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Day Five
A personal journey to health and freedom through water fasting
Date: 5/31/2010 2:54:37 PM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 1770 times Thank God...My hunger is finally abating. I only had a couple of little grumbles early in the day, and nothing else. Starting this fast was a little different for me. Usually I am through with hunger by the end of Day Three. But this fast, I decided to try to prevent the generally unpleasant symptoms of the Liver Dump...when all the toxins are released at once into the blood stream during rapid detox, and you really would prefer to die than continue the fast...
This time I drank green water for the first three days, once a day in the morning. Green water is: 12 oz pure filtered water, 1 tsp pure chlorella powder, 1/2 tsp Vitamin C powder (ascorbic acid) and 1/2 tsp turmeric, ginger, and garlic powder blend I sprinkle on everything. It really seemed to work, because the only toxic detox symptoms I felt was a mild sinus headache on Day One, along with the typical hunger pangs. On Day Three I went through a drop in core body temperature and wrapped a blanket around me all day (although it was 75 degrees outside!) But the skies cleared on Day Four and by Day Five I think I am coming out of the woods as far as hunger. I think drinking the green water extended my hunger a couple of days...but for the lack of detox symptoms, I think I can deal with it!
I did wake up this morning with a knot on my neck like a walnut under my right ear. My lymph node was definitely swollen! That is actually good, because to me that indicates that cells are being opened up and toxins are being dumped into the proper channels for elimination from my body. The only problem is...the only way to get your lymph to move is through physical exercise. It's not like the circulatory system which has the heart to pump and move the blood around. So having a lymph node filled with toxins meant I personally, and intentionally, had to move it...
I really hate exercise... Have I mentioned that? It wasn't so bad when I was young and marginally fit, but I haven't seen the inside of a gym since the Reagan Administration. Not only do I despise slimy sweat and offensive odor, but jumping up and down, flapping my arms to really bad Pop music, and a malevolent, full-length wall mirror offends my sense of personal dignity.
So what to do...I actually do own exercise equipment at home; purchases made in the insane throws of a New Year's Resolution, or in a frantic attempt to simply buy something which would assuage my deep emotional issues, instead of facing them directly. So I got up this morning and did the unthinkable. I went onto the back porch and dusted off my Pilates Balancing Ball.
Then I had some fun. Instead of getting down on the floor and/or doing a routine of Pilates Core strengthening exercises, I used that ball for an unintended purpose. Since I spend most of my day in front of the computer researching and writing, I sat down on that ball, zoomed out the text on my web page really big so I could see it clearly, and started bouncing up and down...
Now, there is actually a method to my madness. There is a physical therapy developed for Senior citizens and handicapped persons called "Rebounding". People bounce up and down on a mini-trampoline in order to get their lymphatic system to move, circulate and detoxify. So taking a cue from that, I sat my fanny down and bounced and studied for a hour. I never got more than a little sweaty, and the lump on my neck has disappeared.
Today was also a beautiful day outside. And feeling physically so good, and adventurous, I dug deep to the back of my closet and uncovered a bathing suit. Outside in the back there is a little patch of grass that is generally private, and so I ventured out at High Noon to get reintroduced to the sun.
Regardless of what conventional medical wisdom will say, most doctors educated on Vitamin D say I will never get skin cancer this way. I stayed out a maximum of 30 minutes total. As white and pasty as I am, I barely turned pink from the exposure, much less sunburned (which is what causes people an increased risk of cancer). And I don't put the fast food garbage into my system that gets converted into carcinogens by sunlight. So I feel not only safe, but let me tell you, I can't think of anything that has ever felt so inately healing to me. It felt like I was soaking up life itself from the rays of the sun.
What I did not consider was that I would have to come face to face with what I have done to my body by ignoring it all these years. My legs are white as paper, covered with cellulite and spider veins, and one leg has a dangerously large vericose vein forming. My toenails are turning white and have long ridges, which indicate to me that my circulation in my lower legs is greatly compromised, and my toenails are inadequately nourished (possibly also liver/kidney damage, but I can't think about that right now).
Argh... Guess that means I'm going to have to dust off the eliptical trainer and climb aboard the ole iron horse. I'm not so stupid that I would do anything at all strenous, like an interval program during a water fast. All I need is to faint and fall, and split my head open! But since it seems I really must move my lymphatic fluid during this fast and detoxification, and since my legs look like death warmed over, I give in and will capitulate to the exercise gods.
Somebody pray for me.
More later...
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