- Day 16. NO chewing!! by starstuff
18 y
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Blog: Something with some Crunch.
This has never happened to me on a fast before, but when I went to check my tongue situation (the icky white stuff that comes out in force on a fast), I got terrible cramp in my whole lower jaw and mouth/neck muscles. It's still sore 5 hours later.
I'm guessing things have frozen a bit with the lack of chewing so I've been doing some gentle exercises, and cracking the kids up with funny faces! I don't want to actually chew in case that stimulates digestive acids.....I was SO over that ready-to-digest-but-no-foods-a-coming stage 2 weeks ago.
Back into another week. I got the kids baking done and wasn't tempted even by the smell of toasting hazelnuts and coconut. Went for a good walk this evening and got my heart rate up nicely.
I'm still doing well on my 6 juices, though I'm getting a bit sick of my broth. I'm preferring lemon in water for a hot drink right now. I'm tempted to try a mastercleanse drink if I need something else. I've got some good organic raw molasses and a whole tree of organic lemons.
I'm remembering to drink 8 big glasses of water.
Off to my warm bed, it's chilly here tonight!
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- Congrats....raw BSM? by 2dreem
18 y
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| Congratulations on your fast! What great discipline. I've been trying to get on a fast for probably months now, but I always quit after a few days because I miss my food too much. Oh well. What do you mean raw black strap mollasses. There's no such thing. Molasses is the leftover minerals that have been boiled out of sugar cane. It is a highly cooked product! You cannot make mollasses without boiling sugar cane. Does it say raw mollasses? If so than they're duping you.
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- Re: Congrats....raw BSM? by starstuff
18 y
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Hmmm, you're right. It's not raw at all :o) It's organic blackstrap molasses, from Paraguay if that means anything. I've had it in the cupboard for ages (used it a few times instead of sugar or honey in breadmaking). Must have been thinking of something else that was raw, could've been the manuka honey.
Amy
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- I got terrible cramp in my whole lower jaw by Tina Andrews
18 y
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I can relate to this. I have been having serious dental work and it seems the perfect time to start my own diet. I won't confess to how bad my teeth are or how much weight I want to lose, but I will admit after changing my eating habits to mostly liquid because of all my dental surgery and gum treatments I find that my jaw makes funny noises when I use it. I also have arthritis and joint problems so at first I thought this was another symptom; I also have oestoperosis. My doctors,dentist and oral surgeon did not suggest the obvious. I am not using my jaw. It is cramping up from not being used. Just recently I have been making faces at my children (they are full grown two college students and two college graduates; they are puzzled by my strange behavior but not shocked) I love making faces at my husband who has not been sympathetic to what I am going through with all these dental surgeries but instead seems only upset with the expense of it all(we have no dental insurance).
It has been very comforting for me to release my emotions and at the same time to be exercising my jaw; it has also come in handy to make these faces while I am driving stuck in traffic in New York. No one is cutting me off now and drivers are staying out of my way.
I admire your strength to prepare lovely meals and then not eat them. My family only find fresh fruit and vegetables and yogurt in the fridge. I have been living mostly on Japanese vegetable tofu soups. (a wonderful new discovery for me a person who usually hates tofu and vegetables) It is delicious, filling, inexpensive and very comforting.
Recently my husband a real meat eater has joined me. He rarely eats vegetables; it is a nice change for him. The rest of my family for the most part is vegetarian and manage to prepare their own foods. Now if I could get them to do their own laundry and pay their own bills I would be set free. They need to be launched and the umbilical cord nees to be cut.
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