The Clean Journey

Hey, look – a blog entry after so long (Pausing for the applause to die down). I’m just here to document what could be a detox journey to weight loss, a positive body image and a healthy mind. Since most of us have a body image complex (including yours truly) and it’s a life long struggle to keep living up to our own expectations – meanwhile battering our body for no fault of its own. It’s not easy but I’ve decided to shelve away some anger and sorrow resulting from thinking about my body and try being positive and do something good for a while. I hence decided this year to try Dr. Alejandro Junger’s Clean Program. It is always an inertia that is stopping us from achieving our weight goals – it is “Tomorrow I will eat healthy”, “I’m too tired for a workout today” or “Just a last piece of pizza”. And the clean program is just a precursor to my underlying problems – kicking some bad habits.  

What is Clean?

I heard about clean from tp, who sent me the eBook and encouraged me to start thinking about a serious detox. It is basically a 21 day cleanse that helps detox the body and help with natural healing process. In the book, Dr. Junger talks about how western medicine does not treat the cause of a diseases, it just strives to make the symptoms go away. Not blaming medicine, but that is exactly what people want – they just want their pain gone. Nobody is interested in a detailed analysis of their disease, nor interest in finding out the cause. All the food we eat is directly affecting our physical and mental health. Physically, the more we eat processed foods, the more work for the gut to break down substances and digest. Basically, I am now giving my gut a well-deserved timeout.

Why now?

I’m beginning my 7 day pre-cleanse as a test of will power. I don’t want to commit to a 21 day cleanse without experiencing a trial and knowing what to expect. Also, now would be the worst time to detox, because a trip to india is coming up next month. A trip to home means LOTS of spicy home food and LOTS of spicy junk and spicy street food. Everything with spice. Throw in a festival and a wedding in the mix, it’s a crazy amount of bad, spicy, bad-for-the-gut food. That’s just like cleaning your house to make it dirty right after. Moreover, Tp was also interested in doing the 21 day cleanse, so it’s better doing it together, so we can support and motivate each other. I have decided to track my clean diet – recipes, workouts and cheats (I hope to keep that minimal), so it will help me motivate myself.

Weight Loss

One week of clean is not for weight loss, it is too short and I want to keep it easy for the first time. I’m still just documenting my weight for documentation sake. I now weight 140 lbs (I’m 1.64m), measured one day before starting the clean program.