Cantaloupe Mylk
Watermelon Smoothie
Last night I dreamt about eating those pink iced animal crackers and the pumpkin shaped candy corn like candy. In real life, I woke up at 3:40 am and pooped. The reason that these things are worth noting is that I am doing a cleanse this week. Yesterday was the first day. For breakfast, I ate cantaloupe mylk (blended cantaloupe...so frothy and yummy). For lunch, I ate a salad and exotic fruit cereal (blended banana poured over seeds from 1-2 pomegranates with some berries thrown on top). For dinner, I ate vegetable paella (a cauliflower and olive mixture eaten over red and green peppers marinated in tomato celery lemon cayenne sauce). Day one was delicious and fun. I am doing the Make it Real Make It Raw Detox Blast, led by Thomas from my old yoga studio in Lincoln and his friend Rachelle.
A dear friend is also doing it so it is fun to compare notes, body temperatures, farts, and bowel movements with her. It is too bad we don’t live in the same city to eat our delicious food together.
I imagine doing something like this wouldn’t be so fun doing it alone. It’s nice to know there are nearly 400 people all over the world (okay, probably just Europe and North America) who are doing the cleanse.
Why am I doing it? Because it is happening. Because it is free. Because I miss doing yoga with Thomas in the mornings and he has created little yoga videos for us to do first thing in the morning. Because, as I’ve confided in some of you, some sort of shift occurred recently and a cleanse feels like a good capstone to this shift. I think it is either (1) Saturn has come home (unlikely, I think I have a ways to go yet) or (2) I am settling into life and it is good. Something happened with this shifting and I let go of all of these goofy things that I was holding onto with white knuckles. I didn’t even decide to let go...I just did and things became so much easier.
Another reason why I decided to do the cleanse is that I have largely given up (for now) alcohol, coffee, and cigarettes due to the previously blogged about affliction. Also due to the affliction, I stopped running about two months ago so I have none of the reluctance that I might normally have to do something like this because of its impact on my running.
Thomas and Rachelle have provided us with a list of responses to the cleanse, but they didn’t address my greatest concern. What if I become obnoxiously self-righteous? Even more so than I already am?
