#2

i have four days left of master cleanse number three.
remember how i wrote about ten days (even though i'm only doing 7 days this time) without food being the easy part? so while i still know that eating and staying healthy after you come off the cleanse is much harder, there is nothing easy about this. my headache won't go away and i want to eat food. and surprisingly (unfortunately), i'm not as grossed out by everyone in the breakroom at work eating lunch from mao's kitchen.

i also ran into a problem this time that i've never had before. apparently it DOES make a difference if you start your cleanse off with the tea as opposed to the salt water flush. i totally went into it this time feeling like a champ, and actually with a little bit of arrogance since i completed 10 full days, twice. but i learned that each time is brand new, each time is just as hard and just as challenging. doing it twice before doesn't mean shit. so when i downed a quart of salt water after my last meal and it didn't come out, i felt like a complete asshole. and super bloated.

everything is back on track now, and with the end approaching, as far as it seems to be, i am getting more excited about cooking when i'm back to eating again. i can't stop thinking about roasted beets.