Creating 2015—Day 46:   Cleanse Fail

We started the Clean cleanse two weeks ago.  We did great for the first five days. Then we started making a few compromises for the next seven days—a breakfast of eggs here, a late steak dinner there—nothing egregious but definitely modifying the Clean cleanse rules.  Then yesterday, we completely fell off the Clean wagon and had a critical cleanse failure.

Cleanse killer: Caymus Cab

We had an edit day for Collusions and we wanted to soften the blow that everyone was coming together to work on Valentine’s Day so, I picked up cheese Danishes, mini pink cupcakes and boxes of heart shaped chocolates.  We also made the mistake of not having a protein shake before we left the house. Yes, you guessed correctly.  I ate not one but two of the pastries.  I managed to skip the chocolate and cupcakes but still, the day was not off to a great start.

NOT on the Clean Cleanse

And then, the coup de grâce: when we got home from the edit, for our Valentine’s Day evening treat we opened a bottle of the 40th anniversary Camus cabernet we got when we were up in Sonoma.  It was crazy delicious!  Uh-amazing Romantic Partner and I polished off the entire bottle with a juicy rib eye, port wine reduction sauce and a baked potato with all the trimmings.  And yes, I was a tad hung-over all day today.

Long story short, we begin the cleanse anew tomorrow!

Until tomorrow, create from what you have…a cleanse failure.

Kelli Joan Bennett is a filmmaker, actress, writer, entrepreneur, advocate for creative thinking and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Think Outside The Box Inside The Box Media.

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