Everything is alive and more vibrant. The taste of a green bean is unexpectedly delicious. I have been back on food for a few days. I feel just fine. I have been eating mostly vegetables, and also getting in about 2 cups of juice too.
I haven't yet had a BM so I noticed the scale go up a bit. It was to be expected.
Hopefully I'll regulate and balance out.
I've eaten salads with homemade dressing, homemade potato leek soup, spicy polenta and a veggie medley, some carrots and hummus. Everything tastes so good. But I notice that I feel REALLY REALLYY full on what I used to consider a pretty small meal. But I definitely want to get back to eating around 1000- 1200 calories, because I want my metabolism to operate with efficiency.
But overall, just really enjoying making things fresh. I no longer look at food the same way. Every time I consider eating something I visualize how it was made. That really helps. Emotional food cravings are a part of my life, but I feel like my tactic of riding out the craving and telling myself I can have what I really want works well. For instance, considering a bag of M&Ms, I ask myself if I would rather have some organic dark chocolate and some almond butter. What do I REALLY want? Do I want a bag of doritos or maybe I'd prefer to have carrot chips and hummus. These things ACTUALLY taste better, but take prep to have. I can't grab those in a vending machine. Do I want pop or do I really want some lovely chocomint tea or maybe some iced green tea? Those things ACTUALLY make me FEEL better. I haven't had any soda or any m&ms, and honestly I don't feel very tempted by them right now. I'm thinking that might be one of the best benefits of the fast. (Although, a really awesome homemade chocolate cookie sounds good)
UPDATE~! DANG IT! I shouldn't have visualized that cookie! It came true, my friend brought homemade cookies and I went overboard! haha. dang sugar. Oh well, life is about balance, I'll balance it out tomorrow.
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