Special Announcement!

No video today - the upload speed is just too slow. So, here's a shot of me walking. I actually feel the best I have felt since beginning my detox/fast and I anticipate only to improve further across the next couple of days. The juice fast is doing it's thing.

But, I have some very exciting news to share . . . yesterday my lovely, amazing partner Joanne and I officially became engaged! We have been "unofficially" engaged for some time but according to Jo it became official when she received her beautiful engagement pendant and who am I to argue? The announcement was first seen on our facebook pages (as, I guess most news is these days) and I just wanted to share it here as well.

I also want to take this opportunity to say that Jo is truly amazing. She is the most loving, caring, giving, supportive partner one could ever hope for and I love her more the language can express. The support, understanding and trust she has shown me during these last 4 months or so and particularly when I told her the manner in which I wanted to tackle my issues has been awesome and extremely humbling and I will be eternally grateful.

Love you baby. xxx

Stats: Day 4

Juice: 6 glasses = 1.5 litres

Water: 13 glasses = 3.25 litres

Seaweed tea: 2 cups = 600 mls

Walking: morning 1 hour + afternoon 1/2 hour

Bowel movements: 1 (enema) + hot bath (epsom salts)

Heads Up!

Today I feel very much improved from the last couple of days. Most of the physical symptoms have dissipated and I managed to get to sleep by midnight and had an only slightly interupted sleep through till 9 a.m.

It seems the alcohol detox has had some type of effect on the way I am responding to the juice fast. I generally feel not very well around day 3 or 4 of a fast as the toxins have really started to build up and I need to facilitate their removal as quickly as possible (more on that in another post) but I do not feel any of this today so my best guesses are that either the alcohol detox symptoms have masked any other, more familiar symptoms,  or (more likely) the fun and games of the toxic build-up is yet to come. Either way, I think I'll just have another glass of juice and wait and see . . .

Stats: Day 3

Juice: 9 x glasses = 2.25 litres

Water: 16 x glasses = 4 litres

Seaweed/lemon tea: 3 cups = 900 mls

Dried seaweed: 5 x peices

1 satchel "Body Balance" sea vegetable supplement in 250 mls water

Sleep: a little more

Bowel movements: -

You gotta live it everyday . .

Today's inspiration . . . 

Badlands

Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland.

Got a head-on collision, smashin in my guts man.

I'm caught in a crossfire that I don't understand.

But there's one thing I know for sure:

I don't give a damn for the same old played out scenes

I don't give a damn for just the in-betweens.

 I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now.

Talk about a dream; try to make it real.

You wake up in the night with a fear so real.

You spend your life waiting for a moment that just don't come.

Well don't waste your time waiting

Badlands you gotta live it every day

Let the broken hearts stand

As the price youve gotta pay

We'll keep pushin' till it's understood

And these badlands start treating us good

Workin in the field till you get your back burned

Workin `neath the wheels till you get your facts learned.

Baby I got my facts learned real good right now.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king,

And a king aint satisfied till he rules everything.

I wanna go out tonight, I wanna find out what I got.

Now I believe in the love that you gave me.

I believe in the faith that could save me.

I believe in the hope and I pray that some day it

Will raise me above these

Badlands...

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside

That it aint no sin to be glad you're alive.

I wanna find one face that aint looking through me

I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these

Badlands...

Music and Lyrics Bruce Springsteen

. . . for the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside

that it ain't no sin to be glad your alive . . .   

Water is my friend.

So, my second night has turned out to be reasonably better than my first. I got to sleep by 2 a.m. and woke up at 10 a.m. feeling much better than Saturday. The nausea was only mild and never really felt like I was going to be sick. The internal ache is a constant, general background "noise" and although it did amp up a little, it also was not as bad as Saturday night. And then there is the "shakes" . . .

I have discovered something about the shakes as they apply to me (disclaimer) and that is, they can be minimised by large doses of H20! Who would have thunk it? (Certainly not the myriad of "expert" articles and opinions I read about alcoholism and the treatment thereof). I believe that my improvement all round is, in no small part, due to my more than doubling my liquid intake for the day (see my "Stats" updates for details) as well as my refraining from solid foods and thus allowing my body and all my internal organs, that have been under so much pressure for so long, to take a break, rehydrate and detoxify.

Water is your number one key to good health kids!

Stats: Day 2

Juice: 8 glasses = 2 litres

Water: 18 glasses = 4.5 litres

Seaweed/lemon tea: 3 cups = 900 mls

Dried Seaweed: 3 peices

1 satchel "Body Balance" sea vegetable supplement in 250mls water

Sleep: very, very little

Bowel movements: x 1