Many full moons ago, I went on Paul Bragg's fasting program. It worked. Cellulite was a thing of the past, the pounds melted away and people thought I looked like Karen Carpenter. One of the chief elements of this program was a special Energy Pep Drink or Smoothie. It had lots of expensive peppy ingredients in it, foreign exotic things like Lecithin Granules and Raw Wheat Germ and Nutritional Yeast Flakes and Psyllium Husk Powder and much much more. I remember making it with pineapple juice, banana and seasonal fruit and honey and boy, was it yummy.

Well, because I have been feeling like a corpse, I've decided to go on this diet again. Because when I was on it before I literally felt like a teenager. Proof positive of that is that I could do Cindy Crawford's 43 minutes strenuous workout like it was a piece of cake. This was totally new territory for me. I lasted on the diet, fasting one day a week, for 6 months. My clothes were hanging off of me and I was told how unflattering the weight loss was (by someone who doesn't like me, ha, ha). Eventually, all the effort this program takes got the better of me. And here I am again, at my usual weight when in the midst of the diet I thought, I will NEVER gain weight again, impossible. Possible.

So, if you don't use these ingredients, eventually you have to throw them out, and that's a very sad day, it happened to me. But not this time, I have all fresh and I made my first smoothie today. It didn't turn out like before, it wasn't a nice pale pink or pale yellow color, depending on what you throw in the blender. This time I added Barley Grass Powder, which I don't exactly remember using a green good powder before. And I promise you, what with dates pulverized in there, and sunflower seeds, I ended up with a concoction that looked EXACTLY like thick green pea soup. I should know, I just had a can of Amy's Split Pea Soup the other night, after the birthday party, because I didn't want to indulge in birthday sausage balls swimming in decadently delicious gravy, having been having upset tummy and all.

Hope I can adjust my smoothie and get back the knack. I really don't relish the idea of downing a thick as pea soup, looks and tastes like pea soup, too, smoothie every day. My wonderful healthy smoothie was followed up by a spaghetti dinner with Texas Toast. This person who fixes spaghetti likes to put pepperoni in the sauce. But not tonight. Tomorrow and all week, smoothies and salads and bed time at 10 PM, so, see you later.

Ha, ha, I just did Spellcheck and I was typing "smoothie" as "smootie." I like that. Just like the other day CDW emailed me she was too "popped to poop."

Smootie KEM