Jillian Michaels Cleanse / Detox / De-Bloat Drink Notes

Yesterday I poured 20oz of the concoction and sipped nervously throughout the day, my mind echoing with the myths/scares found on the internet when you Google about drinking distilled water.
Today I put my mind at ease by referring to the respected Dr. Andrew Weil and his sound wisdom about distilled water:
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART00581/water-an-essential-part-of-life.html

Anyways, here's how I made it today:

1. Boiled some distilled water in a kettle (like a cup and a half or so--no need to measure, just enough to steep the bag in and not stress out your kettle's heating element with too little water), steeped the Dandelion root tea bag for an hour or so.
2. Got my 50oz pitcher (dollar store) and poured the steeped tea in, added 3 tbsps lemon juice (from concentrate--one of those plastic lemon-shaped juice bottles you buy in the fruit section), added  1 tbsp sugar-free (sucralose) cranberry juice (bought in the juice aisle). Mixed it up.
3. Poured out a third of the mix into my water container and started on it.

It kind of tastes like unsweetened, super-weak tea.

Pre-Michigan Classic West Coast Swing dance event

I'm one week out from The Michigan Classic and I resolved last Friday to give up on the calorie counting for the time being and as of June 2nd will be returning to my Dr.Bernstein plan for no more than 3 months. I see it as a mental health issue at this point, and I know it works...so I'm regaining myself in time for the Toronto Open Swing Hustle Championship in July.

In the meantime, I am going to try the Jillian Michaels diuretic drink featured at:
http://makemebeautifulblog.blogspot.ca/2007/12/jillian-michaels-cranberry-drink-recipe.html

It's actually featured elsewhere (ie: youtube), but I just grabbed this link because it has some chat responses which are helpful.

I have my period as of yesterday, so my whole digestive system is thrown entirely out of whack, which was made worse by sitting in a car for about 6 hours while having snack foods for sustenance on the drive back home from North Bay. I have to say, this period was prefaced by the *worst* bout of PMS I've had in a while---it was very depressive! Until I decided to take a Tylenol Menstrual every day which made a GIANT difference.

I have my sugar-free Cranberry juice, my many jugs of distilled water and my dandelion root tea bags bought at a local health/supplement store. I totally missed getting the lemon juice, so I will add that tomorrow.

It should be noted that from what I've read, distilled water is not something you should drink regularly. If you google it, make sure you also read the sites that debunk the most damning site that pops up right away in the search results.