Tag Archive: cleanse

On Quitting, Failure, and Eating Solid Food

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I caved. And I didn't just go down, I went down in flames. Just a few hours after I wrote about how hard, emotionally, it was to abstain from eating solid food, it all became too hard.  As I went to warm up yet another bowl of pureed green vegetable soup, my wife and sister…

The First (Unexpected) Lesson from the Liquid Cleanse

A day and a half into my experiment with an all-liquid, water and green-vegetable juice cleanse, I've already learned something huge. It has nothing to do with alkalinity or raw food or how all I want to do right now is eat something (solid, for the love of god). It's just this: Real food is…

7 Days of Water, Green Vegetable Juice, and Urine Testing: Does It Get Any Better?

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Call it post-race blues if you like.  It happened after qualifying for Boston, and now it's happening after running my first 50-mile ultramarathon. The story is the same: A planned week off of running turns into two (or three) weeks. And then I get into watching television shows, like the important Bachelorette. This all opens…

3 Fitness Experiments I'm Dying to Try

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First, thank you for all the congratulations and kind words about my 50-miler!  I sincerely hope you all got the message that it's something I really believe you could do, if that's what you decided you wanted. I'm no great runner.  I absolutely hated running until I got to college, and even when I did…

Cleaning out the ol' pipes

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You may be wondering why I'm choking down green slime.  I'm doing a seven-day cleanse; that's why.  To be honest, I have no idea if these things work.  I know there's a lot of doubt about whether herbs and fiber can actually do anything to clear out your liver, kidneys, lymph system, and a bunch…