Day 6, I feel way better than yesterday.
Today was day 6 and it seems unfair to talk about it without mentioning again how crappy I felt yesterday. That said, if the results that I expect to see are as good as everyone claims, then yesterday was of little consequence. I just felt like I was fighting a bad cold for a day, without the running nose or sore throat. I can live through that without too much effort. In hindsight, if I had know that I was too experience a day, two, or three like yesterday, I would not have been dissuaded in the least from starting this fast. Actually I did expect this and perhaps worse given what I had read. But now that I made it through the trial, I feel better, physically and emotionally because of it.
Today was so much better. No booming headache, only minor chills once in a while, no lethargy like yesterday, but I must say that today brought about a new struggle. Body aches have been plaguing me. It has gotten worse as the day has gone on. My neck, shoulders, upper back area has been pretty achey. And my lower back as well. But it was not so bad that I wasn't able to take the day and run errands all over town for most of the day. Achey but doable.
I spoke to my doctor today, Dr. Scott Saunders, MD and told him about my day yesterday and not to my surprise, he said that was all normal and to be expected. He gave his approval for some additives for the broths that I'm making that will give me a lot more to play with including tomatoes, lemons, and limes. I can do a lot with these. Speaking of food and meals, I made a soup with a beef bone, a bunch of pearl onions, and a large dried Pasilla pepper. I tried that soup this afternoon and it was very good with a nice amount of bite from the Pasilla pepper.
Today I did some shopping for more ingredients for soups/broths. I bought a cooked turkey leg, two organic chickens, and made plans for a couple of other goodies that will make for exceptional and slightly eccentric soups. More on that as they come to fruition.
Dr Saunders also said that I could have some ginger tea and cinnamon tea. He also encouraged me to have some ashwagandha tea. So, off I went to a local healthy grocery store where Aris came to my aid. She had a magnanimous knowledge base about ashwagandha and the teas, etc. It was hard to believe that she knew that much. She said that she wants to learn far more by attending a school for natural nutritionists up in a remote hamlet in Northern California.
Tomorrow is the big day, day seven. What makes it so important? Well for one you might have noticed that I have not listed my weight since the first day. I told myself that I would wait until day seven before I weighed myself. So, tomorrow morning, I'll step on the scale again. I was just under 180 pound when I started this and I'm expecting that tomorrow I will see a 5 pound loss to 175 (hopefully). We will have to wait and see.
Right now, although it is only 10:30. I am exhausted and ready to sleep.
PS: I love to read the comments so please don't be shy.
Here's the next post for you to keep reading if you'd like
http://30daybrothfast.blogspot.com/2013_09_11_archive.html
