Juice Feasting Day 7

Hello All,

I made it through to day 7. Yesterday was a bit challenging. Again not because I was hungry at any time it was all of the "food stimuli" at home. My wife attempted to wait until I left the house to cook breakfast for our guests but I told her not to wait as I was not going out anytime soon and that I would be okay. However, I opted to stay upstairs in the bedroom, my safe haven from food temptations. It's almost like I revert back to my childhood when mom used to say go to your room.

Well anyway, I stayed in bed and the smell of pancakes, sausage and syrup crept through the house and into my room. And did I mention that your sense of smell is heightened tremendously when your doing this? So everything was intensified. I stayed in the bedroom until about 11:30am listening to and reading info on fasting, health, watching you tube videos on anybody and everybody that was doing, had done a fast. And sort of fortifying my position and the reason I wanted to do this. I was also looking at examples of people that have done this and are in the Raw Food Lifestyle also helped.

So at about 12 noon or so, I went downstairs and looked in the fridge and saw a container with leftover eggs and sausage in the fridge (in the past I would have devoured that) I just looked past it and went to my two grapefruits I had in there and I juiced those and an orange. After that I felt satisfied. So I went to the store and rented a leaf blower and went outside and embarked on picking up some more leaves which kept me busy. My wife took two of the kids to her highschool's football game. I had quite a bit of energy considering I only had the juice that morning. And didn't have very much the evening before. I was happy to see that. So I worked for about 2 1/2 hours in the yard and worked up a really good sweat and decided to come inside and watch some football. When I came inside my cousin was cooking potato skins with cheese and bacon. That smell was back and even stronger. So I just mentally blocked my self off from it and watched football. Throughout the day the smell never went away in the house but I made some more juice and I was a okay. After Rutgers lost I was a little upset so I decided to go upstairs. I tried to go to sleep but my assistance was urgently requested downstairs (the TV went out) by the five year old(she is so cute). "Uncle Jeff, The TV Shut Off And Auntie Can't Turn It Back On."

I think I was a little irritable because I kinda snapped at my wife about the smell in the house and how it was bothering me when she asked me what was wrong. Of course she snapped back reminding me that not everyone is doing this in this house. And the world shouldn't have to change because I choose to do something different. Not those exact words but that's what I got out of it and it was a wake up call for me because she was right. I have to make this work for me and be able to deal with not so perfect circumstances.

This is my journey and I can't and shouldn't try and force my journey on anyone else. I also shouldn't have expectations about things. Because it's the real world and we each have our journeys that we travel in our own time. We are also responsible for our actions, choices and reactions. I was aware of this but it's always good to have a reminder. I have to find ways to deal with these things as they come up so I don't make others feel uncomfortable around me. And I honestly believe over time like any "recovering addict" I will be able to handle the real world and not be tempted by it's temptations because I will at a cellular level know that they are not good for me on my journey to health, wellness and happiness.

So yet another lesson learned and I feel good for experiencing it and being able to reflect on the value in the experience.

I woke up this morning at about 2:30 am and started reading www.juicefeasting.com and found that what I'm actually doing is more juice fasting than feasting as I'm only consuming a couple of quarts, if that a day. I now understand the concept of juice feasting and it certainly makes sense if I decide to do this long term (more than 30 days). But for now this is working for me fine. And I will keep reading and feeling my way through it.

Heres a pretty good podcast (Health Ranger, Mike Adams) on juice feasting that I was listening to also: http://www.naturalnews.com/podcasts/HRR011_48.mp3 .

See you tomorrow for my post weekend weigh in...