For the last two weeks in October the company I work for has their annual United Way campaign. And it is a fine thing indeed - lots of money is raised and we get to have a break from our regular work. A good portion of this money is raised through bake sales and other food-centric activities. Eating cream cheese brownies @ 9am is totally justifiable when you are doing it for the kids, no? So yeah, it was binge-city in these parts.
Last year a few of my co-workers went on this crazy cleanse/detox thing - they weren't very agreeable people during those two weeks [but they did eat pills from a large bottle that read "snacks" which I found highly amusing] - but I decided I wasn't up for that. So, today I did a one-day detox. I know - how pathetic is that? What's more pathetic is that it was so challenging for me. What's even more pathetic is that there are 30-minute detoxes available [on the internets] for people who are more crap than I am.
Things started off well enough with yummy Weatabix and vanilla soy milk...but by 11am my head was on my desk and I was crying out for high fructose corn syrup. Not my finest hour. The mid-afternoon slump was particularly harsh - I thought I was going to black out and crack my head open on the bathroom floor. This is the first time in well over a decade that I've gone without caffiene [and I don't drink much of it] for a whole day.
Right now I'm quite exhausted, but otherwise I don't feel any differently. I'm glad I did the detox though as it made me keenly aware of exactly what types of food I'm normally shoving into my piehole. Honestly, I don't think my diet is all that bad, but I might have to do some re-examining. That being said, I'm totally downing a double espresso and something with highly refined white sugar tomorrow morning.
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