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Oprah Winfrey has completed her 21-day vegan detox.

“I want some wine. Bordeaux 82. Just one glass at sunset, almost broke down and had a glass. I didn’t,” Winfrey wrote on her blog Sunday. “[But] tomorrow is another day. That’s my mantra for now.”

Instead of caving in to her craving – Winfrey stuck to the plan.

“Main meal was a large baked potato with sautéed onions, herbs and olive oil. And fresh green salad with avocado and tomato, lemon, garlic and olive oil,” Winfrey wrote.

Inspired by Kathy Freston’s book Quantum Wellness, Winfrey kicked off her 21-day cleanse in May.

Her menu — created by Freston’s own chef Tal Ronnen — featured food like tofu scramble roasted tomato, grilled onion and sweet garlic aioli quesadillas with jicama slaw.

The daytime diva, 54, kept an online journal of the entire dieting process.

“This has been exactly what we intended: enlightening. I will forever be a more cautious and conscious eater. That’s my commitment for now. To stay awakened,” Winfrey wrote on Sunday.

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Oprah Winfrey plans to dedicate a show investigating abuses at puppy mills to her cocker spaniel, Sophie, who died last month from kidney failure.

“Sophie gave me 13 years of unconditional love. She was a true love in my life,” Winfrey says on the broadcast scheduled to air Friday. (Advance remarks from the show were released Tuesday by Harpo Productions.)

The show features special correspondent Lisa Ling investigating puppy mills, which Ling calls “horrific” and “haunting.”

Winfrey says the show is “for anybody anywhere who loves a dog, has ever loved a dog, or just cares about their basic right to humane treatment.”

While Sophie was not a product of a puppy mill, and Winfrey’s three current dogs were adopted from breeders, Winfrey says in the future she would look to adopt from an animal shelter.

“I would never, ever adopt another pet now without going to a shelter to do it. I am a changed woman after seeing this show,” she says.

Oprah Winfrey’s 13-year-old Cocker Spaniel, Sophie, has passed away of kidney failure.

“Everyone here is really sad,” a source at her Harpo production company told Celebrity Dog Watcher. “Sophie was truly part of the Harpo family as well as Oprah’s.”

In the December issue of O, Winfrey wrote about Sophie’s condition, saying that she and beau Stedman Graham were “preparing for the inevitable.”

The two have another Cocker Spaniel, Solomon.

Less than a year ago, they lost their beloved Golden Retriever, Gracie, who chocked on a ball.

Gracie “did more living in two years than most dogs do in 12,” Winfrey wrote of the dog’s death last year. “This dog lived every moment as though it were her last.

“Her life was a gift to me,” she added. “Her death, a greater one.”

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