This is day 5.  I had to have blood tests done.  Someone drove me the 4 blocks to the testing place.  There is no way I could have walked there and back.  Every time I go up the stairs I have to lay down and catch my breath.  I now have a cut off weight.  If I get to 115 they will be concerned.  If I get to 110, I’m done fasting.  They said that weight loss will taper off to about a pound a day though.  I’m at 122 now.  I’ve had no bowel movement since Saturday morning.  I know you may not want to know that, but tough, you signed on to follow what it’s like to fast, so you got it.  When I talked to the doctor about all the sinus mucus, she said mucus was one of the first things the body uses for fuel because it’s easy to metabolize.  So, mucus is happening.

I woke up feeling like a million bucks.  A very slow moving million bucks, but just grounded and feeling great.  I skipped the morning movie.  I don’t think I can concentrate on educational things.  I looked at some work emails and shuttled some things around.  I think that was enough thinking for the day.  Unfortunately, I spent way too much time looking at Facebook today.  I feel kind of disgusted.  Maybe I should go on a Facebook fast too.

I felt like a million bucks until early afternoon, then crappy.  I took a short nap and woke up feeling great again.  I started a new fiction book a friend recommended to me.  Just laying in bed reading for fun was wonderful.  In the afternoon there was a class on juicing.  I’m not sure I will become a juicer, but I learned some handy tips in case I change my mind.  Then I felt crappy again, then good, then crappy, then good.  A lot of 10 minute swings of felling good and not.  I guess my indecision from yesterday is gone into my body.  The yoga lady was back.  I did some of it from a chair and some from a lying position.  We really did look like the most dysfunctional group trying to do something on mats on the front lawn.  Day 2 seemed to hit my friend Judy pretty hard.  I guess I was lucky.  After yoga I decided to check out the movies they had under the category of fun and uplifting.  They were all Disney cartoons.  I watched WallE.  Very cute.

I had a “bath” tonight and am ready to read another chapter before going to sleep.  Sorry, no pictures for you tonight – I blame facebook.

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