Happy days are here again…
Day 1 of the new improved and cleansed me have commensed and I’m feeling fantastic. My day started out with an early morning meeting where i drank my first glass of (non-lemon) freshly squeezed orange juice at Panera. It was heaven to taste something other than lemon and maple syrup water. After the meeting I went to the gym to have my first work out in over a year with my new fitness and diet coach. 20 minutes in to the workout i felt like i hit the wall in a marathon and almost passed out. Everything became increasingly bright and i felt like i was at an altitude of 25,000 feet, as my ears felt like they wanted to pop out. I’m glad my trainer was with me as he guided me to a safe place to sit and brought me a banana and apple to chew on to get my glucose levels back up. Within a few minutes i was fine and jumping back on the elliptical machine…what a rush. It felt exactly like the old days of intense training in my triathlon days…my high and equivalent to what others call drugs…but O’ natural! With the endorphins racing and my blood pumping we finished up the work out in about 4o minutes and i hit my next meeting for the day. Note to self: the banana and apple I mushed up and ate at the gym today was the best two pieces of fruit i have tasted in years, maybe ever.
I didnt eat much during the day and actually had my first liquid meal over at my friends place around 4:30, they have a juicer and all the cool tools for going raw. This works out great as I enjoy spending time in the kitchen as much as i like going to the dentist for a root canal. Squeezing lemons into a jug and adding maple syrup to water is about as domestic as I get and i was getting tired of that on day 7 of the cleanse.
We liquified some cucumbers, parsley, radishes, celery, carrots and some red beets and poured it into a jar so i could have a glass every 3 hours (recommended eating intervals). After enjoying my liquid dinner, i headed over the Go Raw Cafe to check out what else i would be eating during the next 14 days. This place is great as it has all the things you need to eat healthly and learn about protein replacement and other tasty foods that most of us never heard of before, or at least i havent. I picked up a carrot and tomato soup for my meal later in the evening and headed over to the new halloween store to play monster with my son. Halloween is my son’s favorite holiday of the year by far as he can spend two hours a day in this scary theme park for the next two months and never get tired of it…i may have a stephen king on my hands.