The best change to the vanilla shake so far-- adding chocolate.
What was I thinking ordering vanilla? I thought I might get sick of chocolate so I ordered one packet of each flavor. Did I think this detox would give me a new personality?
On that note, let's talk about poop. Consider yourself warned.
It's a point of much discussion when it comes to detox, and so I feel I need to mention it. I have been anxiously awaiting for my intestinal output to change. I need to know that something is happening with my body, something concrete.
I need a grade.
Forget sugar withdrawal, I have been suffering from grade withdrawal for almost 10 years. Side effects include queasiness, insomnia, feelings of self doubt, restlessness, manic bursts of activity, excessive crying, obsession with childrens' progress reports, and a compulsive need to list every minute detail of my day to my husband. I NEED AN A!!! GIVE ME AN A!!!! I have yet to kidnap a professor and force her to assign letter grades to my every activity, but I'm not dead yet.
This is part of the reason I have cheated and weighed myself everyday this week. I KNOW that weight tells so little of the story. I KNOW that it takes several days to see a trend. I KNEW that at some point that number would go up and I would feel discouraged as I did two nights ago. But in the absence of letters, I need numbers. So I step on that scale every night, and the flashing numbers feel like a wheel of fortune spinning around. Will I win? I NEVER win games of chance, but I can't help myself. The reassurance of seeing those numbers go down are worth the disappointment of occasionally seeing them go up.
Which brings me back to poop. It is a measure of the health of our body. Dr. Oz did a whole show on the healthiest shape, color, and consistency. Many people have recorded significant increase in bathroom time while on this detox. Nothing changed for me until today and I kept wondering: "Is my body detoxing or not?" Today things went faster, and I couldn't help feeling like I had gotten a positive comment on a paper I had written.
So in case you were wondering, now you know.
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