Day 5 – Organic Markets and my weight so far
Weighing in
I was up and at the organic markets today just after 9am to buy my stash for the next couple of days. I decided to add watermelon, ginger and parsley to my juice till the end of my juice section as I felt like it. I have to admit that it’s quite strange as you’d think that not having food would have negative effects in some way or form, but other than the occasional 1 second headache, nothing has really changed.
Regarding my weight, this has been the progress so far:
- Day1 72.8kg
- Day2 71.6 -1.2
- Day3 71.3 -0.3 -1.5
- Day4 70.8 -0.5 -2.0
- Day5 70.5 -0.3 -2.3
Now that my body is getting used to the fact that not much nutrition is coming in, I think the weight loss may slow down a bit … we’ll see. I do also have my fat, water and muscle measurements and will graph them after 7 days.
Why am I doing this fast?
Our Toxic bodies: Our bodies are pretty toxic compared to what they used to be like hundreds/thousands of years ago. This makes sense as we have a lot more chemicals around us. Also, we have more illnesses, allergies, colds, cancers and other physical problems. Trillions of dollars are spent on healthcare every year and with that kind of investment, shouldn’t the frequency of these things be reducing? Younger and younger people are getting illnesses they really shouldn’t have, and our food is one of the primary ways we get anything in to our bodies.
Recently I heard a story about a woman who completed a 14 day water only fast and then had a mixture of bentonite clay and psyllium husk at the end of it which would sort of enclose and scrape out the inside of her colon. Next day she passed a big poo. They analysed it and found the equivalent of 4 teaspoons of mercury inside it which they worked out was the result of a mercury based medicine she was given when she was a teenager to help with period pains! (on a side note, it was reported that Elvis had as much as 60 lbs (27kgs) of undigested meat in his colon when he died – that figure is likely a bit exaggerated, but even if it was half that, that’s huge!)
I know that I am a relatively clean living person, but I have spent time living in cities and know that some of the chemicals that may be in my body, don’t need to be there so this fast is a big spring clean for my body-temple. Check out this National Geographic article on our toxic bodies … if you dare!
What else is possible? I have to say that I’m also curious to know how my body responds to this kind of behaviour. The freeing feeling already of knowing that skipping a meal isn’t going to kill me and that the amount of food and frequency we eat isn’t quite as important as we may have thought. Just consider if we all fasted for 1 day per month, certain industries may be quite heavily hit financially which may be one of the reasons it is not highly promoted or discussed. In addition, in my opinion there would be less illness, and who do you think would be financially affected by that?
There are other reasons too, but I think that’s probably enough of me on my high horse for today so I’m off to bed ready and pumped for the week ahead.
If you’d like to know about specific things, let me know and I’ll add anything about that I know.
Saying of the day: Live with the forsight of hindsight. If you know you’ll look back and not like something you’re going to do, then don’t do it!