Last fall I did a cleanse with a Christian coach named Ginny Edwards. We have a really nice closed FB group where we can share our experience and support each other. This has been very interesting to me. Though I lean toward Buddhism, I also enjoy some of the Christian values and love the community.
Today is day 2 on a 21 day cleanse with this same group. I realized that I'm eating way too much fat; eating too many nuts, seeds, olive oil, coconut oil, avocados. A little is fine, but my consumption is too high. I can feel it in my heart. Hence the cleanse.
I'm not sure if I can be fat free for 21 days. Especially since my father-in-law is having his 80th B-day party at a Chinese restaurant. I hate eating at Chinese restaurants. There's nothing there I can eat. They won't let me bring my own food. So my idea is to bring my smoothies with me and drink them on the way to the mountains, or once I get there so I won't be tempted. If I can bring them to the table, I will.
Today, life is good. I will keep my goal of drinking smoothies and juice this day.
There are parts of ourselves that are so unwanted that whenever they begin to come up we run away.--Pema Chodron
