[RawFoodGrl]

Thanks, DH! I may try this again in a month or two, but more planned out. I'm not sure I can go COMPLETELY with water for several days just yet, but maybe one day.

I didn't think I could even do ONE day of the MC, let alone three, so I'm open to the idea of water only. I keep saying that because it just blows my mind.

Fortunately, I'm not working right now, so it's easy to just rest, read and get some sun.



For my fasting update, as I mentioned, yesterday was the transition day. I had 8 oz of OJ for breakfast, which I think was not quite enough. I was pleased it sat well with me, but I was REALLY hungry and it was challenging to wait until lunchtime to eat.

I wasn't sure about the fruit, what to eat, how much to eat, and how it would sit with me, so I started with low glycemic fruits and worked my way up to mid-range.

I started with blueberries. I ate them slowly, chewing thoroughly, and waited to see how they would sit with me. I did the same with strawberries next, and then went on to a peach. The peach wasn't ripe and hard, so as I chewed slowly and sat with it, I felt very strongly I didn't want to keep eating it so I set the rest aside. I then ate some red seedless grapes, and I had a slight problem with that, I noticed it made me a bit sugar-woozily.

I didn't exactly have "lunch", it was more like I "grazed" as it took over 2 hours to complete the process of eating those fruits. I then stopped, because I wanted to be ready for dinner (a vegi salad) and know it's important to completely digest fruit before adding veg.

So, 2 hours later I had one of my favorite spinach & arugula salads. After doing the MC and eating fruit, I was surprised how fibrous the spinach and arugula was!!! It seemed to take an inordinate amount of chewing!!!!! LOL!!!!

After eating the salad, I was still hungry. As the MC said to just eat OJ for breakfast, fruit salad for lunch, and fruit or veg salad for dinner, I thought perhaps I should not eat anything else. (At that point I had had about 750 calories).

But the hunger really got to me and I struggled to figure out what to eat. Since I was starting to feel out of balance, my body's first cry was for an ounce of cheese, as my bodymind knows that will restore me. But especially after the fasting, I did NOT want to put that in my body!!! I ate 1/4 cup of guacamole, which was good, but not enough, then a couple macadamia nuts which really didn't suit. Then I decided to have a hemp shake with all my superfoods. That really hit the spot!

Later that night I read that fasting can remove essential nutrients from the body, so it makes sense that my body was craving those superfoods to bring my nutrition back into balance.

From a spiritual perspective, things are expanding exponentially. It has been a joyous, marvelous, and remarkable experience.

I have found it also interesting that as I've been fasting and coming out of it, I've been giving a lot of thought to foods I liked in the past: bacon cheeseburgers, stuffed baked potatoes, seitan BBQ, bean burritos, tofu scrambles - be it animal, vegi or vegan, I found myself thinking of all the cooked foods I've enjoyed through the years.

I found that odd, but then talking it out with my BF (as he was making a bean burrito while I was hungry and he offered to make me one), I realized that each food was pleasurable in some way to my mouth, mind or body. That there were things about each that I really enjoyed, and to some extent, draw me still.

Looking at each one in turn (and physically looking at the bean burrito, which I think made me really "get it") I realized that while they all appealed to me in the past, while I still feel a pull and draw to them now, the truth is I really do NOT want to put those foods in my body.

I especially found that interesting as I'd completely forgotten we're going out of town for several days, and I had an "Oh my god!" moment thinking about how to do raw food, if I can, etc., but through all this pre-work, pre-thought, I am extremely strong in my stand, in my body, about eating only raw foods.

In fact, I quickly established a plan for how to eat raw, no matter WHAT restaurant we go to, and as we discuss our travel plans, it seems now part of our adventure may well be to try every raw restaurant in the area we can find!!

Outside of that, I find my body appears to be cleansing, as, well, let's just say when I went to the bathroom today it was not as "usual" and smelly.


So, that's the last I plan to post about my journey, unless something comes up that I feel is really important to share.

DH, I appreciate having your comments and support, and I hope this journey helps others in theirs.