Day two, and everyone else is ill!

Is everyone else ill?

Its day two of the fast and I am very pleased to see the back of day one! It was actually far more difficult than I had imagined. By the end of the day I was feeling cold and tired.

When I went to my evening class last night, I was freezing!! Everyone else was so warm in the classroom that the tutor opened up the door and the windows...and he was wearing a T shirt!! Then again , it could be that I am well and the rest of the class were coming down with something...after all, it is February!!! Surely its not normal to open windows after 7pm during winter??

Anyway I got home and felt exhausted. Treating myself (yippee!) to another "lemonade", I ran myself an epsom salts bath to take the chill off, and then sloped off to bed with a peppermint tea.
I slept like a baby and my eyes were open before my body this morning, which was an amazingly still feeling...
So today I feel well refreshed and happy with life!


More than ten days

I hinted that this might have to continue more than ten days.
I could stop on day eleven and start eating normally BUT that is not a good idea. Id be likely just to pile on the pounds, as my body desperately hangs on to whatever it can, after having no solid food for ten days! Gosh Its quite a sobering thought when you put it like that...

Instead I will ease myself back into normal healthy eating and apparently that starts with day 11 being a day of orange juice only ...sounds like a continued fast to me!! But Ill do it, cos whats the point in doing something if you cant do it properly? This could go on a while...apparently you can continue for up to 40 days, and I do have addictive tendencies ...Watch this space!


Self Esteem

One of the reasons for doing this fast is to give myself an extra boost of self esteem. When we can master our thoughts irrespective of our circumstances , we become Masters of our destiny. If I can manage my thoughts enough to resist temptation and to do something this challenging, it will definitely enhance how I feel about myself. Its my Everest!

Don't you love it when the perfect book drops into your lap? Last night I read "The Six Pillars of Self Esteem" by Nathaniel Branden, a fantastic book! Nathaniel outlines a 31 week exercise for boosting the self esteem and this morning I adopted it as a new habit. So everything is going according to plan ...

If you want to know more about the "lemonade" or the exercise mentioned, get in touch!
Marie-Claire

PS does anyone know anything about herbal laxatives, non ionised salt or using Agave Nectar instead of Maple Syrup ??? Im not sure that I'm following all the riules correctly!!