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The Master Cleanse

I'm doing the Master Cleanse. If you haven't heard of it before I'll describe it briefly. Basically you mix up the juice from 1/2 a lemon, 1/10 teaspoon cayenne pepper, 2 tablespoons organic grade A maple syrup and 10oz of filtered water. This is a single serving. You are supposed to drink 6 of these, giving you around 650 cals. I started on February 1st (Friday) and I've consumed 1.5 servings of the liquid per day. Anything more and I feel sick like I'm going to throw up. I have so many reasons for doing the cleanse. Many physical, many emotional. I've decided to try and do the cleanse for the entire month of February. This would be 29 (leap year) days of no solid food. I'm not making any promises, but I'm going to give it a try. I'm on day two and I've got to admit I'm finding it one of the hardest things I've ever done. We'll see how it goes.

I've re-united with a friend from high school. We were part of the same group during that time even though she was a year ahead. I have so many memories with her and I'm so excited to make some more. We're going out tonight which will be the first time we've seen each other in about 9 years. Ironically I'm not nervous at all. It's like we've never stopped talking when we're on the phone. She is into the martial arts as well, but at a different karate school and a different belt system. I'll probably go give Krav Maga a try over at her studio one of these days. It's so wierd that we can really create a solid friendship with someone so many years ago, lose contact with each other, and then be involved and into the same things as each other so many years later.

I can't wait until Feb. 6th (Wed). I am going to the Orange County Performing Arts Center to see BLAST with an old friend. I can't wait to have great company, do something fun, and have the chance to get all girly and dressed up. I used to live for that when I was in the honor's society at jr. college and we'd have banquets to go to and host. I'm definitely a girly girl at heart. I'll be sure to post more after the show and fill you in on how wonderful it was!

Today was Judo. I'm pleased with learning hip throws but I'm terrified of landing. It seems SO much higher and a vast difference in height when you fall. I keep preemtively reaching for the ground and banging my ankles together and I'm quite sore. I also have a tendency to close my eyes when I get scared so that's an issue as well. Judo is definitely one of my favorite things in association with the karate studio. What can I say, I like the more hands on, in your face, ass kicking stuff. Some things never change. I'm also pleased with my energy level in only having consumed around 100 cals in the last 48 hours. Looks like a cleanse is a good thing afterall.

Karate went better as well on Friday. I am finally starting to feel like my sparring is improving and I even won a match against a person two belts higher than myself. I learned to try and keep my body in better fighting alignment, but I have a ways to go before I feel like I'm comfortable with my sparing abilities. Getting better, yes, but still not great. One of my sensei's is really great at putting things into perspective for me when I get stubborn (happens a lot) and complain (also happens a lot) and I can't tell you how much I appreciate his patience. Hopefully I can learn a lot more from him.

So....I bought a kettlebell. It's only 10 pounds so I figured, hey I can do this. NOPE. Well, I made it through the workout video but my back hurt for days. Bad posture. I know I need to fix that but this thing nearly killed me. I'm talking living on Advil because its 1000 times worse than any cramps you can ever get, and ladies you know what I mean. I'll give it another go, but I'm not sure that's going to become a staple.

Well, I think that about covers it for tonight. I'm taking my camera with me tonight so hopefully I'll get some mroe new pics up on my myspace this week (www.myspace.com/eroxy20). I have a few new ones up now from yesterday.