Why did I break my fast earlier?
I broke the fast yesterday, but not for the reasons you might expect. I did give into a craving for a kale salad I made, but I could have resisted it easily had it not been for one other reason. No, it's not because of my slow weight loss (I fit into my clothes better actually and know that I have lost weight) which didn't stop me from breaking my fast. It wasn't that I got bored with my juices or had immense hunger. And it wasn't that my body was ready to stop fasting. It's a long story but bear with me...
In short, I know that I am allergic to many if not all fruits. Allergies do not show up internally in me (they do but I do not know any internal symptoms) but they show up horribly externally. If I avoid sugars my skin is super clean and soft and looks awesome. Give me an apple and I have little red dots on my cheeks when looking up close. Give me citrus fruits and I get horrible cystic like pimples that don't pop and are huge and horrible. Give me all kinds of fruits in great quantity like on a juice fast and I look more horrible every passing day. These are NOT detox symptoms. I know this because I have noticed this pattern for many years. The point is to know your own body and to do what is necessary to make things better.
The Decision:
I had two options: continue the juice fast but omit all fruits and do a pure vegetable juice fast (this is what I should have done since the beginning) or break the fast and clean my liver and change my diet and then attempt a vegetable juice fast. I chose the latter because it was stressful to change things around during my juice fast and I got used to so much sugar in my juices. It was a less stressful option to eat a kale salad instead. So I did and I felt great, kind of. I put nutritional yeast in my salad and got a headache which was a bad idea but now I know better. My body felt great otherwise though. I did not have too much but I did eat quite a bit of fat compared to no fat when juicing. I still felt great from eating something.
I broke my fast and slept for 11 hours!! I had some herbal tea in the morning and closer to noon (right now actually) made a juice from red cabbage, garlic, jalapeno, and kale stems. It tastes spicy and good! These are the kind of juices that I should have been making. I will probably have a small portion of a kale salad for lunch, maybe a juice before dinner, and Bok Choy Paneer for dinner. Let me explain the food choices.
New Diet:
I know that there is something going on in my body that I need to fix. I have this book by Dr. Gabriel Cousens called Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine that I owned for 5 years already. Somehow I have never fully followed the diet outlined in the book but I know I need to for my health. Basically the plan is to do a restricted diet short term to eliminate candida and other fungi from my system by making my body more resilient and then transition into a more or less regular raw food diet with a limit on high sugar foods. Actually there are 3 stages with the first one lasting at least one month (Phase 1), the second one at least 6 months (Phase 1.5), and the third one as maintenance (Phase 2).
There are lots of fun recipes in the book that I will try to make and post pictures of everyday. I will post tomorrow the food I will make this afternoon.
But the food I will limit myself to the next 2 months (Phase 1) is:
nuts and seeds, coconut, greens and vegetables (except high glycemic ones like carrots and beets and other roots and gourds), seaweeds, vegetable fruits, oils, lemons/lmes, and stevia leaf.
This doesn't sound like much or sounds hard to do but it is actually my ideal diet. I used to follow this more or less for shorter periods and that is when I felt the best. I really want my body to heal from fungi and other problems so I am committed to following this for as long as it takes. As I mentioned, the recipes in the book are fabulous and I would like to create all of them at one point.
I would like to mention that there are some things I am not completely following to the book. Cousens believes that cashews are something to avoid because of their mycotoxic content but I will not do this because I have a big bag of them (I will not eat them in great quantities however). Also, I have some wild jungle peanut butter that is completely healthy and mycotoxin free that is also something I will eat (rarely though).
So this is what I will do and I know many will disagree with this plan but I know this is how I will feel best (and I need to get sugar cravings under control again). See you tomorrow!
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