Master Cleanse - Day 10

It's over! I did it, or WE did it, because Denise and I have become a single unit.

Impressions? Very cool. 10 days without solid food is not that hard. My biggest challenge was that I was bored of the lemonade by the seventh day. I didn't not like it, but I was just tired of doing the same thing everyday. I lost some weight and I feel more comfortable in my clothes, but nothing major. I feel like I have more energy overall. I feel focused. I had lots of time to catch up on reading and cleaning my apartment.

In the end, I consumed about 80 lemons, 1 and a half gallons of maple syrup, and gallons and gallons of water. The first 4 days were done without some of the necessary supplies, so when I do it again, it will interesting to see how things are different. I want to do another one before I leave Seoul, maybe in July. One of the best things about the cleanse is how little garbage I produced. Seoul has separate bins for food garbage, so it all goes into one bin, recycling goes into others and garbage into one more. The recycling is better than anything I've seen, so almost everything went there. The lemons went to the food garbage, as did the tea bags. The only garbage I produced the whole week was using q tips and kleenex, oh and toilet paper.

I've been in mega planning mode for the big trip in September. Its getting serious, like looking at flights, getting one to Vancouver booked, looking at accommodations, planning a route. Leesa is on board with Denise and I too, so the three of us will be traveling together again. In a way, I feel a little anxious because there is SO much stuff I want to do and see, and 3 months doesn't seem long enough. But I guess that's the way the cookie crumbles...traveling cannot last forever. In a book I read recently, the author described a friend who would be in an amazing place during a trip, and was saying "I can't wait to come back here". Carpe diem...I don't want to be that person, so there will be lots to absorb during each moment. I probably won't be back to visit some of these places ever again, so there's lots of pressure...from myself.