Thursday to Saturday, November 11-13, 2010
I started the fast! Thankful I gave up meat & dairy already and have a fairly clean colon. Some of the warnings you read about fasting is that the first 1-3 days can be miserable as all the toxins start to be released into your bloodstream and your body begins the healing process.
I was tired and run-down the 1st day, but that was also from starting my menstrual cycle & not sleeping well the night before. Hard to say which had more influence, lack of sleep or the fast. I was VERY hungry at times & tried one tomato/garlic/carrot/apple combination that I could NOT finish. Thought a good night's sleep would make Friday better.
But alas, I had a scared young 'un in my room at about midnight & with my new-found energy, my body seemed to say, "hey, we've had a nap...let's lay here & not sleep for a few hours!" Ugh! Got some great time in with the Holy Spirit...but probably had bags around my eyes all day!
We participate in a home school co-op, so I bought some Naked brand juice to bring with me. Typically, on a juice fast, you want fresh processed. The health benefits of juice quickly deteriorate after processing, so fresh is best. But can't exactly take the juicer with me to co-op and I knew I'd be hungry and greatly tempted by the mom's snack time. So during that time I proudly drank my green superfood juice & even had some moms ask me what was in it. As I listed the ingredients...spinach, broccoli, wheat grass, barley grass, spirulina, blue algae, apple juice, pineapple juice, kiwi juice, and more...they were awed and amazed.
Hah! I should have known!
Whenever I have cleansed in the past, I quickly find out any TRUE sensitivities that I have. This is how I discovered years ago that soy can make me sick, bloat my stomach with gas (& cause severe pain) and cause IBS-like symptoms for my bowels. Many times I leave restaurants with an upset stomach...presumably from the copious amounts of cheap genetically-modified soybean oil that they use.
So by the time I leave our co-op about 1 1/2 hours later, I think I'm starving...but when I get home 20 minutes later...I am ILL. I mean a capital ILL!!!! First my stomach is purged, then my bowels. Not to be gross, but if I'd needed a scope from either end, yesterday would have been a good day! I also had this happen about a week ago with my first attempt as using Agave nectar. I have a friend that thinks it's the greatest food ever. Sorry...I'll be sticking to raw honey and sucanat as sweeteners. Don't want to use a "sugar" that purges my body of all solids and liquids thank you very much!
What was in the green superfood juice (Naked brand) that did the same thing?? I don't know. I've had Bolthouse Farms' similar drink with no problems in the past. I'll have to compare the ingredients. Also, who knows what the "natural flavors" really are. This isn't an organic product after all.
The good news, after 3 hours (and 9...yes, 9 trips to the bathroom) my stomach and all of me felt great. The sensitivity-causing item had...well, passed. I was even able to slowly sip on a banana/strawberry/hemp seed smoothie and keep it down. I know it's not technically juice, but if my cheat is no worse than this, then I'm doing okay.
But when I say that I've lost another 5 pounds in 2 days, don't attribute it to this unintentional cleansing. 3 pounds said goodbye after the 1st day on the juice fast which went off without a hitch (other than the aforementioned fatigue!). What will tomorrow bring? Don't know...but pretty sure it will be a least a little more weight loss & increased energy.
***BTW...GREAT night of sleep last night. I was out by about 10:45 p.m., slept straight through to about 6:30 a.m.! Woke up feeling great! The added bonus each day since even giving up meat is better mental clarity. No more fuzzy brain...but more on this on another day. I'm finally caught up & should actually get busy doing something else!
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