Hey Cara...
I am ever so curious about your first pre-cleanse day. Did you eat out? Did you go to grocery shopping? Did you cook? Please, tell all!
How about the rest of the gang? Brad, are you practicing getting up early? Ashley B., are you sippin' on green tea? Gina, have you already created your sweat lodge?
posted by Kooch @ 9:40 AM
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I haven't had time to make my sweat lodge yet but today sounds like a great day for that. So far my greatest (funniest?) struggles are deciding when I'm ACTUALLY starting the pre-cleanse "Ok, as of right now I am pre-cleansing." then "Ok, right after this last little bit of goat cheese, I am officially pre-cleansing.", etc. And then allowing myself to start pre-cleansing in terms of reducing my activities. For example, I just got The Darjeeling Limited DVD in the mail as well as Michael Moore's "Sicko" and a lovely pre-cleanse afternoon would be watching those movies while sitting on my couch. For me, allowing myself to do that, instead of studio/student work is more challenging than giving us any food on the cleanse. Maybe I'll meet myself halfway and just watch one? Ok, now I'm seriously starting the pre-cleanse. ;)
That reminds me, I just watched the Darjeeling Limited. A sure sign that I need a cleanse...I watched it in three segments as I kept falling asleep. This wasn't due to boredom but just plain tiredness. My biggest pre-cleanse struggle is limiting my technology use. Email and text addictions!
Gina I am totally with you on the, right after this I am starting to pre cleanse. I actually washed all of my windows this weekend trying to get ready for the cleanse week. I am so freaked out that while I am cleansing I would want to also make sure the windows are clean. I plan on having a super clean house so I can enjoy long baths water flushing and building a sweat lodge in my closet! I think it is sick how exciting this can become.
MO
Wow! Good to know the see-saw about when to start is happening with others. I finally reminded myself that I am NOT a work project with a start & stop deadline. Once I'd really accepted that the pre-week is just what it means, preparation for, then I relaxed. Being gentle includes my thoughts too, right?
Yesterday & today I did a very good job of limiting my bread & starch consumption. Yahoo!
Love, Linda Dean
I spent the weekend cooking Lasagna and Empanadas ... and I made a hazelnut tort. My son turned 20 today, so I threw him a birthday party .... Now I am ready to begin my pre cleanse. I did buy a fridge full of veggies .... and I watched the whole 2 disc series of Joseph Campbell. The Power of Myth ... which is gorgeous ... I think a great pre cleanse activity ....
Hello, Kula! I spent my weekend in food conflict. Not in a bad way, at all, but it really let me examine my eating habits. "Let's eat out one more time!" and "I'm just going to eat this last bit of chocolate and THEN I'll start." I seem to have a bit of a comfort food problem. Good to know!
Last night I scrubbed the refrigerator so my delicious new fruit and veggie stockpile would have a proper place to go. I also spent what seemed like hours chopping and chopping and chopping. . . To top it off, I got up early this morning and enjoyed a cup of tea. Little things, but I can already tell they'll make a big difference. I'm so excited to share this experience with all of you. Have a great week!
-Ryann
Ok, I'll admit it. When I left the group on Friday, one part of me was excited about the cleanse and another part was saying - what have you gotten yourself into?? But for me, as right-brained as all get out, I'm thinking of this kind of like a science experiment. Just follow the rules in a controlled environment and see how it turns out. So I've already gotten used to drinking water without ice. That was an easy place for me to start. Then I ate all vegetarian on Saturday - tomato soup and an apple from Panera and the veggie plate at Ted's Montana Grill. I really didn't feel like I was missing out on much, and the food was very good. However, I did break down after the big KU basketball win on Sunday and go out for pizza. But I SWEAR that's the last pizza night for a couple of weeks. Overall, it's interesting to step out of auto-pilot mode and examine your food habits - certainly something I've never given much thought to before. Also, I went to Nature's Pantry on Saturday and stocked up on fresh veggies and fruit. Of course, now that I've got it all home, I'm wondering what in the heck I'm going to do with it. But my mom called last night to tell me she'd downloaded a bunch of vegetarian recipes for me off the web - what a great support! But my bf is teasing that he's gonna take bets from my friends and family to see when I fall off the wagon. They all understand what a giant step this will be for me if I can follow through with it! Btw, I was so excited about the info packet that I got on Friday, that I took it to a friend's house to show it off and I left it there! Gina, is it possible for you to post it online??
Thanks for listening. I'm hanging in there!
Kudos on your more mindful eating this weekend, Cara! Sometimes the hardest part is changing your perspective and I think you are well on your way. I watched a portion of the KU game with friends at a bar. They were all ordering food (bar food) when I got there and I asked the server what non-meat/non-animal options they had. A guy from a nearby table yelled over that the chicken such and such was good and that I should try the salmon. Hmmm...I realized that my food choices might just be an opportunity to educate others. I could have easily been frustrated that there were no (literally zero) non-meat items on the menu, but instead I was grateful for many reasons--mostly, I am so happy to be a part of a community that is open-minded.
Getting up early?! hahahaha.. haha.. hahahahahahaha.
Unlike the dietary aspect and yoga practicing which I'm not going to be saving up for (I figure why wait?), that is something I am totallllllllllly going to wait on and save up for = ).
Saturday I decided to try to work with the dietary aspect a bit.. I think i had some fruit for breakfast and then lunch and dinner was my specialty...
I took a pan, some olive oil, some green beans some chopped up onions, some galic (yeah its pronounced gaaaa lick), and some peas. I cooked all that jazz up and towards the end I got a bit crazy and added some cinnamon to the mix. It has an interesting flavor for sure. What i noticed is when you are cooking stuff with peas, the peas when they get mooshed up seem to act like a thickening agent, so this was almost like eating stew of some sort. the rest of my weekend followed some random concoctions similar to this one...
one of the things i noticed physically about it all, is that i would eat until i felt full. typically this wasnt until my bowl was empty, but shortly after (maybe 15-30 mins) i felt a umm i think the best way to describe it is a hungry sensation. Its not one of those OMGOSH IM IN DIRE NEED OF FOOOD RIGHT NOW sort of hungry but like hey dude, i could use a little somethin somethin to top me off. so i argued back and forth with my stomach for another 5-10 minutes and i won the battles = ). But it got me thinking, is my stomach so used to being at like full power digestion for so long that this is the norm, so by the time i eat something that is maybe a bit lighter, is my body breaking down the lighter stuff so fast that it doesnt register correctly that i had food in my stomach? oh ho!
Coffee & I are sharing a slow and tearful farewell. Very slow, in fact, as I am drinking it while writing this and I was drawing all day yesterday and probably drank 3-4 (progressively weaker!) pots of the stuff. I think part of it is old orality business, just having a mug from which to constantly sip; when I get manic about drawing or writing and work for hours straight, I tend to drink coffee compulsively rather than eat... repetitive compulsive behaviors such as the coffee-drinking and twirling my hair help me think. It's like a physical mimicry or manifestation of the fluctuations of my mind. Granted, this can be very good for the 'creative process' but taken to extremes (love 'em!) it leaves me nervy and bummed. BUT like a true addict I doubt my ability to function without it, the daily gross intake of it having become so integral to my life. In addition to a pot in the morning it bookends meals, is delicious in the evening... I think I'm also addicted to the taste, which is funny because I can recall asking to taste my dad's coffee when I was 11 or 12 and immediately spitting it out and marveling that anyone would drink such a brackish disgusting unsugared beverage. Ha! Is there such a thing as coffee-flavored tea? I know decaf coffee isn't purely decaf...
At least I don't smoke... just gnaw on pens...
ashley b.
brad, mint goes really well with peas. cinnamon? maybe as part of a curry sauce? but hey, i love your adventurous spirit.
ashley b, why don't you start a new habit of sniffing coffee beans while you drink tea or water? like have a little cup of beans to sniff. kind of ties into that addict thing ;)
cara, if you can't get your original packet from your friend's, let me know when/where you'll be in for class this week and i can make you a new packet. you'll really want it for this week!
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