Kick starting things

I suspect the reason why people lose weight on this diet is because of the vast amount of time spent chopping and peeling the ingredients. A kilo of carrots, a bunch of spring onions, a couple of capsicum... and already I've gone off program because the recipe specified green and I went for the (tastier, less expensive) red ones instead, and threw in a couple of cloves of garlic. Oh dear, it's all over!
So I had my first bowl of kick start soup at 2AM - it was surprisingly nice, but I suspect I'll be reconsidering that in a couple of days. For now, though, it's all good and I'm feeling quite virtuous.
I've flipped days one and two, starting with soup and vegetables; tomorrow's soup and fruit (because I'm going out for breakfast after work and fruit salad will be on the menu at 8AM, unlike steamed vegies). Monday is soup plus fruit plus vegies (be still my heart), Tuesday is non-chews day, with soup and banana smoothies. On Wednesday I get to add "six luscious tomatoes" (why six? No idea) and beef, plus soup, with beef (or chicken, or tofu) and vegies on Thursday. And on Friday I get brown rice, vegies, fruit juice and the note "you might need more soup today."
So my vegies when I got home where a bunch of steamed asparagus and a handful of snow peas with a little butter and olive oil. Of course, had I been a little more careful with the reading I'd have realised I could reward myself (their words) with a jacket potato topped with butter or yoghurt. Silly me, I was paying attention to day three, when I can eat all I want but no potatoes. Why? No idea - it must be magic.
Fruit day (the official day one and my day two) allows as much fruit as I like, except bananas. This is a little perplexing, because day three (soup, fruit and vegies) says nothing about bananas, and day four I can have up to three large bananas in my smoothies as they're a great source of potassium. But not on day one?
If I have hypoglycemic symptoms (headache, anxiety, drowsiness) I can have up to one sandwich of wholegrain with cheese and ham, but no butter or margarine. Butter's okay with a jacket potato but evil with a wholegrain apparently. Why? No idea - diety magic again.
All of this is, of course, key - mystery and a thin veneer of science, and ignore the discrepancies. And yet here I am, doing it anyway. So I'm off for a little more soup before bed. My cunning plan is weighing in when I get up, a return to the working out for the first time in quite a bit, and a yummy breakfast of soup and maybe a jacket potato (if I'm up to a supermarket trip before work).
Watch this spot. - Alex