Detox Update

Caption: Maria is jealous of a friend who escaped work.
OR - Maria is a little disspointed in the Detox experience.

Well - I finished the official 14 days of Detox. I have mixed feelings about the experience: I don't feel any better than I felt before I started the detox, and at the same time I think there are things to learn that may have not been discovered (at least for a while) without going through the detox.

I met with the nutritionist this morning and we talked through a lot of this. The main conclusion that she drew from my experience is that while some of my issues may certainly come from the foods I eat, there's something else going on. She has a load of suggestions for me, some of which I may follow through on, and some that I may not. The thing that she really wanted me to walk away with is that there are options. I don't have to live the rest of my life feeling a little bit sick all the time. I'm trying to find what that means for me, and how much more I want to sink into getting to the bottom of this, and how much I want to work to maintain where I've come to.

I walked away from the meeting pretty bummed out. I had hoped that I would see great results from this Detox and that I would feel great and work to maintain that healthy feeling. Instead, I feel just as I did before starting the detox: better than I did 4 months ago, and still not like I would like to feel.

The next official detox steps are finishing off the shakes in low dosages while slowly reintroducing foods into my diet. For right now I'm planning to do some version of it that will work for me. And by that I mean - I need a drink!