DAY 34: REFEEDING
April 12, 2022 ~ Tuesday
Refeeding Update: Day 1 of 14. So here is how the refeeding will work. Each phase may have a different duration. I am still feeling tired. I am not dizzy but I do “list” from time to time.
Phase 1: Juice – 3 days, 4-12 ounce glasses. These alternate between green, orange, and red. I am to swish it in my mouth and drink it slowly throughout the day. If too strong in flavor, I can cut it with water but I am to drink all of the juice.
Phase 2: Raw
Phase 3: Steamed
Phase 4: Grains etc
Phase 5: Unrestricted
Daily refeeding numbers: Weight-177.6 Weight lost during fast/juicing-28.4 Weight loss since adopting diet-57.4 BP-120/73 Heart rate-73 Oxygen level-97 Temperature-97.8 Glucose-89 Sleep-5 hrs. One minute pulse rate-steady, 73, Muscle pain level-0 (scale 1-10) Energy level-6 (scale 1-10).
My Comments: I feel blessed now that I am on the other side of 28 days with no food. I see where some of my stressors are and what stressors I can remove from my life. King Solomon said, “Better is an handful of quietness, than two handfuls of toil.” He had the power to pull things to him and he called that vanity. He tried to cheer his body with wine. He had great wisdom and still saw all as vanity. And then he said this: “I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live.” That is what I want. To live in quietness. To be joyful and do good as long as I live. Will my life back home change? I hope so. It surely won’t be from a lack of trying!
Lecture: Dr Streutker, my attending physician, lectured on Self Benevolence. He told me directly when I got here that I need to stop always taking care of everyone else and expend some of that energy on me. Well, that is what I have been doing the past month. I will come home stronger to say, no, that does not work for me. My take away from the lecture was this: Gratitude breaks down into: 1) grateful for this opportunity: doesn’t relapse. 2) I need to embrace the lesson. What did I learn from this? 3) Remember what was before. How hard life was with the weight and the pills I was taking. These add up to gratitude.
