Tuesday, November 4, 2008

detoxablog days six and seven

Day six: really, really want a piece of pizza, even though you're not supposed to eat cheese at all, and especially not on super-restrictive cleanse diet. Eat it when your roommate orders it.

Crave salt all day and actually wonder if you're feeling a little off because you've had absolutely no sodium for days. Eat 1/8 of a teaspoon to see.

Stop peeing so much. Notice your hands and lips have stopped cracking from dryness.

Day seven: run out of time to cook anything at all, which is fine, because you're negotiating a contract anyway. Take your last capsules and eat one apple and one tea biscuit in a ten hour period. Get a settlement. Then eat dinner.

So in conclusion, after seven days of doing nothing but monitoring my food and water intake, chopping and simmering, longing for processed food, realize that your mood is better, your skin is better, you are retaining way less water, and you have more energy.

This cleanse is a gentle, starter kit. I understand there are more restrictive and intense ones. I am not sure how anyone stands them. Maybe they do it while they are on something I've heard called "vacation." Or maybe someone helps them cook. Or maybe they sleep for fourteen hours a day. Or maybe they are not prone to rapid drops in blood sugar. Or maybe people are just not as obsessed with what they consume as I am.

Maybe this is why people do this.

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