the first book was written there was  no such thing, it seemed all the juices on the market were laiden with sugar.   I had read earlier that a few folks didn't include the juice and did fine so I haven't either.  Today I can have it so I wonder if I should run out and get some?

I had done the "Cabbage Soup" years ago but never the 7 day plan on this site.  But I have the book  in front of me where I first got the soup recipe and it's called "ORIENTAL Seven Day Quick Weight-off DIET" by Norvell and it was published in 1975!  Now the diet is different, he includes a 2 day fast and lots of brown rice, but he soup is basically the same but without the Lipton dry soup mix, and he calls it "The Reducing Soup".   The negative calorie foods are also listed.  Anyway the concept seems to have been around for years and seems that different people have tweaked it to fit more appropriately in their lifestyle.  Gee, I used to fast back in the 70's and there is no way I could do it again! 

Enough of my babble.   So Monday is a go!  Darn...I best go out for juice now!

I have to say I have never drunk cranberry juice on this diet! The only juice I've drunk is freshly squeezed orange juice.

Yes Omgirlie we do have Trader Joes here, love it, but Idon't feel like trucking all the way over there today, maybe I will go without and see and perhaps do it next time.  I do have a juicer and could buy fresh ones (frozen at this time of year) and add splenda and water and Voila!  But is it really worth it? I think not, I will go without it.

Wow Sally, good idea about the Orange juice.  I have an orange, and a grapefruit, lemon and lime tree in my back yard but unfortunately they don't bear fruit until around November!  I am an addict to my freshly squeezed ruby red grapefruit juice every winter!  It is so sweet, unlike normal store bought grapefruit, and VERY good with Vodka!  Ha, he, there I go again...making you 'yearn' for libations!   I'm baaaaaad!

Yea Stew, I'l go without it as well.

See Sally here we are "dating" ourselves again! Ha!  I'm talking about buying some book in the 70's and you're remember some gentleman's column in the 80's!  Do you realize that most of our posting pals weren't even born yet!  OUCH!

Yes, I LOVE the trees!  That's the first thing we did when we bought this house.  We planted a Lime, Orange, Grapefruit, Lemon, Almond, and Pecan tree.  My huband is a firm believer in planting something not only for it's beauty, but to get something else from it as well.  When we want a cocktail with fresh lime, just step out the door and pick a dozen or so limes!   When we grill fish, just walk across the back yard and grab some lemons!  We used to have vegetable gardens as well but it is so hot here and it is so much work that I gave up a couple of years ago!  The caterpillers and bugs kept eating our plants and it made me CRAZY!  and the darn birds would take one nibble out of each and every tomato and ruin them!   Maybe I will try again next year!  I do want to start another herb arden though!  Nothing like fresh herbs in your cooking!

I have found a cranberry juice that says no sugar added from Walmart (walmart brand, Sams club, I believe).  That is what I drink on the CSD diet.  Cranberry juice is not one of my favorite drinks, but I do drink it mainly to give me a "full feeling" and also I believe it helps with the urinary tract area (I hope I'm not mistating that), but anyways...something I do when I don't want to drink it staight is mix it together with my orange juice.  It does taste really good.  Just thought I'd add that it.  Good luck everyone starting on the 14th.  You've all done really well, so you'll get through another week of it.  Take care.

Isn't it always gonna have a sugar content because of the natural sugar occuring in fruit?  The one I get is made just from cranberry,grape,apple concentrate, that's what boggles me is if its 100% cranberry juice (that's what it says) why is there grape and apple in it?????  Oh well....

I will not drink cranberry juice so i take a cranberry pill LOL!. It takes the gross out of the drink. I buy apple juice for my juice. I dont like any other kind of juice. Is that an ok drink ? and as for the switching poultry or fish for beef its going to have to be switched for me because i havent had beef since my surgery because it makes me sick. Oh well. i dont think in my case it will screw with the diet.

Hey barb. I beleive it gives the same benifits because what cranberry juice does is cleancs your urinary tract. and the cranberry pill has all the essentials in helping with that. It is specially designed for urinary tract health. says so right on the bottle. 

yea it is so much easier that the juice. I jusst cant stand the stuff.

Should we post the topic now? or wait till monday?

though i would really like to know what i could sub for hotdogs and cheese...On another note. I dont think i can spell any more and i keep trying to spell cheese like this - cheeze lol