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My guy and I are on a cleanse. Not a crazy cleanse. There is no gunpowder or lemonade involved. No special oil and bucket, no nasty mustard wrap. It is 30 days of 5 days ON and 2 days OFF.

The ON days are no meat, dairy or wheat. The OFF days are whatever you want. I am not so much about the all or nothing experience as my guy is. He is happy to eat super clean and then inhale a cheeseburger-pie-milkshake the next week. Me, I get offended if someone else is mentions a burger after I'm done my cleanse. I ease back in. An egg, a piece of spelt toast with preserves, organic wine from a humming birds thimble. Anyway...At either intensity dining out, drinking, stopping by the  pâtisserie  is NOT an option.

The food along with a couple of supports is acceptable to my Natural-path (covered by insurance but a good investment for the average boomer regardless). A liver booster Unda 243, which I hear is great for hangovers and contains 24% alcohol.  Multi-Glyco to even out moods (aka blood sugar) and Acidophilus to 'enhance intestinal health'. However, my hard core man wants to stick as close as possible to Dr. Thomas Rau plan. In this plan, The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health the foods and preparation methods are very restricted. Steamed broccoli, shredded beets, shredded carrots, shredded, cucumber and alkaline broth make from finely diced green beans, finely diced zucchini, finely diced celery and finely diced carrot are the stars.

We started this cleanse August 27. Today is suppose to be our first of two days off but we are waiting till Sunday, for some reason, put forth by my better half which I completely disagree with but am too weak to argue about; besides he's in charge of the shredding and dicing, I need him. 

We should be finished on September 27th. We measured and weighed ourselves. We mostly sleep, count the number of voids and spend time watching the food network. As you may have gathered not only do we save entertainment dollars; no one invites us for dinner therefore no hostess gift. And if we must partake in some community food related event for faux Facebook politics we can look the height of self-disciplined sophistication sipping minted fresh-lime water (a Mojito without).

~Eva Pea