If you don't want to read a self-absorbed muse about my body, scroll down. Still here? My fiancee and I are nearing the end of day eight of this "eleven-day cleanse" process. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, I am on nothing but green vegetables and water. I am allowed to saute or steam these vegetables, and am allowed small amounts of olive oil and seasonings. Friday and Saturday, I can go back to the millet, quinoa, and fruit. Sunday, I'm done.
The last couple of days have been easier than I had imagined. Water fills me up, and frankly, if I weren't worried about losing energy completely, I wouldn't remember to eat. (The last thing my students need is me fainting tomorrow in the middle of lecture, however!) I've got green beans and broccoli coming up for dinner.
I've lost a few pounds, which is not unexpected and not unwelcome. I'm still a good ten to twelve pounds above the weight I'd like to be. My goal is somewhere around 175, a weight at which I can still have muscle definition but can also be reasonably fast. It's a weight I haven't been at since, oh, perhaps 2000. Too many pasta dishes, too many chocolate chip cookies, too many "third helpings" have taken their toll these last couple of years. Oh, and there's that pesky little fact that my metabolism doesn't function at 38 the way it did a decade or so ago.
Ah, vanity and self-absorption... thy name is Hugo Benedict Schwyzer. Well, at least I promise not to post pictures! And from an Anabaptist standpoint, restricting food intake, unlike my unfortunate shopping habit, isn't wasteful of money and resources!
Also noted:
I am Google's number three result for choice 4 men, number two for "hot teachers", the number five result for older men, younger women, number seven for gay history classes, and, most importantly, number two for chinchilla coats. In the last half hour, folks have come here with those queries.
And last but by no means least, happy news: Jenell Paris, who writes better prose than anyone else in the blogosphere (God, how I envy her) gave birth Monday to healthy twin boys: Oliver William and Wesley James. (I'm dying to know if the former is named for Cromwell and the latter named for the great Methodist and his hymn-writin' brother -- or the Cary Elwes character in Princess Bride). If you never read Jenell's blog, read her great CT article from last year: When Mother's Day is Hard. Read it, cry, and then rejoice that she and her husband have two beautiful ("Monday's child is fair of face") and healthy sons today.
Hugo,
'A body cleanse' is great to detoxify your body once in a while,I used to do them all the time when I was younger. I don't do it anymore, it makes me weak and I feel ill. I try to maintain a healthy diet instead.___You certainly don't need to lose any weight, you are in better shape than most people, yet, you are constantly working on your body.__ The 'body project'......sorry, don't get mad, I just read the book!
Posted by: mercedes | June 16, 2005 at 11:46 AM