Feeling Pruney?

What a day. I was glad to wake to beautiful sun shining though my windows instead of the expected continuation of the snow storm. However, I woke with dry irritated sinuses. The heat was turned up too high last night and I felt like I was getting ill. I was worried that I was having a detox symptom and that eating the prunes while having a detox symptom was going to be a terrible thing.

I worked through my morning and had my lemon water and then my morning juice and used my netti pot. I decided to eat my prunes around one. So around noon I started preparing myself. I got out my journal and wrote and wrote and came up with some good new dreams for the future since my old dreams have been coming true. I feel so blessed! I wrote down my goals with food and started to drink my prune soak water. While drinking the soak water I started to

 have a euphoric feeling sweep over my body. I became more and more excited to eat contrary to not wanting to stop the feast yesterday. I watched Angela Stokes' prune eating video and then read her blog entry for that day when she broke her juice feast. 

I loved this process of thinking so much and so clearly about my overeating habits of the past and how I will not continue them in the future. I won't beat myself up if I make mistake either. I am excited to be raw and keep up the healing process. Before I ate my first prune I said a prayer and gave thanks for the feast, the prunes, all I've learned about myself and all the growing I have done. It felt so good. I ate my first prune. Surprisingly squishy. I liked it. I got more of that euphoric feeling and I was so happy. I went from my desk to my chair that was showered in sunlight and ate my prunes and enjoyed the moment. I couldn't finish the prunes and that was a first in a long time for me. I was the person who never left a crumb on her plate. I never wanted to waste food. It's funny to me now because I used to be the girl who never could finish everything. My life has been a roller coaster until this point. It's time to stop it and become regular. 

So I ate about 5 oz of prunes and put the rest in the fridge for tomorrow. 

Late in the evening my tummy had a strange and unpleasant feeling for about a half hour. I was relieved that it went away but I didn't like it. I hope it doesn't happen again tomorrow. I also had a tremendous amount of gas. I did an enema with probiotics and am feeling well. We'll see what is in store for tomorrow.

Buona notte,

xo

Elizabeth

P.S. I will be posting some before, midway and after shots shortly.