The magic of gazpacho is great. I lost an entire pound! Hit a weight I haven't seen in many moons. I shall heretofore proselytize at length on the greatness of the alkaline diet.

I'm not sure I've ever HAD gazpacho. Alicia served it last night at her Stampin' Up! cardmaking class. I had THREE small bowls. Pure veggies. When I went to leave, I had CRAVING. First it was coffee, because I've been doing only 1 cup a day for the past few days and I had just picked up a new box on my way over. I saw the box and wanted COFFEE. Then I got to Kroger to fill up the truck and started thinking GIANT LARD-FILLED CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES ...I almost went in the store for cookies. My whole body was one giant craving, I just WANTED. I got home and laughed about it with Fransie, then went upstairs and made an iced mocha latte...at 9:00 pm. It was a risk, but I had to kill the craving. It worked. I even got to sleep. But before I slept, I was feeling the most amazing GOODNESS. (that kind of sounds like a Joshilyn Jackson sentence, doesn't it?) I was practically buzzing with positive energy. I really wanted to get up and paint, but had things to do the next day so that wasn't practical.

Do you know how long its been since I felt ANY positive energy? I feel like I can DO things again. I wish I could give all the credit to the coffee, but I have to say it's the power of the veggies. I didn't really believe it when I read it, but WOW. The proof is in the pudding....or the juice.