Fasting Day 7: Eating solid food tomorrow!
Well, we’ve come a long way since our first day of the fast. We didn’t really know much about fasting and the fasting system before starting, but in the last few days we have really LEARNED A LOT!
It’s interesting how energy levels go up and down during the fast. Most days we had energy for short periods of the day, but mostly we felt a little weak and lazy. For me, sometimes I felt hungry but not always. The important thing for me was to do some activities during the day. In the mornings, I usually went for a swim in the sea. It was really good to start the day with some exercise. Tomoko went to the meditation circle a couple of mornings on the beach and I know she liked that. We also did morning yoga and occasionally afternoon yoga. With experience, the twice-a-day coffee-vinegar colemas (also called colonics or enemas) have definitely gotten easier and that’s been a great thing
How about Day 5?? We were both REALLY WEAK on the fifth day and I think the only thing that kept us moving was our friend Kyle who visited for a couple of days. With limited strength and feeling very lethargic, we still managed to go into town and walk around a little. I didn’t know what was going to happen for the remaining days when I felt so weak on day five! On this day, for the first time, I had some liquids other than our ‘detox drink’ or water. I had one ‘liver flush drink’ which is a wonderful (and strange!) combination of olive oil, cayenne pepper, garlic, orange juice and lemon. I also had a small bowl of vegetable broth (liquid only, no solids). Sitting down to eat the veg broth feels like sitting down for a meal, so it kind of helps mentally.
Well, I woke up on Day 6 and felt wonderful — high energy, ready to go — so I went for a good swim. I grabbed my snorkel and mask and swam out a few hundred meters and found some areas of coral. It was great to observe the tropical fish. Tomoko and I have done a lot of snorkeling (and I’m a scuba diver) so we are able to identify many of the fish that we see. The reef here is mostly dead but luckily there are a few live spots with some interesting fish around. It really felt great to have energy and be active in the morning! With Kyle, we attended a ‘tea circle’ which was a really nice social event. Near sunset time, I had my first experience with the breathing, energy exercise called Qi Gong. Tomoko joined me for that and we both really liked it. It seems to be a great combination of breathing exercises and flowing movements.
Today is DAY 7 and we both feel pretty good. We did ‘yoga in the jungle’ this morning and that definitely tired us out. The rest of the day we’ve been mostly relaxing. In the middle of the afternoon we sat at a beachside table and had ‘lunch’ — Tomoko had veg broth soup and I bellied up with a liver flush drink .. an excellent meal! We also had some nice conversation with a new Canadian friend who’s a fellow faster. He was just full of information about juicing and natural foods.
Now that it’s DAY 7, it’s time for Tomoko and I to LOOK AT THE MENU … and get ready for a meal tomorrow … yes! It’s important to ease out of the fast, so it’ll just be raw foods for us for a couple of days — fresh fruit and raw salad. But … pizza’s just around the corner (just kidding!)
I’ll mention one good book that I’ve borrowed from the library here. It’s a great reference for all of the healthy things we’ve been learning here. It’s called ‘The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity’ by Daniel Reid. There’s so much good (and non-mainstream) information in there that you can just about open it to any page and you’ll find something captivating. I’m starting to learn about food combining which seems to be so important to good digestion (don’t eat proteins together with carbohydrates … no steak and potatoes, no fish and chips!)
That’s about it for today. Now I’m off to do some cleansing, and then to ‘dinner’ for some vegetable broth.
More to come about health and nutrition, stay tuned …
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