Day 3: Evening: looks like I made it through

I'm stunned that I didn't have a headache all day today (but grateful!)  Tonight has been up and down with the hungry.  I definitely hit about 8 this afternoon and I'm at about a 6 now, but should be getting to sleep soon so I won't know!  My partner made me a juice with red grapefruit, lime, and pineapple earlier that helped dislodge the sensory memory of the weird juice I made earlier.  *shudder*


Although my stomach is still stubbornly rumbling, my mind feels sharper.  My attention span seems to be increasing.  I didn't go into full-on cleaning mode today as I had hoped, yet I got a tremendous amount of mental organizing and research done.  I'll take it!

Day 3: Afternoon: Still hungry, but no headache!

1537:  As the day has gone on I've been hungrier and hungrier.  My partner called from work to say he was going to stop at home for a few minutes and could I please make a juice for him?  He said he's having a hard time.  He had a more difficult time with hunger than I did on the two raw days.  He had to buy nuts to get through work on Thursday and Friday.  His job is extremely physically demanding and he needs to do what's right for him.

I just realized that a few hours had gone by with no juice so I'm having some now.  This is the first questionable-tasting juice I've had in the month that we've been juicing.  It's a recipe from Superzumos and is made from lettuce, cabbage, carrot, apple, and broccoli.  I think it's the cabbage that's putting me off.  Whatever it is, it's got a most unusual flavor...but I'll drink it.

Energywise, I feel fine.  I've been sporadically cleaning and making some headway around the house, but also taking some time to follow the blogs I was following on my old blog here in this one, and do some reading and exploring.  The sun finally came back out and everything looks better!

Day 3: Morning: So far, so good

0958:  We woke up at 7:30 today.  NO HEADACHE. I think I can feel it hovering around in the back of my head but it hasn't set in.  I'll take it!


I do feel hungry, but more than that, I feel the compulsion to eat. It's interesting that the second my partner left for work, a part of my brain said, "Okay, time to eat." WTF is that?  


When I got up I made a juice with celery, parsley, cucumber, ginger, and carrots.  Since we started juicing I've been fascinated with how good celery tastes, and also cucumber. I like the slight zing that the ginger adds too.  Everything I read says parsley is important for energy, and it's also in a lot of the liver-support juice recipes, so I've been throwing it in.  I love Italian parsley anyway, although it doesn't seem to add any flavor to the juice.


When my partner left for work and I started thinking about eating, I made a juice of canteloupe with lime.  OMG.  I did not expect it to taste so good!  I hope that over the long term I will be drinking more vegetables juices than fruit juices but I'm trying to mix it up during the fast.


So, hungrywise, on a scale of 1-10 (10 is most hungry) I'm at about a 5.  Yesterday and Thursday I was around a 9 or 10 much of the time.  This is better.  Of course, it's not even noon yet :-)


It has been pretty exciting to get caught up on the dishes and not have them reproduce as fast as I can wash them.  Fasting bonus!