“A Lighter Load Will Help to Have a Longer Walk”
You may have heard the expression, “An apple a day keeps doctor away”. This phrase seems to come from two origins. One is from a proverb originating from the County of Pembrokeshire (in Wales),“Eat an apple on going to bed, and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread”. But it was actually Ben Franklin who wrote in his “Poor Richard’s Almanac”, the famous proverb we know today. Apples have been known to have healing properties for a long time. I usually eat an apple every day for a snack, or to quench my hunger before dinner, while driving home.
We were on a week vacation recently, to Calaveras County. When I went for a walk, I picked up some apples that had fallen from their trees, on my way. They were hard and actually only good for cooking. We also brought some apples with us from San Francisco. After speaking on the phone with my daughter Alona, who told me that she just did a cleanse for three days eating only grapes. The next morning I decided to try to do a cleansing as well. For me grapes are too sweet, but I like apples. So I googled “apple cleansing” and I found out that there is indeed a very simple way to lose weight/cleanse by eating just apples for three days. But before I share with you the results of my experience, let me tell you why this idea came to my head. About a month ago I decided that buying new pants or expanding the old ones is not the best solution to get rid of my protruding belly. My solution was to stop eating bread and desserts. I also started to write daily affirmations. My point of departure was 189lb. and 39 inches in my waist. The initial goal was 185lb and 38”. By reducing the intake of carbs and sugar, I had slow progress. This motivated me to change my goal to 183lb and 37”. This is when I was ready for a new approach, an apple cleansing.
The first day, I ate five apples and upon my wife’s insistence, a vegetable soup for dinner. The next day I had four apples, and another four on the third day plus soup and two spoons of olive oil. It helped that we were on vacation, though I walked a lot and we did a lot of sightseeing in the car. At the beginning of the cleanse, I decided to challenge myself and changed my goal to what I weighed years ago, which was 180lb. and 36” waist. When we got home, just as my goal and affirmations read, I weighed 180lb. And also miraculously my pants became roomier. Now the challenge is how to maintain it. I know I will. Where there is a will there is a way.
P.S. On the road between Murphy’s and Arnold (where we stayed) we found an apple stand, which sold 14 different varieties of apples. The owners were from the local apples orchards. We went there almost every day to buy different varieties of apples, as well as incredible tomatoes, and of course to photograph.
Enjoy your apples and share them with a friend.
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Cheers,
