Empty Plate, Clean Slate
Originally published at Kimberly Sabatini. You can comment here or there.
Today I’m doing a detox.
Someone shoot me.
Every spring, as the weather warms up and more and more skin is exposed to the light of day, I begin to see the need to get myself back on track and feeling healthy.
The Easter Bunnies have been eaten and now it is time.
Today I am doing a 24 hour detox.
I’ve done program detoxes before and realized that I already have everything I need to reboot to default settings. So, I have my favorite detox tea. And my Vitamix…
And don’t forget lots of water with lemon too.
I felt great until about noon and then, even though I don’t ingest a large amount of caffeine, what little I was missing started getting all snarly with me. And the guy who came to look at the AC units in the house kept talking to me. Seriously-talking.
But I’m still holding up. One meal to go-I won’t mention that it’s Pizza Tuesday at the Sabatini house. *head thunk* Gosh, I just want to curl up in a ball and sleep. Just seven more hours and all the after school activities to go.
And here’s the thing-I’m not 100% sure if a 24 hour detox makes me miserable because I’m detoxing or I’m just brutally hungry and crabby. BUT there is one big reason I always find myself doing it at least once every year. If I can survive that 24 hours then anything I put in my mouth the next day is spectacular. If I don’t go cold turkey, but cut back instead, I find that I struggle every day, feeling deprived.
Make sense? Heck if I know. But for now, I’ve got to believe that one day with a clean plate gives me a clean slate.
Anybody else “cleaning house” for spring?