Plain Brown Rice

Last week when my roommate, B, asked me to do a cleanse with her, I thought, “Sure. How hard could it be to diet and take herbal extracts for12 days?” Besides I needed a reason to curb my chip addiction. We decided to start on Monday and toasted our commitment on Sunday night with the remaining dregs of alcohol in our apartment. We didn’t want any lingering temptations.

Monday morning I regretted all of the previous night's toasts, but still popped out of bed, ready to cleanse. B and I broke open our cleanse kits to find three bottles of pills and one bottle of liquid. We were instructed to take two of each kind of pill and 30 drops of the liquid. 30 drops? These people need to manufacture a bigger dropper.

The pills had a funny herbal smell, but the liquid was downright disgusting. It tastes kind of like what I imagine Jagermeister would taste like if you had left the opened bottle under the porch at the cottage all summer and took a swig after finding it when you were closing up for the winter. Bleh! To read what B thought it tasted like, click here.

I was surprised by how much not eating dairy, wheat or fruit and not drinking coffee could give me a raging headache. I was also surly after a torrential downpour soaked me to the bone during my lunchtime run. I was so cold that I had to wrap my hair up in my pashmina to get it to dry faster. To add insult to injury, there was chocolate mousse cake I couldn't eat in the boardroom for a coworker's birthday. As if.

By the end of the day, I was completely irritable. The only thing keeping me sane was my latest attempt to knit up the Brown Sheep Burly Spun yarn. I frogged the Best Friend Cardigan on Friday and washed all of the yarn. I'm hoping that the Magic Shawl will finally get this yarn to commit to something.

Comments

[StevieP]

Be careful ladies, don't starve too much. Can't be good for the bod in the long-term.

Good luck!!

[Choochie]

Kudos on the cleanse. Let me know how it goes and how the diet was... T and I may try it out later this month.