Full Disclosure

The cleanse officially ended on Friday, but in the interest of full disclosure, I should admit that I did not exactly finish the cleanse. B was much more successful than me and should be posting about surviving the 12 days of bland food torture in the next couple of days. I'm curious to see how much weight she's lost because she looks good. I only really completed two and a half days of strict cleansing. By the first Wednesday, after a particularly grueling training run, I starting to feel dizzy. After lunch, I couldn't string together a sentence and all I wanted to do was nap. After a long lecture from my husband about the nutrition required to sustain my upcoming athletic feat I started carb loading in secret. As soon as Bree left to go to Bootcamp, I would put some water on to boil for a huge bowl of pasta. I called this cleanse+; I adhered to all of the other rules of the cleanse with the addition of pasta and yogurt. Who goes on a cleanse the week before a half-marathon, anyway? The following Friday, I stopped taking the herbal laxative. I have enough bathroom related problems during races without worrying about BEs. And, if I am going to be completely honest, I should admit to gorging on Topper's pizza and bread sticks that night, a fact I withheld from Bree as not to weaken her resolve to finish the cleanse. I reasoned that I needed the carbs.

The race was really fun. My sister and I synced our ipods and it was more of a dance party than a serious race. Around 18K, though, my thighs ran out of juice. I guess 4 days of carb loading wasn't quite enough, something I will remember for the National Capital half-marathon at the end of the month. I have continued with the cleanse+ despite a desperate craving for chocolate, chips and beer. This past weekend in Toronto, I discovered that virgin mojitos are quite tasty and look enough like the alcoholic version to discourage any pregnancy rumours. De-lish! They were also only $2 each, something I'm still trying to wrap my mind around.

For those who came here for knitting content, I cast these on last Friday on the bus ride to Toronto using some left-over Trekking and some random black sock yarn. I love the gradual colour change in the Trekking.

Comments

[Bree]

hehe. thanks for the full disclosure!

i will admit that i ate chocolate on the weekend. and thin crust pizza last night.

however, it's back to diet mode now. i will post about the cleanse maybe later today or tomorrow. currently i am busy with kittens :D

[lisa]

I made some socks with plain trekking and this look ass -- I should have mixed it up with black! your's look cool.

[Choochie]

Hey... nice trekking! those are really looking great.

I'm not sure if I want to do the cleanse... if I did, I would not be adding in all those herbals. But I'm glad to see you saw the light and gave your body what it needed.