water diet

so i have to tell this story about my tenday water fast okay? cause it's pretty crazy. really intense. really insane. if you've nevercried out of sheer hunger than you don't know what i've gone through, okay? the reason whyi was on a hunger s.... i almost called it a hunger strike. so i came to the idea ofa water fast in a really round about way. i had.. we're into 2013 right now but 2012was really rough for me. i was so sick. basically

water diet, i had an undiagnosed skin condition. the doctorswere telling me it eczema, psoriasis, i had dermatitis. they all had different names forit. i was also on a vegan diet. so a lot of them told me "oh it's from eating dairy andpreservatives" and i said well actually no, i eat a raw vegan diet and they were likeoh! so another doctor told me that my vegan

diet was the problem so i ate bacon for amonth straight. long story. i was taking all types of supplements to try and help. i triedevery holistic medicine you could think of. i was doing these complicated routines dayand night, applying topical products, pills, potions, teas, like nothing was working. soit got to the point where i recognized that western medicine, the doctors, i mean we havefree health care here in canada thank god for that. i was at doctor after doctor afterdoctor, no resolution was coming, nothing was helping, i was actually getting worse.what i finally ended up doing was seeing a naturopathic doctor. my boyfriend found oneonline. this naturopath seemed really good on paper and uh my boyfriend totally recommendedhim. i went and looked him up online to look

up the reviews like what people were sayingabout him and this is what i found. this doctor is very good at displaying what he does knowup front, thus impressing the lay person. unfortunately, there are some problems inhis approach. first, he should not use the f word when communicating with patients, especiallywhen they typically do not use that kind of language. secondly, he should insure thatthe recommended procedure of a coffee enema is appropriate for that individual. third,he is extremely expensive. for one thousand dollar, i got an ill advised enema, a soreass and a completely detoxed bank account. this is the guy. what he recommended was aseven day juice fast that included vitamins and minerals, essential oils and a bentoniteclay psyllium husk mixture. he had mentioned

that i could work up to a water fast but startfor a few days on juice and then go into water if i wanted to. but he said that was reallydifficult and he wouldn't recommend it, just to do the juice fast. i was totally down forthat. i was desperate um and i love a challenge and i thought at that point i would have doneanything to help myself get better. so what i did was, i think i took two weeks beforei started the fast. i was on a vitamin protocol where i was loading my body with vitaminsand minerals in preparation. so i was like pumping, chugging these vitamins. i was alsostarting to scale back my diet. salads, fruit and occasional bit of rice brown rice. yeahso the day before i started the fast, i had never, i had been meaning to juice all ofthis time. i was a huge fan of dan the life

regenerator on youtube. i was into the rawfood movement but i hadn't made a commitment to purchase a juicer and i didn't really likei wasn't really that interested in it but with this fast i was okay great, awesome.so we got a juicer and i went to the store got a bunch of organic vegetable and day oneof the fast came and i was like all right so i'm going to make my juice here in themorning and this is going to work i'm gonna feel great. so i took a head of like kaleand i put it through the juicer. and like i put like half of a lemon with like the rindon because like the essential oils are good for you. i think i put in like some carrotsor something. and then i just had this like black green brew and i was like oh this iswonderful this is gonna be great. so i took

a first sip of it and i almost threw up. andi was like, there's no way i can do this fast. i didn't know how to juice properly . at thatpoint i decided, you know what, i'm gonna do this on water. i would say the first dayof the fast was pretty easy. um yeah i had my total resolve going. i went to bed thatnight and i was perfectly fine. day two was pretty easy too by the time evening came around,that's when it started to kind of get to me. i started to feel kind of uncomfortable. ihad read up online a bit about it and everyone was saying once you get past day four you'rein the clear, you're good. but it's gonna be really hard. so i kind of held onto that.day three i was, i was, i was hungry. the water, i would drink it, it would make mefeel a little bit nauseous. my stomach was

really starting to get going. you know laterthat evening i was like crying, cause i was so hungry. i tried to think like think ofall the starving kids in africa i mean i think that the choice not to eat for ten days issuch a luxury. it's a gross luxury but it's a luxury indeed and that was how i that'sthe attitude you have to have going into something like this in order for it to succeed. i sawit as a wonderful healing opportunity i was very grateful. going into a water fast ora juice fast with the mentality that you're giving something up or that you're being deprivedor just with a sense of lack instead of a sense of gratitude and cleansing and powerum that's the whole difference right there. day four, just like they said online, wasthe hardest day. it's the day when you really

get to meet your brain. you get to meet whatyour brain will do to you when it's not happy. and it almost takes on a mind of it's own.like i'd be sitting there and my brain would be running these messages. telling me likeoh you could just walk to the grocery store like you know it's just like two minutes awayand like you could have like a bun. just go buy a bun like they're like twenty five cents.i don't even eat bread right so go buy a bun. it's saying oh you know like apples are healthfood. you can have like one apple a day. it starts this, it starts this bargaining processin your mind and that was the morning of day four. by the evening of day four i was beingvisited by the ghosts of junk food past. like, it was almost like my body was purging likememories of like bad things i'd eaten in my

life like coming back to haunt me. and itwas really good to just be able to release that and recognize that we don't we reallydon't realize how much the energy of what we eat how it becomes part of us and how itwill stay in our bodies. it'll stay locked in our cells in weird ways you don't evenunderstand. and you can't understand until you've been on day four of a water fast andyou've experienced the ghost of jelly donuts past. like when the hell did i ever eat ajelly donut? i recommend staying away from the internet and social media during the firstlike as long as you can during this type of fast but like by day four i just went on twitterto lament and i was like getting these cravings for like the weirdest things like licoriceallsorts, like black licorice, candy. like

you brain just goes to like the craziest thingsand you start getting like food porn images where it's like buckets of gummy worms andlike frosting on like cakes like really thick like juicy like eat it like. but that waswhat happened like and it's so interesting because it really gives you a chance to justsit there and observe your brain and observe the process it goes through. it's really amazing.and it was a very spiritual experience because it's a time where you can really differentiatebetween your brain and who you really are. it the the the definition becomes very distinct.because you have the brain which is trying to drive you and trying to put all these messagesand like all these rationalizations and then you have you know your source, your real trueself that's behind everything. behind the

big scenes, way up there observing this littlebrain with it's little gears going crazy on you, it's so funny. so after i kicked dayfour, i woke up on day five and i was good. i was not hungry. and i made it through toabout day eight without being hungry. day ten rolled around. by day ten i was thinkingi really was i really was wanting to go for like fourteen days so i could say i did 2weeks but that was just not happening. it was not not not not not not notgonna happen.i was at the point where all i could talk or think about was food, food, food, food,food and that was it. so no i was just done. by day ten i was like ok you know what thisis enough. there's a huge protocol for how you're supposed to break your fast which islike starting off with like vegetable broth

and then like work up to like some cookedvegetables and then like some fruit juices like screw that! i was just hungry as hellum i just started eating apples and apples and apples. and then i actually broke downwent to the convenience store bought like three different bags of chips, some chocolates,some licorice and like pounded that in like 2 hours. oh and from after my first day offasting i got on the scale, cause of course i was curious about this and i was down onepound. i fasted for ten days and i lost a total of eleven pounds, ten, eleven poundssitting around watching tv all day, just by not eating. i would not recommend this foranyone for reasons other than health because i have to say like what it does to you, therepercussion and the follow through after,

just make you really hungry and it's not fun.i was very hungry for about a month after that. we had a after fast party for me wherei made like a ton of food for like a bunch of friends and had everyone over and we justlike ate like crazy and gave thanks for abundance in our lives and it was really fun. i thinki would try to do a juice fast again in the future, especially after watching fat, sickand nearly dead where joe cross did a juice fast for sixty days. for sure i could do thatfor one month or something. um but again it would be for wholistic reasons with a lifestylein mind. the diet didn't even end up helping me with my skin condition all that much. soif you're interested in hearing more about juicing, stay tuned to my channel becausei'm going to be sharing some of my favorite

recipes. have a great weekend and we'll seeyou guys next week!