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Day 10 / 11: All done!
Mixed Feelings...
Date: 8/9/2007 3:47:02 PM ( 17 y ) ... viewed 1827 times
Hurrah, fasting over!!! I finished my 10 day MC yesterday and I have mixed feelings.
Yesterday was a bad day for me. I felt quite ill (throat still playing up), had a shitty day at work and all in all felt really down. I don't know whether that was all a product of the cleanse, a weird subconscious emotional response to the end of the cleanse or just one of those things. I drank my whole 2 litres of made up lemonade (meant to last me the day) while I was at work then went straight out for the evening and had to make do with water. Didn't get home until 1am and ate two table spoons of maple syrup and had some hot lemon water. Bit of an anti climax really.
Today I woke up feeling much better and much more positive, which was a huge relief. I drank lots of water first thing and waited to get to work for my orange juice. I tried it diluted with one part juice one part water and waited a while but felt fine so I drank some more. I had drunk a whole litre by lunch time. Then bizarrely this afternoon I just became ravenously hungry. The orange juice didn't fill me up, it tastes great but I was craving veggies. After a while I just started craving anything.... steak baguettes even (and I'm a vegan!).
So I decided enough was enough and it was time to make allowances. I'm incredibly proud to have made it the whole way through my 10 day cleanse and I know it's important to wean the body back onto foods slowly but I think mentally I had prepared myself for 10 days and now I was just craving nutrition. So I cooked my veggies tonight. I bought all seasonal, UK grown stuff (potatoes, carrots, parsnips, red peppers, red onions, garlic, celery, tomatoes, leeks and curly leaf kale) and a real variety of colours. I cooked them all in water with stock and seasoning and drank the broth. I have to say it was like heaven in a bowl and I'm pleased I didn't just stick to OJ today.
I'm off to bed now. Drinking another lax tea to make sure this all goes through me and tomorrow I intend to repeat today having OJ during the day and then broth with some pureed vegetables for dinner. I think this will give my body a sufficient time to adjust before I start eating some cooked veg and salad at the weekend.
It's so strange to have finished. I feel great and I'll write more about what I feel I have benefited from tomorrow but it's just an anticlimax at the moment. Weird.
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