Fertilehealthy

Juice and Supplements: 

• 250 ml warm water, lemon and cayenne pepper
• 250 ml Barleylife (organic juice made from young barley leaves – AIM product)
• 250 ml organic carrot and beetroot juice
• 1 liter Green Goddess Elixir
• 1 liter apple, pear, grapefruit, lychee, carrot, mango, cinnamon
• 1 liter tomato, green pepper, lettuce, cilantro, cucumber, celery, garlic, radish
• 1 liter water
• 4 x Aimega (flax seed oil capsules)
• 500 ml Herbal Fiber Blend (AIM product)

  Weight:  Starting weight 157 kg.  

Exercise:   

• 1 hour intensive Pilates (the instructor was that girl again – Workout Nazi!).  I told her after the class that I’ve been achy and bone weary since Thursday, and she said that I have been pushing myself too hard and that I should take it easier.  So I didn’t do any cardio yesterday,  and quite frankly I’m relieved, because I just didn’t have it in me.  There is some fear attached to not doing it.  I don’t want to start skipping workouts, because I feel that I may lose my motivation.  But I realize that overextending myself would result in injury and having to take time out to recover.  And besides, I didn’t do nothing! I still worked out for an hour and she made us do lunges for warm-up!  I was ready to lunge at her!

  Energy Levels:  I was quite tired in the first part of the day, but I don’t attribute that to my juice feasting as yet.  I went to bed too late the night before and woke up when my husband got up for work.  Planned to have a nap in the afternoon, but one of our new tenants had crisis that I had to sort out.  As the day progressed my energy levels increased greatly. 

Emotions:  Irritated by the world outside my gate!  But that’s normal.  I found the tenant’s demands stressful and taxing and eventually told him to sort it out himself and bill us.  We will deduct the cost from the old tenant’s deposit.  I actually felt like unplugging the phone and switching off the cell, but I know my husband will have the Armed Response here in no time if he can’t get hold of me!    So, in conclusion, maybe I was not my sunny self yesterday. 

Detoxification symptoms:   

• A slight headache towards the late afternoon, but it didn’t last long.
• Increased visits to the bathroom.  Seriously, I had to get up every two hours during the night to empty my bladder!

 Food cravings:  Nothing during the day, but by evening I wanted salad, so I made the tomato juice.  A salad in a glass! 

Self-care: 

• I watched the inspirational video in the morning, but didn’t do the kriya. 
• Our electricity went out just before 9 pm**, so hubby and I jumped into the Jacuzzi.  It was wonderfully relaxing, even without the jets, and we could see so many stars due to the power being out. 

Thoughts on the day: 

• It’s amazing how natural it is for the hand to go to the mouth when handling food.  Quite a few times today I caught myself almost putting a stray piece of fruit or veg into my mouth while preparing my juices or hubby’s supper (salad).
• I was never hungry and only slightly tempted by freshly baked garlic bread when out shopping.
• I need to make sure that I always have juice in the fridge.  I can’t juice when there’s no power!
• All in all it was a good day.

 This post will normally go up in the evenings, electricity permitting.

 I realize that many of you may have questions, so please ask them in the comments and I will answer them in posts.  It would serve to demystify this process.  I have received some questions already, and will get to them later today. 

* I know!  Corny, isn’t it? 

** The power came back on at about 3 am.  The thing that bothers me the most about the situation is that the clowns responsible for this mess are in charge of a fucking nuclear reactor. One which is only a few miles north of me as the neutron flies. Then again - if we are ever faced with a ‘worst case scenario’, it will solve at least two problems: there won’t be any more congestion on Koeberg Road and we won’t need lights, because everyone will glow in the dark.

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