DAY 10: 5th day of my water fast by Sacristia Blog entry

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by Sacristia

DAY 10: 5th day of my water fast

My daily Journey to a healthier life style

Date: 11/4/2010 2:09:10 PM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 28206 times

November 4, 2010

“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong” ~ Benjamin Franklin

I am still on my Water fast. I thought the quote by Ben Franklin was appropriate, because I believe a lot of us eat horrible, and try to correct it and then end up kind of failing again. I like it that he say, “I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong”. I thought about how many times, I have failed with eating healthy all the time. I also remember as a child when eating out was a treat, instead of a daily or weekly luxury.

I am trying to put particular road blocks in place, so that once I am off of my fast, that I do not fall back into the toxic eating/living again. I have thought about setting up certain implements to help that.

1.Always write out a HEALTHY grocery list and follow it
2.Make sure that I have healthy snacks at home or with me at all times, in case the need arises (in order to prevent -fast food runs or snack
3.Get into a habit of eating proper portions.

My day was pretty good, but I had a slight sour stomach, so I crawled in bed, drank some more water and rested. I know that about this stage in fasting, I feel a little achey here and there, but I know it is nothing like full detoxification so I can't complain.

I kind of had a odd night, as soon as I got home, one of my friend's invited me per text message to come over to her house for dinner. I had to decline and told her that I wasn't feel that great. I told her that might be coming down with something as I was getting cold chills off and on, which is not lying, as my temperature is much lower, so I am getting colder and getting chilly off an on during the day. I fight to stay warm. Plus they have a young infant in the house, so it was an excuse for me avoid going over and being tempted to eat. I really have no urge, but I know emotionally, I might be stressed out to do so. I am really doing a lot of research and learning about how to control emotional eating.

I have never been much of an emotional eater, but of course, times change such as the levels of stress in life. I don't drink or smoke or do drugs, so the only thing that would be sensible for me to abuse would be the only thing that is always available to me: FOOD.

I can do something else, when I don't feel loved or paid attention to other then eating. It is the only step I can take that will change my life. I hope that this emotional eating is only an action that is taken place because I feel unloved by P. and at times feel totally ignored by him. I have done EFT a couple times in the past with huge results, but I am always forgetting to use with during times of high emotions and stress. I have heard that using EFT during fasting does help. I will just have to remember to use them when the emotional part of my fasting rears its ugly head.

During my lunch(non eating, lunch of Of course!) at work yesterday, I went to the library and did some more water fasting research (not a lot of books) but found several books on detox and juicing, so I copied down some of the juicing recipes for a healthy liver and kidney health, as well. I want to make sure that I am giving my body the best it can get when I am fasting. I also jotted down in a notebook some other juices recipes that looked good as well. I might share them here, as I try them once I get the point in my fasting. I am really hoping to keep to my water fast without going to juice fasting, but it is an alternative for me to continue my fast, without breaking the fast all together. See, I am planning and thinking it out a head of time so I might be more successful. I have been seriously been thinking about giving myself enemas every couple days when detoxification is at its highest. I have been reading that that I should double my water intake, as if I don't get enough water to help flush my system out, the toxins will be more concentrated and I will feel worse. So my body weight, I should be drinking at least 9 cups of water a day or 75 ounces (which means 3.75 fill ups of my water bottles as I have a 20 ounce water bottle ) and while fasting I should be drinking close to 18 cups of water or 150 ounces/ a little over a gallon of water a day (for 7.5 fill ups of my water bottle). I am going to try and monitor my water take a bit more, during the detoxification stage, to see if I do follow this water intake calculation if it will help lessen the “sick” feeling I get and make it easier for me. I know that when I did my 55 day water fast 5 or 6 years ago, I had detoxed hard, but I didn't have to break it or even switch to juice. I think I just forced myself to drink more and more water to help flush it out the toxins, then of course, maybe I wasn't as toxic as I am now. I don't know. I will just have to see.

I made a little chart in my notebook that I will follow during my re-feeding time when I break my fast. For every 5 days of fasting you should follow one specialize diet to re-introduce food into your system. I will list it here.

1-5 days of fast– one day of specialized diet
6-10 days of fast - two days of specialized diet
11-15 days of fast– three days of specialized diet
16-20 days of fast – four days of specialized diet
21-25 days of fast – five days of specialized diet
26-30 days of fast – six days of specialized diet
31-35 days of fast – seven days of specialized diet
36-40 days of fast – eight days of specialized diet
41-45 days of fast – nine days of specialized diet
46-50 days of fast – ten days of specialized diet
51-55 days of fast – eleven days of specialized diet

As I don't know how long I will fast, I will have to look at the chart once I have decided to end my fast, so I can really prepare to slowly introduce solid foods back to my system again. Right now I need to figure out what I will ingest once I end my fast. Since I have a juicer, I will start by having a bit of fresh juice, maybe some prepared that has been pureed/blended in a baby food-like consistence. I haven't figure out what actually solid foods I will start with such as grapes or cantaloupe but I want to figure it out so I can set up some sort of post fast menu to follow. I do know that after my body is used to eating food again, I want to strictly start eating a Daniel diet or Eden diet, which is just fresh veggies and fruits, (nothing cooked, no dairy, no meat, no fats, no margarine, no shortening, etc) I want to do this for at least 6 months or a year, until I have a very good diet under my belt. Almost like starting over with learning what to eat and what not to eat. LOL So really I would love to start 2011 with a whole new healthy diet.

Phil was in a talkative mood last night if not a little bit affectionate, which was very odd for him towards me, as normally his is very quiet and goes off to do what he wants (plays pool & hangs out with his friends) after his son goes to bed. When he came home, he was really open and talkative to me. I was surprised, but I wasn't going to complain, as that is all that I really want at times. For him to spend a little bit of time with me. He talked about moving and how that he didn't want all the stress to ruin our relationship. He said he believed that our relationship would improve once he moved out. He said that it was something that he needed to do to feel that he had control of his life and he had something of his own again. He also told me that when he is quiet and doesn't want to talk, it isn't me. He reminded me that he is still in a lot of pain over various internal issues (ulcer, and a couple unknown things, as he hasn't had the diagnosed due to not have insurance) so it puts him in a solitary state of mind, which he just tries to stop thinking about the pain and the worry about it. He even told me that his has been peeing blood for some time. I am very concerned for him, as he might have a kidney issue or something. It was the first thing that came through my mind, when he said that because he does take a lot of pain reliever, which is not good for your body. I realize now that maybe I have been haste with thinking that he is ignoring me or just stringing me alone. Maybe because he is hurting that he withdraws from relationships. So I still have hope, yet I really have think and decide if THIS is healthy for me emotionally and mentally, as it will affect me in the future.

I did say that it was a very odd night! LOL

I camped out in my bedroom again with books and movies, as I was feeling a bit off, so I wasn't lying when I told my friend I wasn't feeling good. My intestines were gurgling, which is usually a signal that I will have a case of diarrhea, which I did have a small amount of. I have never had that before early on in any of my previous fasts. It gurgled three different times, in which I had a very small, liquidy BM. What ever is going on, it was irritating my intestines yesterday.

I weighed myself this morning as I was curious on how much “water/intestinal weight” I had lost. I know that I will often lose about 8 or 9 pound of just “water/intestinal weight” at the beginning of a fast. I have lost 5 pounds. Yay. I weighted myself as I feel lighter and almost willowy, even though at this time, I am far from it. I also noticed that the backs of my shoes are slipping out when I walk, when it wasn't doing that before either. Since I haven't worn any rings in a while (as my fingers got too chubby that I didn't want to remind myself daily of pulling them off and on, I stopped wearing them) I don't know if I have lost weight in my fingers yet.

I am planning on taking a hot/warm bath tonight with Almond oil, and do some body bushing before camping out in my bedroom to relax, drink water and read books.

WATER INTAKE: (so far): 56.9 (only 93.1 ounces to go LOL Floating city here I come!)