DETOX: Day 10

I am officially over the bump. The only time I crave something I shouldn’t dare eat is when I am stressed or bored. I have been extremely well behaved and reckon the worst thing I have put into my body the last 10 days has been a muffin. It was a low fat bran muffin, so really it doesn’t count. I needed that muffin more than I needed air one day while I was in the city and surrounded with endless temptations. If not for that muffin, I may have climbed a clock tower and started shooting.

Parents of one of my friends came and stayed a night in Crappalvania and took me out to dinner. At first they were hesitant; worried there would be nothing on the menu I could order because of my detox program, but I was pretty sure there would be an overabundance of items one who was trying to eat healthy could pick from.

Nope.

There was ONE thing I could eat on the entire 4 page menu and that was a raw salmon salad. Do you have any idea how much salmon I have consumed in the past 10 days? I am enemy number one at S.A.B.E (Salmons Against Being Eaten) and lately, when I go to the supermarket, I feel like I am being watched.

The lack of truly healthy items on that menu was a real eye opener. Unless you go to a specific restaurant designed for healthy eating, you are pretty much without options. This detox program has not only been good for my bowels but also my way of thinking about the food I consume. It is so easy to eat badly because they make all the bad stuff so damn convenient. Do you think if I had to trollop through the jungles and pick my own cocoa beans, then process those beans and follow all the steps necessary to make a chocolate bar I would crave them? Hell no!