FAST: THE FINALE.
So after a full working week of no solid food, I must say I feel pretty darn good...and I have a lot of questions. I'm begininning to question whether I need food ever again. I mean I feel fine. Yes I miss the "taste" of a big juicy steak, but in my past life, I justified polishing off the steak because I assumed by body needed the nutrients and proteins in order to function. But now, I sort of feel like I've been putting diesel fuel in my engine when I could have been using solar energy. I thought right after this, I was gonna run straight to my favorite restaurant...but the opposite is happening. I feel like eating is so...unneccesary.
Some friends have asked if they should do this also. I would say if you're looking to detox or lose weight, I wouldn't do it. You're not gonna see or feel a significant amount of improvement to justify some of the nastiness you have to drink. (FYI: I lost about 7 lbs in 5 days. But I assume it will come right back once I start eating again.) But if you're looking to test your "mind-over-matter" abilities, it might actually interest you. It was kinda fun in that respect. I haven't had a sip of alcohol, smoked anything, or had any pork in over 14 years. And it sort of started just like this. At first, just to take a break, then I said, why start it again? Anyway, of course I'll eat but it definitely makes you think about how amazing your body functions.
Again, for this week, I used the services of Organic Avenue. I highly recommend them. They make the juices. They deliver. They ask the right questions and they have the right answers.
Some friends have asked if they should do this also. I would say if you're looking to detox or lose weight, I wouldn't do it. You're not gonna see or feel a significant amount of improvement to justify some of the nastiness you have to drink. (FYI: I lost about 7 lbs in 5 days. But I assume it will come right back once I start eating again.) But if you're looking to test your "mind-over-matter" abilities, it might actually interest you. It was kinda fun in that respect. I haven't had a sip of alcohol, smoked anything, or had any pork in over 14 years. And it sort of started just like this. At first, just to take a break, then I said, why start it again? Anyway, of course I'll eat but it definitely makes you think about how amazing your body functions.
Again, for this week, I used the services of Organic Avenue. I highly recommend them. They make the juices. They deliver. They ask the right questions and they have the right answers.
posted by jeffstaple | 10:53 PM
3 Comments:
i thought the whole process of this was detoxing? that's what i've heard.
"I haven't had a sip of alcohol, smoked anything, or had any pork in over 14 years."
^^^^^
For me it's been 9 years. Congrats on the liquid diet. Ive been drinking Naked Juice (with food) for a couple of months now and my energy level is way up, I might go No Meat for a minute and see how I do.
I don't know what the ultimate goal of your fasting expedition was but I honestly think that the possibility of switching off the button for your desire for food is simply...sad.
sad as in mournful, not lame, in all respect.
food isn't like smoking, drugs, sex or nice shoes- it's not an addiction, it's a vital need. having said that, anything done beyond moderation is bad for you. anything supersize me'd is bad for you. It wasn't like you were addicted to steak every single day before your juice diet was it? you sound like you've come out of food rehab. That concerns me a little. we were born to eat. we eat to enjoy. The fact that we have the utility and right and resources to have food on the table and the fact that we can choose between pasta or kebabs or a million course degustation in the first place shouldn't be taken for granted!
to think that you are denying yourself something like that when there's kids out there scouring scraps of food from rubbish dumps kind of eats me. no pun intended.
i just think something like liquid diets, or meal pills, or anything 'to make like easier' but actually just taking away the everyday pleasures of mundane things is a little ridiculous. So you take away the time you eat to do other things. you'll have more work and you'll still be busy no? why do you need to supress a desire as basic as eating when there's actually no pressing need to do so?
right right right ok. I just read "Anyway, of course I'll eat " so I think i'll calm myself down. i thought you had 'come clean' of food and i sort of got mortified and very concerned. I think i'm just very pro eating and anti-food substitute. got a little carried away.
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