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DD14: Master Yoda and TheBets

Posted by betsy in Body & Mind, Dirty & Fabulous on Feb 9th, 2010 | one response

Bridget Jones’s Update of Day 14: BMI: 25.1 (+/1 0.00) Activity Level: Nope, still recovering from throwing my back out 2 days ago. Meditation: No. Wish I could have fit it in. More and more important to get up early for both exercise and meditation. Or at least meditation. Brief Observations: Little chills. Still wish I could take Advil.

“Do or Not Do. There is no try.”

A great quote. Straight to the point.

Now I’ve been writing about my experiences with Clean Detox for over 2 weeks. The Good (great skin, clearer thinking) and the bad (eating cake batter a few days ago.) I’ve mentioned the online Clean Detox support site. I post my blogs and questions there, and have many of the great members give me comments, pointers, and help.

But yesterday, I nearly choked on my Carob-Blueberry-Spinach smoothie (it’s really good, don’t let the name turn you off,) when I saw Mr. Detox himself, Yoda of Clean, Dr. Alejandro Junger. He’s the author of Clean: The Revolutionary Program to Restore the Body’s Natural Ability to Heal Itself), which the diet I’ve been chit-chat-bloggity-blogging about for the past few weeks.

It was not exactly what I expected.

Perhaps I thought I’d get the “Atta girl” for dusting myself off and getting back on the Clean Horse again.

Instead I got tough love.

TheBetsy,
I’ll tell you what your biggest problem is, you are too funny for your own good.
you can laugh yourself out of any situation, and you almost laughed me out of pointing out that you are not really doing Le CLEAN Programme as me, Le Docteur, designed it.
And even though I’d rather read your posts than watch an episode of MONK, you are missing on the real benefits.
Whatever you decide to do, please don’t stop posting…

(Exerpt from Dr. Alejandro Junger response on TheBetsy on my.cleanprogram.com)

What? Now that was not what I expected. Confused, I asked for further elaboration and got:

Betsy,
what I meant was that the program I designed is without slips.
C’mon, is it such a big deal to not cheat for 21 days ?
Look at what is the possibility, and then think, were those spoons of whatever you slipped with worth it ?

(Exerpt from Dr. Alejandro Junger response to TheBetsy on my.cleanprogram.com)

Argh.

Drat. And a…

Oh no he didn’t.

(Yes, Uhmm, Betsy, he totally did.)

I got called out on a freakin’ diet. By the Guru. The Yoda of Clean. But there’s truth in what Dr. Yoda-Junger is saying.

“Do or not do. There is no try.”

I am no detox-Jedi, more like a wayward Padawan, but I’d really like to be hardcore. I started hardcore. And I guess I was trying, not doing.

I put into perspective: I put myself through 14 days of radical diet change. I’ve been smoothie-ing, Sweat!ing on and attempting (!) to meditate. But was it all for nothing? Did my two spoonfuls cheat me from experiencing the full breadth and depth of the Detox?

And then this, as if to seal the deal:

LeBetsy,

I was just saying that LeClean I designed without slips, and even though nobody should quit and punish themselves for slipping, you won’t get the full benefit, and it may even be the difference between having a Good experience versus a mind-blowing-life-transforming one.
I just hate to see people cheating themselves from an amazing opportunity, so I’m a little tough.

I guess you will only know if you complete 21 days without cheating….

(Exerpt from Dr. Alejandro Junger response to TheBetsy on my.cleanprogram.com)

I guess I just got challenged.

Crap.

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