Today is my last day [thank the golden baby jesus] on the Wild Rose 14 day cleanse, and this morning I saw my naturopath to get my measurements taken again, chat about the detox, and put together a new meal plan for the next two weeks.
It turns out that even though the past week has been hell (Last friday night i ate a cupcake to celebrate the weekend and it’s been a constant struggle since then) my measurements have actually changed and I’d dropped 1 point on the BMI scale, and almost 2% of body fat mass.
I’ve cheated a thousand times over in the past 5 days, but apparently all the fibre, fruit & veggies have helped me poop out the bad stuff..SUCCESS!!
Day Three:
Longest day ever. By 10PM i was dreaming of a warm gooey apple fritter and a large coffee with cream.
Came SO close…but didn’t cheat. Can’t wait to wake up again tomorrow and see if the scale has changed any more.
Day Four
Pretty good day, but I keep thinking that I deserve a small cheat. Almost talked myself into ordering a slice of pizza on the way home. Its nearly 7 and I don’t know how I’m going to get through the night without caving in and eating something amazing (ie: carbs).
The only thing preventing me from running out for a donut is that I’ve been so motivated by the changes on the scale in the morning. I’m nervous about the number tomorrow morning. Tomorrow is Friday and it’s going to have to be a GREAT number to keep me from indulging…
Survived Day One…and Day Two went a little like this:
Woke up and had my lemon in warm water. POOPED (oh GOD)…so THAT’S what eating such a huge amount of fibre does.
Had my pills and ass-water. Today my breakfast was a little more successful – had oatmeal with raspberries and strawberries.
Snacked on apples, celery, and almonds throughout the day at work. Had brown rice and chicken again for lunch. Cravings were pretty moderate, but I gave in and had a small black coffee in the morning. It would have been AMAZING with a touch of cream and a muffin, but as it was I just smelled it and nursed it until it was freezing cold.
After worked I walked home with my friend Simone and had a piece of chicken and a potato for dinner. Tonight I’m craving and Daniel isn’t around to prevent me from gorging. But…I’ve been strong and haven’t really eaten much other than an apple besides dinner. I cut up some veggies and prepared my lunch for tomorrow. I’ll probably have some oatmeal later if i break down and need to eat something that actually tastes good. Nervous about waking up tomorrow and weighing myself (if i’ve gained anything it might kill me)
So, I woke up this morning and officially kicked off my 12 day cleanse with a glass of warm lemon water followed by 6 pills (2 from each bottle in the kit), and two droppers full of a tincture that tastes like ASS. The rest of the day went a bit like this…
Breakfast:
Already cranky. Made oldschool oatmeal in a bowl too small…it EXPLODED in the microwave and I ended up eating about 3 tablespoons of oatmeal with strawberries.
Got to work and had a HUGE mug of green tea (missing my coffee already), followed by some celery. About halfway through the morning I ‘indulged*’ in an apple.
Lunch:
Had some chicken with brown rice. Desperately missing my standard diet Coke…would LOVE to finish lunch by walking over to Tim Hortons and having a coffee and apple fritter.
The rest of the afternoon was killer…but I indulged in another apple and made it through the rest of the workday. Before heading home I stopped at the gym and did a cardo class. When I got home I had a small bowl of oatmeal the second I got home because I was starving.
Dinner:
6 more pills and a glass of ass-flavoured water.
Chicken, brown rice, sweet potato. Delicious… I was actually kind of full. Had a pear around 9 and went to bed by 11…This evening actually wasn’t too bad – no cravings that made me want to kill.
*Every time I look at the instruction sheet from my naturopath that says I should indulge in fruit and vegetable I feel a wave of rage. WHO INDULGES IN AN APPLE OR A CUCUMBER? Someone needs to introduce her to cake.
It’s been a few weeks since Morag and I started our semi-failed 40 day weight loss challenge to piggyback on the success of our 40 day’s and night’s of No Pop challenge. I say semi-failed because so far Mor has lost her ambition, but has lost 3 lbs (success!), but i’ve actually gained about a pound.
This Tuesday I went to see my new naturopath for the 2nd time to get things back on track and on Monday I’ll start a 12 day detox that she recommended as a good place to start a new eating program. She took my measurements (BMI, Bodyfat%, Muscle%, Weight, and Visceral Fat%), and I see her on the final day of the program. She says she actually expects to see movement in some of these numbers by then. :\
Typically when I start something like this I stick to it for a couple of days and then give up while I move onto a new plan of action that I’ll start and quit after two days. This time I’m actually accountable for what’s happening because I have to face this woman in 12 days and talk about how it went, and get my numbers taken again. Stress!
The Cleanse I’ll be starting is the Wild Rose Herbal D-Tox 12 day program which involves cutting out sugars, processed foods, flour, and everything else I hold dear. I’ll start tomorrow and update as I go…
Bernis, Sideways
A couple weeks ago my team moved to a new section of the office. Larger, nicer cubes, new carpet, fresh paint, right beside the windows, etc. It seemed like office utopia – until we moved. I told my boss the yellow wall that our row of cubes butts up against is psychologically oppressive, the tall new cube walls actually cover part of the windows, and the windows look out at the office tower next door instead of out at the lake or the financial district like every over window in the office. We never know what time of day it is anymore.
So, last week when I took the day off and went to IKEA with Daniel I decided to pick up a plant for my desk at work. I thought it would bring some relief to my new oppressive cube-corner, but no sooner than I’d gotten it into the car Daniel told me he’d named the plant Bernis. Five seconds after that he asked if we can keep the plant at home – that they’d already bonded and he was going to take care of it…
Obviously I agreed that Bernis didn’t have to go into the office, and now I feel like I have a pet instead of another plant to keep alive: Yesterday i was asked if I could carry Bernis out to the balcony so he could get some sun during the day. :\
Ages ago someone at works showed me this list of Entertainment Weekly’s “New” Classics and I decided that I wanted to work through them. About a month passed without me looking at it again until I brought it up to Morag and Mavis and they got on board. Together we narrowed the list down to 10 we could all agree on (well, seven plus one veto pick each). Now we’ve got a list together and will start with Neuromancer in the next few weeks when we can each get our hands on a copy.
Our List of New Classics to read in 2011:
- Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- High Fidelity
- Interpreter of Maladies
- The Kite Runner
- Neuromancer
- Pastoralia
- The Tipping Point
- Bel Canto (my pick)
- Case Histories (Mavis’ pick)
- Naked (Morag’s pick)
Ones I’ve already crossed off the list (before knowing they were on the list):
- The Road
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Blindness
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Naked
- His Dark Materials
- The Lovely Bones
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
- The Ruins
- The Da Vinci Code
I was waiting for a subway after getting my teeth cleaned at the dentist when a random crazy (??) woman walked up to me and started singing in a creepy sing-song voice:
“Agenda 21! It’s super-important agenda you can read about onlinneeee…it’s really important to you unlesss you enjoy being a slaaaave”
I usually ignore the crazies, but her tune is still kind of stuck in my head, and this woman looked like a cute librarian who spends her weekends gardening so I took her advice and read about it onliinnnneeee. Here’s what I found out:
According to the UN it has something to do with sustainability – Agenda 21 is a comprehensive plan of action to be taken globally, nationally and locally by organizations of the United Nations System, Governments, and Major Groups in every area in which human impacts on the environment.
That seemed kind of vague and the website was super-confusing so I got bored pretty quicky and went back to Google. Now, I’m thinking this lady was referring to the AGENDA 21 CONSPIRACY…which claims the Agenda, which has been adopted by 178 government, is not just about ‘sustainability’, but by culling the population by about 15%. Cool!
Now I just need to figure out how the UN is using going to enslave me in it’s strives to reduce planetwide population.
The other day I was working from home and I was reading about Apartment Therapy’s Small/Cool contest. I don’t know what possessed me, but I figured that I have a pretty small place, and it could be cool (someday), so after doing some tidying up I took a few pictures of my place and submitted them for entry into the contest.
A few days later, lucky me, I got an email letting me know that my entry had been accepted and was put up online. BUT…Now I totally regret it because even though I love my place it’s definitely still a work in progress:
-My den is always a disorganized mess
-I want a rug for under my dining room table and/or for my living room
-I want new shelving in the bathroom
-I want all of my art all hung properly in nice frames rather than lying in a pile in my den
-I want a big-bright standout piece of art for the wall at the head of my dining room table
-I need to paint my bedroom, and finish painting my living room with Decorator’s White (I’ve left a tiny patch unpainted because even though I LOVE the white (Benjamin Moore’s Decorator’s White)…most people would assume that I just haven’t bothered to paint yet – this way i can point at the patch and say SEE! IT’S TOTALLY DIFFERENT!
…my OCD-esq list of improvements goes on and on. In summary…I love my place, but it needs work and most of the other Small/Cool rooms in the International Category are truly amazing. So I figure I can just use this as a way to get free decorating advice from people who know what their doing as they leave comments on my entry.
Regardless, it would be awesome if you voted for my space! I’m represeting Toronto in the International Group:
http://community.apartmenttherapy.com/contests/smallcool/2011/entries/2139
Well, not really….Not at all. But I’ve always had good luck when it comes to getting responses to my random e-mails to tv personalities and/or companies. No one who’d consider famous, though…
Come to think of it this really has nothing to do about fame, but I started off with one train of though and moved on to another so lets go with it. This is more about my…bold determination when it comes to reaching out to people who I need help from, or who annoy me.
More on my successful harassment e-mail campaigns:
- When I was in university I got coupons from Nestle after I wrote to tell them that I broke a tooth while eating a Turtle with a walnut shell in it.
- A few years ago i auditioned for the tv show Property Virgins ( I love you Sandra Rinomato, and I’m sorry I backed out…the timing just wasn’t right!).
- Earlier this year I beat Tarrion Warranty (If you’ve bought a home you know just how sneaky home developers can be) by e-mailing the VP Daniels Corporation – long boring story, but end result was a new floor in my den.
My newest minor success story is that I e-mailed Steven and Chris with a design question about the windows in my condo. I was looking for a way to dress my windows despite a strangely placed bulkhead. I found out on Friday that they were going to feature my question on Monday’s show. Amazing! The great news is that they suggested the solution I had already implemented (solar blinds because they’re clean and modern). We’re on the same wavelength Steven & Chris – you should consider hiring me.
The episode is here, which is a good thing because I forgot to PVR the episode and I would never have seen it otherwise.
