The End?

Well that's it. First, I'll report on my final day, and then I'll report on the overall Perricone program.
Let's start with Friday, 28 days later I am still excited to be eating bacon for breakfast. I had pretty much cut regular bacon out of my diet before going on the Perricone diet, but turkey bacon tastes better than I remember regular bacon tasting!
Lunch, I ate out knowing that I could get a chicken caesar salad anywhere (but I ate my cantaloupe wedge before I went out).
I went for a long walk after lunch, then had my yogurt smoothie with strawberries and acai berry juice mixed in. Both my walk and my smoothie were cold but refreshing.
Dinner was the chicken walnut salad w/ white beans and artichokes, which was delicious. Instead of eating my pear separately, I dice one up and added it to the salad (That was a nice twist, thank you).
So, here I am, right before bedtime, snacking on about a slice and a half of turkey breast with 3 olives & 3 cherry tomatoes. I cut the turkey breast into about 3 half slices and roll them up, so that with the olives and tomatoes I feel like I'm having a small anti-pasto platter. I'm totally going to start serving this after dinner when I have guests and they will never know that I am eating part of a diet (except I'll tell them!). This combination would go great with a glass of shiraz, but I am off wine until after the diet (tomorrow is after the diet!).
Anyway, the last day was pretty much business as usual, with me feeling full and energetic (thanks, PEP!!!) all day.
I have not planned my meals out for tomorrow, but I am sure I will eat some variation of what I've been eating for the last four weeks. Why wouldn't I stick to this lifestyle? I've lost at least 14 lbs, I'm never hungry, and everybody tells me I look younger! It's true, I've been accused of getting Botox injections, having a facelift, going tanning, and having a lot of sex recently, all of which (unfortunately for the last) are untrue.
Well, I expect to stick to this program for a while, as I am addicted to how good I feel. It will be interesting to see how much effect it has on me now that I am actually taking the PEP food! I mean, I won't go day-by-day anymore, but I will amost always eat meals from the diet and stick to the superfoods. Exercise is not going away either - that's addicting, too! The only hard parts will eating out while on vacation, and at the club where they always have the tastiest rich foods. Maybe I'll cheat a little bit here and there - never say never, but I'll be good.
You be good too; just knowing that you might have been reading this has helped me tremendously, whoever you are. Knowing that I had to type what I ate each day and what I did really helped me stick to this. It would have been a totally guilty feeling if I had to write that I completely blew the diet one day or a few days. Thank God I was able to stick to it just to avoid the embarrassment.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT DURING MY 28 DAY DIET!!!!

And a special thank you to Dr. Perricone, without whom I wouldn't have anything to write about on my blog! Dr. Perricone, you made a tremendous difference in my life in less than one month and I can't say how much I appreciate that! Thank you!!!