Twenty Days After

So, it's 20 days after the fast and you're probably wondering how I am doing.

I am doing great! I did lost quite a lot of weight (19 lbs) over the fast, and not only have I kept it all off, I've lost 1 or 2 more pounds on top of that. I think it's mostly because I have changed my eating habits, am eating slower, healthier, and less. I feel friggin' great.

Day 6: Post Cleanse

Well it's Day 6 Post Cleanse and I'm pretty much back to a normal diet--"normal" meaning that by now I've re-instituted meat, eggs, and dairy back into my diet. While I don't have the bovundless energy and clarity that I had during the cleanse, I am eating way more healthy than I was pre-cleanse, and I haven't gained any weight back. Most of all, I feel really accomplished for having exercised willpower for so long. All in all, success.

Day 13: 3 days off

So I have started to eat a little bit more today--I had the 10
vegetable soup for lunchi today and I couldn't finish it--it was only
a medium size portion (110 calories) and I guess my stomach must be
tiny or something, because I felt pretty full afterwards. I had
leftover veggie soup for dinner and some fruit and again I felt pretty
full.

I am trying to ease back into eating again, I do love food. I didn't
eat that much and I felt gross, I hope it gets better soon.

--
The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts
all the bright, creative and ambitious young people, leaving us mainly
with the slow and self-obsessed to become our artists. Modern art is a
disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been
used by so many to say so little.
—Banksy

Day 12: 10:06pm

Well, I just made some soup. Mirepoix (carrots, celery, onion), a potato, rice, beans, water, and some other veggies and seasoning. Simple. I had some of the broth and ate a little bit of the veggies. So great to taste something new again!

There's a little bit of trepidation as I dip my feet into the whole eating thing again--it's a really odd, confusing feeling. Like I've been saying, I've been feeling amazing throughout the cleanse, and it's kind of a hard thing to give up. Having said all that, I really like food. I love food. My cravings are for different types of food and so on and so forth, so that's good.

I'll let you know how that goes.

Day 12: noon

At our inauguration watching party at work. Free pizza and pasta.

Don't want any of it!

Suckers!
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day 11: 2:19pm

Well, I just had a couple of sips or orange juice, diluted with water, which is the first non-lemonade or laxative tea or water or peppermint tea thing that I've had in 10 days. Strangely enough, all I've had so far today has been water until now, 2:20pm and I'm feeling absolutely positively great. One thing I gotta say--I've felt fantastic for the past 10 days, and I'm going to try to do what I can to keep it that way.

Tomorrow, there is going to be a viewing party at work for the inauguration and they'll be serving pizza. While I'm sure I will eat pizza again at some point, I definitely am not going to be eating it tomorrow. Yuck.

Again, we'll see how long that lasts.

Oh man I want some of this so badly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porchetta

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Day 11: 9:00am

ANNNNND that's 10 days!

Well, I suppose I'm done cleansing. This morning, I am going to do the Salt Water Flush one last time, as I did some psyllium husks and bentonite clay yesterday. Believe me, I am not going to miss the Flush. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I can't say that enough.

Last night was a little bit weird/scary though--I wanted to end the cleanse with a skin brush and an epsom salt bath, so I went ahead and drew a bath--unfortunately I screwed up a little bit and made the bath hotter than I should have, so when I got up to rinse off, I almost passed out. OOPS.

Otherwise, the past 10 days have gone by rather quickly. I feel great physically and I think it was a great way to practice willpower and discipline to start off the new year. It was a LOT easier than I thought it would be, and overall a nice reboot of the system. Oh, and I lost 19 lbs.

So, today I will start in on some orange juice, which should be interesting. I'll let you know how that goes.

day 10! 10:35am - The Final Countdown

It's Day 10. The final day of the cleanse. Well, it's not really the FINAL day, because there is a few days of re-acclimating to solid food again, since my digestive system really hasn't been doing anything.

Woke up super early (for a weekend, around 7:30am), pretty well rested, given the fact that i went to sleep around 1:30am. I made sure to take plenty of the psyllium husks yesterday and a bunch of the bentonite clay to make sure I gave the ol' innards a good scrubbin' on the final day. I have to say that the Salt Water Flush is pretty much my least favorite part of the cleanse, but of course it's a necessary part of the *ahem* flushing process.

Today's flush was "productive", no doubt due to the bulking/scraping agents I took yesterday, in any case. In any case, as a sort of treat to myself, I am watching "Supersize Me" today--you know... just because.

day 9: 510pm

Day 9, did i mention that yet? It's friggin cold outside, and I'm watching Food Network. Whaa-aaat?

Day 9: 11:20am

Never mind that last post, just as I was about to leave the house, I
had to go. I think part of it was the fact that I was sittting down.
Once I started to get up and walk around, my stomach started gurgling.

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day 9: 10:45am uh oh

i screwed up today somehow. woke up at around 8:15am (sue me, it's a weekday), got up and started doing stuff around the house. remembered that I probably should do the salt water flush. Did that around 9am or so while I was watching tv. It's now 10:47 and nothing's come out yet. I've even farted between now and then and didn't wet my pants. Thing is, I sort of let it sit around too much and it was pretty cold when I drank it. Don't know if that made a difference, or what. I'm kind of scared to leave the house for obvious reasons.