The Business of LIfe in One Swig

Vertigo-Go and The Social Contraints of Detox.

Posted by betsy in Body & Mind on Feb 28th, 2010 | one response

Bridget Jones’s Update of Clean Detox Day 31 or Day 18: BMI: Didn’t weigh myself, but I don’t think much movement. Which has lead to an interesting discussion with my hubby, a sage, who pointed out that maybe I was eating too much. As I said sage. Discuss more below. Activity Level: I wanted to get some SWEAT on, but the dizzy spells are still here. Yoga in vertigo is a short course to vomiting. Don’t want to be Vomit-girl at the local Open Doors Studio. Brief Observations: I’ve pretty much decided to go off Detox tomorrow. Will go into it more in the post.

Dizzyness is still with me, but I’m on Antivert and it’s lessened it a degree or two. Which is great, but I still haven’t worked out. I just don’t trying to manipulate myself into yoga poses whilst battling Vertigo (the medical term for what’s going on with me, not the Film, but feel free to call me Kim Novak.)

I also blew the resistance band out of my EA Sports Active. My Wonder Woman strength aside, the band that it comes with stinks. If you’re a moderately in-shape person you’ll be annoyed with the resistance. Frankly I’m glad it’s gone and I just ordered a new one, with more oomph! on Amazon. I’m committed to doing yoga tomorrow and just work through the vertigo if it happens.

Another issue is my weight having plateaued—the BMI is not going up or down too much. I’ve lost quite a few lbs. while on Clean Detox, which is great, but I’d like to lose more.

As I was lamenting about it, my husband piped in. Seems, volume-wise, my smoothies seem huge to him. Perhaps I should double check the quantity of ingredients? Seemed reasonable, so I did. And found that I was using about 1/4 more than I should in my smoothies. Whoops. I guess I’ve been gradually increasing them, without much conscious thought.

So back I go. Measuring carefully. It’s good to do an audit at some point when you’re doing something like a diet or any huge project. I’m glad I did, now I’m more mindful. (Thanks honey!)

Now on the the sticky-wicket issue. Quitting Detox. Tomorrow my family and I are going to a dinner at a friend of my husbands. I don’t know them well (but what I do know, I really like) and I just don’t see Detox smoothies fitting into the evening. At all. They have young children and a newborn, and I don’t need to add any pressure on them with my special needs. Nor do I see myself NOT eating, or bringing a smoothie with me, as can be confusing to your host at best, rude at the very worst.

If it were one of my close friends, I might be able to get away with it. They’d understand but, then again, they’ve been around me during this odyssey so it’s not coming out of left field. Tomorrow will be Day 19 of my extended Detox (Day 31 of the total Detox) a substantial amount of time, so I’m pretty Ok with putting a halt to it.

Starting tomorrow, my plan is to do two smoothies (AM and lunch) and just try my best at dinner. Of course, dinners I prepare myself will be CLEAN approved. The goal is to be Clean 80% of the time post-cleanse.

Thanks again for all the support and encouragement my readers have given to me, I am truly grateful.

In the next few posts:

- I plan on doing a post-game wrap=up for y’all and myself. Lessons learned, etc.

- Review of EA Sports Active and Wii Fit Plus.

- Local VideoBetsy! Betsy does Boston with a visit to an Eyebrow Guru & Make-up artist Lauren Genatossio (and I didn’t leave empty handed for my readers!)

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