- Welcome to Day One of my beauty fast. by #58771
18 y
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Blog: Beauty Fast, a slow drag
I'll be going on an extended fast starting today - a "ketosis" fast in which, supposedly, the body goes into autolysis - primarily to deal with cosmetic health-oriented issues, or health cosmetic-oriented issues.
Some problems I face are excess liver spots, particularly on my nose and cheeks, malocclusia, asymmetry of face and body possibly caused by overacidity and toxins from cooked food, poor complexion, mottled skin on chin and facial scars, bleary eyes and disfigurement (swollen redness and distorted shape) of the eye (I have an infection at the moment), red spots on nose, puffy, heavy cheeks and mouth/chin area, structurally damaged nose, mucusy and breathy voice (poor breathing in general, sometimes asthmatic), deep circles under eyes, wrinkling above mouth and furrows around it, skin folds on forehead, poor health of hair, moles on face, a number of congenital deformities all over, and even worse, QUITE HORRIBLE genetics (pudgy nose, round eyes and so on), and several pounds overweight all over body - I'd like to lose about 20-35 pounds. In case you are wondering, I haven't a single redeeming feature anywhere. My feet are inoffensive!
If you post comments, please realize that I am fully aware of how ugly I am and do not need to be told. More hopelessness about my situation is not going to be good, so please don't give me any. This blog has two purposes - if you are sad about your own looks, you may wish to see whether I can sufficiently correct, ameliorate or compensate for the above through fasting (had lots of surgery as a child, didn't work, made things worse, not surprisingly - I would never have surgery again). I have been fighting for better health every day for many, many years and am completely at the end of my endurance. I am also, pathetically, deeply in love with someone who is my dearest delight and of course does not, cannot as things stand now, know I exist, except as a mutant reject perhaps. I feel completely terrible about myself and have no non-physical "redeeming features", either - perhaps fasting will eventually create some of those? If you are in despair about your appearance, you may wish to see what, if anything, I can do by my fasting - if I could help anyone who is vegan and still looks and feels like me, and help him/her to be the beauty that is trapped inside, this will be more than worth any of the travail.
Also, if you are interested in fast experiences that are more stringent than juice fasts (my fast will be urine, water, fulvic acid, and a few teasppons of AFA daily, not enough to provide enough carbohydrates to put me out of ketosis), you may simply want company or to see what it's like on a daily basis, for one individual at least, to prepare for a fast of your own for your own issues. Or to see it can be done - whatever the reason, it may interest you as a strict-fast journal, even if you are not ugly! Those people I can assure: I am keenly interested and awake to emotional, spiritual, psychological, creative, and non-cosmetic physical aspects of long strict-fasting, so if anything in that way comes up in this fast, I promise I won't just report on a pimple or a half-pound lost, but will let you know whether I've also had satori, or whatever doors of perception may open!
I'd like to thank anyone reading, as it's been (you might asssume) an intensely lonely struggle and it'd be lovely to share sweet fruits of success with anyone who almost cared, if only for his/her own sake. (There's no human family or human friends in the picture.) One reason I'm morose is that, in addition to having a high-raw, sugar-free, organic vegan diet, with plenty of all the "biggie" superfoods and supplements (noni, goji, alfalfa juice powder, etc., etc.), I've been a faster for almost 2/3 of my life - the longest I went (but it was on a colon cleanse with shakes and herbs and raw fresh tomato juice) was 20 days - I plan to do this for much longer. My last water fast was in December, for 13 days, and did nothing at all but start me on a voracious eating binge - all raw, but filled with such odious salty raw-restaurant junk I've been sick since. And of course so painfully, hideously ugly. Yuck. Obviously for me nothing good happens the first 2 weeks, anyway. Or bad - no detox, either. You need detox before you can repair tissue, regenerate, etc.
You are welcome to join me fasting. Please don't believe the books that say that a 1-day, 3-day, 5-day, 7-day, or 14-day juice or water fast can turn you into a radiant captivating being, from the opposite. That may be too short a time, by a long way off. Best of luck. I am here if you need me.
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- A Question or Two by RawGirl
18 y
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Hello ---
Please educate me ... what is fulvic acid?
and what is AFA?
Blessings to you and enjoy your journey to health and beauty.
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- Re: A Question or Two by #58771
18 y
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Sure - they are both supplements, considered "raw food" because they haven't been heated. AFA is blue-green algae from Klamath Lake, slightly different in nutritional profile from spirulina and chlorella - it is a wildcrafted food, which the other two are not (chlorella is not a blue-greeny, just a green alga). It has a pretty full spectrum of vitamins, essential fatty acids, phyonutrients, minerals, amino acids, and all sorts of mysterious compounds. It is the first life-form on earth, both humans' ancestor and the ancestor of evry plant and other animal on the planet. It hasn't changed in about 3 and a half billion years! People generally take it for enhanced mental clarity, to fight depression, to help with hair, skin, energy, and so on, but I have not found it to "do anything" for me. But I "trus" it to provide some basic nutriton during the months I'll be fasting.
Fulvic acid is plant-derived ionic minerals - however, the plants have not been killed for us to eat them - these plants died millions of years ago. The resulting molecules are supposedly powerful electrolytes (good for fasting electrolye balance), the most powerful antioxidant we have, and full of enzymes and potentiators - that is, it supposedly helps the cells to process better everything else you are doing, help them receive good stuff and get out any junk that's in them. Once again, I've been on megadoses of that stuff and not found any difference in anything, but people supposedly report better functioning. Very high in bioavailable minerals. It tastes just like purified water.
Thank you for reading and take care. Love, Joly
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- Re: A Question or Two by RawGirl
18 y
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| They sound cool .... can you paste in links for sources? Thanks.
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- Re: A Question or Two by #58771
18 y
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| Sure! You can read about and, if interested, purchase fulvic acid at vitalearth.org - tell them you do NOT want to receive their literature promoting eating killed animals - and you can read about AFA at e3live.com - but get the flakes from ancientsuninc.com, as they are processed without freezing, and besides, e3live.com sells non-vegan "truffles". I also could send you some tablets to try if you want a discount price - AFA is labor-intensive to harvest so is the most expensive of the algae. I have a tub of about 2000 tablets of 250 mg. each, but it's from a different brand than either Ancient Sun or E3 - same Klamath Lake source, though, and a "raw food". I'm just not sure how it's processed - the tablets are from a company called "Conscious Living Systems".
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