Fasting Diary - Day 4

Things are starting to improve this afternoon. It’s taken a while. I’m now getting the ‘clean’ feeling, breathing is clear and easy (mucus must have dissipated), head and eyes feel clean, bright, getting that ’scrubbed inside head’ feeling. Depression is lifting, although this morning it was still there. Not really wanting to get out of bed and do work. Fell asleep on sofa again last night watching TV and woke at 10.30pm. Read book til 11pm then slept until 6am.

I’m not sure if I’m cheating a bit on this juice fast, but I don’t think so. In addition to juice, I’ve started on the vanilla liver detox powder and the liver tablets from my naturopath. I think they’re helping me get through this and detoxify. I don’t think it’s good to just have juice. I think the liver needs additional support.

Today I also slipped in a couple of teaspoons of flaxseed oil into my vanilla detox powder. I think I may need fatty acids for brain function as I’m not being very productive - hardly getting any work done because of procrastination and not being able to decide where to start. I also slipped in some LSA mix for protein.

I’m concerned about losing muscle mass and slowing my metabolism. So, I went to the gym again today for nearly an hour - did legs, abs, biceps and triceps. I took my juice with me and actually felt really good. The sun was shining through the windows which always helps.

I intended to get some protein powder from the health shop but on the way I stopped at the organic fruit shop. The guy cautioned me against protein powder - I’d heard this before actually, but forgot - it’s processed so probably not a good move on a detox.

Instead I bought some organic broth powder and had a cup of that with a couple of free range egg whites when I got home after the gym.

It’s nearly 3pm and I’m feeling pretty good right now, just sitting down to attempt some work.

It was actually quite easy today to go to the fruit shop and be around solid foods. I even walked past the bakery and chicken shop and felt nothing, apart from a sanctimonious feeling that I wasn’t consuming all that white flour stuff in the bakery. No wonder depression is such a problem in the Western world.

Re: hunger pangs, I did feel rather hungry this morning but that abated when I had some of the juice I made yesterday. This afternoon I don’t feel hungry at all.

I wonder how long I can keep this up for. The guy in the organic shop has done alot of this kind of stuff. He figured a week would be good but we’ll see.

Note: yesterday I went too far and juiced a leek. I’m telling you what, that is the worst juice in the world! I had to contend with an onion taste in my mouth for the rest of the day and nearly vomited when I took a mouthful of the juice. Putrid! And pretty stupid.