THE DETOX MENU

Hello!
I've gotten several emails and comments today all wanting to know exactly what detox Craig and I are doing. So, here it is: (This lasts for 9 days)
First, here are the things that you MUST eat everyday:
2 cups of brown rice
2 cups of low fat, skim, or soy milk
1 cup cooked oatmeal (Quaker oats of course...NOT the prepackaged stuff)
6 oz low fat plain yogurt
4 egg whites
2 cups herbal tea

-you may use any herbs and spices that you want
-you may eat as many fruits and vegetables as you want with the exception of white potatoes and avocados
-you need to eat 4-5 times per day

Here is what I have done, and it seems to be working pretty well.
I went to the grocery store and bought TONS of fresh veggies and fruit. When I got home I cut up most of the fruit, and made a HUGE fruit salad to keep handy in the fridge. I also diced up the veggies and put them in a bucket in the fridge as well. This way, we can munch on raw fresh veggies, OR I can just grab a handful of the mixed vegetables and stirfry them with a touch of olive oil.
I cooked a HUGE batch of brown rice, and stored that in the fridge so that I didn't have to cook the rice every day.
I get my oatmeal "over with" in the morning...(cause let me tell you that is the worst thing for me.....it is so BLAND! I have been adding cinnamon and blueberries to it, but it's still uugghhh!)
I also have my herbal tea in the morning.....if I wait until night time to drink tea, I am up all night in the bathroom!
I bought several cans of black beans, so for lunch and/or dinner, we have been eating sauteed veggies, with black beans and rice.
I am doing my egg whites whenever I have time to make them, and we have decided to eat our yogurt in the evening with fruit on top or blend my frozen fruit with the yogurt to make a smoothie out of it for our dessert.

So far so good.......I weighed myself yesterday morning and again this morning at the same time, and I lost one pound. Craig lost three!! (of course!! ugghhhh!)
We are not really doing this for the weight loss, but that's ALWAYS a bonus!!!!! We are trying to get our family to eat much more healthy, and in order to do that, we have to get our bodies ready for it! (with all the traveling this summer and no sense of schedule, we have been eating terribly, and it has to STOP!)
Please keep us in your prayers if you will, though we have done good without ANY cheating thus far, I realize that we are only on day two, and on day six or seven, I am just not sure how crazy I am going to be about black beans and rice!!!! ha!ha! Seriously.