Saturday, January 3, 2009

See The Light [Lite?]


So I mentioned before that Calvin Harris is really into water right now. He didn't quite tell me why he'd given up drinking alcohol - I didn't bother trying to delve deeply - his tone suggested that I wouldn't get a lot of extra information into his processes and reasons.

Before this, I'd already been talking up my intentions to detox in January. Usually late at night, oft with an alcoholic beverage in hand. Or the morning after such a night, while struggling through a hard training session. But when I saw his lovely skin I was quite inspired.

I've armed myself with Dr Joshi's 21 Day Holistic Detox book. I am about to join an exclusive club with the likes of Gwyneth, Cate [as in 'our' Cate Blanchett], the other Kate [as in Moss], Ralph [as in Fiennes]. Even Lady Di, obvs before she died.

I'm almost considering joining my soon-to-be-soul-mate-best-pal Gwyn's group. Goop. [Ok, now seriously - WTF?? "Í cringe when I add a couple of teaspoons of sugar to sweeten things??" Oh girlfriend, please, live a little. Oh, hang on, that's why she's a size minus 1 and I'm not. Right. Got it.]

Or maybe I'll change this blog into my own Goop-style group. I like food and I'm pretty ok with cooking, I can easily help you with things to make. I go jogging so I can give you inspirational style tips and insights. Boy oh boy can I shop,so I've easily got the Get side covered. The Do, Be and See are also totes under control. Frig. That's it. Talk about fashionable in the 80s - I've got a whole macrobiotic aerobic Lycra lifestyle concept ready to go.

2 comments:

Julia Thomas said...

what's your detox involve? i'm easing into it with less wine, but figure i'll hold off fully till after sydney festival craziness season. i can't go to the spiegeltent without a grapefruit vodka while the sun sets!

burnslog said...

basically - to condense 192 pages into the key points -

* no alcohol [but if absolute emergency vodka + cranberry juice is ok]
* no caffine
* no red meat [but proteins like fish, chicken, turkey highlighly encouraged]
* no wheat or yeast
* no dairy [yoghurt, buffalo mozzarella + goats cheese are a-ok though]
* no sugar - honey gets the big thumbs up though
* no fruit - except bananas - after 21 days you can go crazy on fruit though.