Today is day 10 on this hellish cleanse. I'm kind of proud of myself! Hellish? Guys, there is no caffeine on this cleanse and all day long I fantasize about iced tea. Green or black, doesn't matter! Just the largest iced cold cup with a nice long straw sitting comfortably in my paw, there for relaxing sipping and an extra boost of alertness. Dang, I miss the real stuff. I met a new town friend, we can call her Red, for "coffee" today. I got to our coffee house first and was sipping something when she showed up. I told her about this one huge negative factor of the cleanse and her eyes widened and looked at my cup. I said "Don't worry, it's mint tea, no caffeine." She didn't even know there was such a thing at this place!!
There isn't much news to report here. My knees still hurt, which saddens me. I know there are knee replacements in my future and seriously, if I could time travel I would totally go back to the day when I let my "friends" convince me to go down the black diamond slope for our last run even though I knew it was way above my skill level and I would grab my foolish young self by the shoulders and scream DO YOU WANT KNEE PAIN UNTIL YOUR DYING DAY??? CAUSE THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DESTROY BOTH KNEES IN ONE MONUMENTAL FALL ON THE BLACK DIAMOND SLOPE!!! I'm hoping that losing 100 pounds will be the magic which lets me keep my own cartilage-less knees until someone figures out how to 3D print a knee replacement out of each patients own personal tissue and then I will sign up to receive my own youthful pre-skiing idiocy knees back again. By the way, when the day comes and I do get knee replacements I am totally naming them.
Yup, you heard it here first. I lost 10 pounds in 10 days. I'm guessing half of those pounds were water, since before the cleanse I was waking up so puffy I couldn't bare to look in the mirror. Red, who had not seen me in 2 weeks, told me I looked good and she felt so much better because she had been worrying about me since the last time we had real amazing dreamy columbian roast heavenly coffee.
Another benefit is that a little dime sized patch of excema I have had on my face since I was a teenager, but which seemed to be spreading the past 6 months is completely gone. This leads me to believe there is another food allergy happening, but since I am eating so few different foods right now it is hard to tell precisely which food was the culprit. Better not be chicken. Or eggs. Or turkey. I might be craving protein. This part of the diet I can eat fish, but it isn't the same. Especially with out the barbecue rub, ketchup or cranberry sauce. I gotta stop. I'm getting hungry.
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