Daily affirmations of a word mercenary
Cleanse - Day 26
1Mar2003 Filed under: CleanseDay two of no food.
Today Andreas and I watched the entire first season of “Six Feet Under” on DVD. All 13 hours of it. I like it better than The Sopranos. It was a supremely effective distraction.
I also went and got that colonic, which was a really good choice. It was definitely a perfect treatment used in tandem with Arise & Shine — very very productive. Probably the equivalent of 8-10 trips to the bathroom. No joke.
Dre and I made a short trip to the farmer’s market to get vegetables for juicing, and a few items for once we’ve broken the fast. That was mildly sucky. But at least there is a bag of my favorite sprouts and two containers of that fantastic hummous waiting for us in the fridge. We also got some potato bread. Bread! How novel.
It was a gorgeous day out…warm and a slight beach breeze. I took a nap in the sun. How very sanitarium of me.
In the evening, I got hungry, but Dre and I kept tossing back glasses of carrot-celery-apple-ginger juice, and that would stave off the belly wolves.
If I’d been fasting alone, I would have broken the fast today. That’s what I did the last time I did the cleanse, when Dre didn’t do it with me. Doing one full day of no food alone is about all I can take. The only way I was able to do the second one was with a little support. I would whine, “I’m hungry,” and Dre would say “One more day!” It’s good to have a bolster.
Oh, and I got out some of the greatest burps of all time. If that’s not cheap entertainment, I don’t know what is.
- Previous: Cleanse - Day 25
- Next: Cleanse - Day 27
4 Responses to “Cleanse - Day 26”
Leave a reply
Hey there. I'm Ariel Meadow Stallings, a native Seattleite who's written my way up and down the Left Coast. Electrolicious is where I post daily randomata, but I also write for a living. My first book, Offbeat Bride, is in bookstores now.
You're reading a page from the archives. Check the homepage for current content.
danioki
March 2nd, 2003 at 10:57 am
breaking the fast, just want to make sure you’ve read up on the best foods to break a fast, which are foods that are the easiest to digest since the digestion has been on vacation and will be like “what? where? huh?!?” if you suddenly give it complex stuff. I know cuz i made this mistake, learned the very hard way, and now know it’s best to break a fast with a piece of fruit. then maybe not even eat fat/protein till the next day. I just saw your hummus thing and wanted to make sure you didn’t down a whole tub of hummus as your first meal!!
dani
March 2nd, 2003 at 10:59 am
(some experts say that how one breaks the fast is as important as the fast itself.)
Ariel
March 2nd, 2003 at 11:00 am
Oh, I know. Remember, this is my third time doing the cleanse.
I discussed our fast breaking meal in this post.
philippe
March 3rd, 2003 at 12:56 am
You watched 13 hours of TV in a single day ?! Wow, there must be a pill you didn’t tell us about in the cleansing protocol…