Dates and bananas. wow...

I'm feeling a little overwhelmed by the date and banana smoothie I just consumed - I had 16 dates total - ate 8 of them alone, and then consumed 8 of them and 8 bananas with water blended. It's overwhelmingly sweet and overwhelmingly high in calories. About 2000 calories all by itself right there. I might skip a salad tonight, because I'm feeling so full from this beverage. And I didn't even finish it, I still have half a liter left..
I might put it away and finish it up tomorrow, and finish up the left over salad from last night, maybe.. Or I might just call it quits for eating for the day. I'm told on this diet I can eat however much calories from fruit that I care for.. that I don't need to limit my calories. But then I read about other women on the diet only consuming 1800-2000 calories per day. I feel like I wouldn't be able to fill up on that many calories from just fruits and veggies. But I don't know. I guess I just have to experiment a bit and see what works for me. I can say right now my cravings have definitely decreased to a minimum. I am still thinking about pizza but it's pretty far out there now.

I ran 3 miles in 33 minutes earlier today without too much difficulty. I'm wondering if it's a placebo effect or if I really do feel a difference already.. I do know this, whether it's due to the fruit or not, I've had so much energy today and yesterday. Honestly I could have kept running. I was getting pretty winded when I hit 3 miles but I definitely felt like I could have run maybe another 1/2 lap or so. I downloaded a running app thing and  now I can log how many miles I've gone, which is good. I still had no idea how many miles one lap was at Carrier Park, and now I know, it's a little over 1.3 miles. Good to know..  I am excited to see what tomorrow brings with my run. Maybe I can try for 4 miles. It's been so long since I've run that far.
I watched a ton of videos today and continue to feel inspired. For the moment I am not going to worry about the scales and weighing myself, I am worrying about my energy levels and how it effects my exercising. This afternoon felt great.
My stomach feels fine at the moment but (again sorry for TMI) I am still pretty gassy. Also noticed a lot of mucus coming up today. I tend to notice that the more fruit I eat the more mucus that emerges. I feel like the fruits are trying to cleanse out the gunk in my system, I can't imagine the fruit being the cause of that. That just doesn't really make sense to me. But I don't know for sure.

So to sum it up:
Today's Diet:
Breakfast - 2 liters of citrus (I think I will keep it to 1-1.5 liters from now on, 2 liters felt overwhelming to me this morning, though I did have so much energy when I ran in the afternoon...)

Lunch/Dinner: 8 dates by themselves;
8 date/8 banana smoothie

Exercise: 33 min run/3 miles

Water : 2.5 liters

That's all I've really eaten today honestly.. I may or may not add the rest of the salad from last night, it would probably make me feel better to have some amount of greens in there. But I am so full right now that I can't really think about it..
Now time for a hot shower. :-)