Fat Cow Syndrome: Nothing a little pure cranberry juice can't cure

Phew! 3 of those mystery 4 pounds disappeared overnight. No matter how many times I told myself, "you are not the number on the scale," I was pretty T.O.'ed about them.

Back in my hippy days I used to do a lot of cleanses. My favorite cleanse included "long life cocktail." You take pure cranberry juice, not the kind sweetened with pear or apple juice, but the kind that is $6.99/bottle for 4 servings. Ocean spray and Knudsen's makes it if you're looking to have some long life cocktail. You basically mix 1/2-the whole bottle of juice with water until you have a gallon of water/juice mix, then add some fresh lemon juice.

The idea is that you start trying to heal your poor little liver with this cocktail by drinking at least 16 oz. first thing in the morning, and then another big glass before every meal, and then by the end of the day you should have finished the whole gallon. That's right, a gallon. I refer to it as the gallon challenge.

Yesterday demanded the gallon challenge. I wasn't intending to do a full cleanse with milk thistle and other supplements that have been hiding in a box for a few years. I just wanted to help my body flush all the fluid I was retaining and help digest all the crap I ate on Saturday. Maybe it's all in my head and part of some crazy belief system I've held for years, but in my mind, the gallon challenge is the best solution to feeling like a fat cow. Throw an hour walk in there and BAM you're instantly 20 pounds lighter.

Ok, maybe not 20, but long walks and the gallon challenge are my secret weapon against the fat cow syndrome. (FCS) There ya have it. If you ever feel like a fat cow just do the gallon challenge for a couple days, or even one day. Heck, I think it's a great habit to get into anyway. For years I took "shots" of pure cranberry juice first thing in the morning and I strongly believe it had some mysterious positive impact on my health. Don't ask me what it was, but it was something positive. I swear.

Poll: I'm thinking of starting a separate blog for my billions of recipes...it would have 3 sections, one for "ultra healthy granola cruncher with lots of words like green and whole" recipes, one for "middle of the road I'm trying to be better" recipes and then one for "wipe out, I wanted to eat my feelings" recipes. I'm kind of a blogging idiot and don't know how to make my recipes more user-friendly but my recipes seem to be a big hit with people so why not have a place just for recipes? Tell me what you think!