the detox

Dear Dr. Joshi,

I got your book Joshi's Holistic Detox for Christmas. I sat in bed on Sunday, book in one hand, chocolate covered acai berries in the other. I flipped through the pages and thought "I can totally do this". Had a talk with the man to see if he was in and when he said yes decided that Monday was the day. We were going to do this detox!

Monday came and went and to my surprise it was pretty good. Then came Tuesday and already Mike and I were wondering just what in the hell we were going to eat.

No red meat
No dairy
No fruit
No wheat, gluten or yeast
No alcohol
No sugar
No artificial flavours
No cakes or biscuits
No spreads
No fun

So we headed to the grocer after school to pick up what little things we could seeing as all of the labels at our grocer are in Korean. This is what I learned - This is going to be hard - damn hard!

We left with a basket full of fish, spices, lemon, seeds and a soya drink.

Once home it was in to the kitchen to experiment. I began googling things that I've never googled before. "how to boil chickpeas", "how to make homemade mayonaise", "recipes for tofu".

The next couple of days consisted of quite a bit of time trying to find recipes and even more time trying to sort it all out in the kitchen. I give major props to people who eat this way on the daily. It takes serious time and planning.

Wednesday after school we were both starved so we headed to a chicken joint with the plan of getting some oven baked chicken. We ordered what we thought would be the healthiest thing on the menu. Plain chicken wings. They came out and just looking at them we knew we were cheating, and after our first bite there was no doubt. These wings were just too good to be considered detox. But, being the non-food-wasters that we are, we had to go ahead and eat every. last. wing. As I licked the last drip off my fingers a slight headache started to set in. I'm not sure if it was the grease or the guilt.

I've embarked on many a detox in my day. Most of which were with the goal of changing my body for appearance sake, most of which were never finished. For the first time in a long time I'm quite happy with my body and this detox is happening for a totally different reason. I need more energy! I need to get rid of the dark circles under my eyes! I want to be able to bounce out of bed in the morning ready to take on the day.

It's been a while since I've tried something like this and I'm excited to give it a go, especially with Mike as my comrade.

Thanks for the challenge Dr. Joshi

I'll keep you posted!