Day 18

Wednesday, I woke up with a larger than life pimple on my face courtesy of the candy bar I ate the day before. I just carried on. I drank my juice, water and ginger tea all day and thought about my fast all day. Why was I doing this? Was this maybe a bit extreme? All kinds of thoughts went through my head and I decided that I would break the fast but not go back to any animal protein or heavy carbohydrates until the 30 days was up. I realized that I was feeling like I was depriving myself. On Monday and Tuesday I drank less water and juice than I had up to that point and I was struggling to drink the juice even when I was hungry. I had a few episodes of dizziness and then I chugged some juice.  I think I can finish the next 12 days eating all veggies and drinking live juices, water and ginger tea.

Day 17

Tuesday wasn't too bad until I went and got that candy bar and ate it. I broke my fast, for no damn reason at all. I just went and got a snicker with almonds and devoured it. I immediately got a head rush and needed water, lots of water. I had my water and went right back to my juice for dinner that evening.

Day 16

Monday was a struggle. I wasn't caving food, sweets or warm coffee; I just didn't want any juice. I had no real appetite so I forced myself to drink all day long and by the time I went to bed, I still had 16 ounces to drink.

The other strange thing yesterday was I had two Tonsil Stones. I read a few blogs where folks have noted that they've had increased tonsil stones during various types of detox regiments. I hardly ever get them but I do get them from time to time so I can't be sure that they are from the detox.

Day 15

Halfway there! Fifteen days down and fifteen to go! I'm very pleased!

Day 14

Nothing to report except that I am so pleased with myself to have completed 14 days.

Day 13

I don't have anything at all to report. Things are moving right along, no major developments. The only real issue I have is I am missing social events.  Everything we do involves food so I'm not going out anyplace.  Even my shopping involves food -- eating crap at the mall, going to the trendy super market with all of the hot food bars, or just going to SAM's or Costco's and loading up on free samples.  I was toying with the idea of seeing a movie today but we are so conditioned to have that hot buttered popcorn with a movie that I decided to stay home.  It's a bit isolating but I'll deal. I'm noticing that I'm reading and meditating more than ever and I keep watching movies like Fat Sick and Nearly Dead and Forks Over Knives.

Oh, The Man and my roommate are also fasting so that's making it easier. I don't have to cook for him and I don't have to smell her food. One night, I think my second day into the fast, my roomie cooked some salmon (and I'm picky about my salmon) but it SMELLED DIVINE!  She almost broke me that night but I pushed through and I'm glad I did. While the weight is dropping off ( about a pound a day) one of the immediate benefits of this fast is reinforcement of how powerfully strong the mind is.  After the first three or four days I think this thing was totally mental. I am believing that this fast is renewing and strengthening my mind and helping me to see that I have the power to have enough self control to have a healthy, functional relationship with food.

Day 12

Today I had a terrible allergy attack that lasted almost throughout the entire day. It was more severe than my attacks typically are during this time of the year, it was very much like a Spring allergy attack. Sipping some ginger tea gave me some relief but not enough.  I was miserable most of the day, thankfully I drove because if I went into the sneezing and nose blowing on the Metro folks would have been giving me the stinky side eye with the Ebola virus hovering around now.  Allegra became my friend again when I got home. So, I'm back on my allergy meds. 

I think I know what happened. Yesterday I forgot my carafe of ginger tea home and was really craving something nice a warm on the cold wet morning, when I got to work. I should have and could have had a nice cup of tea but I opted for a cup of coffee, with soy and two Splenda.  I think this did it.  A friend of mine cautioned me about removing food groups from my diet. She said that every time she removed a one when it was time to incorporate it back her body had really strange reactions.  I suppose something is bound to happen when you remove ALL foods groups from your diet.

Outside of this, all is very well with this juice fast.