David’s Fasting Adventure

A Happy Bunny update

A quick update of what’s been happening for me over the last 24 hours.

A True Break Fast

Today I broke my fast with a delicious home made soup.  I wanted to have something which would help ground me so I used a lot of vegetables grown in the ground.  If you split the body in to three floors – feet to navel = basement, navel to neck = main rooms, neck to top of head = attic, as a general guide, foods grown underground are good to ground you, foods grown on the ground are good for the main rooms of the house i.e. the middle segment, and foods grown in trees are good for the upper rooms.  My soup had:

• Potatoes (two types)
• Turnip/ Swede
• Carrots
• Yellow Squash
• Parsnip
• Sweet potato (two types)
• Barley
• Quinoa
• Buckwheat
• Fresh Oregano from my garden
• Himalayan Rock salt
• North Queensland pepper
• Braggs liquid aminos

It was the MOST delicious soup EVER!  … well I’m sure anything would have been, but I would have to say that it does taste absolutely delicious.  If you’re in Brisbane, come round soon as there is plenty to go round.

Also, my special home made cheese was made from unpasturised local organic milk (from happy cows!), garlic, oregano, salt and pepper and a few spoonfuls of organic yogurt.  You can see it on the plate on the tiny mountain bread pieces.

Hard Core Weight Watchers - Before and After

OK, so here are my before and after photos.  I took the first set a few days into my fast so it wasn’t quite the first day.  I think you can see that there’s less of me in the second photo and as a result it looks like I’m tougher!  Well I am!  GRRRRR… Well to be honest, my constitution is a lot tougher as I now know for a fact that if I’m in an air crash in the middle of some far away  jungle and having nothing to survive on but the blood of the occassional snake and rainwater, then I’ll be fine for weeks!

My plan now is to spend a reasonable amount of time in the gym and build on the frame I’ve created.  I spoke to a personal trainer today and she’s going to do a fat check as I think anything in the 20%+ range for me is actually quite high, so I’d like to see with the pincer test.

Body Building

Bella took these photos for me (thanks lovely), and I was very surprised to see the body building look I had in the tall shot.  I never thought I’d look like that and although I will certainly bulk up and round the edges (I don’t like the really muscle bound look), I am going to work to create a more defined frame.  Also, building good abs is always a winner as that protects my bank and gives me that core stability which is so important to avoid back issues in future.

Best before date

I hearby anounce that I have found my best before date.  It is 31st March 2076. This is a few days after my 102nd birthday.  I intend to stay fit and healthy till at least that date and as we all know, the best before date is just a guide and if I’m still having fun, that will be extended!  I’ve also used calculated that using my special Fibonacci Code using the 3, 13, 89 of the code.

Time management Training tomorrow

I’m training another new course tomorrow so better go to bed – it’s Time Management … don’t want to be late!

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As I mentioned yesterday, I have decided that since I’ve achieved my outcome of clearing out the toxins and seeing what would happen to my body, I am no longer going to continue the full month of not eating as I’d like my weight to return to normal asap.  What I’m going to do is have juices for another day or two and then move on to soups and other gentle foods to allow my stomach to re-climatise.

Weights and Measures

Here’s my weight chart up to today for you to see - I had my clay and psyllium husk yesterday which is whyI think there’s a big change in the weight.  I weighed before I went to the toilet this morning and then forgot to do so afterwards.  Believe me, there would have been a big change in weight afterwards!

Means and Ends

Sometimes in life I think we can get caught up in the means of doing things or the activities themselves instead of realising that life is about Outcomes or Ends and our sights should be focused on these.  I made up the time frame for this fast and feel very congruent changing the period at this point.  I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.

People think they want Money … They Don’t!

You can’t eat money.  You can’t dress yourself in money.  You can’t fly with money.  It’s simply a means to an end and as a tool, money can do all these things.

Unless you’re a Numismatist (someone who collects coins, notes and sometimes medals), money itself is simply a means to achieve something.  One of the most powerful global belief changes I made about money a number of years ago at a Tony Robbins event was that Money is the ultimate tool.  Believing this, as opposed to, money is evil, or money is hard to come by, I have created a much better relationship with those numbers, coins and notes.

• Similarly, people don’t want relationships, they want the emotions they enjoy whilst being in a relationship.
• People don’t want spirituality, they want the peace, connection or other emotions they associate to spirituality.

Remember, the human experience is simply a collection of emotions.

First juice

Today I had my first juice in a long time.  I made a delicious watermelon, apple, carrot and beetroot mix which was divine to drink and tasted amazing.  My taste buds didn’t know what hit them!  I made about one litre of it and couldn’t help myself consuming a few glasses outright as it tasted so good.

I’ve noticed today that I felt much more grounded from having the nutrition inside me and am very excited to be making food again.  I have loads of fruit and vegetables for more juices and I have to say I’m really looking forward to savoury soups – one of which I’ve started creating today.

Quinoa, Buckwheat, Barley and other old grains

After being empty for so long, I’m confident my insides are cleaner than they’ve been since … well since I was born really!  My understanding is that the next steps are to increase the good natural bacterias in my stomach (yoghurt is a good choice and I made some which is sitting over night so should be ready in the morning;  I used  some lovely unpasturised milk I bought at the markets.

I also made a soup which I’ll let sit for a day or two so that the flavours really come out.  I used the grains mentioned above as they’re awesome for our bodies and if you haven’t tried Quinoa (pronounced Keen-wa), I recommend you try it out as it is super-dooper food!  The quinoa seed is high in protein, calcium and iron, a relatively good source of vitamin E and several of the B vitamins.  It contains an almost perfect balance of all eight essential amino acids needed for tissue development in humans.  It is exceptionally high in lysine, cystine and methionine-amino acids typically low in other grains. By the way, you cook it just like rice and it looks like cous-cous with tails.

P.S. Opinions and views

As I’m sure you’re aware, this blog is my opportunity to give my opinions about the learnings and experiences I’ve had.  Please be aware that truth can be subjective and if you are to take my advice, do so whilst respecting your own beliefs and do your own research.  For example, I do believe that doctors and medicine serve a great purpose, for example in cases of trauma such as a broken arm or an accident, but there are some (which from what I’ve learned appears to be the case in the US), where a pill or a potion is prescribed for everything from pimples to cancer and I feel that the there are many ways to prevent us having to take these drugs and treat ourselves with our foods.

Photos of the changes – if you’d like to see what has happened to my body, check out tomorrow’s posting.

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Outcomes of this fasting experiment

If you cast your thoughts back to Day 5 of my blog, I had put down that two of my key reasons for doing this experiement were to:

1. Cleanse my body of any unwanted toxins which had built up over time
   
2. To see what was possible with my body and to see what would happen with no food.

I checked the scales this morning -10.1kg

This morning I weighed in at 62.7kg and I started at 72.8kg which is a loss of 10.1kg in 19 days.  My outcome for this experiment was not to lose lots of weight and I decided that I didn’t want to lose any more.  As a result, and with the peace of mind that I’ve achieved my outcome for this experience, I decided today would be my last day of water only.

So you haven’t eaten for nearly three weeks, what would you like first?

How about a Bentonite clay and Psyllium husk cocktail?

For my last day of water fasting, I had one final cleansing experiment to do.  Over a 6 hour period, I had a mixture of bentonite clay in water one hour, then on the next hour, a psyllium husk and slippery elm mixture, then the next hour the clay again and repeated this 6 times in total.  It felt as if there was a weight in my stomach, and I was a little concerned that I’d overdone the husk drink which can cause constipation!

Bentonite Clay is an effective detoxifier with substances that absorb toxins from our alimentary canal. Bentonite clay can never be absorbed by the body, so it’s not poisonous at all. When we take bentonite clay with psyllium Husk, the clay does the important duty of absorbing all toxic substances from our mucuous linings – it’s like a magnet that attracts toxins. Psyllium husk then finishes the job by pushing all these nasty substances such as mucoid plaque out of our body.

Bentonite Clay, it’s all negative

The reason bentonite clay is so effective in what it does is because it has a negative charge, and most toxins in our body have a positive charge. Since opposites attract it makes bentonite clay so useful in binding to toxins.  Bentonite clay can absorb any toxic substances imaginable including:

- impurities
- harmful bacteria
- poisons
- pesticides
- pathogens
- parasites etc.

It does this without posing any nasty side effects in us, because as mentioned before, it can’t be absorbed by us.

Back to Northey St, the organic markets

I was like a child in a candy store this morning at the markets and bought heaps of fruit and vegetables – I mean HEAPS!  This included oranges, lemons, limes, apples, 6kg carrots, a 9kg watermelon, beetroots, kale, 2 bags of guavas and a handful of other delicious items.  I can’t wait to get juicing tomorrow and watermelon is on the top of my list.  FYI, an organic watermelon that size only cost $18 which I thought was very reasonable.  Back to my friend Don Tolman, he apparently fasted for 90 days on watermelon and watermelon juice alone!  

P.S. that is definately not my intention right now – can’t wait to eat.

Decisions about the rest of this fast

Tomorrow I’ll explain about what I’ll be doing for the rest of the fast and also for those who are interested, the result of the clay and psyllium husk cocktail party!

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Market Wander

Today I went to the markets at Eumundi (pronounced you-mundi) with a new friend I met the other day. It is about 120km north of Brisbane on the Sunshine coast and it was great. I bought lots of yummy condiments from Ken who is from the Seychelles such as the delicious coriander, ginger, chilli and lime dressing, as well as a new pineapple one and a bottle of pure cold pressed coconut oil – can’t wait till I can eat them!

I’m really bored of the fast now. There were so many delicious fruits, vegetables, sauces and other delicious delights I wanted to try but couldn’t today and that is such a shame. (.

Saying that, I’m off to the organic markets tomorrow morning and I’ll certainly be getting a heap of provisions to juice for next week. I have an unusual bentonite clay and psyllium husk mixture drink to start having tomorrow which will drag any parasites or anything else that is left in my colon through by the next day – then I’ll be juice man again.

10kg loss in 19 days – more than 1 kg every 2 days!

By tomorrow I think I will have lost 10kg and I really don’t want to lose any more so will be extremely happy to start getting some nutrition. I’m going to build up the contents of the juices over the days so I can get back to normal foods asap after I finish. I know this will probably be a week or so, but definitely worth it.

Off to bed now as I walked around the markets for about 3 hours as well as had a huge walk along the beach on Sunshine Beach.  

P.S. Still don’t feel hungry, just bored of not having the option of delicious meals.

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I used an external microphone for my new video camera today and it didn’t work.  As a result, I ended up with a recording with visual only and no sound.  I couldn’t have you watching without hearing, so I dubbed my own words (I should have used a Chinese accent as I felt like I was in a kung fu movie!), and also now have my movie maker tool working so added a bit of Earth, Wind and Fire to the video (I gave a guided tour of my veges so thought that was appropriate).  If I have more time I’ll start creating other funky videos.

Lemons – one of the wonder fruits

Lemons are an amazing fruit.  They are great for energy, for killing intestinal parasites such as roundworms and for dissolving gallstones.  In addition, they are the only fruit in the world which contain ionic fluid which is also found in the liver.  As a result, when you consume lemons, you are helping clean and repair your liver.  In fact, you can apparently regrow your whole liver by consuming a cup of freshly squeezed lemon juice ever day for 90 days.  If you have liver problems, I recommend giving this a go as you have nothing to lose and a new liver to gain!

Another thing about lemons is that they are yellow, and curiously the liver produces bile which is … yellow.  All yellow fruits and vegetables are good for your liver.

Papaya or Paw Paw

Seeing as I have them in my garden, a little about the wonderful papaya.

It is another amazing fruit full of vitamin A and C as well ac calcium, iron, potassium and beta carotene amongst others.  It has great digestive properties and when consumed, it helps with your immune system as well as with colon health.  If you rub the fruit (just the flesh in the skin when you’ve eaten the rest) and leave it for a short while before washing off, it digests impurities on the skin and leaves you with healthy soft skin.  It helps prevent rheumatoid arthritis due to all the Vitamin C as well as protects against emphysema.  It tastes delicious with lime and the seeds are very hot and spicy (like pepper) if you eat them and crunching and eating a few is a good thing.

Organic or non-organic?

By now you probably know that eating organic is a better way to go, but if you don’t buy organic, it’s important to wash your fruit and veg in apple cider vinegar (see an earlier post with the apple cider vinegar bottle.)  I just found this website which has the Clean 15 – Foods you don’t have to Buy Organic, and the Dirty Dozen, 12 Foods to Buy Organic.  You may find it worth a glance so you know for future reference and explanations of what to look for is also given.  I was surprised to see carrots in the dirty dozen!

For Quick Reference, here are the lists:  The Clean 15 – foods you dont have to buy organic:

1. Onions
2. Avocados
3. Corn on the cob
4. Pineapples
5. Mangoes
6. Asparagus
7. Sweet Peas (in pods)
8. Kiwi fruit
9. Cabbage
10. Egg plant / Aubergine
11. Papaya
12. Watermelon
13. Broccoli
14. Tomatoes
15. Sweet Potatoes

The Dirty Dozen, 12 foods to buy organic – there are actually 15:

1. Meats & Milk
   
2. Coffee beans
3. Peaches
4. Apples
5. Peppers / Capsicums
6. Celery
7. Nectarines
8. Strawberries
9. Cherries
10. Kale
11. Leafy greens
12. Grapes
13. Carrots
14. Pears
15. Potatoes

Time for bed.  Have a great weekend!

Stop Press – can you believe this!?  The first Depressant Drug for people who are too happy!!!!!

By the way, it’s apparently not for real (TheOnion apparently makes things like this up) … be careful what you believe!

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When you don’t eat, you have a lot more time on your hands

One of the key things I’ve noticed is that I’m not only saving money not eating, I’m saving a lot of time.  In the mornings I simply jump out of bed and start getting ready for work – once I’ve done that, I’m ready to go… simple!  I probably save about 90 mins per day as I don’t shop, cook or clean up.

No change in how I feel – still full of energy, sleeping around 6-7 hours per night and not sleepy at all during the day.   I had a massage and steam to stimulate my body today and  played poker this evening – did pretty well again too and down to the top 24 out of about 90+ people.  Lost to three 2s when I had two pairs and an ace ;o(.

Grow your own and feed your family FOR EVER

Apparently if you have a 2m cube of space (i.e. a 2 metre square and also build it up to multi levels) and also use a few window boxes around your house, you can grow enough food to feed a family of 4 … FOR EVER!   Quite incredible really and it keeps reproducing using the seeds you create.

In fact, apparently if you took just one block in the centre of an American city, you could grow enough food on that plot alone to feed 50,000 people on an ongoing basis.

And another fact about food.  At one university in the US, they took a single tomato and took all the seeds out of it and planted them.  After either two or three harvests of those tomatoes and doing the same thing, they were able to produce enough tomatoes to feed 200,000 people tomatoes three times per day … FOR EVER.  Ok, not such an exciting diet, but when you think about it that way, there really shouldn’t be a food shortage anywhere.

As a result of this last fact, I decided to throw a slice of tomato in a pot I had in the garden and I am pleased to say that within only a few days, there are already three sprouting tomato plants!  Really quite incredible how quickly it is happening.  I have also decided to grow a few other vegetables and have  spring onions, spinach, baby carrots, (try hard) lettuces, oregano, lemon balm, a large basil plant, aloe vera plant (filleted and through my juicer produces 100% pure aloe for my skin or to consume) and now tomatoes.  In  addition, I have a gorgeous paw paw (papaya) which I’ve been growing since I arrived in Australia which I think has a few more years before it fruits.  It’s  such a pleasure watching them grow and I can’t wait till they’re all fruiting.  

 Just a short entry today – I’ve a book to read.  Have a lovely day.

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