The art of not eating

Okay so for some crazy reason I got in my head it would be a good thing to do a cleanse. I fiddled around on the internet for a while and decided I wanted to do something called the MasterCleanse.

Im not going to be fancy and hook you to a link but if your interested google it there is billions of stuff about it. In a nutshell you purge your body of toxins by not eating anything thats right nothing. You 'get' to drink a combination of fresh squeezed lemon juice, Grade B maple syrup, cayanne pepper and water. Then every night you do a "saltwater flush" Where you basically within a short amount of time as possible drink 1 liter of water with 1 TBS sea salt in it. Which then causes you to "purge" your body of whatever is in it.

The cleanse is supposed to be for 10 days and up to 40..but I had decided I wanted to do no more than a week. Today is day 5, of not eating anything except my wonderful lemonaide and im not really sure why I decided to do this in the first place. I *may* try at a later time to do the full 10 days but we will see. I have decided that tomorrow is my last day and on day 7 will start eating again.

Day 1, 2 were kinda hard, Day 3 pretty easy day 4 was hard again and today was pretty easy. I think it is the hardest because I have to make food for other people. So its not like I can isolate myself and not see or smell food. I think what I DONT like about this diet is it is a flush.. So after you drink your most delicious salt water you have about 2 hours of stomach pains and in and out of the bathroom. Its not fun. So i keep thinking there has got to be a better way. I am thinking about trying some other detox plans I guess there is one where you just eat raw fruits and veggies....i think i would like that one MUCH better...but im not sure what it does on the "cleansing" or flushing out your system side.. because the trick with this one is you are eating nothing so the hope is everything that comes out of your colon is not from something you ate recently..

Anyway, day 5 is winding down and i think im looking foward to tomrrow being my last day...

family n friends

So, I have long been an advocate of having good relationships with my family and friends but I have come to appreciate it more this week. I have been "recovering" this week and I have had many calls from my family and friends to check in on me and see how im doing. My most wonderful friend April has called me several times to see if I need anything and even fed my family one night this week.

My husband and many husbands I know, seem to think that they dont need "friends" and that they are fine without them. I think this is a bunch of crap.

I think it has to do with the maintenance of having relationships with people and the fact that to have a friend you have to be a friend and your relationship has to be cultivated. You have to call them to chat and god forbid, share your feelings, and check in on them and just BE there for them. Im not sure why the man gene has problems with any of this... im not saying ALL men because there are some out there that enjoy this but I would say more than 50% have this relationship issue. Maybe its the communication piece...and that men just dont enjoy sharing their feelings..or maybe their friendship is different and I just dont understand it..

But for whatever it is worth...thank you to all my family and my friends..i hope you know I love you dearly!