I am cleansed!

So I have finished the cleanse with a new outlook on my health and diet. I now weigh 168.5. Not bad for 21 days of cleansing. I have been exercising consistantly which makes me feel pretty good. I have not gotten too deep into weight training because I am trying to get my lungs and cardio up to where I would like them. Mostly swimming with all of the blue hairs at 24 hour. I don't even want to know how many pubes I have consumed between swimming and then chilling in the hot tub. At least it's mostly Asians, they don't have much body hair anyway.

I have learned to restrain myself when it comes to snacking and also making healthier food choices. I am mostly going to eat vegetarian while at home. I'll throw in the occasional chicken breast or fish once in a while. My alcohol intake will be a lot lower for sure. Me and the wife split a bottle of wine last night to celebrate and we were buzzed instantly. We both agree that we didn't sleep as well as we have been. I have to admit that i was a little scared to go back to my usual diet or a variation of it. I have become comfortable with eating vegan and vegetarian.

I thank my wife for getting me into this and for encouraging me to go to the gym. I will be a better parent and husband because of it.

Quantum Cleanse Day 5 and 6

I think I am over the hump of my lifelong sugar addiction. I have had lower back and leg pain since we started this cleanse but it went away last night while at work. It was a bad ache that kept me up at night. I figure it is kind of like a junkie kicking smack.

I worked my first rotation on the cleanse also. I brought in my food with a list my wife made planning out my meals for 48 hours. Since I was on the medic, it is often difficult to sit down to a meal. The wife made a great vegetable soup and we got some vegan, gluten free packaged meals for lunches and a breakfast. I packed some snacks to get me through the day. It was different because I am used to grabbing handfuls of red licorice or granola bars throughout the day and especially in the middle of the night. Oh sweet Red Vines, so damn good. You too granola bars.

My new partner on the medic is not who I would like to work with. He is not confident in his fire or EMS skills, drives like crap, and is just not a good fit with me. Our personalities don't mesh and I don't think he should be in the fire service.

I did wake up with a lot of energy today but I quickly hit a wall around 10:00am or so. I had a call at about 03:00 this morning so I was a little tired as the day wore on. I do think the cleanse has something to do with my energy level in the morning minus coffee. I am also just feeling better in general.

Quantum Cleanse Day 3 and 4

Bowels moving. Thank god. Still irritable but I seem to be more patient with my kids. I still have some snack urges but I am catching myself. I am realizing more and more how many times I just grab something to eat it.

I really want a beer. I miss beer. I'll probably be wasted off one Snowcap when I am off this cleanse. I'll be a cheap date for Alison.

Me and Alison have started planning my meals at the firehouse for the next 48 hours. Snacks and meals are a go! I even have a vegan granola style bar for that call at 3 am when I am hungry. We usually have the doors of the ambulance stocked with water bottles and granola bars we take from a local hospital. They have a special room in the E.R for medics to do their paperwork. We usually just drive over there and grab the shit and leave. We aren't even dropping a patient off. But oh are those bars and water nice when you are trying to stay awake at the wheel.

Tomorrow is my first day with my new medic partner. I will have him for a whole year. No one will be like the last one I had. This new one likes to coddle patients and waste time in the back of the ambulance. We'll see how this goes.

Quantum Cleanse Day 2

Okay, I am ready to feel good already! I still feel like shit and I'm cranky. I do realize just how hooked on sugar and caffeine I am. Plus, it is tough to break the snacker lifestyle. I have not shit all day and I hate that my body does this during times of change. Any little shift from the norm and my asshole seals up like the Shroud of Turin is stored inside. I would seriously sit on a popsicle made of stool softener.

For dinner my wife boiled pasta made of brown rice, and a sauce that had tofu and spinach in it. Awesome. If only I had a piece of french bread to wipe my bowl clean. Oh wait, can't eat bread and the stuff we can eat costs a mint so I don't want to waste it.

Me and the wife are slowing down with our comments about foods we wish we could eat. One would bring up Oreos and the other would get pissed. Some licorice sounds so good right now. Or a beer. Snowcap please! We'll see how much I weigh when I get home from work and it has been a full week on this program. I started at 172.5, wish me luck.

Quantum Wellness Cleanse Day 1

Today was rough. I was really tired after working for 48 hours. We got up for a bunch of medical aids both nights and my wife said I was a zombie today. I felt like shit and I am pretty sure it was the fact that I didn't have any coffee this morning. That, and I was not my usual snacking self at home. Big ol' scramble here, Sun Chips there, and maybe some black licorice later on. I know it will get better as I continue the cleanse.

A rockin' bowel movement would be nice. I just know my body is going to get confused at first and I will probably only shit pebbles. Fun. My wife will probably blow me out of the water in that department and I will get bummed.

I have faith in this path I have chosen, and today made me realize how much snacking I do. Let the cleaning begin!!

Cat Scratch Fever

I was awakened by the alarm this morning for a medical aid probably around 0200 or 0300. We get to the apartment and you can smell cat litter a good 8 feet away from the front door. This lady we were assessing definitely got dealt a bad hand at some point in her life. If she chose to fold or throw all of her chips on the table is another question. Anyway, there was litter all over the floor and boxes of empty cat litter everywhere. If I'm not mistaken, I am pretty sure apartment complexes have dumpsters in multiple locations. The question is, at what point in your life do you say "fuck it" and not care if you live in filth?

My little dwarfs

Holiday photo session.

This can't be good

A motley crue

Not really, but it is rare to get us all in a picture at the same time. Love you guys.