Feel It From The Inside

This one time I tried to do a cleanse. I made/drank the cayenne pepper, lemon, honey, water blend for about 8 hours. I hated it. I was so hungry after a long starving day at the office that I grabbed a big mac on the way home.

I used to work in an office in the financial district and wear a suit every day. I had a meeting each morning called “Red Zone” where we went over accounts and urgent business. We had “Red Zone” again at 2pm and I worked really long hours.

One day my boss called me into his office and said something like “Case, you don’t seem like you’re having fun anymore?“. I wasn’t. I was doing freelance PR on the side, I had a blog, I hated my job. I told him I didn’t like what I was doing and I thought about quitting but needed my two weeks pay. He said I could take my two weeks and be done end of day. I was thrilled! Freedom at last.

I worked at Hemingways for a few months, a well known Kiwi restaurant in Yorkville. It was way more fun and I made the same money. Anyhow this whole story started with the idea that I am once again revisiting the idea of doing a cleanse this week. Starting Thursday, Total Cleanse is sending me 3 days of juice to drink and I’m kinda excited about it. (Starting it right after a Wednesday’s Jack Daniels party.)  Our condo gym gets new treadmills Friday which is good motivation to finally get back to the gym. Yippee.

Have you ever done a cleanse? Tips, tricks. Anything is appreciated. I know some of you kids out there are real healthy.

5 Comments

  1. September 27, 2011 / 3:29 pm

    i can hook you up with my cleanse coach. i did one for two weeks. it’s tough but you get a new kind of high out of having more iron in your will than food.

  2. September 29, 2011 / 12:08 pm

    I tried a cleanse once.. and it lasted 2 days! I wasn’t allowed to have coffee and I got a splitting migraine the first morning! My advice is to STAY POSITIVE and maybe try doing it with someone! Let me know how it goes 🙂 

    • September 29, 2011 / 6:23 pm

      Oh I will. The juices arrived today and they look like I can handle it. Gonna start tomorrow. Let’s hope I can handle it!

  3. September 29, 2011 / 6:06 pm

    I did the whole Spent diet (book by Frank Lipman) and it was great, but a huge commitment.  If I did a short cleanse I’d probably pass out from starvation. 

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