All those tasty, tasty comforts I put in my mouth – gone. Alcohol, caffeine, sugar, anything white and floury, anything ever produced by an animal. Unless a monkey really did pick my tea.
What does this leave? Salad. Water. Whole bell peppers. An avocado, if I’m feeling frisky. What does this exclude? EVERYTHING DELICIOUS. Like large glasses of wine and delicious chocolate frosted morsels, morsels delivered to a table as I stare with such avid heat that when I finally rip my gaze away from its luscious brown curves, everyone’s looking at me strangely and Lanny says, “I think that cake needs a cigarette.”
Drea, me, Lanny, Raihanna, and the dessert I violated with my eyes.
The TV is gone too. This was hard for me, because my friends are in the TV. The TV was what I did after I was done working, what I did to relax, what I did to escape some of the realities of my life and…yeah. That’s why I gave it up.
I’m on a take-everything-I-think-I-need-away-and-see-what’s-left kick.
What’s left is wrestling the brain hamsters into submission. Green juice instead of cookies. Unidentifiable grains instead of pasta. Baths instead of TV. Lots of yoga.
WHO HAVE I BECOME?
I’ve become super focused. I have a ton of energy. My creativity feels tangible again, rather than a haze squatting in the back of my cerebellum. I’m working steadily on projects that I’d avoided for months. I’m so busy that the only time I really miss what I don’t have is when I’m watching my friends eat it.
Everything has gotten drastically better in the past few weeks, simply because I’m treating myself better. I think that’s pretty much the only thing that could beat Friday Night Lights.
Congratulations, weird-ass hippy cleanse. You officially beat Tim Riggins on the score chart of Things I Find Desirable. Now sit still and try not to squirm while I stare at you lustfully.
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Impressive! I’m finding that I don’t miss cable and/or owning a TV at all. We still watch a little, but only when we sit down and remember it’s available on the Internet. Gone is the brainless staring at mediocre shows!
And I’m trying so hard to push myself to eat right and exercise every day. It really does feel incredible. But I’m not quite as hardcore as you. I definitely still have the occasional bite of dessert and a glass of wine to dinner.
Here’s the unidentifiable grains!
You are so athletic and healthy with such admirable consistency! You are an inspiration. I’m only hardcore for brief spurts. It’s entirely possible that the second this cleanse is over I’ll be toting a fried chicken with me everywhere I go.
The idea of doing this scares me a little. Unfortunately, that probably means I should do it.
Why is it that the thing that scares us most is always the thing we most need to do? WHO SAID THAT WAS AN APPROPRIATE USE OF FEAR?
Sounds intense! And awesome! Did you come up with this cleanse yourself or are you following something specific?
Hi, Amanda! I’m following the 21-Day cleanse in Kris Carr’s Crazy Sexy Diet book. So far, I highly recommend it. Just don’t do what I did: a one-day juice cleanse and then forget that you had done a one-day juice cleanse and go to the gym and work out like a maniac for an hour and a half. Pretty sure I lost 30 IQ points as I staggered around crashing into walls afterward.
The no TV thing was recommended by my business coach and I pay her to tell me to do things, so I guess that means I have to do them. P.S. She was totally right.
eesh, brave woman! If I gave up all of that I do believe that what would be left would be an empty checking account & a coffin…not necessarily in that order.
Haaaa. You should develop the Coffin-less Cleanse.
“Congratulations, weird-ass hippy cleanse. You officially beat Tim Riggins on the score chart of Things I Find Desirable.”
BEST
GO, AMBER, GO! What else is there to say?
oh my! sounds intense, but absolutely fantastic. love hearing the results tooo.
Congrats to You!!!! This huge life change step you took is a wonderful great leap and it seems like you made it. I had done the same thing in 2004, and again here a while back! It is a drastic way of changing your life but the outcome is so rewarding!
So again, good for you, keep it up and cant wait to hear more about it later!
Yay for you! I want so much to ditch the TV sometimes. I think about all the time I spend in front of it and imagine all the good I could be doing with that time. And the food – I need to stop thinking about it and just become a vegetarian already.
I did the 21 day “Clean” thingy. I made it 14 days, felt amazing, slept wonderfully, woke up more refreshed and less painfully than ever before in my life, and then decided that I needed to eat 4 fish tacos, a plate of something fried, a key lime pie on a stick (first one ever), and drink about 5 Martinis before stuffing in a plate full of my mom’s famous (in my family) spaghetti. In case you’re wondering, that’s all it takes to undo that good, healthy feeling. And the key lime pie on a stick was terrible.
Wow, this sounds really intense, but it sounds like it’s having great results so far!
I think you and I are at very similar places in our lives right now, because everything you write I am living. Mostly. except you’ve figured out how to articulate all of it perfectly. Nicole just told me you are doing the 21 day crazy sexy cleanse and I’m really excited because that book totally just arrived in my mailbox today! Let me know how it goes!!
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