Wow, I’ve never been through that, having lymph nodes removed. Do you have any nodes left in your neck or does that mean they took them all out?

I’d suggest you read the whole book – it’s very very interesting and Harvey even wrote about Jackie Kennedy’s experience with cancer and how he thought it would have been different if she’d taken different actions.

I’ve done the mono dieting twice now – I just finished 4 days of eating only fresh fruits and veggies. I did lose 4 lbs but that wasn’t my purpose, I wanted to do a detox.

I personally wouldn’t want to be a vegetarian, I do much better with regular protein, but Harvey Diamond continued eating like this for a few months solid and lost a lot of weight.

I’m going to write an update post about my experience tomorrow – something else happened during my mono diet the last 4 days that was very very cool.

I did respond over there, but I wanted to say here that I too, at first, thought that the weight loss was water weight, until I kept doing it and barely over three months later I’d lost nearly 40 pounds, when the other four days a week I was eating whatever I wanted.

Now, I’m not saying it was the healthiest thing to do, because I was counteracting against the health benefits of eating only fruits and veggies by eating things that were bad for my body the rest of the week – and that was just not good – but rather than counting calories and restricting myself for 7 days a week, 3 days of eating as much fruit and veggies as I wanted (I didn’t restrict amounts on that either, like you) and the remaining 4 days of “conscious eating” I think will be the best thing for me.

I’m so interested in this experiment you’re doing though – when I was 15, I had to have 3 lymph nodes removed from my neck because they’d gotten infected. I’ve always worried that it would come back, even 16 years later, and now I too am hoping that this really works, because I’ll be killing several birds with one stone!

Lara’s last blog post..Wine is good for you – and it can make for pretty room decor!