Fast - Day 1

My one luxury... Cup of coffee

Today i woke up and i felt really really tired. Like tired exhausted. Like blah. Then i thought, i am not being healthy enough. I need to do something about this. So i have decided to go on a fast. My fast will consist of a 21-day fast. I will eat eggs and toast in the morning - my luxury is one cup of coffee with one teaspoon of honey. I will have an apple and an orange for lunch and then i will have dinner of broth and a cup of green tea. I will have no tea. Why am i undergoing a fast? Because my body is telling me i have to, It has become sluggish and icky and it has becomes really fed up. I can feel my spirit going, you call this a BODY???? I will also go running - well when i say running i mean jogging.

No dairy, no alcohol, no sugar - apart from the honey.

21 days. Lots of water and green tea - green tea because it is alkalising. It is good for the cells to be bathed in alkaline water.

Soooo.... i also thought that i would record my efforts, cos it is good to record things i think - hence this blog, in general.

Having decided that i would do that i felt MUCH better. I also think i prefer the idea of a FAST rather than a detox or a diet. A fast has a spiritual dimension. There is something quite good about fasting. It says hunger is not just about vanity (i have also done diets and detoxes). Hunger is about trying to understand what it is to live in this world.

Fasting is also good for your body. Witholding food is good. The body is designed to want to eat continuously because it does not know where its next meal is coming from. If you don't believe me, then observe how most people who live in countries where hunger has been mostly eradicated are overweight. It is not because they eat too much, it is because they can eat too much. And if you can eat too much, you body will say, hey, eat as much as you can.

However, the irony is that the body is also designed to live on very little really. When i was 15 i discovered just how little. I was living on one apple a day. When i was really upset three years ago i was living on even less than that for a bout four months. I lost LOTS of weight then. It was a great side effect of all that misery.

I have also decided to take a fast from social media. I have more or less given up my mobile phone. But social media, and the iPad, i am becoming very attached to. So i think i am going to fast for 21 days as well. I will only be going on the computer to do work. I expect i will become ridiculously productive for 21 days and i am hoping that this will create a good habit.

So i also have to confess that over the last half term i managed to do sod all with my good intentions to do stuff after school. Well, i think that will now change now that i have decided to take a social media fast. It is sooo bad. And after i decided to do all these things, i immediately felt a lot better.

Then i had a dodgy tummy and now i will be off school for the day.

Right. I am now heading to the study to get things organised there. There is so much to be done really. Lots of music today and lots of filing and lots of admin and things. Must wake Ghin up now. Day 1 Fast... life is good.