Day 3

Hello! today is Day 3 and it is going okay so far. It's 11:30 AM, and I decided to make some hot spiced apple cider for breakfast. I absolutely love fresh apple cider, but was feeling the urge to cook something and since it is a cold day today, though luckily the first sunny one in ages, I juiced some apples, put some cinnamon, allspice, cloves, and ginger in a tea ball infuser thing and heated them together slowly for about 20 minutes. It was delicious, but very rich and a treat I don't think I'll crave again for a while.

I was surprised, though, that an 8 oz cup of cider filled me up. I definitely want to eat, mentally, but I'm not hungry. I think my brain is confused because I'm full but I haven't chewed anything. It's a weird feeling.

The mental cravings are made worse because Eric is still eating food... He has agreed to my request that he doesn't bring any fast food/pizza into the house for this month, which will help a lot. But he made this awesome herbed egg this morning and it smelled absolutely heavenly and I'm already planning the sorts of food I'm going to eat when this is over. :P
(my first real meal will be an herbed egg, sunny side up, with homemade bread toasted with margarine under the broiler, and lightly wilted spinach. Or maybe chicken breast, lettuce, tomato, onion, and tzatziki sauce in a homemade pita. I'm just torturing myself here.)

After the days of just straight juice fasting, though, I have to ease myself back into eating solid foods, so there will be 3-5 days of just eating raw fruits and vegetables before I can have real food. And my goal is to eat much less and much better for me once I'm done with this fast anyway... It's harder to eat well when I'm working, because I'll be too tired to cook or shop and we end up getting fast food. But I intend to cook more often, and I want to have fresh fruit and oatmeal for breakfast, my biggest meal in the afternoon, and a lighter meal in the evening.

I also plan on drinking more tea -- I know that you guys disapprove of tea-drinking, but lemongrass tea has proven to cause autolysis in cancerous cells, while leaving healthy cells alone. I'm supplementing my juice fast with tea, and see no issue with continuing to do so after I'm done. Also I have a freakin SWEET teacup. It's the best. I'll take a picture of it today or tomorrow and post it up because I probably love this cup too much.

Enough pointless rambling from me, I think.

Love <3 <3