day .5

The Master Cleanse

2 tablespoons fresh-squeezed lemon juice
2 tablespoons organic grade b maple syrup
1/10 teaspoon cayenne
add to 10 oz. of fresh, filtered water. Drink liberally for a minimum of ten days, and, oh yeah, don't eat or drink anything else (except laxative herbal teas and water).

oh boy.

This blog will be a documentation of our (Rachel and Bartley's) first experience with fasting. To put it in context, this is from two people who only miss meals as a result of death or dismemberment, and often can't go five minutes without contemplating their next gastronomical undertaking. So far, we've noticed many symptoms of a power outage; that is to say, repeated groping for the light switch-- oh, let's eat a burrito! wait--no. damnit. Why are we doing this again?

We are doing this because we can, because we lucky bastards have the privilege of choosing not to eat, because we could stand to take inventory of what we eat (and drink!) and make better choices, and because it will be awesome when, on day eight, we start to hallucinate (just kidding).

Last meal: 2pm, Tuesday, June 10th. Bartley had a turkey and havarti on a baguette and Rachel had a vegetarian on dark rye with a mixed green salad. Bye bye, baby.