Day 46

Well, Juicing has been feeling like a drag lately. I haven't felt like exercising this whole week. I attribute that to either over doing it with exercise the week before and the harsh detox effects that it seems to have started or working on school projects and deadlines. Either way, I'm pooped. I have done the Tibetan Rites each morning except today. I really enjoy doing them and I almost feel that I need to do it before anything else, my body asks for it. Today was different because it was so cold that I didn't even want to take off my socks. The sudden freezing weather makes me want to stay in bed. 

I am so excited that my Juicing is almost over. Only 15 days of juice left! I have been thinking

 about food lately. It doesn't help that last night I was at an art party after an artists lecture at school and I was standing near the food table and the garlic in the hummus was calling to my nose. It doesn't help that I went to the bookstore to pick something up for my brother and I stopped by the raw cookbook section and browsed through the books and recipes that I wanted. It also doesn't help that I get email updates of when blogs about raw food recipes like those from Sunny Raw Kitchen and they have the most beautiful and delicious looking foods in them! So I am ready for the switch. I am nervous that I might return to some bad eating habits, but hopefully with the help of Angela Stokes' book Raw Food for Weight-loss, I will be in good shape. I have actually been dealing with all of my emotional food issues. I'm talking about it all with my loved ones whom never knew what secret eating habits I had. I'm getting it all out in preparation. I've also been working on clearing out my closets which feels great in addition to clearing out the bad habits from my mind.

Another project I have been working on is growing wheatgrass. It's is coming along nicely except I am wondering why they are coming up so far apart from each other. I thought they should b

e all bunched together like you find it in the store. Last nights batch I put more in the space so hopefully that will solve the problem but perhaps it is the fact that I didn't put something in it to cause all the seeds to germinate. I'll figure it out soon enough. 

I am happy to say that one of my sculptures was accepted in the

 Student Art Show at my school. I hope to place but I will try not to get my hopes up too high. 

I was talking to my juicing partner and she has been chilling almost her whole fast. She seems to get a lot of detox symptoms and I am wondering if she is just that toxic or if I am doing something wrong because I don't get chilled often or have many detox symptoms. I am feeling the most detoxing this week than the whole thing. My symptoms are usually a sort of a uneasy

 or somewhat nauseating feeling in the bowel when releasing stool. Last Saturday was the worst of course. Since then, unfortunately, I have had Brittany Spears song "Toxic" stuck in my head. Boohoo.

I am looking forward to tomorrow. Slightly warmer weather and it is Friday! I will be leaving to Chicago Saturday morning after a visit to a naturopath. I'm actually taking my dad who has some health issues at the moment and I am really excited that he is willing to take an alternative route. His doctor has been prescribing him pain killers for arthritis but we know that the issue runs deeper than just arthritis. My dad just hasn't been taking them. Is it just me or does it seem that most doctors know less about health these days? This is the same doctor who told me that it wasn't possible for me to have celiac's disease when he knew that my sister, nephew and aunt have it. He doesn't know that it is genetic. Why don't doctors know these things! This is a subject that I get heated over easily. 

I hope everyone that was able to see it enjoyed the Lunar eclipse last night! I was unfortunate to have a cloudy sky. 

Cheers for now!

xo

Elizabeth