Day 10 +1 - Navigating Food

I decided to keep on writing because getting off the fast is very important. I had read that and now I believe it.

This morning I had a great big glass of fresh squeezed orange juice (you can get that in California). I also had room service bring me a banana. Well let's just say that I opened the banana and broke off an inch of the banana and put it in my mouth. After eating that I put down the banana and that was that.

You see, I am really pushing it with eating period. You are supposed to do 2 full days of orange juice before getting into broth and then food. I am trying to push it slowly so that I can eat something at the banquet tomorrow. A banana bite was about all my stomach could take this morning.

Fast forward to the afternoon. I have a business lunch and everyone is ordering hamburgers with plates of fries and ketchup. There I sit was a small bowl of fruit. Staring at the bowl, I know full well I will not be able to eat much of it. I see judging eyes as they think "she is anorexic". Probably picking up on the fact that I am poking my food and shifting it to seem as though I ate more than I did.

I only ate 5 pieces of fruit and I felt as if I would regret it shortly. I felt the food go down my throat. I felt the thud as it hit my stomach and some time later felt it move into my intestines. I have never been so aware of the process. I survived. But realized why they ask you to wait.

I can't even imagine if someone put a bite of a sandwich in their mouth. Ring the alarm, call the ambulance.

For dinner I had a miso soup. I love miso soup, but all it really tasted like to me was salt water. Talk about salt - how much do they put in there? I drank 16 oz of water with my tiny cup of miso soup. My body didn't like the salt. I thought I might suffer from swallowing the crumbs of tofu.

Later in the night I drank a glass of orange juice which made me happy and then attempted to have a mushroom broth soup. Too salty again. I just finished picking out the mushrooms to eat them - no broth for me.

This is taking slower than I thought. Tomorrow will probably be similar. I can't imagine "eating" eating until Monday?

I'll continue to write in. Also I have decided to make this blog into a health and wellness resource while I am not doing the cleanse. I will probably write in once a week and give updates on my progress/see if I find anything new.

I promised to dance, well here I go:
Josephine Baker dances to Juana la Cubana