Wellbeing
Originally published on Friday, 4th July 2008
DAY 1 & 2 • DAY 3 & 4 • DAY 5 & 6 • DAY 7 & 8 • DAY 9 & 10
Twelve days of raw food will, the Raw Fairies assure me, change my life. Delivered every morning in brown paper bags, an array of fruit, veg, and sprouted items I never knew existed arrive blended, mashed, and liquefied for my pleasure, along with a cacophony of purifying pills. As a fan of the three Cs (Chocolate, Cheese, Carbs) I'm sceptical. And scared.
DAY SEVEN
Unbelievable. I’m up early today and it’s a Sunday! What’s going on? My usual routine – hangover, scrambled eggs, Hollyoaks omnibus – has been replaced by a berry smoothie (oh thank the Lord, it’s pink), and walk around the park. Sadly they are now giving me straight oil as well. I can still taste it coating the back of my throat.
My flatmate was terrified I might pass out under a bush in Battersea somewhere and made me take my mobile. But pleasantly, I didn’t feel nearly as weak as I would have expected.
By 6pm I’m ravenous. I was warned by the Detox Fairies that the hunger would come back. The toastie machine is giving me loving looks from across the room, but I console myself with a Dairylea triangle. Oh whatever, it’s practically liquid anyway.
Hello, my name is Martina and I'm alive!
DAY EIGHT
The office seems somewhat disappointed that my craving-driven outbursts have ceased. The mainstay of my diet is almost entirely water, but I was treated to a few crackers today. Apart from that, the barrage of pills I’m still swallowing is keeping me full. And confused. How to fit in 6 mini meals, pills one hour before, two hours after, and some never on a full stomach?
Sadly I’ve discovered my sneaky consumption of dried fruit (Addie insisted as I was apparently proving more useless than a grumpy teenager, and we had work to do – I, being entirely adult, called him selfish) was in fact covered in a thin veil of sugar. Oops. But my skin is all glowy – and not in a cheese-sweat kind of way.
Hello, my name is Martina, and now I glow from the inside.
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