My Bed is a work by the British artist Tracey Emin. It was exhibited at the Tate Gallery in 1999 as one of the shortlisted works for the Turner Prize. It consisted of her bed with bedroom objects in an abject state, and gained much media attention. Although it did not win the prize, its notoriety has persisted.- Wikipedia
Why the Contemporary Art lesson today? Well I spent the day in bed today.... the ENTIRE day. I managed to score a weekend off from the hotel and a day off from working for the Harper-man. I'm so happy about having a three day weekend (as opposed to working 7 days a week like I normally do). I decided day 1 of 'ben's weekend of fantabulousness' should consist of doing NOTHING seeing as I'm always doing something. I spent all day in bed.... (with my laptop) listening to tunes on last.fm, keeping up the blog, reading other people's blogs, going on giveittomeraw.com and globaljuicefeast.com. I got out of bed for juice, 40 minutes of yoga, to pee all the fucking time and to do an enema... that's it. No TV! :)
I feel SOOOO good right now. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Can I just stay in bed for the rest of my life? Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaase? :)
Today I had:
1L water+msm+lemon
1.25L celery/cilantro/black kale+E3live+kelp+Himalayan salt
1.25L apple/grape/strawberry
250ml water+chanca piedra
1.25L watermelon
500ml coconut water
250ml water+chanca piedra
1Tbsp bee pollen+honey
2Tbsp honey
1Tbsp (shot glass-style! LOL) hempseed oil
Probiotics
Today I also did:
2L cat's claw/slippery elm enema
40 minutes yoga
Stayed in bed all day!!! :)
I started my chanca piedra pretty late in the game... so I don't know if I should take it for 30 days regardless of how it will overlap with my parasite cleanse or if I should stop at day 60... I'll have to ask David what he thinks. I FINALLY got the tincture yesterday.... I can't believe how long it took for that to get shipped here! Whoa! Chanca Piedra tastes a lot like this tea this chinese doctor used to make for my psoriasis. I'm guessing some of the herbs in the chanca piedra were part of that concoction. I'm starting to wish I had gone with the capsules! LOL
I weighed myself this morning and found out I'm at 144.6lbs. This means I've officially lost 25 lbs! This is also the LEAST I've weighed since my early teens! :) I'm sooo happy! I want to lose another 10lbs and that's it! :) I really like myself at this size.... I feel more compact... like a smart car! :)
I had some really weird toilet moments today; after the enema I kept going to the bathroom and evacuating 'green water'. I have no idea what this means; am I not digesting the green juice I had in the morning?? I took some probiotics and it calmed down all the weird gurgly noises emanating from my tummy. After I took the probiotics, the green water BMs stopped... *sigh of relief* Though, I don't know if the probiotics really did anything; my feeling is that this was all coincidental.
Did I mention how I'm sick of being cold all the time? Thank god for my electric blanket.... I don't care if it's bad for me to be around electro-whatever.... I LOVE this thing! :) I'm allowed to have ONE vice, right? :)
Oh! I also had a really odd dream where I made a raw cake using a really weird butternut squash (with many many tiny parallel ridges... like a starfruit... but with more tiny ridges). I had brought the cake to a job interview as a bribe and the interviewer was concerned that there wouldn't be enough cake for everyone in the office. I was adamant that there was. I had decorated the cake with all these pumpkin-leather loops. It was a beautiful cake and I think I know intuitively how I would make such a cake.... The universe is sending me raw-recipes in my dreams! Nuts!!! :)
- Ben
PS: totally looked at raw-food porn today and was fine... no cravings.... but fuck I can't wait to start cooking again! :) I think I'll order 7 or 8 more raw cookbooks around day 80 :)
6 comments:
When I was single I used to LIVE in my bed... My bedroom looked a lot like that, just add an ashtray and cigarettes!
Oh, so now the Universe is sending your recipes in your dreams? I like that! Way to go!
I'm glad you're getting some rest in. Look after yourself, Juicy Ben!
Hmmm... I wonder what green poo water could be? I am interested to know. Yay for laying in bed, you're awesome.
Super Juicy Ben,
Congrats on the much needed rest. I think your work schedule is even crazier than mine or Carrie's in our big city--it's a whole new thing when you don't drive and you have to lug your juices and your produce around with you for this venture. I think that alone caused me a lot of stress. Kudos to you for taking some much needed rest.
My coldness feeling immediately shifted when I started taking a spoonful of maca powder everyday in water before work. I havn't had that "cold in my soul" feeling since I started doing that. Highly recommend it.
Big X to you,
Raw B
Thanks for that info B,I will start that protocol immediately. I live in Alaska and I thought the cold feeling had gone away and then I remembered that I had turned the heater up to 78 once when I was too cold and never turned it back down, LOL. Ben, you never fail to make me giggle when I read your blog, I am so glad you take your laptop to bed with you. Enjoy your time off :)
Got to love that thing called rest...speaking of which, what time is it? haha
I think by the end of this venture we should all put together a juice feasters "cook" book! It could include before, during and after recipes. Yummmmm
Day one was super easy...think I am still riding off of last nights "all you can eat, buffet-style" gorge. Ekkk
It was a beautiful first day of March today in NYC. 40 + degrees and sunny....to bad I missed most of it "pumping junk" at the colonic center. I did manage to get some sauna time in which made everything good.....
Nighty-nite kiddo!
xxkyle
PS: my JF blog www.radratjuicing.blogspot.com is almost up and running. Let me know if you think the green background is obnoxious...it is supposed to resemble green juice, but it might be a little much for the senses! LOL
hey ben, i've just discovered your blog via the zillion others popping up right now with the fantabulous juicefeast. just wanted to mention the cold thing. i have two wheat and lavender stuffed things (Google says it's a "wheat bag") which you heat in the microwave. i chuck one near my feet and usually cuddle the other one (i know! i like it, i don't care!) and that helps me out lots. and it's safer than the electric blanket method. that is... unless you don't have a microwave cos they're evil too. sigh. what's a gal to do in this crazy, poisoned, mixed-up world?
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