(Raw Day 176 – 190 To Go) June 23, 2008
(Juice Feast Day 22) [FBS = 102]
Today is the first day of the rest of my feast. I had a great conversation yesterday with my friends Loriel and Soleil at Raw Utopia (www.rawutopia.com). I shared with them about my cravings and my raw dinner with Gina. They were very understanding and shared with me some of their experiences from when they were juice feasting.
Their view is that when the body craves something, it sends a message to the brain and then the brain sends your awareness a picture of what it thinks the body is asking for. Since my awareness was focusing on mac & cheese and Whoppers, their view is that my body was craving fat and salt. The next time I have cravings like that, I will just have some more flax or hemp, or coconut oil (or all three) and some Tibetan pink salt.
They also recommended that it was better to add some fruit to my feast than to stop feasting altogether. I will see how the addition of fruit affects my FBS. Today I made some “lemonade” with four lemons and three cucumbers, and that’s it! I think some of my challenge has been that all of my juice was in one gallon jug and was all mixed together and was not all that appetizing. I couldn’t taste any of the flavors of what I was juicing.
I also made a quart of carrot juice. We’ll see if I can bring my FBS down with some exercise if it doesn’t come down with the carrots and light fruit added to my juicing. I walked .5 miles today. Perhaps my back will be willing to allow me to do so again tomorrow.
