July 24, 2026
I’m really proud of myself and what I’m able to do right now and am doing.
On Monday I started with my IPL treatment. I shaved my whole body, which was an arduous process because there was long and thick hair. I did it in two stages. And after each stage, I went through the area with my Braun IPL device. The whole process took me about 5 hours. From 4pm to 9pm.
I’m loving my hair-free body. It looks and feels just amazing. I love my body so much more now.
I know I do, because I always have after my numerous times that I have gotten rid of my body hair in the past. And having it at a more permanent basis is super exciting.
Shaving is going to be much easier now given that all I will be removing is stubble and not actual long hair and I can thus go ahead with simplicity my ongoing weekly IPL treatment sessions.
And…
The day before yesterday I tweezed my eyebrows along with more unwanted hair from my nose and nostrils. That was my accomplishment on Wednesday. Although I had planned to sweep and mop that day as well, I ended up exhausted early in the day and spent the rest of it sleeping.
Yesterday was a huge accomplishment. I took the bus to the farmers market… I did have, though, a negative experience on the bus there. I had gotten out of the house with an exceptionally great mode given that I had spent the past couple of days with an extreme amount of grooming and manscaping.. I had felt especially good.
When I got in the bus, I decided to be especially social and went up to strangers to strike up conversations. The first person, a girl, shot me down very quickly into the interaction which made me feel really really bad. I thought I had an opportunity to recuperate when a man walked into the bus whom I had met before and talked to.. who also was aloof to my advance and showed no interest in conversing with me. I returned to my seat feeling bad again and the whole trip there was a sad one given that I had been met with a bunch of negativity as a result of my vulnerability in opening up and chatting with strangers.
The whole time I was at the market I wasn’t fully put together and was dealing with the aftermath of the negative experiences and my wounded heart, despite my multiple attempts in recuperating such as talking to the barista when I ordered my coffee about my day and what I had dealt with.
After shopping for the fruits, vegetables, cheese and fish, I had an espresso at the coffee shop and headed out to the bus stop.
By the time I got into the bus, things were way way better and I had a smile on my face, yet I still wasn’t 100%. But, by the time the bus neared my neighbourhood, I got all my energy back and got to 100%. The walk home from the bus stop was awesome and I felt happy and glad.
On top of all that, a feat that I had yet to pull (taking the bus to the farmers market and shopping without a car), I cooked a big meal. I had pasta with seafood (shrimps and snapper) among vegetables like celery, yellow and red pepper and mushroom.
Boy was it DELICIOUS.
Today, I have three things to do. And it’s already 6pm right now. I woke up really late today at 3.30pm.
Anyway, the three things are working out, making fruit salad, and going to the convenience store to buy coffee creamer as I had just finished the carton.
Aside from making the fruit salad, this is all brand new to me. Getting the creamer will be done by walking to the convenience store that I have never gone to before. What I had been doing is getting whatever groceries I need delivered, however, now, I am getting up from my arse to get whatever stuff I need… Which feels great.
And then, there’s doing a workout session. I’ve got my doorway pull-up bar setup this weekend and given the level of lack of fitness right now, I can nearly do one pull-up. But I have some resistance bands that I will use them first time today to assist me and assist me in building up strength.
6 years ago, when I had detoxed then, I was able to do about 20 pull-ups and 120 push-ups. When I started exercising mildly a few weeks ago, I could barely do 5 pushups. I can now do about 10-20.
My belly is extremely uncomfortable and annoying and I really can’t wait till it’s all gone. Ofcourse, the detoxing will make it disappear and the working out will likely speed up the process.
The chemical toxic side effect had mostly hit me in the waist area and that is where most of my weight-gain occurs, my belly. So I am and had been the precise definition of skinny fat.
So there you have it, as I accomplish these three goals of today, I would know and feel extremely accomplished.
They may seem like simple things, but for what I am going through and what I had been through, accomplishing these goals is a humongous ordeal and I am really excited to get them done. And how nice would it be to continue and maintain this, from the working out, to the grocery shopping and making amazing meals to the IPL treatments.
It does seem like a whole lot to do for me especially since I had been spending my last few years doing mostly nothing and just being mostly a couch potato. Well, not entirely true because when I had the car, I would spend much time running errands and doing stuff. However, it’s just that at this point in time, with the intense amount of detoxification that I am doing and going through is taking a massive toll on my body and I am feeling like any little thing I do is like I’m moving mountains.
That’s all for now,
Best Wishes to You and I
Lui Bliss