the master cleanse. DAY 10!!!
Thoughts from Note
And that’s it. The end. Finished. We’ll, kinda. We still have the ease-out to do but damn am I happy not have to have that lemony-spicy yet maple syrupy taste in my mouth any more.
The last couple days have actually been the hardest for me. A sharp pain has been developing in the left side of my abdomen. I first thought it was just a stomach ache brought on by the cleanse but the sharpness and persistence of it is making me think otherwise. If it’s still there after we’ve finished the ease-out and returned to a normal diet, I may head to doctor just to be safe.
All in all, I have to say that the fast was pretty easy – boring – but pretty easy and I feel good about having actually completed it. My weight shifted a bit (I weighed myself this morning and the final number is 138 – I was a little over 145 when I started) but more importantly, I feel much healthier overall. I haven’t drunk coffee in 10 days and I don’t get the dragging sleepiness that I used to. Makes me think I shouldn’t drink coffee as it most likely brings on a fair bit of the sleepiness. It’s too bad that I simply love the taste of coffee. I guess intermittent sleepiness is, interestingly enough, the tax for loving coffee.
I’m happy to be done. I’m very happy I did it. And I’m happy to be able to eat real food again very soon. We’ll continue these (mostly) regular posts until at least the end of the ease-out and we’ll try our best to keep up more regularly afterwards. Actually, there will be plenty to write about considering our big trip is coming up so expect a little more regularity from us.
Trip news! I picked up my OCR3 from K-style bicycle shop today. I had fears of running front panniers on a carbon fork so I had them swap out my stock carbon fork for a relatively inexpensive cromoly fork that I’ll use exclusively for touring and hauling – something I can beat up a bit.
Our 23lbs. worth or REI purchased swag will arrive on Monday!!1! (And my Cannondale cycling shorts won’t be far behind.) Very exciting. Meghan and I are also planning our first trip to break in all the new gear and work out the kinks of packing it all up. We’ll most likely be taking our time cycling from Muroran to Hakodate over Golden Week. We haven’t spent much time in Hakodate (only once before where we didn’t actually see much of the city since we we’re there only for an onsen hotel) so this time we will be taking it slow. The cherry blossoms should be out by then, we’ll hit a couple onsen (one very famous TIDAL onsen), eat some delicious food (Lucky Pierot burgers and Harvester chicken!) and hopefully do a bit of hiking up Komagatake. We’ll be sure to post pictures and thoughts, maybe even while on the trip!
But for now, good by master cleanse and let the ease-out begin.
thoughts from Meghan
Day 10 felt like any other day of the fast. I didn't even really think all that much about the fact that it was the last day. Well that’s not totally true. While I was doing the salt water rinse this morning I just kept telling myself, this is it, the last time I will have to do this. It ran through my system as usual, interrupting my daily hour of Wii Fit. I am going to try to keep up this ritual of an hour of Wii Fit each morning after the fast as well. I usually do a little bit of Aerobic, followed by a combination of yoga and strengthening. I strap weights onto my wrists or ankles to up the power of the exercises also. I have noticed that my back has stopped giving me issues since I started doing this, I think because of the yoga. Plus they always say stronger stomach muscles are good for your back. So for the sake of not waking up in pain every morning alone, I am going to try to stick with it.
Today we had a four hour rehearsal in a very cold auditorium (it costs like $70 an hour to heat the room, so its never heated for rehearsals) and I was not the happiest of campers. My students were pulling some mind blowingly idiotic moves, and my patience was at an all time low (period, no food for 10 days, very cold)- so I did a lot of yelling. Sometimes this can be a good thing though, because by the end of the day people were searching for ways to please me and things were moving a lot smoother. Today we have two short one hour runs, so I am hoping they go well. I can’t believe this show will go up in just over a week, but I do in the end have a lot of faith in my students to make it look good.
In the afternoon I went to my Ikebana class, where I am still preparing for the show on Sunday. I did another version of the piece, using the same flowers but a different arrangement (I am using yellow and white freesia and Eucalyptus). I told christophe to pick me up in an hour, but when he called to say he was there I had just finished. So I told him to hang tight for 10 minutes while my teacher critiqued it. Five minutes later I called him to tell him to go home and come back in an hour, because the critic had resulted in her pulling all but two Eucalyptus branches out. My second version she liked, and I did one more quick version before Christophe showed up. I am really really nervous about Sunday, but I have like four hours to put my piece together, so she can rip it apart three times before I will run out of time!
As for the fast, I barely drank a sip of anything while I was doing play rehearsal, so when I got home I downed my whole first liter. Then I made a fresh 500ml to take to Ikebana, but again didn't drink much of anything while I was there. When I got home I drank it up pretty quickly. We did some straightening up around the house, then settled into some TV shows to relax and drink Senna Tea (Christophe had peppermint). Went to bed and passed right out, almost forgetting that I would get OJ in the morning.
And that’s it. The end. Finished. We’ll, kinda. We still have the ease-out to do but damn am I happy not have to have that lemony-spicy yet maple syrupy taste in my mouth any more.
The last couple days have actually been the hardest for me. A sharp pain has been developing in the left side of my abdomen. I first thought it was just a stomach ache brought on by the cleanse but the sharpness and persistence of it is making me think otherwise. If it’s still there after we’ve finished the ease-out and returned to a normal diet, I may head to doctor just to be safe.
All in all, I have to say that the fast was pretty easy – boring – but pretty easy and I feel good about having actually completed it. My weight shifted a bit (I weighed myself this morning and the final number is 138 – I was a little over 145 when I started) but more importantly, I feel much healthier overall. I haven’t drunk coffee in 10 days and I don’t get the dragging sleepiness that I used to. Makes me think I shouldn’t drink coffee as it most likely brings on a fair bit of the sleepiness. It’s too bad that I simply love the taste of coffee. I guess intermittent sleepiness is, interestingly enough, the tax for loving coffee.
I’m happy to be done. I’m very happy I did it. And I’m happy to be able to eat real food again very soon. We’ll continue these (mostly) regular posts until at least the end of the ease-out and we’ll try our best to keep up more regularly afterwards. Actually, there will be plenty to write about considering our big trip is coming up so expect a little more regularity from us.
Trip news! I picked up my OCR3 from K-style bicycle shop today. I had fears of running front panniers on a carbon fork so I had them swap out my stock carbon fork for a relatively inexpensive cromoly fork that I’ll use exclusively for touring and hauling – something I can beat up a bit.
Our 23lbs. worth or REI purchased swag will arrive on Monday!!1! (And my Cannondale cycling shorts won’t be far behind.) Very exciting. Meghan and I are also planning our first trip to break in all the new gear and work out the kinks of packing it all up. We’ll most likely be taking our time cycling from Muroran to Hakodate over Golden Week. We haven’t spent much time in Hakodate (only once before where we didn’t actually see much of the city since we we’re there only for an onsen hotel) so this time we will be taking it slow. The cherry blossoms should be out by then, we’ll hit a couple onsen (one very famous TIDAL onsen), eat some delicious food (Lucky Pierot burgers and Harvester chicken!) and hopefully do a bit of hiking up Komagatake. We’ll be sure to post pictures and thoughts, maybe even while on the trip!
But for now, good by master cleanse and let the ease-out begin.
thoughts from Meghan
Day 10 felt like any other day of the fast. I didn't even really think all that much about the fact that it was the last day. Well that’s not totally true. While I was doing the salt water rinse this morning I just kept telling myself, this is it, the last time I will have to do this. It ran through my system as usual, interrupting my daily hour of Wii Fit. I am going to try to keep up this ritual of an hour of Wii Fit each morning after the fast as well. I usually do a little bit of Aerobic, followed by a combination of yoga and strengthening. I strap weights onto my wrists or ankles to up the power of the exercises also. I have noticed that my back has stopped giving me issues since I started doing this, I think because of the yoga. Plus they always say stronger stomach muscles are good for your back. So for the sake of not waking up in pain every morning alone, I am going to try to stick with it.
Today we had a four hour rehearsal in a very cold auditorium (it costs like $70 an hour to heat the room, so its never heated for rehearsals) and I was not the happiest of campers. My students were pulling some mind blowingly idiotic moves, and my patience was at an all time low (period, no food for 10 days, very cold)- so I did a lot of yelling. Sometimes this can be a good thing though, because by the end of the day people were searching for ways to please me and things were moving a lot smoother. Today we have two short one hour runs, so I am hoping they go well. I can’t believe this show will go up in just over a week, but I do in the end have a lot of faith in my students to make it look good.
In the afternoon I went to my Ikebana class, where I am still preparing for the show on Sunday. I did another version of the piece, using the same flowers but a different arrangement (I am using yellow and white freesia and Eucalyptus). I told christophe to pick me up in an hour, but when he called to say he was there I had just finished. So I told him to hang tight for 10 minutes while my teacher critiqued it. Five minutes later I called him to tell him to go home and come back in an hour, because the critic had resulted in her pulling all but two Eucalyptus branches out. My second version she liked, and I did one more quick version before Christophe showed up. I am really really nervous about Sunday, but I have like four hours to put my piece together, so she can rip it apart three times before I will run out of time!
As for the fast, I barely drank a sip of anything while I was doing play rehearsal, so when I got home I downed my whole first liter. Then I made a fresh 500ml to take to Ikebana, but again didn't drink much of anything while I was there. When I got home I drank it up pretty quickly. We did some straightening up around the house, then settled into some TV shows to relax and drink Senna Tea (Christophe had peppermint). Went to bed and passed right out, almost forgetting that I would get OJ in the morning.
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