first off, i neglected to mention my intended duration for the cleanse in my initial post. i was thinking 7 days would be good. upon further reading of Burroughs' book, however, i've upped it to 8. if all feels good then, i'll continue to the full 10 days. a few days after that i'll be heading out of town for a few months at which point the cleanse immediately becomes impractical. on the upside, if i can start a reduced diet, there'll be very little food to bring!
the latesti said i'd follow up later and indeed it's later - much later! i should be sleeping, but, well, i'm not.
i'll share my meal info, 'cause the food stops today anyway! i read somewhere i should be on all liquids for the day before. after i got to work in new rochelle this morning, i had an opportunity for a lo
ng break and walked down the street to the health food place, revealedfood.comthe sweet lady there made me a juice mix of greens while we chatted about the master cleanse. the juice was surprisingly enough to hold me over for hours. instead of my usual mid-morning caffeine break- i call it caffeine o'clock- i had herbal tea as a placebo. it, Twinings Herbal Revive, tastes wonderful*.
i was trying to make serious headway on the piece i was working on so i put off lunch about as long as i could - 3pm. i went back to Revealed for some freshly made vegetable soup. it wasn't completely liquid, as i ate all of the veggies within. there was also a meatball, which certainly seemed to be actual meat. i was (and still am) disturbed about that, and will ask the next time i drop in. they do serve some dishes with meat, but i'm clinging to my hopes that they wouldn't have put a meatball in vegetable soup!!
later on...
after work, i headed up to Trader Joe's, getting quite lost in scarsdale (this happens weekly). there i got oj for the post-cleanse experience, organic soup to make for dinner tonight, and picked out assortments of raw nuts and fruits. i think i am going to go for the raw vegan diet coming out of the cleanse. as i mentioned previously, i'm not sure if it will work with my lifestyle. however, how else will i know unless i try it?
i was famished on the drive home, and invaded a package of Bear Naked granola i had in the car. good stuff, if extremely messy to eat while driving! i arrived home around 9, exhausted but without set plans so decided i should hit the gym while i have the chance. came home, heated & ate the soup, prepared containers of filtered water and paraphernalia for the cleanse, made and drank the tea. i suspect it gave me an energy boost, as i was talking a mile a minute on the phone with my friend amanda. either that or overtired-ness came into play. ya think?
stay tuned- there'll be more tomorrow during the official day 1.
random notes: big teas
*there's another excellent Twinings tea i recommend, which is their Pure Camomile. as intended, it's quite relaxing.
i hereby give props to my friend julian (his blog, becoming the baker) for introducing me to Rooibos tea - Madagascar Vanilla Red. as good as it sounds, it's actually better! Celestial Seasonings pleasantly surprised me with this one.
if ever you want to drink tea that tastes like a sweaty sock smells, try Twinings' Lapsang Souchong. i don't know why anyone would want to drink this stuff, but who knows! i bought a box based on the description of the flavor and promptly donated it to the office at work. it functions far better as a joke than something one might consider consuming!
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