UPDATE 10:00pm Heading to bed soon. I had one last carrot juice about an hour ago. I didn't drink my 80 ounces of water today. Only 48. But that's about twice what I drank yesterday so I'm getting there I guess. I think I've peed 400 times today. My headache has backed off over the past hour or two.
The tree looks really nice, now that it's dark and I can see the lights are reflecting on the ornaments as I expected and making all kinds of pretty brightness. Maybe tomorrow I'll wrap one of my sister's presents and put it under the tree until the rest of the package is ready to send. I can't put any of my partner's wrapped gifts under the tree ahead of time because he starts trying to figure out what they are!
UPDATE 5:20pm. Writing holiday cards and with herculean effort, not writing "I'm fasting as I write this." I'M SO HUNGRY. On my third detox tea and past 32 ounces of water. I know, I know, I'm not keeping up with the water. I'm trying, I'm trying.
UPDATE 3:50pm Carrots and kale. My head hurts and I'm hungry. Whose idea was it to start fasting the same day I start my period? Not mine. My partner walked into the room a few minutes ago and said, "Wow, look at you, Christmas tree, pellet stove, afghan, netbook, clicker, recliner...anything else you want?" To which I responded "Food and coffee," and burst into tears. Well, last time I was keeping a good attitude and he was on the verge of quitting every day, so I guess it's my turn. Note to self, do the raw food stepdown next time.
UPDATE 2:10pm Pink grapefruit and apples, juiced. I'm hungry. My head hurts. The sun is shining but I'm cold and want to go back to bed. Ugh.
Well, at least I put all the decorations up on the tree while I was feeling a bit more spry.
UPDATE 12:15pm Canteloupe and lime juiced earlier, now carrots, beets, celery and parsley. Celery adds such a nice touch to everything!
ORIGINAL POST
It's been about three months since our first fast, and my partner and I agreed we would do a three day juice fast four times a year. So here we are. He's been bugging me about it so we decided to go ahead and do it without as much preparation as last time. We didn't do a proper stepdown this time, going from our regular vegan diet to only juices today. However, we'll do a proper step up on the way out. We may break the fast Monday night instead of Tuesday morning but if we do so it will be with a light raw meal.
The tree looks really nice, now that it's dark and I can see the lights are reflecting on the ornaments as I expected and making all kinds of pretty brightness. Maybe tomorrow I'll wrap one of my sister's presents and put it under the tree until the rest of the package is ready to send. I can't put any of my partner's wrapped gifts under the tree ahead of time because he starts trying to figure out what they are!
UPDATE 5:20pm. Writing holiday cards and with herculean effort, not writing "I'm fasting as I write this." I'M SO HUNGRY. On my third detox tea and past 32 ounces of water. I know, I know, I'm not keeping up with the water. I'm trying, I'm trying.
UPDATE 3:50pm Carrots and kale. My head hurts and I'm hungry. Whose idea was it to start fasting the same day I start my period? Not mine. My partner walked into the room a few minutes ago and said, "Wow, look at you, Christmas tree, pellet stove, afghan, netbook, clicker, recliner...anything else you want?" To which I responded "Food and coffee," and burst into tears. Well, last time I was keeping a good attitude and he was on the verge of quitting every day, so I guess it's my turn. Note to self, do the raw food stepdown next time.
UPDATE 2:10pm Pink grapefruit and apples, juiced. I'm hungry. My head hurts. The sun is shining but I'm cold and want to go back to bed. Ugh.
Well, at least I put all the decorations up on the tree while I was feeling a bit more spry.
UPDATE 12:15pm Canteloupe and lime juiced earlier, now carrots, beets, celery and parsley. Celery adds such a nice touch to everything!
ORIGINAL POST
It's been about three months since our first fast, and my partner and I agreed we would do a three day juice fast four times a year. So here we are. He's been bugging me about it so we decided to go ahead and do it without as much preparation as last time. We didn't do a proper stepdown this time, going from our regular vegan diet to only juices today. However, we'll do a proper step up on the way out. We may break the fast Monday night instead of Tuesday morning but if we do so it will be with a light raw meal.
I was kind of kicking myself last night because my favorite coffeeshop, Caffe Dei, had all the raw foods at buy one get one free yesterday and, well, duh. That would have been the perfect thing to grab for dinner. I was there yesterday, but did I take that clue from the universe? No......instead, we had sopa de codos de trigo integral. Onions, garlic, tomato, chile de árbol and vegan sour cream are involved in that. Well, certainly could be worse.
I decided this time I'm going to stress less about all this stuff around which juices to drink, when and how much and put more effort into meeting my daily 80 ounces of water and 3 cups of Yogi Detox tea. I'll drink the juice whenever I feel like it, and more if I feel hungry! Something tells me the caffeine withdrawal will be harder than the fasting, but careful with that - don't want to be blindsided by food cravings and hunger that I minimized!
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