Day 2 Part 2

Alright,

I would have to say Day 2 is absolutely the worst day of the cleanse. You're in the middle, too invested to back out, yet still too far away from the finish line. I was faced with some pretty challenging situations throughout the day, and have learned a lot from them.

So I wake up, with the air of excitement from yesterday (when every juice was new to me) completely deflated, knowing that I have to gargle lake water and then chase it down with celery. I sit in a meeting with this green juice trying not to look like I detest the meeting, though my facial expressions every time I sipped was difficult to mask. I'm sure my new boss (like, brand new- this was his first week) perceived me as the girl who hates her job....or the girl who always looks like she's smelled something funny in the room.

The first challenge hit me when we went bowling for a team outing. I was looking forward to this because keeping myself busy made me forget about food, which is super hard at a desk job where I spend 60% of my day waiting for excel documents to load and reports to pull which left plenty of time to snack. When I stepped through the doors of the bowling center the smell knocked the wind out of me. Warm, cheesy, pizza decorated the table. Am I hallucinating? Did that pepperoni just wink at me? I was like a moth to a flame. I spent half our time there hovering over the pizzas, inhaling deeply.

I was scheduled to meet my boyfriend Luke at the Oakland Coliseum to watch the Yankees take on the Athletics, so I quickly ran back to work. Let me tell you, if you use public transport to commute to work, you are in for a hassle. Just think, I had to transport 6 glass bottles to and from work. I couldn't bring glass into the stadium, so I had to transfer the 2 remaining juices of the day into plastic bottles, stick ice packs around them, and shove them to the bottom in case the stadium didn't even allow outside liquids. I met Luke outside and still had half my beet, ginger, and (uck, WHY) celery juice. He gave me a pep talk and made me chug it before we entered the stadium. We walk in, and the first thing we do (well, after a restroom stop, because remember, I am consuming large amounts of liquid every 2 hours), is stop at a stand to buy nachos for Luke. I'm getting lightheaded at this point, as I inhale the scent of hot dogs, nachos, and popcorn on the way to our seats. Several times Luke had to snap me out of a daze because I was focusing on the nachos in his hand instead of his face when he was talking to me. Since the Yankees were sucking so badly, all I could do was enviously watch the people sitting around me devour their garlic fries and corn dogs.

Poor Luke, I think I spent the 3 hours last night discussing in extreme detail of what I wanted to eat on Friday, my first day off of the cleanse. Every 10 minutes I changed my mind as a different scent hit my nose and I immediately started craving what I was smelling. It's a good thing I don't really have time on Friday to create a feast for myself or else I would seriously consider doing so.

I got home exhausted from the mental challenge of not breaking down, and falling into a deep depression of realizing there was yet another day of juice. I decided to work from home for the sake of not snapping at my coworkers, or going through another lunch hour watching everyone eat. And there you have it, the end of day 2....