Let's Detox! ....I guess....

I haven't run AT ALL since my race. Not one step. I've been exercising here and there, but the last few weeks have mostly been filled with rest, time with Thomas, TV, pizza, and beer. All around lazy. It's been pretty great.

Great, but kinda scary how quickly and easily I forget what my body is capable of when I take care of it and challenge it. Also, I am quite enjoying the weight loss that was a nice by-product of my training, and would like to maintain that.

So.... We've decided to DETOX! This book and the friendly looking man who wrote it will be our guide for the next month:

He will help us get all the nonsense of Costco pizzas and delicious lagers and almond roca and sausage breakfast sandwiches from Starbucks out of our bodies/lives.

So we read the book, and I made this ridiculous list:

 Then we went shopping and justified spending a horrendous amount of money on all organic vegetables and products with how good we are going to feel when it's over. I could almost hear Whole Foods licking its lips as we walked away, enjoying all our MONEY.

But we got it all, and now we're fully stocked! It is perfectly summed up by a text Thomas sent me this morning as I was out and about: "I don't want to alarm you, but there is an enormous amount of vegetables in our fridge."

I am ALARMED.

So basically, the diet eliminates meat, sugar, gluten, dairy, nuts, salt and pepper, caffeine and alcohol. So.... um, what's left? And where does pizza fit in? And the morning cup of coffee I've had everyday since I was 19 or something...?

It doesn't.

In many, many ways.

We get to try a lot of new food though, I am excited to try bok choy and amaranth porridge and broccoli rabe and all the other crazy random stuff in the recipes. And drinking a ton of water and herbal tea. And LITERALLY gallons of apple juice, because we are doing a simultaneous liver cleanse. And sweet Dr. Rau claims that on the last day of the liver cleanse,

"Most of what you evacuate will be watery, but filled with little stones."

Goooood. That sounds great.

"You will be surprised at how many stones you pass."

EXCELLENT.

"Many will be the size of small peas, but there may be a few so large they will surprise you."

Well, call me surprised ALREADY.

I will not tell the interwebz about my "evacuations", don't worry. Just wanted to share that this is a possibility because Thomas and I were DYING laughing reading this part of the book, because everyone knows that girls don't poo. 

So tomorrow is day one. I am excited, especially because I just realized that tomorrow is SUNDAY and I don't have to go to work. Oooooh happy day of sitting around waiting for it to be 10am so I can eat 1/2 of an apple, chewing each bite 20-30 times (yes, he specifies). Hmmm.... 

But really, I am excited. I'm happy for the new start - I truly believe that we get out of our bodies and minds what we put into them. I hope this is an enriching experience that makes us healthier and brings us closer together. I'm hoping for clarity of mind and body as we make some major decisions in the next few months. I'm hoping for a new motivation to protect and nourish this one body I've been given and do my part to protect and nourish this one world WE have been given.

Wish me luck. I hope a straight tablespoon of flax seed oil isn't as horrible as it sounds.