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30 Days In! 8 y
Where I've Been... Where I'm going...
It’s half five, 30 days in - yesterday I ate a small meal so today I am just juicing again, it
s pineapple day :) Cut into the golden pineapple I bought last week before the quick trip to the city -- this morning I had a cup of tea, then a little later a pineapple/fennel/zucchini/parsley and rocket juice with aloe/tumeric & ginger - - later on, I blended up the leftover sour cherry smoothie I had mare a couple days ago with more raw cocoa and had a glass of that, and around 5 I made another juice, pineapple, pear and the water from one young coconut with the other half a vanilla bean scr ... read more Day 29 8 y
Drops!
The end of the 29th day into this journey, I didn’t have any food yesterday - just liquid, maybe the exception of half a teaspoon of peanut butter and date syrup but really - had tea, a massive bushwalk with a half litre of watermelon/red cabbage juice - in the evening, I had a small cup of broth and cooked up my first beef bone broth which I haven’t drank any of yet, its chilling in the fridge for someday soon - it was a bit of a job making that! Looks lovely tho :)
I also made a sour cherry smoothie, composed of about 2 cups of sour cherry juice, some milk, some soy milk half a banan ... read more 28 Days 8 y
Learning about Menstration and Fasting
It’s Day 28 - lunchtime, have been up since 9:30, getting up earlier lately - still a sleep in cat, the mornings are not near so cold now and today the outdoors is actually really warm for he first time! Spring is here, early this year - it’s still Mid August, normally the coldest month of the year - we really are having the mildest and shortest winter this year, even thinking about doing without the fire I’d normally have running 24/7
Last time I wrote was day 25, to report in I ate my order of dumplings, very slowly over that day and the next morning - having 3 or 3 of them at any o ... read more Day 25 8 y
Avocado Days....
:) Floaty!
I’m in the city now, writing this at the share house I manage/hang out at when I’m in town - feeling floaty today, not sure what’s causing that, the big drive down, the variety of energies I’m immersed in and in contact with here - its a strong and somewhat disorienting sensation, still no period, this is officially the latest its ever come so that’s something I have not before experienced, strange one - I’m going to eat a good quality hamburger pattie while I’m down here and get some red meat into me to see if that triggers it as I recall that doing the trick in the past - ... read more Day 21! 8 y
Strawberry Day!
It’s 20 past 8 in the pm on my 21st day of this fast, decided to go purely liquids today and let the fast deepen again after having a little food for the last 4 or 5 days each eve - still waiting on my period, 34 days wow - but the cramps are there.
Did the big bush track again today with my practice, taking with me half the kiwi-custard apple skin-apple-pear juice with cinnamon and a little milk and water - again a nice tart, like a soursop flavor - I am really getting fit, I was actually jogging some of the trail today - something I haven’t done on that trail and jogging uphill - have ... read more Day 20 8 y
Wardrobe to Narnia
Day 20 - going to be brief as its late - was busy busy all day, got a few new e-bay garments and spent the day trying on all my different tops with the new bottoms and also did a big wardrobe clean and re-organize, took a few things out for selling - I have a very full closet and need to do this - its workable as long as I don’t add to it lol - its hard culling but executive decisions need to be made - a bit more space and less squashy is a good thing! My dear mother buys me a lot of clothes also, some of which are very nice, some of which are nice enough not to discreetly give to a frien ... read more Day 19 8 y
Forest Walks and Papaya Day!
Monday, monday... got up around 10:30 - did a bit of desk work and a quick chat with my sis about juice... (she’s a big fan of my juice maker & likes to talk kitchen) Today was PAPAYA DAY! Mmmm Mmmm Mmmm.... so I looked up a bunch of papaya juice recipes to get inspiration as I had not yet juiced this fruit, learned I could juice peel and seeds and all and also that the seeds (which I already know are very good for health and normally consume alongside the fruit) were excellent for treating alcoholic livers (which my friend here has) - So I saved most of the seeds, only juicing a few t ... read more Day 18 & Waterfalls! 8 y
Getting Lost in Rainbows!
End of the 18th day, I had a lovely day today, a little paperwork in the morning then off on a daytrip with my crazy yogi friend - we visited a waterfall and an abandoned Dharma center, a repeat of a day trip we did a couple weeks back - lst time we went there we used the empty gompa (practice hall) to do our Buddhist practice and it was very strong and inspiring in that atmosphere and energy so we wanted to go back today and do the same and also a little study together. It was very inspiring - we might start to make this little journey a regular thing :)
Took the big litre of juice I’ ... read more Day 17 8 y
Fruit Feast!
Wow, it feels like 2 days since my last entry for some reason - I think my brain can be a bit scant what with increasing age and the low cals of a fast :o! Today I got up, rather lat - having stayed up rather late as well -- and went to our local feeder town to shop as I had run out of pretty much everything I needed to continue my fast...
so much exotic fruit on sale :) I bought a golden pineapple, a punnet of strawberries, a whole small watermelon (slightly bigger than a basketball), small papaya which is pretty ripe, a bag of 3 custard apples which was on sale bagged up because t ... read more 16 Days.... 8 y
Rushing of Time...
Today is 16 Days... I had one egg, scrambled along with a big glass of orange yogurt tumeric smoothie I made up yesterday, a cup of tea and a hot choc... its now 6:30, that does not seem enough liquids for the day - have been working my yin yang out all day on publishing software, finally solved the hard problem Gah! They do this on purpose I think, make things so cryptic and impossible one must hire a pro.. but I persevered and learned much. Our books are soon to go to print
Think its bathtime & sauna for me, with a big glass of psyllium water (I’ve been dutifully having one a day) ... read more 14 - 2 Weeks Today! 8 y
Winter Fast - 2 Weeks In
Winter fasting and I’m at the 2 week mark - hooray for me :) !!!
Went for my massive 2 hour bushwalk today and really whizzed through it - I’ve been urinating frequently the last few days at some part of each day, guess that’s part of the detox - got up pretty late and made a big litre of detox lemonade - putting a big chunk of tumeric and ginger thru my juicer with cayenne, a quarter of a medium beet and one green apple & 2 peeled lemons - added lots of warm water to make up the litre and took it on my walk with me, drinking about half of the red/golden drink.
Did Buddhist pract ... read more Day 13 - Easing back to Full Fast 8 y
13 Days in...
It’s 8PM now, today has gone by pretty quick, did some house cleaning, vac, laundry, putting things away, sweeping, had a bath and sauna and now my energy is starting to flag for the evening - thought I’d watch some shows (just discovered ”Wayward Pines” last night - very cool) and do some gentle restorative yoga as I’ve had a few days off with the big city trip and all that work.
Had my rice dish last night, I ate a lot feeling hunger and pretty quickly - felt very full after but still a sense of wanting more, I rested after that and felt ok - took it easy and went to bed kind of lat ... read more Day 12 - Mission Accomplished! 8 y
Back in the Forest after the Stazi Raid!
Wow,
Well I’m back in the forest house after an intense emergency trip to the city. I wasn’t expecting that in the middle of my first winter fast! The local council in our shire decided to launch some house inspection on our city sharehouse - something that’s happening all over the country atm with the recent voting swindle and liberals in power again -- frightening times in this country!
I don’t want to go into the ins and outs of council bylaws and how ridiculous they all are, suffice to say that there are a ton of grey areas that can cause untold problems for people and studen ... read more Day 5 8 y
Day 5 with some aches and some strength
Day 5, its 10 past 4 and I just got in from the 2nd consecutive big bushwalk - did the walk a bit quicker today, spending less time in the forest - still a good couple hours or more, just didn’t do as much meditating today :) Feeling good other than the fact that I’ve been plagued for awhile with a few physical problems --
part of the reason I also wanted to do this fast,
one thing which has been bothering me for quite some time, weeks or maybe a month or more - not sure how long its been going on but awhile now - is that I’ve had a lot of sharp stomach cramping and wind at times this ... read more Day 4 - Big Bushwalk 8 y
Zoom, zoom, zoom...
Got back to my forest today with a big 2 hour plus bushwalk up and down hills and things, it was lovely and I took time out to sit and meditate and so some spiritual practice on the way.
Took a big rink bottle of fresh watermelon-ginger juice and got back home a few hours ago, now the sun’s going down - I’ve been working since about 3PM on the computer, chatting and learning about Adobe Indesign so I can help with some book publishing - going to give it a rest now and watch commander USA present Blade Master haha - cheezy shirtless barbarian film to inspire my yoga - will sit in front ... read more Day 3 - Grapefruit Zing! 8 y
3rd day of the winter fast
Mmmmmm grapefruit! Today has been fruity friday on a saturday -- well it’s friday in the northern hemisphere anyway.... Woke up to good dreams & didn’t sleep too late, really chilly one today, freezing in the house, the temp dropped heaps overnight but I’m not feeling it any more than usual on day 3 of my liquid fast which is good - it wd be cold anyway!
Juiced up a glass of rockmelon, yam, carrot and cinnamon for breakfast, cup of tea, then a watermelon red cabbage juice - and at the same time I blended up an extra one for the fridge and then juiced one grapefruit (a very tart one ... read more Day 2 - Winter Fast 8 y
Start-up of my 2016 Winter Fast
I started my fast yesterday just bang into it, I didn’t do any pre-fast winding off food or anything in particular, the couple days beforehand I had just returned from another Melbourne trip and been really exhausted and down for a day, the next day was better - & the 3rd day home in the forest I just started the fast - I had it in my mind and knew I wanted to do a three week or two week fast to revitalize and scrub off the winter chub I’d started putting on after a couple months of keeping warm, being quite lazy and eating comforting winter foods :) It was all fun, but it was time for th ... read more |