It is fairly to easy to do a cleanse if you are either an excellent planner and always remember to bring all of your food with you, or if you just don't leave the house much. Finding three weeks where you don't have much planned can be challenging. Parties, celebrations and big dinners can be trying when you want to stay loyal to the plan.
The first time I went out to dinner on the cleanse with a group of women, after ordering mineral water and herbal tea, my friends thought I was surely pregnant. Why else would you restrict yourself so much? And then ordering food had it's own ordeals. It is challenging to ask about if a fish is wild caught or a meat organic, without being so annoying that you end up with spit in your food. "Oh, she wants wild caught fish cooked in only olive oil? Let's see how she likes this!"
And then there is the aspect of telling people (who ask) that you are doing a cleanse, and them nodding their heads and secretly thinking that you are a total freak. "Mmmm Hmmm, okay, sure... sounds really horrible, but good luck with that." The time period of, "after the cleanse" becomes an exciting time when you begin to make plans with friends, and you look at the calendar longingly.
But another way to look at the experience is to live life as normally as possible during the cleanse, because that puts in place an easy way to keep up this sort of lifestyle after the three weeks are over. Of course, the three weeks of cleansing are challenging, but the lessons learned about your body and your diet during the process are very eye-opening. When you feel great, and you know what you need to eat and drink to feel this way, then why not keep it going? "Nothing tastes as good as feeling good feels."
So even though you are cleansing, you can still have fun... to a certain degree. Pick up that smoothie or juice and bottoms up! Here's to sleeping well and feeling clear and healthy.
Cheers.
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