If I don’t extend my fast then I’m on Day 7 of 13.  I felt just exhausted last night so I assumed today would be my first day not getting out of my room, but it wasn’t.  Again, morning was great.  I wanted to go for a hike or go dancing.  Of course that is unrealistic.  I’m tiring real easy.  I got up and did a washcloth bath.  Then I needed to lay down.  I got dressed.  Then I needed to lay down.  I had the tiniest bowl movement I’ve ever had – It was almost comical.  Then I needed to lay down.

When I met the doctor today he went over my blood tests.  The overall results were good.  The items that were not were probably due to fasting – For instance high cholesterol which is probably because my body is digesting fat right now.  But of all of them, the kicker, wait for it, wait for it……I am no longer pre-diabetic.  My Hemoglobin A1c is smack in the middle of normal!  The other thing I find so fascinating is that even when you haven’t eaten for days, your body just goes through the motions.  It still makes all the different types of blood cells, all the electrolytes, vitamins are still running around in there and all the internal organs (except the digestion system) keep doing there job.  Our bodies are amazing.

The activities list was unexciting today which was good because I didn’t want to do anything anyway and I didn’t want to have fomo over missing something I’d like.  I talked with Judy for a while, I read, I colored a little.  I watched March of the Penguins and The Mexican.  I am so enamored with penguins.  I’m still a bit angry that I couldn’t get a job in Antarctica.  I would have been so good at some of the jobs I applied for.  I met on Skype with my friend Andrea.  She just sat with me and poured love and support my way and I practiced taking it in – something I need a bit more practice doing.  It was wonderful.

The back and forth nausea kicked in around 2:00pm.  I really would be ok if that would stop happening.  It was really windy today so I didn’t spend much time outside, but it was like a wind tunnel in my room which was kind of fun.  I got cold today so I put on a fleece and put leggings on under my pants.  I went to my room early and put on my fuzzy pjs and fuzzy socks.

Pictures:  So I did a picture right before I left my house last week and one today.   I thought it might be cool to see how the body changes.  The angles are different because of the different mirrors I had, but you can still see the change.  The coloring I did was the first page of the coloring book.  I think it says “This Book Belongs to”, but who knows.  Then fuzzy pjs and socks!

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