"HOLY FREAKIN' HUNGRY!"
Tuesday, February 07, 2006 Filed in: public
service announcements | my life
dear friends...
today is the last day of something i challenged myself to do two weeks ago. for the past two weeks, i have been on an all-juice diet/cleanse/fast/detox thing.
(that's the
official terminology.) yeah... it's true. i haven't
eaten anything in two weeks! now, i tell you this not
to brag or gloat (though i am quite impressed with
myself right now) but to warn you.
yes... it's a great excersise in discipline. and yes... i have lost around 15 pounds. and it's true that there's something spiritual about it that seems to kinda help clarify a bunch of stuff. but there are some definite problems with this concept.
1. fresh squeezed juice gets old!!! i mean, really. there are only so many combinations of apple, grape, orange, pineapple, pear (which is the best, by the way), rasberry, tangerine and strawberry juices that you can try. and, after a while, they really all start tasting very similiar. (although, with my very own juicer, i feel like that guy on the infomercials in the middle of the night who clearly should be dead of old age but is still juicing his way to the ripe old age of like 140. maybe i could live forever. hmmm.)
2. even though the first two days are hell on your stomach and your psyche, the rest of it is mostly psychological. but sometimes you feel like you're going crazy! ("i feel like i'm on crazy pills!!!") you probably know how much i love my food. (if you don't, well... first you don't know me. and second, the answer is... a whole-freaking-lot!) yeah... well, it was pretty much on my mind a lot of the time because i just missed the taste. tasting things is wonderful and taken for granted. people always ask whether you'd rather be blind or deaf. i'm glad that tasteless isn't an option. and now i think i understand the cravings of pregnant women. i was craving the most random stuff at the most random times. (one minute i want pizza, the next it was sushi and the next it was the gnocci with the tomato cream sauce from Grazzianos.)
3. finally, and here's the bummer i'm dealing with currently, you can't just have the meal you've been dreaming of for two weeks when the thing's over. apparently, it takes several days to slowly come off your fast before you can eat normal foods. otherwise you get real sick. (last night i dreamed the i forgot and ended the whole thing with a big steak dinner and just as i finished, i realized what i had done. luckily, i woke up before i found out about the getting sick part.)
so, i went from posting a recipe for the most amazing sandwich you'll ever have to not eating for two weeks. i don't know what's wrong with me. (i went from frying everything to juicing everything. not as fun, i gotta tell ya!) i'll probably do it again sometime. it is supposed to be very cleansing for your system and, i have to say, i do feel healthier. anyway, i think that next time i'll do it for like a week instead. anyone wanna join me? :-)
today is the last day of something i challenged myself to do two weeks ago. for the past two weeks, i have been on an all-juice diet/cleanse/fast/detox thing.
yes... it's a great excersise in discipline. and yes... i have lost around 15 pounds. and it's true that there's something spiritual about it that seems to kinda help clarify a bunch of stuff. but there are some definite problems with this concept.
1. fresh squeezed juice gets old!!! i mean, really. there are only so many combinations of apple, grape, orange, pineapple, pear (which is the best, by the way), rasberry, tangerine and strawberry juices that you can try. and, after a while, they really all start tasting very similiar. (although, with my very own juicer, i feel like that guy on the infomercials in the middle of the night who clearly should be dead of old age but is still juicing his way to the ripe old age of like 140. maybe i could live forever. hmmm.)
2. even though the first two days are hell on your stomach and your psyche, the rest of it is mostly psychological. but sometimes you feel like you're going crazy! ("i feel like i'm on crazy pills!!!") you probably know how much i love my food. (if you don't, well... first you don't know me. and second, the answer is... a whole-freaking-lot!) yeah... well, it was pretty much on my mind a lot of the time because i just missed the taste. tasting things is wonderful and taken for granted. people always ask whether you'd rather be blind or deaf. i'm glad that tasteless isn't an option. and now i think i understand the cravings of pregnant women. i was craving the most random stuff at the most random times. (one minute i want pizza, the next it was sushi and the next it was the gnocci with the tomato cream sauce from Grazzianos.)
3. finally, and here's the bummer i'm dealing with currently, you can't just have the meal you've been dreaming of for two weeks when the thing's over. apparently, it takes several days to slowly come off your fast before you can eat normal foods. otherwise you get real sick. (last night i dreamed the i forgot and ended the whole thing with a big steak dinner and just as i finished, i realized what i had done. luckily, i woke up before i found out about the getting sick part.)
so, i went from posting a recipe for the most amazing sandwich you'll ever have to not eating for two weeks. i don't know what's wrong with me. (i went from frying everything to juicing everything. not as fun, i gotta tell ya!) i'll probably do it again sometime. it is supposed to be very cleansing for your system and, i have to say, i do feel healthier. anyway, i think that next time i'll do it for like a week instead. anyone wanna join me? :-)