day 6: cravings

well, i have to say that this is much easier than the first week of my juice fast two years ago. though i suppose i had just come off a scary amount of medication after being unwell with bronchitis for two months. this time i'm not detoxing pills, just pizza ;)

i've heard a few people say they have bizarre food cravings while juicing. i do too. i crave things i haven't eaten in aeons and would never eat even if it was put in front of me mid-craving. and so far, besides the odd thing in the kitchen tempting me, it's all been cooked stuff. at one point my mum's homemade burgers stopped by to say hello and that really freaked me out, since i haven't eaten meat for over 20 years!

i have read in numerous places that as you detox on a raw food diet you will get cravings as the last of whatever you were craving works its way out of your system. i pondered the formula that says for every 3 days on juice your body goes back a year (roughly) so this morning, when i had the beef craving, i would be chucking out old gunk from coming up to two years ago and i know, with absolute certainty there was no beef in my body then, so that didn't resolve the weirdness. i will be interested to see what happens when i get to about day 66 which is around when i stopped eating meat. i think by then i'll just be wanting a banana, but if i get meat cravings that would be so funny!

today i ran out of celery so i failed on one of the cardinal rules of juicefeasting. maybe it was my subconscious asking for a day's respite in the endless onslaught of the detested celery. heh. i didn't have enough greens today, either, but i did thoroughly enjoy all the juices i drank today. i'm also only doing skinbrushing and enemas every other day, but i think i'm doing ok, so i'll stick with that for the moment. it's doable for me and it's more realistic to stick with what i can just about cope with rather than really try to pack more stuff into my day. the whole juicefeast experience needs to be achievable without it leading to me being stressed out because of the time dependencies.

what i drank today:

msm-lemon water

spinach-apple-pear-cucumber juice

zeolite, nature's living superfood, honey, pollen, hemp oil

melon juice

apple-pear-blueberry-peach juice with vanilla seeds and green cardamom (yowser! delish!)

'thai soup' tea of lemongrass, ginger, garlic, chili and coconut oil

went for a run this morning with YummyHubby but wimped out half way. it was so tough. my asthma was giving me a really hard time and my thighs were not responding to my brain. it seems i experienced the famed and feared runner's wall, except that i shouldn't be getting it at the point when it happened to me. i can run much further and faster than i did today with no wall. so the culprit would seem to be the juicefeast. i'm not getting enough instantly usable energy to feed the muscles. i have a race on saturday so i think i may have to modify my feast slightly prior to and during the race and have half a banana and a couple of soaked dates. they've helped out YummyHubby on numerous occasions so maybe they'll work for me.

no real detox symptoms today. no new spots, no headache, not as cold as yesterday. rocking.