Conclusion: After the Fast

Today I officially weighed in at 219 pounds! So, to recap - I started this fast two months ago at 260 pounds and over the course of 60 days, I lost 41 pounds. Today I had a juice for breakfast, a juice and a handful of grapes for lunch, and then throughout the day I snacked on a handful of cashews. I think for dinner I might just have some raw veggies with sunflower seed cheese that I made in a food processor. It was easy to make - just sunflower seeds, lemon juice, some low sodium organic soy sauce, and a couple cloves of garlic. Yum. Then througout the weekend I'll follow a similar diet plan until Monday when I start making more complex raw, vegan meals for dinner. Here's a video of me eating my first food - and I also have some before and after pictures at the end:

I wanted to make a correction to yesterday's blog. This might border on too much information - but I think it's important, especially if there are people out there with similar experiences, or who may want to try this. I believed I had a urinary tract infection - but not all the symptoms aligned and it was persistent throughout the fast. I went to the doctor who really wasn't interested in my fast and didn't ask me any questions about it at all - even though it was the entire reason I was there. I mentioned that I thought I might have a UTI - and she said it was possible because I had some white cells in my urine. So she didn't test for bacteria or ask what I was eating on the fast - just gave me a prescription for antibiotics and sent me on my disappointed way. Luckily, the Universe stepped in. I happened upon a new blog by chance this morning - and the girl was saying that she wasn't juicing fruits because they can screw up the pH in the urine and increase yeast infections. I rechecked my symptoms online . . .and I am now 80% sure that because I was drinking so much fruit juice - I probably had a yeast infection the entire length of the fast. So I'm not taking the antibiotics - which also can cause yeast infections, and instead I took over-the-counter medication. If the problem clears up, I'll know not to have so much fruit next time. If it doesn't, I'll try the antibiotics.

This leads me to my next topic, which is that we are really the best judges of our own bodies. This fast reconnected me with my body. I was like a personality trapped in a flesh prison. I didn't like to even look in the mirror. I would avoid my reflection in store windows. I didn't want to feel my body - and eating highly processed, fatty, sugary, salty foods made the discomfort go away - and contributed to the problem. Doing this fast put me back in my body. I felt everything. I noticed every little pain, every hunger, every taste - good and bad. I noticed my energy level. I noticed my emotional state of being. I became my body. And for that alone, the fast was the best decision I ever made.

If you decide to do a juice fast - whether it's just 3 days, 7 days, 10 or more - let me know! I would love to hear about your journey and be a resource to you for support, to answer questions, to make you a juice, to give you recipes - you name it! I hope to continue blogging about my vegan journey. Stay tuned for tomorrow's post where I will put all the juice blogging resources I have together in one place!