Day 1

I have always cautioned people going on a cleanse that the first 3 days are the worst. You're confronting habits as well as cravings and it all hits you at once. For people only doing three days, they never get to see that it actually gets better, easier, less dramatic. They and those around them notice the irritability, the bitchiness as it were, but not much benefit.

In my first 24 hour span, I have shed 2.5 lbs. While this may seem extreme, I have come to realize that all I have shed thus far is my "BS Layer". The BS Layer is the coating that every individual has surrounding them just under the skin that repels the bullshit of other people. I suddenly have no tolerance for bullshit. Better still, I have no tolerance for what I conceive as bullshit which on any other day I may have overlooked. For instance, when a friend stopped by my desk at work and casually leaned back against the wall lifting his leg to rest his foot against the wall for balance, I said, "Get your foot off my wall! Do you do that at home? Would you ever? I don't need to be cleaning people's footprints, dirty, nasty NYC walked footprints off the wall."

I am wondering if I need to set-up a perimeter, a safe distance for people at work to approach me, like the moat they put around the lions' den at the zoo. Step within that boundary, and I cannot be held responsible for what happens to you. Inevitably, there is always some jackass who decides they want to play with the big kitty, and they get mauled, but the majority of the population is spared.

Have I painted that bleak a picture of my state? The only thing I'm really having a hard time with at the moment is habit; like my habit of walking past the kitchen at work and grabbing a pretzel. I had to consciously remind myself not to eat which tells me that I had started to do a lot of casual eating without thinking. (That probably accounts for the holiday weight gain that never went away.) I have to find something else to do with myself in those moments -- some project to wrap my mind around -- and the pretzel lets go its hold on me.

Daily Breakdown:
Juices Consumed:  Banana/nectarine/carrot/spinach/ginger/lemon/strawberry; Naked Green Machine; Odawalla Superfood with Flax Seed. (Typically, I like to do all the juicing myself, but my schedule yesterday made that impossible, and I needed to keep the juice flowing.)
Weight Loss:  2.5 lbs (Juice Feast Total: 2.5 lbs)
Bodily Functions:  Yes, reader, I will be talking about poop in this section, but not all the time. At some point, it will cease to happen, so for now I'll just say, "All systems normal".
Exercise: While I did run around the city with realtors looking for office space yesterday, I did not have the opportunity to make it to the gym or the park for a workout.

One down, 39 to go. I better get juicing before I face the world!