Day 6&7: Temptation

Today in the morning I thought I was over the hump.  Once the stomach problems of the morning subsided,  I thought that I was home free. I was certain that I wouldn't be experiencing that intense hunger or lethargy anymore.  I was completely wrong however.


This blog is being written from a remote location.  I'm in Indiana right now and at a birthday party for a one year old.  The hardest part about today was resisting the pizza, ice cream and cake.  Not to mention it's kinda hard for a social drinker like myself not to drink socially.


Today was a great lesson in restraint.  Restraint that I haven't practiced in a long time. I can't believe I've gone a week without solid food already.  A week without alcohol.  I must admit my skin is clearing up a lot.  I think I have found the key to defeating eczema.


Song of the Day:  "Smile Like You Mean It" by The Killers


Saturday I Consumed:

• 1 Cup Almond Milk
• 3 Strawberries Pureed
• 6 Blackberries Pureed
• 1 Cup Almond Milk
• 1 Handful Spinach Pureed
• Juice of:
• 1 Large Beet with Greens
• One Orange
• 2 Apples
• 1 2 inch piece of Ginger
• 8 Carrots

Today I consumed:

• One FRS Healthy Protein Blueberry Acai
• 1 Cup Almond Milk
• Juice of:
• 1 Apple
• 1 Parsnip
• 1 Orange
• 2 Handfuls of Kale
• 1 Pear

Ezra 9:12-15 MSG 
Whatever you do, don't give your daughters in marriage to their sons nor marry your sons to their daughters. Don't cultivate their good opinion; don't make over them and get them to like you so you can make a lot of money and build up a tidy estate to hand down to your children.' And now this, on top of all we've already suffered because of our evil ways and accumulated guilt, even though you, dear God, punished us far less than we deserved and even went ahead and gave us this present escape. Yet here we are, at it again, breaking your commandments by intermarrying with the people who practice all these obscenities! Are you angry to the point of wiping us out completely, without even a few stragglers, with no way out at all? You are the righteous God of Israel. We are, right now, a small band of escapees. Look at us, openly standing here, guilty before you. No one can last long like this."

Day 5ish: D-Day

Today's post is sponsored by the letter D.


D is for Dreams.  For the first time in a long while I had a dream.  I dreamed about a crispy chicken sandwich.  As I bit into it somebody saw me and I tried to hide. It was surreal.


D is for Diarrhea. I thought I could avoid it but throughout the night on day five and into the morning of day six, I sent a bunch of troops to bombard the beaches of Normandy.    Fortunately after my second visit to the toilet in the morning, I felt better and decided to go ahead to the gym and get in a workout.


D is for Desire.  Yesterday was the last day that our crew at work would be together on shift, so there was a big party with everyone bringing in their best dishes.  So hungry I resisted and stuck with my cabbage, green bean and bell pepper juice.


D is for Democrat.  Yes I am still am hard left.  It is hard for me to believe that the republican choices for president are between the following:

• Mitt Romney:  Does anybody know what this guy's position is on anything?
• Rick Santorum: Step one Google "Santorum".  Step two, find that this guy took his stillborn child home for his children to see.  Also see that he really doesn't care about family values at all.  See how he handled the resignation of Senator John Ensign from his sex scandal in Nevada.
• Newt Gingrich: It is dumbfounding to me how you can be fired as Speaker of the House on ethics charges and still be a legitimate candidate for president.
• Ron Paul: I would actually kind of like Ron Paul if it wasn't for the fact that he wants less regulation over a financial market that caused our economic collapse and his irresponsible printing of racist remarks in his newsletters.

With those choices is the guy who got Bin Laden and now has the unemployment rate at its lowest in three years really that bad?

Yesterday I consumed:
1 Cup Almond Milk
3 Tablespoons Olive Oil
Juice of :
2 Tomatoes
1 Tomatillo
2 Jalapenos
3 Carrots
2 Handfuls of Kale with Pulp
4 Stalks of Celery
3 Cloves of Garlic
1 Apple

1 Pear

1 Orange

2 Handfuls of Spinach

1 1 inch piece of ginger

Song of the Day: "I Don't Know Why" as preformed by the Jackson 5

Ezra 3:11 AMP
They sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, saying, For He is good, for His mercy and loving-kindness endure forever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid!

Day 4: Failure

Today is the first day that I can say that this is actually difficult.  I mean I knew that eventually it would be but it's just today I woke up just kind of jaded, completely depressed and exhausted.  I still went through my normal routine.  Went to the gym and such.  This has still been a bit of a pretty bad day.


At the end of the day I will be 10% done with this fast.  10% seems like nothing.  The end seems so far and distant and insignificant.  Yet and still I feel that for some reason that I can't even comprehend nor explain why I want to continue on with this fast.  I think most of it has to do with the fact that I don't want to fail at something else.  I want to see this through totally and completely until the end.  I feel like I've done a lot in the just over a quarter century that I've been living on this earth but also by the same token there have many times I haven't completely lived up to my full potential.


I can't complain because in actuality I am better off than most but by the same token, I feel as though I could have accomplished so much more.  There have been so many points in my life where I've gotten discouraged and just don't want to continue on with what I want to do.  It as if  I have lived my life by taking the convenient alternative rather than putting forth the full effort.


Song of The Day: "I Do Not Want This" By Nine Inch Nails


Yesterday I consumed:
1/2 Bottle Blueberry Acai Healthy Protein
1 Blueberry Pineapple Smoothie at the gym
Juice of :
1 Tomato
1 Tomatillo
1 Jalapeno
3 Carrots
1 Cantelope
1 Grapefruit
2 Handfuls of Kale with pulp
4 Stalks of Celery


2 Chronicles 32:17-21


17  The Assyrian king also wrote letters insulting the Lord, the God of Israel, and speaking against Him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver His people out of my hand.18  And they shouted it loudly in the Jewish language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, that they might take the city.19  And they spoke of the God of Jerusalem as they spoke of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of the hands of men.20  For this cause Hezekiah the king and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed and cried to heaven.21  And the Lord sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So the Assyrian king returned with shamed face to his own land. And when he came into the house of his god, they who were his own offspring slew him there with the sword. 

Day 3: I'm Having a Bad Day...

Does juicing make you inherently more accident prone?  Today has been one of the worst days ever. It started off pretty normal,  I woke up and went to the gym.  But as I was working out there was a strange and familiar smell in the air.  The aroma of salty cured and smoked pig belly frying in it's own fat.  The delicious smell of the champion of pork product, bacon.  If you were wondering as I was why the hell would the cafe in the gym be running a special on BLT's?  I don't know but it sure helps me to recognize that the food in the gym's cafe is only stuff that is masquerading as healthy.


Then I went home in a rush to prepare my food for work tonight.  I was making this juice combination that ended up turning out very tasty (Tomatoes Tomatillos Garlic Jalapeno and much more) and was heating it because it's pretty frigid outside.  When I put it in my thermos I wanted to avoid the debacle of yesterday when I left the thermos open causing my iPod to get all wet.  So there I am in the kitchen with a Thermos held upside down over my left hand checking for leaks.  All of a sudden the steam pressure builds up from the hot liquid inside, ejects the lid and there is hot juice everywhere.  Although I only suffered minor burns to my left hand, I still felt pretty silly about it.  Not to mention that it clicked into place that this is probably what happened yesterday and also is the reason why my iPod which worked fine yesterday is now completely dead.


Rounding out the day was the discovery that the way overtime is being assigned at work is changing in a manner that I only see as resulting in either more days at work.  Long story I don't really feel like getting into right now.


Song of the Day:  "Sad Statue" by System of a Down


Yesterday I consumed:
1/2 Head of Cauliflower Pureed
2 Cups Coconut Milk
1 Cup Almond Milk
1 Banana Pureed
1/2 Cup Mixed frozen Berries Pureed
1 Serving Naked Protein
Juice of:
2 Sweet Potatoes
3 Stalks Celery
1 Pineapple
3 Oranges
2 inch piece of Ginger
2 Mangoes


1 Chronicles 16:8-12
8 Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.9 Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.10 Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.11 Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.12 Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;

Day 2: Cravings

Today is a little rougher than yesterday.  I opened up my fridge today to see a jar or hot giardiniera staring me in the face and I had this compulsive desire for an Italian Beef Sandwich with tons of provolone and giardiniera.I don't even really get into the Italian beef sandwich that much but today it sounded really good.  I'm still not really as hungry as a expected to be.


I got off to a pretty good start today, I did a quick workout at lifetime only to come to work and find that my curried cauliflower puree had leaked out of the thermos and was all over everything.  On the bad side my iPod was in my lunchbox too.  On the good side it still turns on and starts fine.


Song of the day: "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince


So what do gangsta rap and The Bible have in common.  Turns out they're both pretty violent.
1 Chronicles 11:20
Abishai the brother of Joab was chief of the Three. For he lifted up his spear against 300 and slew them, and was named among the Three.


I mean pretty tame compared to today's standards, but that's one of many very repetitive examples I've come across in reading today.  I read about 15 chapters today (excluding the first few chapters of Chronicles which were just genealogical reference.


Yesterday I consumed:
Juice of one Melon and one pound of cranberries
Half a head of cauliflower pureed with 2 cups of coconut milk
One FRS Healthy protein Blueberry Acai flavor.

Genesis

Yeah, this first day is pretty tough but amazingly enough, I'm not as hungry as I thought I would be. The hardest thing so far has been trying to keep myself off of the internet.  Pretty soon I'm gonna see that I'll have to make some tough TV choices. I did get a chance to get rid of everything extra from my DirecTV package, so that will make things a bit easier.

Song of the day: Heaven Help Us All by Stevie Wonder.

The other part that has been difficult had been the Bible reading.  It is pretty repetitive.

2 Kings 16:19-20 AMP

The rest of the acts of Ahaz, are they not written in Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?  Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried [with them] in the City of David. Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

I feel like I've read that verse a thousand times.
Starting Weight: 234lbs
Starting Body Fat: 25.9%

And It's The End Of The World

And this is a completely unnecessary post. I'm having a good New year and an hoping you are too. I'm little faded but enjoying the chi.