- Day 11 officially by labellavita
17 y
2,838 8 Messages Shown
Blog: My May Fast (21 days) June Fast (35 days)
Symptoms:
skin:
face dry
neck dry
shoulder mildly dry
chest smooth
abdomen smooth
upper arm smooth
elbow mildly dry, signs of inflammation
lower arm mildly dry
hand smooth
inner thigh mildly dry, slightly infammed
back thigh smooth
knee cap dry, infllamation showing
back of knee dry, mild inflammed
lower leg skin renewal (I totally hate this part)
feet ventrum dry, scratched it again
ankled healed
tongue: thin white film on whole tongue
odour:
BM: once (getting poorer)
others:
overall:not feeling well, exhuasted, not a good day
sleep: 5 hrs
Exercise
Medication
0 GNC Ultimate Cleanse
0 Multivitamin
0 Evening Primrose Oil capsules
Goals:
1. I want fantastic health, free of diseases and addictions.
2. Clear eczema
3. Fight bulimia
4. Score A for finals
Not a very good day. I feel sick and honestly, exhausted from the lack of sleep. I should include the number of hours I sleep from now on for monitoring. I will sleep early tonight.
I shall jog tomorrow morning to help the detox. I will be busy tomorrow. I have a full day of clinics(9-5pm) tomorrow and am going back to medical school to borrow a gastroentegology textbook for personal study. I will be home late.
Things I need to improve:
1. Sleep when I am tired (I usually fight and ignore my exhuastion)
2. Sleeping hours increase to at least 8 hrs on weekdays and 10 hrs on weekends
3. Organize my personal notes (they are all over the place and it frustrates me when I am trying to retrieve data)
4. Invest a little time in studying nutrition
5. Cravings management: spend time away from house, visualize goals and breathe, drink water, take a walk
One day at a time. My boyfriend sent his love the night before--tremendously motivating.
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- I'm back by naravahanadata
17 y
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Dear Isabella,
I was "computerless" for quite some time now, good to be back! I have read your blog and girl, you are a busy one! :-) Your medical survey sounds great, I hope we learn the results too. I was thinking about you a lot, I am a bit dismalled about your family situation twists, I had hoped for the better. Be strong, you can surely overcome all adversity.
How do you manage to be so full of energy while fasting? It's a miracle to me. I am fasting too at the moment, actually, quite accidentally I should have been on the same day as you, unfortunately I broke down the second day and had to start from day one on Saturday 18.4. and now I am only on day nine. I am not exactly exhausted, but I do have to say that after coming back home from work (where I use my brain, not my body) I am grateful to crush down - the idea of some jogging is beyond me ;-) I hate my foul breath, so far that is the biggest obstacle in the fasting - the breath and the taste in my mouth - just hate it.
How comes your boyfriend's first language is English? His parents are English speakers? I am so glad to hear how much support and love he has for you, you absolutely deserve it!
Ah well, I'll keep following your wonderful progress and wish the best of luck to you. There is a whole bright future for you out there!
Lots of love
Vanda
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- Re: I'm back by labellavita
17 y
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Hey gal,
Looks like someone is no longer on my "Missing" list. Love it now you are back.
Allow me to share something about my experience fasting. I did small fasts before I started this blog, that is during the course of 2006. Together with the small fasts were cleansing aids (Ultimate Cleanse, Senokot a laxative, Fibre O which containsPsyhllium)and boosting aids (Multivitamins and Probiotics). The former helped to clean my blood, detoxify and repair my organs and intensively remove dirt and mend my bowel; the latter helped to promote cellular growth and division and recreate a healthy colon environment. This significantly fixed my leaky gut problem and I believe my bowel is healed. This eliminated my constipation and allowed a cleaner blood which reduced hyper-immune activity, which greatly explains why my eczema is no longer severe, cracking, bleeding or oozing. Right now, I am proud to say it is mainly mildly dry with diffuse mild inflammation at the limb joints and knuckles of my right hand.
In my earlier fasts I experienced stronger fasting effects especially dizziness and aches but with improvement in my health over the course of the year and the beginning of 2007, the effects seem to be lesser and lesser in intensivity. I am prepared to deal with more difficult effects during this prolonged 35 day water fast but at the same time, my body has already tide through a hard long time and hopefully, I would not have to deal with anything to difficult.
My current main problems are dry dull skin, diffuse mild inlfammation at the limb joints, poor sense of smell and taste. What I monitor are these factors, bowel movement and amount of sleep. I try to do regular light to moderate exercise in order to detoxify my body and give a burst of endorphins to my body. I used to be a runner and there is something very sensational when you get into the "zone"--it feels like flying and it feels awesome.
Recovery is not easy. SO SO SO NOT EASY. Because having such a visible problem can be a blow to my self-esteem but I have learnt to accept that I am in a transition and like everything in life, everything is a process. Let the process run its course and one will see the result.
Clinics are good. I believe by the end of my may fast, I will be able to write a simple description and conclusion in my blog and hopefully benefit all who is following my blog. This one is focusing on how probiotics and antibiotics effect bowel disturbances ie diarrhea and constipation. I am planning to take up another research project on liver disease later in May. Keep myself engaged in medical work in early summer and reward myself with a summer holiday in Turkey towards the end of summer. Hey, a medical student has a life too!
My boyfriend is a darling. yES, His first language is Turkish and second is Turkish. He works as a guide dealing with history and hence meets people from all over the world. Before I holidayed in Turkey, I had the misconception like everyone else that Turkey was a non-English speaking and Islamic country. To my surprise, Turkey is a secular country--but with over 90% Muslims--and many Turks in the workforce came from English/French/German schools.Still, a good percetage of the population, especially the lower class and surburban folks, only speak Turkish. In a humorous incident, I recall I was lost while strolling by myself in Istanbul(definitely not advisable to tourists haha). I went into an automobile shop and asked a son-father pair for help. The modest little shop was in the less-developed district of Istanbul and I should have reckoned that the pair were not familiar with English. In the end, we were comically monkeying each other with hand signs. We gave up and burst into laughter. I left, giggling and still LOST but my oft-reliable intuition led me back to my hotel. What an adventure. I actually am smiling writing this.
I am glad that I remain so passionate about life and the opportunities God has given me. I see potential in all things. So there is no need to feel sorry about my family situation, it is just unfortunate that my parents belong to the class of people who are not able to transcend their own follies and prejudices. During my fast, I contemplated what the best move for me is and I have come to the decision of moving out and being on my own from next month. My doctor and friends emphatically told me that in order for me to function well in and out of school from now onwards, they wanted me to keep my life uncomplicated. My doctor in particular made a comment that hit home hardest. " You are extremely intelligent and like all the doctors, I did not think you had a mental problem when we first saw you [in the hospital]. But whether it is from your family [which I have not taken up responsibility to counsel], I want to make sure that you are able to go through the next 4 years of medical school successfully and smoothly. High intelligence coupled with an unstable personality is not favourable in such a stressful career. I urge you to keep your life uncomplicated."
So Vanda, life begins right now. I am building my life from zero again, confidently and consistently--starting from the vision of great health. I hope you do the same to not learn to be happy and alive.
Please do keep me updated about how you are doing. As my boyfriend often tells me, success be with you, my friend.
*Hugs*
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- Re: I'm back by labellavita
17 y
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By the way, please get enough rest and do not over-strain yourself. Balance is the order of the day.
Lots of love.
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- Re: I'm back by naravahanadata
17 y
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Ah, of course I know Turkish people speak English, I am sure more of them than Czechs ;-), I just thought I read in your blog that English was his FIRST language, that's what surprised me. Whatever :) Plus I made a misprint - my fast of course started on 28., not 18.4.
The information about your pre-fasting activities sounds fascinating, you should have included it in some kind of introduction, imagine other people suffering from the same disease stopping by to look for a remedy and this may be crucial! I really do hope things work out for you! And everybody.. (the naive little me wanting world peace and happiness ;) Anyway, I am sure you will become one of the so far few doctors who can actually really help people instead of telling them words like "chronic" and "incurable" and stuff them with medicine causing only more problems. I pray you manage to make your life less complicated and just realize fully your wonderful potential!
Love
Vanda
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- Re: I'm back by labellavita
17 y
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| *hugs* you have no idea how much pulling up this respond after a long day's work means to me. thank you so much.let's work hard together.
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- do not ... by jaymz
17 y
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| if you are fasting you should be resting not jogging and sleeping more than a few hours a night. the way your going you will end up doing much more damage to yourself than actually helping yourself
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- Re: do not ... by labellavita
17 y
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Dear Jaymz,
Thanks for the chide. I need it :) Yes, I will discipline myself to sleep more. I am not accustomed to relaxing. I often do not understand why when I am exhuasted, I try to do even more work in lieu of getting some rest. Thanks.
Lots of love.
Isabella
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