Day 58: 2nd day of 2-day cleanse. The key is to stay occupied... (And remind joe not to ask me if I want to eat out tonight!)
Just
walked into the hair salon to see about getting my hair done. They don't
have any open spots. In a way that is fine – it smells so full of
chemicals in there that when I go back I'm going to wear a gas mask!
Meanwhile I'm going to go get a massage tonight as I had promised
myself. I decided to reward myself for doing a two day cleanse by
getting a massage. Happily it also serves as part of the detox process.
So I can luxuriate and feel like I'm doing something good for myself.
Carla
The Singing Patient
http://thesingingpatient.com/
Day 58 part 2 (late late night post): I made it! 2-day cleanse!! When I reach my ideal weight and/ or health goals, I won't have to do 4 per month.
Got a massage today as reward for doing the cleanse, and how
interesting to get a professional massage for the first time while not
in pain. Normally, I get a massage in hopes of reducing pain. And lying
on the table is usually uncomfortable, at least until they start digging
in. Not today!
Also, normally after having my face in a cradle for a half hour, I'm all congested. Also not true today!
I may meet all my 60-day goals!
Meanwhile..
I have guitar students in less than 8 hours ..
Carla
The Singing Patient
http://thesingingpatient.com/
AUGH! It's day 57! So I'm having a cleanse day.
Wow, my 2nd 30 days is going by so fast.
The plan is to get in 4 cleanse days per 30 days.
I got in my first 2 cleanse days pretty early on in this 2nd 30-day
installment of "carla's health adventures" (subtitle: I hate cellcept
and will do anything to avoid it).
Then I went off on my 10-day trip down South, and did my best to stay on the plan while traveling. I did pretty well.
Now I'm back and- whoops! It's day 57 and I gotta squeeze in 2 more
cleanse days between now and Sunday. So today is cleanse day 3 of 4, and
I guess tomorrow will be 4 of 4, because I'm gigging saturday and going
to NYC to tape a fun 20-minute musical. Don't want to do either of
those on an empty stomach.
5 minutes ago, Joe turns to me and
says "Moe's for dinner?" to which I replied "I'M FASTING!" This is the
second time he's done that. In his defense, he just had a 2-hour nap.
I think next week, Joe is going to do the nutrition plan with me for a
week, as a show of support. I could use a little morale boost, having
someone else on board.
and in the TMI department, i had to take
an advil twice this week because my shoulder was bothering me. I've had
chronic shoulder pain for 20 years, and it has mostly disappeared since
starting this plan- so I was disappointed when it showed up this
week.... UNTIL my monthly visitor showed up! Normally my PMS is so bad I
have to take 2 percocet and sleep sitting up.
So- now I see
this past couple days' mild discomfort not as a setback but as a huge
improvement over my typical PMS experience. YAY!
Well it's
only 9pm, so I still have a few more hours to get through before I've
officially survived his cleanse day, but Moe's closes in 15 minutes so I
think I'll make it.
Carla
The Singing Patient
http://thesingingpatient.com/
Day 56: gained 1/2 pound in a day. Lesson: do not weigh yourself daily.
Feeling not quite as exhausted. Followed the plan well today.
Long drive up past Westchester and back for a friend's father's wake.
Our dog was very angry that we were leaving, as I just retrieved her
from the babysitter last night. Sometimes I wish I could come up with an
excuse to make her a therapy dog so I could take her everywhere with me.
I'm not sure I know how to behave at a wake. I only met the deceased once. It's my husband's close friend's father. I find myself conversing
about… Almost anything. And making light conversation. We were laughing
a bit with my husband's friend and his wife which felt natural and
normal – it's kind of our way of injecting a bit of normality. But some
part of me did wonder if we were making others look askance.
No jokes about John's father or anything inappropriate like that.
After my grandmother's funeral, we all went back to the house and I
found an essay I had written when I was 16. I was supposed to interview
an older relative, and of course she was the only one who lived within
90 miles of us. In fact she lived a quarter-mile away.
My
grandma had a few mental issues, something I didn't realize when I was a
kid. I just thought she was eccentric and I can always make her laugh,
so nothing really seems strange to me. But in reading this essay years
later, I realize how skewed her point of view was, and we were all
laughing uproariously at this view of my grandmother through 16-year-old
eyes.
At that time, it was a laugh we all very much needed.
There was a lot of family drama surrounding my grandmother's death. My
mom took the brunt of it, and she really needed a good laugh.
Anyway… I am happy to be healthy enough to go and be of support to my
husband for events like this. And to have been of some support to my
family on my ten-day trip to South Carolina that I just returned from.
And of course to perform my goofy songs and go out to waffle house
afterwards and have a blast with my friends. I take none of this for
granted, as I've had periods where I've been hospitalized or trapped in
the house because I can't make it up and down the one stair to the
outdoors.
I'm very grateful for the level of health that I have right now, and I only intend to get even healthier.
December 8, I get oral surgery. I'm taking homeopathic remedies every
day to prepare for it. We're going to reopen where two of my wisdom
teeth were extracted and dig around looking for infections and dead bone
fragments. I can't believe I'm signing up for this.
Carla
The Singing Patient
http://thesingingpatient.com/
Day
55: slept 12 hours but still tired. Battled flood of email for couple
hours then did 5-hour round trip (6 with stops) to retrieve our doggy.
Shoulder bugging me tonight - looks like Advil if I want to sleep. I need to do a cleanse day ASAP!
Overdue for vlog/ songs. Sorry- just tired!
Carla
The Singing Patient
http://thesingingpatient.com/
