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Celery Skin (Refeeding Day 3)

On By rrainefioreIn Awakening, Uncategorized, Water Fast2 Comments

I got up early to go get blood tests.  I barely slept.  I tossed and turned all night.  The “No one likes me” crap in my head is here.  The past couple of days when I’m sitting outside having my juice, no one chooses to sit with me.  They pull chairs and tables together and sit somewhere else.  When I do pull up a chair and sit with the group, I get talked over, interrupted or ignored.  Not sure why this still bothers me or how to stop it once it starts bothering me.  I’m not even sure I want to talk sometimes – the constant sharing of stories is exhausting and most of the time it isn’t real connecting.  But still, society tells me this is the way we are supposed to connect and I’m doing it wrong.  I’ve worked on it so much, but it still shows up.  I know that I’m the source of the problem and that half of it I’m just making up in my head.  I want to go home.  I want to withdraw.  It’s coming up for a reason and now that I’m no longer water fasting, my nervous system is ready to work on these type of issues.  So, I’ll work on it some more – bring it on – that’s part of why I’m here.

The blood test place opened up late and it took over an hour and a half to get blood drawn.  They had the air conditioning on arctic so my fingers were blue and I was shivering when it was my turn.  The lady drawing blood had to try three times to get a vein.  Did my veins get smaller on the fast or was my blood turning to slushie?  When I got back I had my morning juice in my room with the heat on.

I swear my skin smells like celery.  I washed my underarms 3 times today and I still smell like celery.  It’s better than BO, but just so weird.  My eczema is gone and the skin on my face actually looks pretty good and healthy.  I gained some weight although I’m still two belt sizes down.

I worked a little, read a little, napped a little, netflixed a little and drank my juices.  Not the most exciting day.  The last juice of the day didn’t go down too well.  I went up stairs to lay down and just felt flu-ish.  My stomach is gurgling a lot too.  No pretty pictures today – just my poor beat up arm from the blood draw and a new hole on my belt.

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Tacos (Refeeding Day 2)

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I felt much better this morning even though I didn’t sleep well.  I have quite a bit more energy, surprisingly more for only having had 8 cups of juice yesterday.  I didn’t get nauseous after each juice today.  No headache.  Hallelujah.

I colored for a bit.  I read for a bit.  A few people went out to shop.  I was able to go with them although I only went in two stores.  I spent more time just sitting in the shade people watching.  It is amazing how unfit and unhealthy most people look.  So many are limping because their hips are locked down.  So many are waddling or shuffling because they are carrying around too much weight or have a bad back.  So many people eating sweets and sodas and other crap.  It was a fashion show of unhealthy.  Of course, I’m the frail looking bag of bones moving slower than an 80 year old so I kind of fit right in.

The field trip might have been too much for me.  It was exhausting, but it was nice to have a change of scenery.  There was one restaurant that was grilling up meat for what I imagined to be very delicious tacos.  I contemplated going in there and ordering 17 tacos, but I think my friends would have either tackled me or joined me in the mad rush tearing the place apart for meat.  Either way it would have been a whole scene.  Plus one taco would probably send me to the hospital when my colon got to it and said hell no.  I don’t think you are supposed to go from 4 juices straight to 17 steak tacos.

I just rested the rest of the afternoon.  I will probably do one more day of juice and then start on raw veggies (no tacos).  I have to get up early tomorrow for blood work so I think I’ll look for a movie to watch and try to go to be early.

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Refeeding (New Day 1)

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Last night was very uncomfortable again.  Not quite as bad as the night before, but almost.  I woke up nauseous and had a headache.  This is the first headache I’ve had, that I can remember.  I feel quite over it and am excited to start juice today.

At 9:00am I got a watermelon celery juice.  I don’t like celery so I won’t be recommending this tasty treat, but celery supposedly has tons of electrolytes.  It wasn’t so bad that I had trouble drinking it though.  You are supposed to take your time drinking it, sloshing it around in your mouth so it mixes with saliva.  I felt very good drinking it, but right after, I had to go lay down and nap.  I was nauseous again and the headache got worse.  Still it was different, it felt like my stomach was complaining about having to work again.  I had intestinal cramping too, not like something was wrong, but like you could feel the intestinal muscles trying to wake up and work when they haven’t for two weeks.  I felt bad after each juice, but I just laid in bed and it went away quickly.  Then I would get hungry with a rumbly stomach, usually about a half hour before my next juice.  I had 4 juices today – two watermelon celery and two apple celery.

I didn’t actually nap, but I did lay down or drink juice most of the day.  I tried to color, but that was too much.  Reading was too much.  I was able to talk on the phone for a while with Katie so that was a real nice break from just laying there.  I watched a movie which ended up being too much.

I found out that one couple has to leave early because they overbooked the Inn.  This makes me sad.  How do you overbook?  I don’t quite know the details of it, but they have been so positive and wonderful to have around.  It’s a full house now.  There are 10+ wellness guests here now.  I feel like I’ve been holed up in my room longer than a week.

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