Top Shelf only, baby: juice cleanse, Day 1

Aaaaah, there they are, lined up just so across the top shelf of our fridge: the eighteen bottles of juice that represent the sum-total of my sustenance for the next three days.

To kickstart my renewed dedication to lifetime fitness and health, I'm doing another Urban Remedy 3-day juice cleanse.

Also, I ate a lot of cheese in France. ;>

I won't lie. As I get ready to start again, I imagine it's kinda like contemplating childbirth after you've already had a child and KNOW, in your bones, how awful it can be and yet unavoidable, on the way to something better.

I remember very well how distressingly shitty I felt on Day 2 last time around. But I also remember how clear and good I felt when I first woke up on Day 3. Kind of like how you feel when you first lay eyes on the baby and forget about the labor.  

And in truth, I don't really know how much my first 3-day cleanse experience was just about the juice.

That time, back in April, my youngest sister was dying. In fact, she breathed her last the night between Day 2 and Day 3. I had all these complicated feelings around my choice to drink only juice when my sister hadn't eaten anything at all for at least 6 weeks and lay, wasting, on her way to dissolution. I had all these complicated feelings around the very fact that my sister was dying at all, so much family-stuff to deal with, not to mention (did I already mention?) my sister was dying.

Honestly, it was a relief that whole weekend not to have to think about what I was going to feed myself, to have all those decisions made for me and numbered 1 through 6.

I stumbled through most of Day 3, as you do when your sister dies.

So, even though I know this three-day-er is going to be hard, still, I'm looking forward to feeling it without that added piece.  Without that added grief and horror.

Pollyanna says, That'll be nice.

Oh, something I feel I should add, to be fair. Just because I'm doing a juice cleanse does not mean I'm not drinking coffee.  Sure, that's probs "forbidden" (like I care), but since I'm choosing to do this, I'll make that one little variation in the interest of not taking to my bed in two hours with The Headache To End All Headaches.  I'm having my morning cup -- after the hot water + lemon -- then at 9, I will hit Juice 1.

If nothing else, as I always say, it'll be an experience. It'll be material, like everything, for thinking and writing. And for sure, it'll make a big change for me, a seasonal break from my culinary tendencies, clearing the slate (or cheese board, as you prefer) and starting fresh.

I am glad to be doing it, glad I can choose, glad in the knowledge that beyond these three days, there will be plenty of other days, on which I can make the same or different choices, alive and fit and well, for a long time to come.

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