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Planing a come back for a while, but haven't got around to it yet!

So hopefully, very soon, you ' ll find me in 'action' again!

Until then, keep well!

My body started to loose weight so I hope,  it is going to continue to do so! Still another 10 kg to go. 

Tomorrow will be the first day of  the fast breaking program. Will write more specifics tomorrow.

Original soup of the day:

300 g Cabbage
  50 g Spinach
chop up vegis and boil in
300 ml of water with 2 tbs. of soya-sauce
mix in mixer, add another 100 ml of water

2 servings

Some people have extended the fasting period up to 40 days, and they felt great. But beyond that it is not advisable, because the body starts to feed on essential body resources, which can cause health problems.
One more remark, usally one doesn't feel hunger while fasting.  It's amazing isn't it! If you start feeling hungry, then your body tells you it is time to stop fasting. It's a warning, before it starts to get to the resources. The timing is very individuel, and depents on ones general  physical condition. So if your body tells you it's time to start eating again, better listen to it, and break the fast.

In case you want to repeat the fasting, please leave at least a period of  six month in between. Remember fasting is hard work for your system!

Original soup for the day:

Pumpkin    200 g
Carrots       1oo g
Potatoe      15o g        chop up all the vegis  into smal pieces

delute 250 ml of  tomatoe juice with 100 ml of water,  add vegis and boil until soft.
add Basil and put into mixer
after well mixed add 1oo ml of water
flavour with salt and pepper
makes 3 servings

Hope you'll  come by tomorrow, too!

Felt really good today, only after coming home from shopping with two big bags full of vegis, my back needed a rest.

Actually, my main event for the day was playing the game, I talked about a few posts ago, "World of warcraft". Starting to like it! At the moment it's only a 10 day trial, but consider to buy it. The game has a lot of interesting worlds and quests to solve. Because it's an online game, and people form all over the world are participating one can make a lot of new friends. If you are the lucky owner of a head-set, you are able to communicate with the people in the game, otherwise you can typ messages. My brother told me, that 5 million people are taken up with this game, and 45 %  of it are women. Even people over 60 years old are seem to enjoying the game.  This as a side track!

Created another delicious soup today:

Pumpkin  250 g
Carrots       50 g
chop vegis into small pieces and boil in 300 ml of water with 1 tablespoon of soya-sauce. If the vegis are soft add
Spinach      50 g    chopped up

fill  into mixer
flavour with nutmeg, salt and pepper

Looks revolting, but the taste is nice!

My hope is I will drop to 65 kg, by the end of the fasting period!

No problems today. Woke up at six o'clock this morning and couldn't go back to sleep, so I got up had my cup of herb tea and read my bible.
What I greatly enjoyed, the other times while I was fasting, was the deep, almost coma like sleep. When I lied down afer lunch, I usually had a nice snooze. But this time it's quite different. Sleep seems to be rather shallow with kind of oppressing dreams, and after lunch time, although I would love to, I can't go to sleep. This is only a remark on the way!

Made my second original soup today! Give some to my husband for his dinner tonight.

140 g potatoes
  5o g red pepper
  4o g cabbage      (vegis chopped up into small pieces)
boil in
350 ml of water
when soft fill into mixer and add,
30 g of finely chopped up baby dills
afer mixing add
200 ml of hot water
flavour with salt, pepper and paprika powder
makes 3 servings

Can believe only three days left. This reminds me, the ones, who said they wanted to join and try the fasting, too, I would be delighted,  if you could give  some feedback.
Would love to hear how you getting on.

Now I better go and do my 30 min. exercising!

Used the mixer, or do you call it blender, we purchased yesterday, to make my first soup.

50 g broccoli
70 g carrots
70 g potatoes    (all vegis chopped up into smal pieces)
300 ml water
1 cube of consomme soup

Boil vegis until soft, mix them in the mixer, add 50 ml of water, it makes 2 servings.

Well,  I intend to go to bed early today!

The mixer I wanted to have to make my own vegetable soup from now on. My husband remarked that the package soup is not very good for ones health.
Back home, I downloaded a 10 days trial of the world of warcraft game. Want to play it together online with my brother in Germany.

In the afternoon we took our dogs for a drive and walked around in a park, not to far from where we live. We had to climb stairs and there I noticed that my condition dropped. Otherwise I really feel great, but get esaily emotional. 

But anyway, today is half-time. Isn't it great! 
One pleasant thing I noticed this morning. The skin gets smoother! This is a very nice result while fasting, skin problems get better, the skin gets smoother, clearer and one looks a little younger! Wonderful, isn't it!

For his evening meal my husband wanted a soup that was shown an TV the other day. Because I didn't have all the ingredience, we had to go shopping again. The soup was a success!

Sometimes, while cooking for my husband I need to be very careful. Do you have the habbit of putting a little piece of this and a little piece of that into your mouth, while preparing a meal. I got it! Suddenly I find myself happily taking up a piece of chopped carrot, or cucumber transport it to my mouth and then a tiny voice in my brain cries: NO, YOU ARE FASTING! And it lands back on the board.

Today I want to give a hint about bad adour. Bad breath, bad body smell.
Actually it's a good sign, because it showes the body gives rid of many bad things. Fasting is not only for weightloss, or spiritual reason, but also is used often in pysical healing programs. If bad breath is noticed, like I did today, best idea I got so far is, either brush my teeth or gurgle. The body odour takes a bit more time to deal with. An extra shower, changing clothes, if possible sleeping with open window, renewing bed sheets( if you sweating a lot during your sleep) every other day, will help to feel comfortable. Washing sheets is hard work I know, but one sleeps so much better in a clean fresh sheet.

Now it's time to feet the dogs, have my afternoon drink, and then go for a walk with hubby and dogs.

Since it is still morning in Europe. Have a nice day! 

Another thing I like to mention is breaking the fast. If for some reason it can't be continued, or the decided period had come to an end, to dig in straight away would be a great shock to the system. Two, better three days of gradually going back to normal  food would be advisable.

1. Day
Morning  rather watery porridge (rice- or potatoe soup)
Lunch       soup with mashed vegitables
Dinner      same as lunch

2. Day
Morning  little bit more solid porridge (rice- or potatoe soup)
Lunch       mashed potatoes (or ather vegis)
Dinner      same as lunch

3. Day
Morning   porridge or cereal,  joghurt
Lunch       boiled vegetables
Dinner      Vegetables, little bit of soft meat 
                  (give everything a good chewing )

In order not to gain back the weight, continue to eat moderately. Now that you have experienced one can survive and feel good with almost no food, there is no need to going back to old bad habits.

This morning I had to run to the toilet three time, to do business, which made me think of : Better talk about dehydration. Also it is summer, ones get hot and sweaty.

So it is very important to give the body back essential fluid. Through sweating and a kind of diarrhoea the body looses not only water but also a lot of minerals. Those have to be replaced by drinking not only water but mineral water. There are mineral- and vitamin supplements available that can be deluted in water, or be bought directly as a drink. To be on the save side, it's good to include such a drink into the program every day ,or at least every other day and an extra little sprinkle of salt into your soup. 

What I like to mention to is that I'm not a medical person. I only can speak of my own experience and the few morsels of knowledge picked up here and there. But I surfed the internet this morning and there is heaps of material on fasting. Also Amazon offers various books on the subject.

Two sides I found kind of recommendable:

http://www.fasting.com/journaltoc.html
http://www.fasting.com/spiritual.html

Sorry, if there is no link, I don't know how to create one.

It's one o'clock and I better have my lunch (but feel no great hunger) and my lie-down.

A few times my stomach grumbled a bit, but after filling it up with water it stopped complaining.

Followed the program so far as described in yesterdays post. Only the 30 min. exercise and the evining meal are still on the agenda.

Looked up what the dictionary had to say about fasting.

fast - go without food, or without certain kinds of food, esp as a religious duty, (then it gives examples and later it says) season of fasting - I liked that one.

Now I better go an prepare a meal for my husband, because he wants "real  food".