In that time I’ve received a few emails from people asking what happened, did it work? Some of them quite angry that I hadn’t updated the blog.

Well, a few things happened…

After an initial period of stable blood sugar levels, they started to go back up as my diet changed back to a more reasonable, sustainable diet. If I remember rightly, I was back on insulin by late December / early January 2009.

Personal circumstances didn’t help matters either, but I’m not getting into that here

One very positive thing that I did - and this was part of my plan since around November 2008 - was visit a hypnotist in Minneapolis called Devin Hastings, who specializes in stress reduction and diabetes coaching - you can find his website here: http://www.mindbodyhypnosis.com/

I spent 3 days with Devin and he gave me some very effective tools that I could take away with me to reduce stress and allow me to attain a level of calm in future stressful situations.

What did I learn - looking back on the juice feasting experience?

I learned that for me, the juice fast (not feast because I only drank a half of the recommended volume of juice per day, as I couldn’t stand the taste) was unsustainable as a diet - and it was never supposed to be - but as a result, I viewed it as something I couldn’t wait to get off, and eat “normal”, everyday foods.

Within about 2 months, I’d put back on 50lbs, but needed to, as I was unhealthily thin.

If I can give some advice to anyone with diabetes reading this blog, I’d like to stress the importance of sensible eating - something that I’m still working on - and plenty of exercise. Not exactly round breaking advice, but you’d be surprised how many people eat crap and just don’t exercise. Also, very important is testing and finding out what medication is right for you. Take an active role in this and work with your doctor.

For years I struggled and struggled with the idea of taking insulin and just didn’t want to do it. I couldn’t come to terms with the idea that I needed something external in order to help me live. Which is kind of crazy when you think about it, because that’s what food is: something external that you need to live. Manufactured medical Insulin is the same thing, it just helps you process the food you consume and turn it into fuel.

I took metformin and gliclazide for a few years and ended up so tired. My pancreas was being force to spew out whatever insulin it could during the day, I was eating a very restrictive diet in order to keep my sugars low, and was unsurprisingly not very happy, or energetic. For me the metformin / gliclazide combo felt like someone pinning me to the bed in the morning, it was that hard to get up.

Insulin can gave me the boost you need to get up and start exercising. Yes, it takes some trial and error to get your levels right - both dosage and exercise levels, but the end result was increased quality of life.

For anyone with diabetes, whether you’ve had it for a while, or you’ve just been diagnosed, educate yourself.

There’s plenty of material on the web about it - try to keep to the more reputable sources, as there’s plenty of people that want to make money from people with diabetes. Actively seek knowledge and view it as something you can tackle and cope with, rather than something that’s happened to you.

I view my 92 day juice fast as a success. After all, I did it. When I think about it now, I have no idea how I did it, but while I was doing it, there was no doubt in my mind that I was going to go all the way. I didn’t get the result that I wanted at the end - to be released from diabetes, or no longer have diabetes, or cured of diabetes - however you want to phrase it, but it’s an experience that I will never forget, and one that I have learned from immensely.

So, in closing, If you’re still reading this, you probably either have, or know someone with diabetes.

Good luck to you on your journey. Be strong, make yourself and others happy, and actively look after yourself.

All the best,

Chris.

My sugars this morning were 7.9 - no just kidding, they were 4.7, a few points up from the previous 4.1s and 4.2s, and to be honest my heart sank a little when I saw the reading, but, having thought about it since (not all day honest) it’s still a good reading really, considering it accounts for 5 days in a row of prunes and fruits for breakfast and as a ingredients in the salads I’ve been having. - I’ve kept prunes in the salads to, shall we say, alleviate any issue my bowels might have with digestion. And it’s worked.

So, although it’s a little higher, and maybe gives me pause for thought, I’m not, and shouldn’t be overly concerned.

Today was a good day in terms of food though, a landmark really. Around lunchtime I finished off fixing the door frames in the basement and garage and we headed to Jamocha’s (now called “the Market”) for our lunch. I had veggie chilli, and it was lovely. But the key thing here, is that it was the first full, hot meal, that I’ve had in over 3 months! So you can imagine how much I enjoyed it. It was followed by a coffee with a nip of Carolans (an Irish liqueur, kind of like Baileys).

Back at home, we both took care of business for a while, and my wife started preparing the Vegan feast.

Man oh man was it ever good!

Curried potatoes, a nice Thai coconut broccoli and bok choy curry dish and a lovely quinoa and roasted peppers dish. I may have got some of those dishes wrong by the way, but my wife got them spot on. We had a nice glass of wine (or two) with it as well and finished the meal off with a lovely dessert invested by my wife, a kind of nut based, tofu topped raspberry cheesecake.

I don’t think I’m doing it any justice in the description, but it was fantastic. And I think I did a pretty god job of chewing everything I ate tonight too

Well we’re off for a break tomorrow for a few days. A little getaway for some together time and some Christmas shopping no doubt, so the blog entries will probably calm down a little - certainly after the #100 mark I would imagine, but keep checking back as I want to keep everyone informed as to how this whole adventure turns out.

So, for tonight though, let me bid you all

Oyasumi Nasai

I got woken up by our next door neighours who are renting for the ski season and were partying last night. As a result I was up at around 03:45, and that was me for the evening. I went downstairs, had a cup of peppermint teat and did a little work on a future podcast I’m working on.

My sugars this morning, before I forget, were 4.2

I was fully planing on getting a little computer stuff worked on, and then heading back to bed around 6 or 7 in the morning for a couple of hours to catch up with the rest of my sleep, but it wasn’t to be.

Before I went back to bed, the phone rang at around 07:30. It was search and rescue. We had a call out, and it wasn’t a drill, repeat “this is not a drill”. I won’t go into any details as I’m unsure of the legal implications of data protection and all that, but my wife packed some fruit in a bowl for me and I got off to Sparwood pretty fast to meet up with the rest of the team there. I was unsure exactly of how I was going to be able to contribute, after all I’ve only been to a few practices, but when I got there, a few of the guys and girls were really helpful, and also told me that every roll on a SAR team was equally as valid to the success of the operation.

As it turned out, I did a little work at the command base, answering the radio and noting team updates, and then went out on an assignment with one of the more experienced members of the team, and later on even got to interview someone who had seen the missing party, and we got some new information. Like I say I can’t go into details for legal reasons, which is probably frustrating, be hey, what can you do. The long and the short of it was however, that the missing people were found late this morning and there were no fatalities.

I made my way home after we had lunch and were de-briefed and had a lovely salad with my wife and son. The first time we’ve all sat down and eaten with knives and forks and plates together in 3 months! I enjoyed it. We all did.

After that I headed to bed for a kip and slept like a baby for a couple of hours. When I woke up I hadn’t even moved position - I was knackered.

My son decorated our Christmas tree tonight to his traditional Christmas tree decoration music, which is “Any way you want it” by Journey. I was playing it one year in our old house as we decorated the tree, and it’s kind of stuck since then, which is nice.

We also finished off watching “American gangster” tonight - what a good film. It was accompanied by a few nice sips of whisky and a lovely little nutty dessert my wife whipped up, with a little honey and tahini mixed in there. Nice.

So, an interesting day, and good experience for me on a SAR team. And even though, I slept this afternoon, I think I’ve still got a good enough sleep deficit in the bank to be able to sleep tonight pretty well.

Neighbours allowing…

‘night.

My sugars this morning? 4.1

Today was a fantastic day. I was seven different kinds of bad in terms of being kind to my digestive system, but hey, a guy needs a break right, and I wasn’t that bad….

We went out into the bush with some friends for a “hike” and took along some salad and green juice, and also some “tofu dogs” - they’re shih tzus but tastier and less yappy, mulled wine and a hip flask of whisky.

Our friends took along actual meat smokies, and some coffee with baileys. Once we’d found a nice spot on our hike, we made a fire and got to business, what a great time! I had a lovely salad, and also, the “tofu dogs” - that’s actually what they’re called I swear, tasted phenomenal after being cooked over the raw flames of the fire - man they were good.

I had a few nips of whisky during the day, a lovely taste of the baileys coffee, and the mulled wine was great. It felt good to be alive! Now you might think - whoa Chris! you’ve gone a bit over board there haven’t you mate, that’smoving way too fast, and I think you’re probably right, but everything was in moderation, and we all shared, plus there’s no way I could drink too much, even the smell of most of it was enough to make me slightly giddy.

After getting back, my wife actually had juice for tea / dinner / supper and I had another salad - talk about role reversal, and then we watched the first 2 thirds of American Gangster. It’s unravelling as an excellent film, and the only reason we didn’t watch it all is so we could get a semi early night and get some DIY done tomorrow.

So, I’ll wrap this up for now, at the end of a fantastic Canadian outdoors winter day with friends.

‘night.

My sugars this morning were 4.1

I went down to the hospital to get my blood checked yet again, this time to check the potassium level, not iron or blood sugars.

All the different tests I’ve referred to in this blog should give you an idea that if you are thinking of embarking on a juice feast, please do it with the blessing and supervision of your doctor. I’m been pretty lucky since moving to Fernie as I have two good doctors that I get on with, who are open (somewhat) to what I’m doing, and supportive.

My previous experience with doctors in England was not good. I was registered at a Doctor’s clinic and you couldn’t guarantee who you were going to see on any given appointment, and when you did…well one doc mis-diagnosed my diabetes and told me to go to the sex clinic, when I went to him with my symptoms (peeing all night, tired, hungry all the time and losing weight). He cost me several months of undiagnosed diabetes. Another doc wouldn’t even make eye contact with me, and yet another was just Johnny Negative. You’d come out of his office feeling so down it was crazy.

Here in Fernie? Two good understanding doctors, and I can’t fault them. I’m truly grateful believe me, knowing what the alternative can be.

I met up with a friend for a cup of tea at lunch time and while I was there got a call from my doctor - the potassium level was normal. Nice.

We’re going to keep an eye on it and get it checked again in a few weeks just to make sure, but we discussed the supplements and I told him I’d knocked the Super B Complex and Bee Pollen granules on the head, as I thought that’s what had done it. Turns out I was right. Good stuff.

I enjoyed each and every bowl of fruit that I ate today - absolutely loved them. I’m moving onto salads tomorrow, but will be having the fruit bowl for breakfast I think, and I’ll make enough green juice for between meals filler.

Good times!

On that note, I’ll bid you good night.

I had fruit for breakfast this morning, and man was it nice! I had a bowl of the following:

Strawberries, Raspberries, blueberries, kiwi fruit, tomato and prunes: a lovely bowl of fruit.

Check it out - here’s a picture I took of it on our snowy deck:

It was nice to chew again too, my jaw just seemed to remember what to do

I had a little juice before lunch, and then had another bowl of fruit - fantastic, and I wasn’t even really that hungry before lunch either - something that I’m completely not used to. Hunger has been a pretty normal state of affairs for me over the last 3 months - more so the first 2 months of the juice feast than the last month, but I think I’m just going to be absolutely ravenous for a while, enjoying all these long forgotten, newly appreciated flavours and textures.

As part of my gift from my wife for completing the juice feast, she got me a treatment with an NLP practitioner, and I went to see her this afternoon, which was really cool. It was a good session and was helpful.

I had to whizz back home after my appointment and quickly make up my fruit dish to go, to take with me to Search and Rescue practice in Sparwood. We watched a video on the dangers of avalanches, which was very moving, a group of 5 guys skiing in Montana who triggered an avalanche. One of whom died as a result, another lost a leg at the knee. Then there was more map and compass work.

Back at home in the evening, a friend of mine was ’round seeing my wife for a homepathice remedy, so it was nice to see him, and have a chat for a while.

I not long ago checked my sugar and it was 5.2, so I’m happy with that, we’ll see what it is tomorrow.

I almost forgot! I actually had the energy to run to the postbox today. It’s not far away, just down the street, but I didn’t even feel like I was running underwater or anything, it felt good. I was seriously out of breath when I got back home, but it still felt good!

OK, that’s enough form me, I’m going to head up the wooden hill to bodkinsville, and get some rest for tomorrow - got a blood test to take - let’s hope my potassium levels have calmed down eh.

‘night.

More prunes for breakfast and lunch too today, I really enjoyed them for both meals.

I checked with my Doctor for my HbA1c results today and it came back with as 6.3 which he said was normal. That’s the lowest it’s been since late 2002. There was a bit of concerning news however regarding my sodium and potassium levels.

My sodium level is a little low, but my potassium level is a little high, and that’s the one concerning my doctor. Apparently too high a potassium level can lead to cardiac arrest, so I’ve got to go for a test on Friday morning to see if it’s gone up any more, and if it has then he’s going to prescribe some kind of drug to get it lowered. So we’ll see on Friday I guess.

In the meantime, I’ve had a look at some of the supplements I’m taking and the bee pollen granules are high in potassium apparently, and the super B complex which I’ve also been taking has potassium in there, as well as bee pollen, so I’m going to cut those two out of my regimen. Whether that will make a difference or not by Friday, I’m not sure.

My wife and I went to the cinema tonight to watch Mongol, a film that the local arts council has brought to town and rented a screen at the cinema to show. It’s basically about the young Genghis Khan and how he came to be one of the most powerful, successful warriors / empire builders in history and is a damn good story. Really beautifully filmed too. If you get a chance, go and see it.

After the movie we nipped down to Extra Foods to get some celery, and some fruit for tomorrow -that’s right it’s a fruit day tomorrow - plus some of the prunes too (which are also apparently high in potassium). To add to the list of things that are a “good source” of potassium as well, we have cucumbers and celery - two of my staples for the juice feast, so it looks like it could just be the perfect storm of supplements and diet that have lead to the elevated level of potassium in my blood.

I think it’ll sort itself out when I come off the diet, but my doctor seems worried. I guess Friday is crunch day.

I checked my sugars when we got back and they were 5.7 which is still in the post prandial (after meal) normal range.

So, I’m off to bed in a minute, ready for my fruity breakfast tomorrow. I’m pretty sure my body doesn’t have a bloody clue what the hell is going on, with all this prune juice, and prunes and now the fruits tomorrow, it’s kind of having to wake up and get out of the hospital bed, shake itself off and get back in the race, so I think a few anomalies are to be expected.

With that, I’ll bid you goodnight.

I’ll let you watch the video my wife and I made before I let you know about the rest of the day…

So, that pretty much says it all really, other than what happened afterwards
Fortunately my wife managed to remember to thank Gabriel Cousens, and David and Katrina Rainoshek. I would especially like to thank the Rainosheks, not just for the support, help and advice that they gave me, but for the incredible work they’re doing for everyone that wants to try and be a little healthier through juice feasting. Keep up the great work. You too Gabriel.

I’ve got quite a bit to mention about today so forgive me in advance if it’s not all in chronological order eh.

My wife and son both bought me a congratulatory gift which they presented me with this morning. So I’ve got an Eckhart Tolle book, and a Darwin Awards Next Evolution book to my library :).

I had a little scare a couple of hours after drinking the prune juice and eating the prunes - my sugar went up to 11.5. I kept checking it throughout the day though and even though I was still consuming the juice (green and fruit) the sugars came down steadily 2 hours after each drink. And I just measured them after getting back from the swimming pool steam room and they were 4.4 - poyfect

Yeah, I went to the swimming pool as after all the drinking of cold green juices, I was really cold inside, so I wanted to raise my internal temperature in the steam room, so I headed there and did my last man standing routine as people came and went for half an hour.

Another friend popped around after she’d finished work to see my wife, but also to congratulate me in my achievement, and gave me a card and a fantastic book to read. I’m going to be one spiritual dude after reading all the books and listening to all the audio I’ve been exposed too, and it’s all good!

I forgot to mention that yesterday, on the last day of my juice feast, while I was at Jamocha’s a guy was sat at a table across from me reading the local paper, The Free Press. He got to the page with my article on it and turned to look at me and said “Hey, that’s you!”
“I bet that’s never happened to you before has it?” I replied, and added:
“It’s never happened to me before either!”
We both grinned and went back about our business, it was a pretty cool moment.

So, I think that’ll do for this entry. I’m probably going to try and keep this updated as much as possible, certainly through these next few days of feast breaking so that other can learn from, and maybe be entertained by what’s happening.

Once again, thank you all for your support and compliments, it means a hell of a lot.
I’m proud to be able to say that things look pretty good from where I’m standing right now…

…at the top of my very own Eagle Mountain!

Man I can’t believe it. Tell me I’m not dreaming. This is just plain weird.

Prune day tomorrow.

My sugars this morning were 4.1

After getting my final batch of “juice only” ready I headed down to work. Around lunchtime I cycled into town, down to the hospital to get my HbA1C test done to cover the preceding 3 months, and find out what my new level is. I should have the results in a day or two.

I then headed to Jamocha’s on the bike to have a lime tea. I told them I’d be back on the last day of my juice feast, so I paid them a visit. My wife joined me while I was there and we swapped transport. She left me the car and, and she took the bike and brought our dog back, giving him a walk at the same time.

At dinner, I gave my son and wife a little thank you card each, and a small gift. To thank them for their patience, understanding and support over the last 3 months (and before) which has definitely been tested along the way.

My wife and I also took time out to finish watching The Outlaw Josey Wales. A good film, but longer than I remember it being when I was a kid. Maybe cowboys, outlaws, Indians and bounty hunters held my attention more back then? Probably.

So here I am now, tapping away at the keyboard, still not really believing that I’m here, I’ve done it. I’m going to head up to bed in a minute and it’ll be day 93. The 92 days is over.

This blog isn’t though. I may slow down, and not blog every day in the future, but I’ll be back tomorrow for sure with the feasting breaking prune extravaganza video

So, until then, I’d  like to thank everyone who has commented, and just read this blog for their support, kind words and time. I have felt it, I assure you. And there have been times when I believe it’s made all the difference, just to know that other people around the world, as well as at home, are sending me their good intentions and support.

So thank you all.

‘night.

Last night, at bed time my wife gave me a homeopathic remedy for my bruised rib, and it really helped. When I woke up I no longer had pain from breathing. The rib is still a little tender to the touch, but the pain when breathing in, even a nice big breath is completely gone.

My sugars this morning were 4.3.

Today, once it got going, was a day of DIY, trying to hang the doors in the basement ready for the Homeopathy clinic. We made some progress, and that’s all I’ll say on the matter

It dawned on me today, and I actually mentioned it to the fam, I said, “Wow, I can actually say that tomorrow is my last day!” It’s a weird feeling.

I’m still looking forward to the prunes on Tuesday, but now there’s a part of me that’s thinking, well what’s going to happen now? Now the certaintly of daily juice is almost over? Is it going to have “worked”, What exactly will I eat? How long will it take before my muscle comes back? Will I keep up my resolve to eat healthily?

Lots of questions. But yes, tomorrow is my last day of the juice feast, and after that the slow build up to normal food is as follows:

2 days of eating prunes and drinking juice. The 1st day is prunes for breakfast, 2nd day breakfast and lunch

2 days of eating juicy fruits, for every meal, plus half the amount of juice (with no fruit content) that I’ve been having, plus prunes

2 days of eating salads, i.e. tomatoes, cucumber, spinach, sprouted grains, lettuce etc. plus the fruits and prunes and half the juice amount.

So then I’m back! December 8th we’re going to have what we’re calling a Vegan feast. Not vegan because that’s the way I’m going to stay, but vegan because that’s probably all my body will be able to handle 7 days after the end of the juice feast. I’ll play the cheese and meat by ear and see how I go, but I do expect to be eating turkey for Christmas for sure

So, on that note, I’ll bid you goodnight and my next entry will be at the end of my last day of this 92 day juice feast.

Wow.

I remember watching a couple of videos on youtube of people breaking their feasts with the bowl of prunes, when I was back on Day #1 or Day 2 and not even being able to imagine what it must be like to be “there” in the whole process, but now that day is almost here! I can’t really believe it.

OK let’s bring things back down to earth, and  I’ll tell you about my day - which was pretty full.

My sugar this morning was 4.0,

After getting the juice ready for the day, and flasking it up My wife and I headed to Cranbrook the get a few things - Cranbrook’s about an hour west of Fernie, and is usually milder as it’s not so embedded in the mountains.

When we got back home we had to get ready for our first Ice Hockey game, in celebration of a friend’s birthday. He’d booked the ice at the Fernie Memorial Arena so a bunch of us could all play ice hockey.

Another friend of mine was kind enough to loan me some pads and helmet, so I kind of looked the part, but in reality I can’t skate that well and I’m certainly no hockey player either - good ingredients for a game of ice hockey n’est ce pas

As it turned out, we had a great time, way above my expectations, really enjoyed it. I just wish I was even slightly proficient at it. As it was I fell a couple of times, and both times managed to avoid the padding that I had on.

The first time I fell I landed on my side, on my ribs, and the second time I fell I landed on my front but my arm was underneath me, guess where? Yep that same spot that I fell on the first time - my ribs. As a result I’ve got bruised ribs on the left side which aches a bit when I breath in. Hey ho.

When we got back from hockey I checked my emails and another friend had sent me this, which is well worth a look - and kind of relevant

So, a pot luck was arranged to keep the birthday celebrations going, at my friend’s house. Cheryl made a raw salad and some raw nut dessert to take, and we got some wine too. A pot luck dinner, if you don’t know, is where everyone that’s coming brings a dish of some kind that they’ve prepared and then everyone shares out all the food.

When we got there the smells were fantastic, which was at once both nice, and annoying. I was wondering how I was going to cope with it, but I managed OK. It was a lovely evening.

So now I’m back and ready to retire, It’s been a long and good day.

Type to you tomorrow…

‘night.

I stayed up late last night as the local paper, while they did a good job with the story, they published the url of my blog as: http://cherrysherry.com/juicefeast. So I naturally had to go and buy that domain and redirect it here didn’t I. Once I’d done that I thought I’d spruce up my web portfolio on my web development website (Fortified Media) so I ended up blitzing the whole thing and staying up ’til 4:30am. Silly.

Anyway, I mention all this in my video - which I’ve promised for a couple of days now, so I’ll stop typing for a little while and you can listen and watch instead of read:

I got a good call today from my Doctor too, The news is that I don’t have Haemo Chromatosis. I have Heterozygous Haemo Chromatosis, but not HomoZygous. What that basically means is that only one of my parents passed a duff gene to me, not both, and although I may have slightly raised levels of iron in my blood, it’s rare for someone with only one copy of the mutated gene in question to get Hereditary Haemo Chromatosis.

I met up with a friend for tea downtown and a couple of people that I bumped into said that they’d read the article in the paper and congratulated me on what I was doing. That was nice. But on the large scale of things, I’m glad it’s in the paper so that other people with diabetes can at least start to look at the possibilities that are open to them, in terms of taking charge of their situation and not following the same old path of exercise, oral meds, insulin…etc.

My wife and I started watching the Outlaw Josey Wales tonigt, but I’d forgotten how long it is! So, we’re going to watch the rest tomorrow night, as I needed to update this here blog, and get some serious rest. There’s quite a bit going on tomorrow, but I’ll tell you about that when I get there

‘night.

My sugars this morning were 4.1

It ws a pretty interesting day really too. I met up with a couple of clients this morning, did a couple of errands around lunchtime and then headed home for desk work in the afternoon. This evening I headed out to Sparwood for Search and Rescue practice and more compass work and map reading - UTM grid references tonight. Coming back from Sparwood I stopped by Tim Hortons, and then the Park Place Pub.

Two very unlikely places for a fellow in my position to go to wouldn’t you say? Yes, but I got an apple and cinnamon tea from Tim Hortons - to take to the pub (sneak in in my Thermos mug). Why go to the pub? We were seeing off a couple that’s heading to Bulgaria to live.

It was pretty weird being in there after 3 months, and still not drinking, but I’m getting used to weird things now

Also, to add to today’s interesting factor, The local paper - the free press did indeed feature a story on me - A half page spread no less. I’ll get in touch with the paper and see if they’ll give me the pictures they used, and post a couple up here on the blog.

So, that’ll do for today, gonna hit the sack now and sleep.

Until tomorrow my friends…

‘night.

I had an early start for a meeting over skype that never happened, hey ho. Got lots of work done though before my afternoon massage session. That’s right! I treated myself to a… wait for it… this is a mouthful:

Psychosomatic Therapy Soul Energtics Body Works session.

And it was really thorough to say the least! I was in quite a degree of pain at certain points, which was always followed by equal amounts of relief when the pressure was off. I’ll definitely be going again though, it was fantastic, and I’d recommend it to anyone. The idea behind the massage, if I remember correctly is basically the massage version of acupuncture - to release any energy blockages along the body’s meridians, which may have been caused by either physical or emotional stress.

And what a session! I was in there for 3 hours man, it flew by. And I felt so chilled afterwards. I guess after Tuesday’s meditation and today’s massage you could call me Iceman. But no, I won’t “be your wing man anytime”.

After that I headed to get some more green groceries and was nicely surprised to see blueberries back - at a fairly resonable price too. I’ve been using strawberries and raspberries more recently, so any change is more than welcome.

To round off the day I had some quality time with my lad tonight and we watched an old favourite movie of mine (I watched it first when I was about his age): Christine - the Stephen King book / John Carpenter film.

It was actually the first time I’ve watched the whole thing without any dubbing or cut scenes, as I’d only ever watched the televised version before, which was cut to shreds and dubbed like crazy. I think I remember Buddy Repperton, in one scene, holding a switchblade knife saying: “I’m gonna flipping get you”.

Scary.

I’m off to bodkins now, got to get my beauty sleep, well, OK my sleep.

A Domani.

No?

Listen again. Can you hear it now? That’s the sound of less than a week to go! Oh Yes!

My sugars this morning were 3.9 again.

I did a bit of yoga this morning, and even a few press-ups, which is a good indicator of where my energy levels are. I actually did some more resistance curls and pull ups last night too, and even got a little bit of a sweat on.

I do still weigh just less than 60kg though, so there’s no weight going back on as yet, just a little more energy.

I went to the Meditation group this morning and wow, what great way to start the day. Now I’ve already said that I’m by no means experienced at meditation, I’ve done it maybe 10 times in my life as I type this, but I am already feeling benefit from it in terms of being seriously chilled out afterwards, and just generally "still". It’s fantastic and I’d recommend it to anyone that hasn’t tried it. My view of it before was that it was probably something I should try but “I won’t bother just yet as I probably won’t be able to do it and that’ll put me off trying again” or somesuch negative stream of bullshit.

Anyway, as I’m starting to learn there is no such thing as failure, only results. Whatever you try, if you don’t “succeed”, you just got a different set of results, which you can use to build on for your next attempt. And surely getting results and trying is better than not trying in the first place? Yeah I think so.

So give it a go, you’ll thank yourself after.

I took the car down to Fernie Chrysler today to get the winter tyres put on, and headed to the library to continue working while they were doing it it. Damn it’s cold out there :). The weather itself is lovely, bright and crisp, but that always goes hand in hand at this time of year with "frickin’ freezin’"

I played a little "Call of Duty World at War" with my son tonight, and he thrashed me. No surprise there. And I used ot be so good at video games too. He’s got the eye for headshots I guess.

Well that’s me done for today, I never did do a video did I, I’ll try and give it a shot tomorrow.

So, have a good day, whatever you’re doing and remember -There is no failure, just results.

‘night.

I’m definitely feeling like I’ve got more energy now I’ve added the fruits to the juices. Not “run down the street and jump for joy” energy, but it’s much better. For example, before I went around to my neighbours’ house last night I actually did a few press-ups and some curls, upright rowing with the resistance bands to get the blood flowing.

My neightbour - the nurse couldnt believe what I looked like when she saw me up close, as she hadn’t seen me up close for a month or so, and she was kind of taken aback. I think I should probably do another little video so you guys can see the changes too. Her husband said that I reminded him of a teenager that hasn’t “filled out” yet

I’ll fill out over Christmas. Rock on.

Back to today…I’d previously emailed the local paper - the Free Press, and asked them if they were interested in my story, and they said they were, but with quite a few big stories and events going on, they had bigger fish to fry recently, local elections, rememberance day etc. etc.

Anyway, I got a call this morning from one of their reporters asking me all about what I was doing, and then they arranged for another reporter to come around and take some piccies - you know the kind, the guy holding a jug of juice smiling, standing next to his juicer. Tha kind of thing.

Apparently it’s going to go in this week’s paper, which is good, because I won’t be on the juice feast next week, well not just juice anyway. Bloody hell it feels weird to say / think / type that. Let me do it again:

I won’t be on the juice feast next week. Well, just Monday, and then it’s prunesville for me!

I am going to keep them informed as to how things are going though I think, if they want me too.

It was another nice day, very cold and crisp, but still no snow. And I didn’t get to experience any of it, I was stuck inside all day working, just got out onto the deck for a little fresh air stretch and that was it.

Well that’s it from me for now, I’ll keep you up to date with all the news that’s fit to print tomorrow.

In the meantime…

‘night

They seem to have moved up into the 4s range after I’ve been consuming the extra juice and also adding the apple, but they’re still well within the normal healthy region, and I’m actually feeling better on it, so all is good.

I’ve started reading up a bit on EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques and am intrigued. Without going into too much detail, as I’m sure you’re capable of investigating this yourself, it really does seem to be a phenomenal new way of looking at illness. Check out this video for example:

Pretty amazing eh.

This evening I went across to our neighbours’ house and my wife joined later on, for the celebration of her passing her nursing exam. Cheese and wine a plenty! I took a bottle of wine across and got a whiff of it, and it smelled really good. The food all looks good to, and I did feel pretty hungry towards the end, as I’d had my last juice around 18:30. But… All went well, it was a nice evening, and hey I’m on day 84 now, so I’m in a very strong position as far as will power goes.

So, that was Sunday, still no more snow to speak of, and the forecast doesn’t look like it will until maybe Wednesday. It’s good in one way and bad in another. We’re getting the tyres switched over to the winter tyres on Tuesday afternoon, so the timing might be good there, but we really should have more snow on that hill than we do right now. Fingers crossed.

Write to you tomorrow…

‘night

My wife nipped down to the craft fair in town this morning, and while she was there I did my juicing for the day and flasked it up in preparation for out trip to Lethbridge, which is a couple of hours east of us in Alberta.

We headed to costco, a kind of wholesale / retail mecca and with al the Christmas decorations, seasonal goods and people milling around, oh yeah and the Xmas Muzak is is starting to feel a lot like Christmas.

I love Christmas, so that’s fine by me.

Snow, Jimmy Stewart, Nat King Cole, Mulled wine, fire places, gloves and hats, frozen breath - c’mon you have to love it.

It was a full day’s shopping mind you, and we just got back around 11:30, so we were out for about 12 hours all told.

As I write this I’m prety hungry again. I think the extra juice that I’m making is expanding my stomach, and it’s saying - more more!

Also, on one of my many trips to the various public restrooms in Lethbridge, I noticed my reflection in different mirrors and it really brought it hoe to me just how bloody thin I am. Way too thin. When I weighed myself this morning I was around 58 - 59 kilos and bang on 130 pounds. Fortunately though, the prunes are not too far away as I don’t think I can go any lower than this. Just got to hang in there.

So, that’s me done for another day, I’ll leave you to yours.

All the best,

‘night.

Today was pretty much a get my head down and work day unfortunately. I did manage to get out for a 5 o’clock tea with a couple of friends. That was a nice break and we had a good chat.

A quick walk to Overwaitea was a pretty damn cold walk to Overwaitea, really cold. There should be more snow on the way according to the forecast, and we need it. The last lost has pretty much disappeared already. On the plus side, we haven’t had to shovel the driveway yet, which is really nice, but I’m ready for the snow I think.

As I write this, I’m in the process of migrating a bunch of data for a client and it’s taking a while, it’s got to go all the way from Fernie to a data centre in Manchester, and it is late, so maybe the data is tired. The point being I thought I’d get this written, as I don’t know how long it going to take, it could be quite some time before it’s all done.

We’ve been invited to our neighbours’ house across the street on Sunday night for wine and cheese to celebrate here passing her nursing exam - which is great, but I’ll be juicing of course, so no wine and cheese for me. None for my wife either as she’s doing a raw diet gig week by week while I’m on this juice feast now, but we’ll go and enjoy the company and atmos.

So, that’ll about wrap it up for today, not much doing, but that’s life eh - it’s not all explosions, violence and epic struggles.

Well… maybe the odd epic struggle.

‘night.

I decided to make more juice today,as I’ve been feeling pretty hungry towards the end of the day, so I think I almost had 4 quarts worth. I also added one apple to the juice, so now I’ve got a cup of strawberries and blueberries and an apple in the mix. All three are classed as low glycemic fruits - meaning they release sugar fairly slowly into the blood stream, rather than causing a spike.

My wife and I met up with a friend for a cuppa downtown in Freshies today, a lovely little coffee shop that always seems to have great music playing in it somehow, and it’s always different. Today it was some kind of ska based theme. Cool.

It was bloody cold today though, and I’m really feeling it now. I’ve got virtually zero fat on me, and my mate said I should go down to the gym and see exactly what my body fat percentage is. Apparently they’ve got a machine that will tell you. it has to be pretty low as my ass is bony and I’m cold most of the time. I’ve even taken to wearing a toque when I working down in the basement with the heating on.

My wife and son will both come in and say “Are you not too hot in here?”, and I say “No”, and tell them the swimming pool steam room story

Well, I’ve just looked out of the window and it’s snowing! About time.
My son’s walking back from the hockey arena tonight after watching a game, so no doubt he’s having an impromptu snowball fight with his mates on the way home

Well, I think that’s it for me for tonight, I’m going to try out the stress reduction hypnosis mp3 tonight and see how that goes. The sleep one was good, but the amount of times I have to get up for a piss in the night kind of negates the effect of it, so I think I’ll try one that will benefit me while I’m awake, and see how that goes.

‘night.

My sugars this morning were 3.7

I got a comment from a good friend of mine on the last post asking how I’m visualising this last stretch, whether or not day 46 was the start of the downhill section of the mountain, or if I was still climbing. And its a good point. I see day 92 as the top of the mountain, but I think I need to make (as Neil suggested in his comment) it more perilous in terms of not wanting to slip near the end.

So I’m going to name this last perilous journey to the top of Eagle Mountain after a scene in one of my favourite movies of all time: The Princess Bride

The “cliffs of insanity”. One slip and that’s it, but If I keep my concentration and will power, I’ll make it to the top of the cliffs and top summit of Eagle Mountain.

Today was a bitty day work-wise, an invoice here, a reminder there, sending a comp of for another client etc. etc. Those days are necessary though I suppose.

Some hypnosis CDs I ordered came today so I’ve ripped them into my itunes and will be listening to one for Better Sleep tonight. God knows I need it.

I can’t really believe that I’m officially in the 80s stretch of the juice feast. This seems like such a distant vision when I first started this. It really is hard to grasp.

So now I’ve got to keep my head down and maintain a firm grip as I start my ascent up the cliffs to my goal.

Oyasumi Nasai.

My wife and I went to a group meditation this morning, at the Arts Station in Fernie. It’s my first group meditation session, an I actually really enjoyed it. I came out of our half hour mediation with one of my legs fast asleep, but with a definite feeling of peace and calm. It worked! For ages I’ve always struggled with the idea of meditation, in so much as I didn’t really have the patience the embark on it.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m a complete novice at this, and the next time I go I’ll probably wonder why I can’t get into the same “space”, but apparently the thing to do is not worry about that, and just keep practising.

We took the dog for a walk around lunchtime, and the weather was unusually mild. It’s got to dump here pretty soon if the ski hill is going to be ready for the opening day. It opens on December 6th I think and there’s still only a sprinkling of snow up there.

It’s definitely getting harder to maintain my discipline on this juice feast. It seems that the closer I get to the end, the more aware I am that I’m almost done, but yet I still have to deal with it everyday. I’m losing the ability to look at it one day at a time. I can almost smell the food that I’m going to be eating.

Oh well. I shouldn’t dwell on it here either.

One day at a time. Keep my head down and keep going.

‘night.

My sugar this morning was 3.3, which if you ask me is a little low. There’s no pleasing some people is there? But seriously, that is pretty low.

Here’s what BC Health has to say on it:

Fasting blood sugar levels are measured in millimoles per litre (mmol/L). A fasting blood sugar level of:

• 3.9 to 6.0 millimoles per litre (mmol/L) is normal.
• 2.8 to 3.8 mmol/L is mildly low.
• Less than 2.8 mmol/L is very low.

But guess what - even at 3.3 no shakes or sweating, which, as I’ve mentioned before is what would happen to me previously if my sugars got anywhere in the sub-5 region. So that is an encouraging sign for me, the fact that my body itself isn’t worried. If it was, it’d be telling me to do something about it by sending out the alert signals of shakiness, faintness and sweating. That’s what Doctor Chris thinks anyway.

I went to get my blood re-test done this afternoon for the genetic Haemo Chromatosis test, so hopefully it won’t get screwed up this time.

This evening I went to the Sparwood Search and Rescue meeting and we watched an informative video about how a Search and Rescue operation is responded to, pleanned and executed. Very informative. An then we had alittle introduction to map reading. It was kind of a refresher for me from my old days in the cubs and scouts - it all comes back somehow

My wife and I just watched a spiritual circle movie which was a documentary on the “Laughing Club of India”, about a doctor that has set up quite afew laughing clubs in India to promote health. Laughter is the best medicine after all. Good little film if you get a chance. Here’s a taster of what you can expect, from someone I grew up laughing at:

Well, I hope that brightened your day a little. It did mine. I’m off to bed to now ready for another day closer tomorrow.

‘night.

Yesterday’s hockey seems to have caught up with me. Today was a day of tidying and odds and sods type jobs and continually go up and down the stairs in the house just exhausted me.

To the point where, as I write this, it’s now around 18:15 and I’m going to head up to have a nice warm bath, and then go to bed. I have zero energy today, and I’m also feeling like I just want to be off this juice feast and eating food.

I miss having energy, I really do. And I miss having food. Today I feel like I’ve had enough, and I’m sick of going to the loo every half hour to get rid of cold green juice in the already cold climate.

I’m hope things take a turn for the positive tomorrow. Somehow.

‘night.

Yes, that soldier was me, and this morning I went to the bathroom and fell over.

I fell on to the side of the bath - I forgot to grab the door frame I suppose. So the next thing I know I’m kind of slumped against the bath, half asleep, half wondering why I’m slumped against the bath. I stayed there for about 10 seconds just slumped, wondering trying to make sense of it. I didn’t really hurt myself - despite not having any padding anymore, I just got up and went to the loo, then back to bed for a little while.

I should be more careful I suppose. Only a couple of weeks to go.

My wife and I went to see a friend we haven’t seen in a while around lunchtime, and then went to play some street hockey with another bunch of friends.

It didn’t take long for me to get out of breath, but we all had a good time, and I moved into goal pretty soon after starting :). I also fell down a couple of times while we were playing. Not due to low blood pressure this time, but pure lack of skill matched only by tenacity. Falling on concrete with a bony ass hurts

Those that were left at the end all for a nice cup of tea at the tea house, again - good times.

We then headed to the hardware store to get some wood for the internal windows in the soon to be (hopefully) finished Homeopathy Clinic in the basement.

After getting pretty cold playing hockey in the afternoon, I wanted to warm up significantly, so struck upon the idea of the steam room at the pool, so we went and again I had a good half hour session in there - very nice.

I’ve started trying to meditate too, I’m not very good at it yet, my mind wanders quite a bit, but I think it can only be a good thing to try and learn how to do it, so I’m going for it. You’re never too old to learn something new.

I’m really missing food now, well I always was, but I think it’s that whole getting near to the end thing that’s at once both reassuring and frustrating.

I almost forgot, my sugar this morning was 4.3

So, tomorrow I’ll remember to take my time getting out of bed, and try not to fall down at all during the day.

Until tomorrow…

‘night.

It’s funny you know, I think I’ve been spoiled by my lower, sub 4 sugars because when I get a reading like that - which is a great reading, even for a non-diabetic, I think “Damn!, wish it was lower, what did I do different?” Go figure - there’s no pleasing some people is there

Seriously though, I’m happy with where my sugars are, and it’ll be really interesting to see the results of my HBa1c in a few weeks time. It was 10.6 before I started the juice feast, and 7.9 on day 47, which is pretty much half way through.

Talking of blood tests, I got a call form the Fernie hospital today to say that the hospital in Vancouver couldn’t use the blood that was sent to them for the Haemo Chromatosis test - there was something wrong with the tube or something - so that’s 3 weeks down the drain - I have to go in again and get another test done. Bollocks.

I met a friend for afternoon tea today and we had a nice chat, 2 hours just flew by, and then we both realised we had places to be. I came back and did a little bit more work before my wife, son and I all headed to the theatre to watch the new Bond film, “Quantum of Solace”. Good film. I think, in terms of James Bond’s, Craig is to Connery as Brosnan was to Moore. I actually liked Dalton, but the movies he was in weren’t up to much.

But so far, apart from Connery, who can’t be touched because he was my favourite growing up, Daniel Craig is the best Bond.

A little bit of DIY when we got back finished off the evening, so it’s time for me to bid you adieu and type to you tomorrow.

Adieu!

My sugars were 3.8 this morning, and I did a bit of yoga and even some press-ups. I felt pretty good actually.  But I crashed around 11am, just got completely knackered and had to flop on the bed. I came around about 40 minutes later, feeling a little groggy, but it was enough to get me through the day.

A friend came around today in his truck, so we could pick up the door for my wife’s Homeopathic Clinic from Home Hardware, and we decided that when the time comes - around December 10th-ish we’ll got Christmas tree hunting. Another boon of living in BC - you get to (if you want to) go out and grab your own Christmas Tree form the bush. Looking forward to that.

After working for the rest of the afternoon, I met up with another friend downtown at the tea house and we shared a brew and shot the shizzle for an hour. The weather is getting cooler and there’s a sprinkle of snow in the air, it’s all getting very festive - which is nice, I enjoy that feeling. That switch over to the darker evenings and colder temperatures really makes me feel good somehow.

It’ll soon be time to play one of my favourite songs at this time of year, which really puts the icing on the cake for me.

I did make more juice today, but in response, I seemed to be more hungry - go figure! I’m really thankful that I’ve not got that long to go though because my craving for “real” food is getter stronger, and I feel like I’m having to resist again, which is a bit of a pisser. Oh well.

Well, I’m going to head off to bodkins, get some rest and hopefully sleep better than I did last night.

I’ll let you know.

Hopefully…

good night.

My sugars this morning were 4.0 - who could ask for m- stop it!

Yeah, so up a little from yesterday, but still really good. Ironically, though I didn’t feel that energetic today. I was toying with the idea of playing indoor soccer today, but just walking up the stairs in the house made me realise that I just don’t have the energy there at all. I feel like I really need to build muscle back up in my legs, they’re really thin right now, and all the jeans I’ve got, even the couple of pairs I bought within the last month or so are hanging off me.

I put another hole in my belt the other week, and it’s looking like I need to put another one in. I’m not going to though as I’ve not got long to go, so I’ll just wait.

I went into town this evening on a quest for more bee pollen granules and also to take a vegan cook book back to the same store - the guy there has a lending library, so that’s pretty cool. I also nipped into the library and exchanged a couple of books. I picked up “Your erroneous zones” by Wayne Dyer, which I’ll read once I’ve finished his audiobook “It’s never crowded along the extra mile”

It rained like a, well a really rainy thing, today. Absolutely tipped down. I think most of it that hit the ski hill was snow though, so that’s the price you pay I guess. It was definitely a good day to spend mostly indoors.

I’m pretty hungry right now, so I think tomorrow I’m going to make significantly more juice than usual. It seems that my body is saying: “let’s have some more of that, it tastes good!”, and I could defnitely do with the extra energy, so I guess my juicing regime in the morning is just going to have to a little longer than it has been doing.

OK, enough from me for today, I’m off to have a relaxing bath and listen Dr. Dyer.

Buonna Notte

Thank you.

My sugars this morning were 3.7

Once again I feel like I have more energy, and the juice is tasting better, so I’m moving into the home straight feeling pretty strong about the whole thing. Don’t get me wrong - I want to eat food, every time I see it or smell it. The simplest thing like onions frying in butter - man that smells good. But I’m in a pretty good place now with the feast, my sugars are still low, I’m drinking juice that actually tastes, dare I say it, nice (Kind of like strawberry milkshake), and I’m nearly there - although I’m not going to dwell on that because we all know what that leads to. Stick to one day at a time Chris!.

Now when I say that the juice tastes like strawberry milkshake - that’s to my taste buds, which have had 2 months of just green juice prior to that, so if you were to drink it, it’d probably taste like green juice, and bitter at that. For example, when I gave some to my wife to taste she couldn’t really taste the strawberry / blueberry combo, but to me it’s just right.

So, tomorrow I move into the last 20 day stretch of juice only, which is quite a landmark. The next being the move into the 80s, and then well…:)

OK, enough of the end, back to today.

I checked out some very inspirational audio by a chap called Dr. Wayne Dyer today, and I would suggest that you check him out to, if you’re interested in enhancing your life spiritually. I know I am right now. I think this juice feast has given me impetus to get a little more in touch with myself, and I mean that.

I may not be any more spiritual than when I started this Juice Feast, but I feel I am definitely more interested in pursuing my spiritual self and discovering what there is to be discovered, keeping an open mind. It seems to be a direction I’m headed in right now, trying to find out more about what the heck I’m supposed to be doing here, and how I can find out. And I’m starting, I think, to realise that I have the answers somewhere inside, I just need help knowing how to look.

Well, before I get too deep or hokey, I’ll sign off and head to bed.

A Demain mes amis,

‘night.

I didn’t do a lot with it today mind, it was mostly a desk day unfortunately.

I got a call from a friend who I worked at the mine with today though, which led to this evening’s activities. He’s been telling me for a while that Sparwood Search and Rescue is looking for volunteers, and that when I get more energy I should come to some of the practices, but there’s nothing stopping me from going to the “classroom” sessions in the meantime.

Well, he called me today to let me know that there was a classroom session on tonight, so I went. It was pretty interesting actually, a nice bunch of people to, including a couple of other guys from my old crew at the mine.

We learned what the job of SAR (Search and Rescue) is - to support the various first response organisations in searching for and rescuing people in the wilderness / mountains, which in BC, can be pretty easy to do - there’s a hell of a lot of it.

We also did a little practical role playing where we learnt what kind of questions and notes you should take when interviewing someone who is reporting a missing person.

It was a good experience, and I’ll be going again for sure. I’ve got a big book to read on all sorts of theory including first aid, map reading, rescue technique etc. etc. so there’s plenty to learn.

When I got back, my wife and I watched “Run Fatboy Run” a Simon Pegg movie directed by David Schwimmer - yes Ross from Friends. Good film. Harmless and entertaining, and Pegg is excellent in it.

Well, that’s it from me, I’m going to head up the wooden hill shortly.

Oyasumi Nasai.

This is based on the premise on the book “There is a cure for Diabetes” that juice feasting takes your body back in time between 80 and 120 days for every day you juice feast. So assuming I’m in the middle, that’s 100 days younger for every day of the juice feast.

What does all this mean? Well on December 1st, when I finish the juice only part of the feast, my body will be 12 years old - holy shit! My body will be aching for Paul Hardcastle, Duran Duran, Iron Maiden, Level 42 and Bryan Adams, and thinking that girls are weird - no change there then. My body will have arrived back at September 18th 1983. I hope not all of my body goes back there - just the digestive system, and the hairline will be fine

Back to 2008 - I seemed to have more energy today, and raked up the remaining leaves from the garden, still a pretty big job, even though my son did it a couple of weeks ago, to make it easier for me on the second shift. It was good to get outside and do a bit of manual labour, instead of just tip tapping on this ol’ keyboard, and satisfying to complete it - there are no more leaves to come down now, so that’s that for another year.

A bit of DIY followed (fixing a loose curtain rail), and then a little housekeeping in terms of web domains and hosting.

I’m also just in the process of turning a blood glucose converter into an apple dashboard widget, so when its done I’ll put a link up or something, once I figure it all out.

I just realised I’ve not mentioned my sugar level from this morning: 4.3 still good, as it was a later rise.

So that’s it from me, back to the widget, and then bed.

A domani.

We headed to the States at around 12:00 - me armed with a couple of flasks full of green fuel, and my wife with some raw bread, nuts and fruit. What a pair eh.

The weather was pretty dismal today, rainy drizzle down in Fernie, but hopefully, up on the mountain it was all snow. It was same weather in Montana - hey ho, can’t have sunshine all the time. Unless you live in California of course.

It was a successful little shopping trip and we got a few thing for Chrimbo too. Got back late-ish evening and watched a couple of short films. My wife got these DVDs from a friend of hers, they’re called something like Spiritual Circle. It’s a deal where you join up for a year and get some DVDs and get to share them with other like minded friends, the idea being that you’re expanding your understanding of life an spirituality I think.

Some of them are good, some not so much. The Kirk Douglas movie the other night was an excellent one.

I’ve just remembered something, that I should mention for the record: I have been doing a lot less enemas recently, maybe one per week and yesterday I started to feel a pain in my right kidney area. It was there again this morning so I thought, that I should have another enema as I must have waste and toxins that need to be flushed.

So I had an enema this morning, and I was right, the pain in my kidney disappeared. The lesson: if you’re doing this juice feasting mullarkey, keep on top of the enema situation. So I will, it’s supposed to be about every 3 days, so I’ll keep on top of it now.

“Here endeth the lesson”, as Sean Connery once said to Kevin Costner.

Type to you tomorrow,

‘night.

My sugars this morning were 3.8 - another good reading, but I got up a little earlier than usual - around 6:40am. Not much in the way of events today - I went around to a friend’s house today to try and help him with his printer, and I did, but it turns out that he’s got a duff one, and needs to take it back. Hey ho, that’s the way it goes with technology sometimes.

The strawberries tasted really nice in the juice today - a definite win there, I was actually drinking the juice this evening, sad that I didn’t have anymore to drink, and usually I’m thinking “Thank god that’s done for another day”!

We’ve off to the States tomorrow, to get a few things, and return our Green Cards - the 3 months is almost up. When you go into the office at the border to sign for your green card, there’s a couple of pictures of a certain George W, and Dick Cheney looking over you while you get finger printed and sign the forms. I’m looking forward to going into that office, in a couple of months, and looking back at a picture of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. I don’t think I’ll mind so much that he’s watching over my security screening

Anyway, enough from me, Bodkins time.

‘night.

My juice was better as hell this morning - don’t know why, but that first one, without the blueberry juice was a killer, absolutely horrible. Blueberry juice to the rescue though, the rest were bearable.

After a fair amount of web work, I headed into Fernie to get some more MSM from a local health food store. I walked in as I didn’t get out of the house at all yesterday and wanted to make a concerted effort to address that today. It was snowing, but it was nice to walk in the snow.

I had a nice cup of African Sunset Rooibos Tea at the Fernie Tea and Coffee House, read the paper for a bit, and then went and bought some strawberries from Overwaitea. That’s right - strawberries - they’re going to be a new addition to the juice, not as well as the blueberries, but instead of. They actually have a lower glycemic index than blueberries, so they should be a good (and cheaper) substitute.

And yes, our nearest supermarket is called Overwaitea It’s a BC chain of supermarkets and originally started as a guy selling tea on a market stall, way back when, and to make sure he kept his customers happy he would ive them a few extra pounds of tea in their order - Over weight tea. True story.

I don’t know how it came to be spelled Overwaitea, but hey, c’est la vie n’st ce pas.

My wife and I just finished watching a fantastic little movie called Illusions. I think it’s one of Kirk Douglas’ last performances -until he makes another, and it’s a really thoughtful film - you should definitely try and check it out if you get the chance.

Here’s the imdb link - and keep an eye out for the director - Michael Goorjian - I think he’ll do good things in the future.

Well that’s it from me for tonight - strawberries tomorrow!!!

‘night.

More snow overnight - that’s what I like to see. It’s still only a light dusting but it’s good And I heard my first Christmas tune on the radio today, and didn’t mind because it wasn’t to early and there’s snow on the ground - The Eagles version of “Please come home for Christmas”.

My sugars this morning were 3.7 and you know what? I mentioned in my last post that I look forward to getting a sweat on, well last night I did after writing the post, I went upstairs and did some resistance weights (remember I have more energy at night) and there were, that’s right, beads of sweat on my brow by the time I’d finished! Good stuff.

Ironically, I haven’t done anything exercise-wise today, not even a walk, I’ve been in the house all day, working after helping my wife set up her new iPod Nano on her computer. It was her birthday today you see.

And I should mention that she’s decided to go raw for a week - since last Friday, and she’s doing really well, but she eass very healthily anyway, so it’s not so much of a big jump for here, but she says she is missing sweet stuff. But raw on your birthday! Who’d do that?! That’s like juice feasting in winter - you wouldn’t catch me doing that, consuming nothing but cold green drinks in sub-zero temperatures. No way.

I just made my first birthday cake tonight too. It was easy, as it’s a raw cake for one. I just blended some nuts, raisins, inca berries and oats, put it in a mould and popped it in the freezer for a little while, turned it over onto a plate and then put some blueberries on top - et voila.

My wife’s eating it as I type and has just given me 10/10. Whoo Hoo!

And we’ve just named the recipe: Raw Inca Blue Birthday Cake

Well, we’re going to watch a short film right now, so I’m going to be sociable instead of social media and sign off, so until tomorrow mes amis,

Bonsoir.

Portion size - this is for one, so make the rest up as you go for a bigger serving:

Equipment:

• A blender / mixer
• A mould of some sort to shape the base of the “cake”, so long as it has a flat bottom, because that’s where you’re going to put your blueberries, when you turn it over.

Ingredients:

• A mixed handful of walnuts and almonds.
• Half a cup full of oats
• About 6 or so Inca Berries - they add a nice tang apparently (I wouldn’t know - I didn’t taste it) but they’re optional if you can’t get them
• 2 tbsp pre-soaked raisins, including their juice
• 2 tbsp blueberries.

Method:

Soak your raisins for a couple of hours beforehand.

Keep the blueberries separate for now, and blend the rest of the ingredients until fairly smooth - you should be able to spoon them out of the blender into your mould and create a flat base (currently it’s inverted so you’ll be looking at the bottom of the “cake” once it’s in the mould).

Shove the mould in the freezer for 5 - 10 mins, however long you can wait.

Now empty the mould carefully onto a plate so it’s now the right way up, and out of the mould - the extra bit of juice from the soaked raisins should help with the consistency.

Then just place your blueberries lovingly on top of your cake “base”, and badabing! you’s got yourself a Raw Inca Blue (Birthday) Cake. It doesn’t have to be your birthday

Other Ideas:

If you’re not going raw, or you want to spice it up, why not turn it into cheese cake, by adding some ricotta before you add the blueberries, or you could add strawberries, the options are endless. You could even forget the base and use bread and bananas instead, but that would just be a banana sandwich wouldn’t it.

Enjoy!

Chris.

My sugars this morning were 4.2 again - not bad.

I drank a fair amount of juice this morning in preparation for my game of squash at lunchtime. It worked a little, but not really, I was prety lethargic throughout the game and didn’t break a sweat. I think I’m actually looking forward to breaking a sweat, as when I do it’ll mean I’ve got some energy.

I picked up an old iron in Sparwood - the town where I go to play squash, about 20 mins away. Why am I telling you about an old iron? Well it’s one without the steaming holes, which means you can use it to melt the wax on your snowboard - good stuff. Cost me $2, hope it works

I also spoke to my doctor today about my latest test results. The genetic HemoChromo test isn’t back yet, but the “in-house” test came back with an elevate level of ferritin again - higher than last time, and also show high Iron absorption, so… it’s looking at the moment that I’m heading in the direction of planet HemoChromo. My white bloodcell count came back normal - it was a little low last time, so I’m happy that it’s normal now.

I think I’m going to try a homeopathic rememdy for the Iron issue, apaprently there is one, so I’d be stupid not to try it, and just go ahead with the blood letting now wouldn’t I.

And it snowed here today - yes! finally! it was a bit wet - needs to get a little colder I suppose, but wet snow is good apparently as the hill soaks it up and it makes a good foundation for the rest of the season as the hill is saturated and therefore won’t absorb as much later in the season, meaning good deep pow for a few months

Well I suppose that’s it for another night, I’m going to head up and get some rest.

‘night.

I still didn’t feel that energetic his morning, I think my body’s telling me something, it’s asking for the next stage of energy. Well, and here’s a bit of overshare, I went for a number two last night and today wthout the aid of an enema - that’s something new. Not sure what it means, but I think it’s a good thing.

I met up with a ex work mate from the mine today for a cup of tea downtown - it was nice to catch up and hear how he’s doing, bit of chit chat etc.

I also grabbed some more bok choy and blueberries while I was out, and the local supermarket has basically double the price of the blueberries that I’m getting, out of season prices I guess. Bit of a bummer, but there you go.

I’ve arranged a game of squash tomorrow with another pal from the mine, so I’m hoping that my energy levels are at least going to allow me to get a sweat on. The last time I played I couldn’t even work up to that.

I’m loving my new computer by the way, still finding my way around for certain things that I’ve come to take for granted on a windows pc, but it’s definitely a quality piece of kit that really aids productivity.

It’s supposed to snow here tonight, in the wee hours, I hope it does because the ski hill is due to open in a month, and there’s nothing there right now other than grass and trees. I’m not sure if I mentioned this on a previous post, but I’ve signed up to take my Level 1 Snowboard instructor course in January. I figure that I wouldn’t be ready energy-wise in December, so January it is. If I pass, great, I could instruct at the hill, and if I don’t, at least I’ll be a better boarder at the end of it. Win win again.

I’m ready to hit the sack right now, so I’m going to sign off and head up.

‘night

My sugars this morning were 4.6, again I got up a little later than usual, so that’s probably why - we’ll see what they are tomorrow. I hope it’s not the blueberry juice raising them.

I have to say, that unfortunately I felt pretty weak this morning, not as energetic as I have been feeling that last few mornings since being on the blueberry juice, which worried me a little.

I took our dog out for a walk to get some fresh air this afternoon, and it was miserable weather - drizzly and drab, but hey, when you live in a ski town, not all your precip is going to be snow now is it. Goes with the territory I suppose.

I also went for a swim and hot tub / steam room session tonight which was really enjoyable. With all this cold juice that I’m drinking, my body really is running cold at the moment. For example, I went into the steam room at the pool, and Guy “A” came in, then another guy, then Guy “A” left, then the other guy, then another guy came in and left, and then Guy “A” came in again and left, while Johnny cold blooded here just sat there wondering why I wasn’t too hot already. I think I mst have been in there for 30 minutes - really. I had a little hot tub soak after that, and then I felt exhausted, so got changed and headed home.

A little bit of work on my wife’s website, and that’s the day.

So, as I get ready to head up the wooden hill, I’ll bid you good night and sleep tight.

Ciao.

I had a lie in this morning, which followed a late night.

I was working late, and so after I finished, and typed up yesterday’s post I thought I’d chill out a little and do a little mindless web surfing, you know. Bit of youtube, bit of this and that.

I ended up finding an interesting site on diabetes, well the guy behind it is more interesting than the site, and another website on hypnosis and diabetes.

Before I carry on, my sugars were 4.8 this morning (because of the lie in again I assume).

Yeah, so, this guy, and bear in mind that normal pre meal sugar ranges are:

3.5 - 6.5 / 4 - 7, depending on who you ask, this guy went into a diabetic coma with blood sugars of 72.

Yep I typed it right - 72.

He was hospitalised obviously and put on all sorts of med, including the obvious one, our friend insulin. Now? he’s not on any insulin at all, or any drugs for that matter! He’s basically “cured” himself of the disease.

Here’s a youtube vid of one of his talks which you might find interesting, he reminds me of a cross between Chris Rock and Morgan Freeman

Now, onto diabetes and hypnosis. The hypnotist in question was diagnosed with type II diabetes and has managed to reduce his medication using stress relieving hypnosis techniques. Anyway, I’ll let his site do the talking, suffice to say, I’m thinking of going to see this guy to help me after my juicefeast.

His site is: http://www.mindbodyhypnosis.com/Diabetes.htm

Now, back to my day. We went to a psychic fair in a nearby town. There was supposed to be a hypnotherapist there, which is why I wanted to go. I’m interested in getting help for sleeping, eating for when I come out of the juice feast. Anyway it was really disappointing, there as hardly anyone there and it was basically jst a bunch of tarot readers and clairvoyants, book and jewelry stalls - pretty disappointing, but you live and learn eh.

We made the best of it and went for a nice tea in a nearby cafe and investigates a liquor store that has some fantastic whisk(e)ys, wines and liqueurs - got to get ready for breaking this juice feast in style you know.

And finally, I downloaded Silverado a while back, which I originally watched when it came out, but I’d forgotten how good it was, so we watched that tonight, and it was bloody good. Fun trivia for you:

John Cleese get higher billing than Kevin Costner, and Brian Dennehy plays a sheriff. Now which other movie - which came out a few years earlier, did Brian Dennehy play a sheriff in? (no you can’t use IMDB)

Right, I’m off to bodkins now, going to try and get up earlier tomorrow and get on with life.

‘nighty night.

I passed the halfway mark in this month, and I think that both help and hindered my positive though process as I mentioned on a previously post. Yes, halfway was a great stage to reach, but it also put the second half into perspective for me - too much perspective.

So I learned, and am still learning to take it one day at a time.

My sugars this morning were 4.6. Slightly higher than the last couple of days, but If I’m thinking that 4.6 is higher than usual, I think that’s a good sign really that my sugars are where they need to be.

I’m still having doubts about whether my sugars will stay “normal” after the juicefeast is over, but if that’s the case - then so be it, I’ll be a lot healthier and have a much better appreciation for healthy food than I had before I started this journey, so I can lose either way, and can either win, or win big.

I do hope I win big though

Today was pretty much a nose to the grindstone day in terms of work. I didn’t even get out of the house, other than onto the back deck to breathe some mountain air, but that was it.

I did do some more pressups and yoga this morning, so the energy levels are definitely coming back. I’m even toying with the idea of playing squash again, a good sign.

My son went out trick or treating tonight with some of his friends. Halloween is way bigger here than it was / is in England, don’t know why, but it’s a pretty big deal. Anyway, he seemed to have a good time as he went out in his inflatable sumo suit on the hunt for free sweets (candy).

So that’s pretty much it for me and today. I’m going to go to sleep and wake up to start shoving the celery into the juicer on Day #62, the first day of the last full month of the feast. Rock on.

A domani…

Well I did go to bed earlier last night, I had my bath and was dropping off reading some buddhist philosophy, all going well. And then… I woke up at 23:30 (I’d only fallen asleep at around 22:20ish) and that was that. I lay there, brain-a-buzzin’ until I couldn’t stand it anymore. So I got up, went downstairs and watched some videos on meditation and the like to try and calm my mind.

It’s like my brain doesn’t realise that I’m awake, and I’m still having all these crazy half dream / half wakened mish mosh of thoughts. Anyway, the meditation did the trick. After a couple of hours I went back up and hit the sack for the second time. I meditated in bed again for a few minutes, and dropped off nicely.

Again, I had more energy today though, now all I need is the sleep and I’ll be superman

We had the dry walling done today for the basement / Homeopathy clinic and the garage too, so it’s getting there. My wife and I also had a nice cup of tea downtown and a little stroll. We bumped into a local writer and friend who was asking if it was down to my wife that I was on this diet:

“Did she put you on this nuts, berries and bullshit diet?” he asked, laughing.

I admitted it was all my doing, but we joked about that being a great title for a book: “Nuts, Berries and Bullsht”. Maybe.

Maybe it’s only good for a blog post title.

Before I go, I recently sent my mate Mat in England an email to let him know that Jonathan Coulton was playing in his neck of the woods and he should go if he gets the chance. Well he did! He emailed me a couple of hours ago to let me know it was a great gig and very funny.

If you’ve not heard of Jonathan Coulton, then you’re missing out listen to this taster:

and then go and buy some of his ridiculously under priced work over at jonathancoulton.com

Also, and I mustn’t forget this, all she’ll kill me My wife gave me a recipe to put up on the blog so I have. It’s for “Raw Soup” or “Winter smoothie”, whichever sounds better I guess., and it’s here:

http://chrissherry.com/juicefeast/2008/10/cheryls-recipes-raw-soup-winter-smoothie/

Well, that’s it from me for today. the land of nod beckons - at least for a few hours I hope. (Thanks to Rachel for her comment on the previous post by the way, I’m going to lay off the B Complex in the evening and see how it goes).

καλή νύχτα

The following ingredients serves 2 and of course they can be substituted for your favourite vegetables – or simply those that you have in stock.

Ingredients

1.5 pints vegetable stock (see below) If you do not have any vegetable stock you could just as readily use water, although I haven’t tried this.

• 1 large clove of garlic
• 1 small beetroot
• ½ small onion
• small bunch fresh parsley
• 4 fleurettes broccoli
• 4 fleurettes cauliflower
• small amount cilantro (about ½ as much cilantro to parsley)

Method

1. Bring the vegetable stock to the boil and remove from the heat, keeping the lid on to keep temperature up.
2. Meanwhile prepare all the vegetables and cut into chunks ready for chopping
3. Add the vegetables, except the cilantro, to the pan of boiled stock
4. Chop using hand held stick blender. Alternatively all ingredients can be chopped in your regular blender.
5. After blending, scoop off the foam and discard.
6. Add the cilantro and blend loosely into the soup. Blending the cilantro in separately seems to give deeper flavour.
7. The soup is now ready to serve. It will not be as hot as soup usually is, but it won’t be as cold as a smoothie either.

Note – although the stock is cooked and is therefore not technically raw, I consider this to be acceptable because it has more nutritional content than the alternative which is water.

Vegetable Stock

I make this regularly and keep it in the freezer so that I always have some to hand. I use it as a soup base or instead of water, when it is normally required in dishes. I also use it to cook rice or pasta.

I keep the parts of vegetables, that are normally discarded, in a covered container in the fridge. This may include herb stems, spinach stems, carrot peelings, broccoli or cauliflower trimmings and celery leaves.

When I have plenty, I put them in a pan and fill to the brim with water. Sometimes I might add an onion and / or carrot. I then cover the pan, bring it to the boil and simmer for a few hours (although one hour may be sufficient). After straining the juice off, I discard the ‘pulp’ and there I have my stock.

Here’s a little video to tell you about my stellar sleep situation. I think I’m turning into the machinist

The machinist?

Yeah, the machinist.

Anyway, my sugars this morning were 4.3. I measured them at about 7am. Like I said in the video though (if you’ve watched it) I had more energy today for sure, and actually did more yoga and some pressups so that is a definite improvement.

And as an update to the video, I didn’t really crash either, during the day, I pretty much kept going, although it did seem like a pretty bitty day, bu I guess that’s the way it goes sometimes. Work can’t be all bricks can it, sometimes you’ve got to put the mortar in.

So as I type this I’ve just walked back form town with the dog, after getting / returning a cople of library books, and some more celery and bok choy (the latter 2 weren’t form the library smart ass, they were from the video store). So that was my walk for the day too.

When I was walking back from town (it was around 7:30pm) I could smell all these fabulous smells drifting from the kitchens and dining tables of lovely warm looking houses, man I can’t wait until December!

Right now I’m going to go and run myself an nice hot bath and I’ve got a Thich Nhat Hanh book to get my brain around after that, and hopefully drift off into peaceful oblivion…Yeah right - we’ll see.

OK, I’m done - going to call it a night and get some rest.

Buona Notte!

The additional blueberry juice is really helping out, as well as the supplements I’m taking as well I would imagine.

So what supplements and I taking exactly? Quite a few, here’s the list

I’m not going to say what each one is for, you can use wikipedia for that

1. Spirulina
2. Milk thistle
3. Flax Oil
4. MSM
5. Gymnema sylvestre
6. Bee Pollen Granules
7. Super B complex
8. Cinnamon
9. Ginko Biloba

I think that’s about it.

Even though I feel like I’ve got more energy, I’m definitely feeling more hungry, so once again it looks like it’s time to increase my juice volume. The tricky thing with that is spreading it through the day evenly, because I don’t want to be drinking too late at night, otherwise I end up getting up a few times in the night to pee.

I see if I can figure something out.

I went for a night-time walk with the dog tonight - an astronomer’s sky as I call it, clear and bright, lots of stars.

Well, that’s enough from me for today, hopefully I’ll get an earlier night than last night - after I finished the blog post I ended up staying up to way after 1.00am - stupid!.

Not tonight though - so with that, I’ll bid you goodnight.

Goodnight.

A good day’s work today, plenty accomplished. I do feel like I’ve got a little more energy too, which is good. Those blueberries are making all the difference.

What I do now in the morning is get all my green juice done, and then pour a cup-full out, ready for my first drink of the day, then I juice the blueberries and add that to the rest of the green juice.

I took our dog out for a walk today and decided to try some light running too. I’d pick a landmark, like a bench or a table in the park, and jog over to it. It was hard work, but the fact that I could do it without collapsing was very encouraging. After the walk I had a nice cup of lime tea at Jamocha’s.

Now, I don’t know if you’ve ever had lime tea, but it tastes lovely, but man does it ever stink of piss! When the girl gave me my tea and it was sat brewing on the table as I read the Calgary Sun, I thought “What is that smell? I’m sure it’s piss.” Well it was the lime tea.

Smelled of Urine, tasted lovely - go figure.

One more thing - as I type this, I’m pretty damn hungry, I seem to be hungrier since adding the blueberry juice - it’s certainly making the juice more appealing to my palette.

Well, I’m pretty much done for another day now, going to chill a little (been working again tonight) and try to wind down before bed.

‘night.

4.3  - Rock on. I did however not sleep well and got up at 5.30am with my mind buzzing about all sorts of things.

I’m not going to go into details, but today was not a good day at all. Very emotional.

I worked most of the day, and was glad to take the dog for a walk and get some fresh air - do some thinking. I did some freezing while I was at it too - it’s getting damn cold here now.

I have to say the juice tasted pretty good today with the blueberries in, I was actuall looking forward to it when I was hungry, so I think I’ll start making more juice, and maybe that will help me head in the right direction in terms of where I should be energy-wise.

This was a hard weekend for me, and I have been tempted a few times to just grab something to eat out of the fridge, or fruit bowl, whatever, and my internal thought process ad emotions have been all over the place.

Not good.

Hopefully next week, which brings with it December, will be better for me and the family.

All the best, show your love for those that you do.

Goodnight.

OK, so that email I got from David Rainoshek…

Basically he’s said that coming off the juice feast shouldn’t mean that I’ve fallen off the path, and that my cells can still regenerate if I follow a raw food diet. “Raw food”, basically meaning that you don’t cook your food (like my mate Mat in England is doing as I write this).

He said that If I decide to come of the feast I can move to a “Four means to get your greens” approach to eating.

Those four means are:

1. Juicing (I think I’m familiar with that one)
2. Green Smoothies (Basically blended rather than juiced so it includes the fibre)
3. Soups
4. Salads

And if I decide to stay on the juice feast, I should experiment with adding blueberry juice and carrots to my juice, and see how it effects my sugars.

So, which path did I choose?

I added a cup of blueberries to the juice ingredients this morning.

What was the effect? Well I got one serious buzz on after the first drink, which tasted…Well I can’t say lovely, but relatively lovely. I think I may have added too much in the way of blueberries, so tomorrow I’m going to try half a cup, and alas the first juice if the day won’t contain any of them.

Apparently you should try and start the day with just the green juice, break yourself in gently as it were.

So, there you go this is the path I have chosen, continue with the juice feast, adding some higher glycemic ingredients, and experimenting with how they effect my blood sugar, in an effort to get my weight back up and my energy level where they should be.

We’ll see what my sugars are tomorrow morning eh.

As for the rest of today, I worked most of the day (got to catch up on all the time spent swanning down to the states etc.)  I also decided to take a break around 7pmish and head to the local swimming pool for the last half hour. My wife dropped me off (so I could maximise my time there).

While I was swimming I noticed that if I pushed myself off the wall when turning around for my net length, my trunks started to slide down my ass. I only bought them in August, oh well, I’m sure they’ll fit me properly in a couple of months :).

I did 4 lengths - that was about all I was good for, and then headed to the steam room.

Usually I’m good for say 5 minutes in the steam room, but I could have stayed in there forever today, it just wasn’t too hot for me. Another guy came in, and immediate left saying “Bloody hot in here! Think I’ll have a swim first”. I just sat there thinking, “Well it must be all that cold green juice I’ve been having, because I feel just right”.

I got out only because I wanted to go in the hot tub, chilled in there for a few minutes then got out, got changed and walked home.

I’ve just finished off the evening with a little more work and now I’m chilling in the lounge typing this out.

I feel like I should sleep well tonight, but then again, I’ve thought that before and I wasn’t right.

Hey ho.

‘night.

Car 54 where are you?

My sugars this morning were the lowest so far (and I didn’t make the mistake of double checking them

3.4

And I didn’t have the shakes or anything on that! Granted I was knackered again, but no shakes - and that is most definitely unheard of for me. I used to get the shakes if I could even smell a sugar level below a 5.

We did go to the states today, picked up some herbal supplements, and homeopathic supplies, like I mentioned yesterday, and did a little shopping too. We got back at Midnight, so once again, I’m burning the proverbial midnight, but a lie in has my name written on it tomorrow, and I’m claiming it!

Also, good news in that I’ve got a mammoth email to read from David Rainoshek (juicefeasting.com). I was going to read it before typing this out and spread the word, but it’s a long email, it’s late, and I want to absorb it fully before imparting it to you. (Maybe it’s the BBC in me?)

So, without much further ado, I think it’s time for me to leave this keyboard alone, and head up the wooden stairs to read what David has to say, and contemplate it.

See you on the next post.

‘night.

My sugars this morning were 4.5

Disclaimer, you might consider some of what follows to be a little graphic. It isn’t really, but is you’re a little fragile when it comes to “bottom talk” look away now. OK, you can look back now, just don;t read the next few paragraphs - skip to where it says “It’s OK to read from here love!”

Today was another interesting, and exciting day. I went for my colonic over in Cranbrook, BC - it’s about an hour away and…well, apart from the initial discomfort, it went well. I was reminded of that scene in Fletch where a doctor is giving him and anal exam with his finger, and Fletch asks “Er, doc are you using the whole fist?” and then starts to sing “Moon river” as the doc’s finger does the walking so to speak.

I actually nervously recounted that scene to the lady giving me the colonic. I was a babbling nervous wreck. Once the speculum was in though, it wasn’t too bad. A little uncomfortable at times (each time I was filled with water), but it was OK on the whole.

She actually said that mine was the clearest first colonic she’s ever given. It should be though - shouldn’t it. All we could see in the “viewing chamber” was the occasional green colouring. Now where on earth could that be coming from eh?

It’s OK to read from here love!

My wife rang me while I was in Cranbrook to let me know that my macbook pro had arrived! Yay! and that’s what I used to record the video above - the quality is a little ropey because it was converted to flash by seesmic, but I’m impressed by how easy it was to just get it going.

Well, I’m tired out for a change so it’s going to be an early night for me I think.

Tomorrow, me and my good lady could be heading to the States to pick up some herbal supplements and homeopathic supplies from the states (if they’ve arrived), so we’ll see.

On extra bit of info that I almost forgot, I added 3 little carrots to the juice today, as David Rainoshek mentioned that I should maybe start to add carrot juice, lemon juice, and blueberry juice to my green delight. And as I didn’t even make it to the juicer this morning before I needed a rest (watch the video above for an explanation) I thought I better add something.

I hope you enjoyed the video, and I mean what I say - thanks for reading and keeping up the support. It really helps!

‘night

My sugar this morning was 4.5

Today was always going to be an interesting today. So it tomorrow too, actually, but let’s start at our feet and work through the field shall we.

OK, so today I had the follow up appointment with my doctor about the test results.  He’s a good guy and I actually know him outside of the doctor / patient scenario so we get on well.

The Ferritin / HaemoChromo issue:

Basically, we’re going to do more tests. He said that even though my results cam beack higher than the normal range, they weren’t as high as he would expect if I actually had HaemoChromo. So the next step is to get the same test done again, and also we’re doing the genetic / hereditary test on the genes to make sure.

I went down to the hospital after the doc’s and got the test done straight away, so I should have the results back from Vancouver on the hereditary test in a couple of weeks. The local test, for Ferritin only takes a day or so.

Now, to my other doctor, or guide - David Rainoshek, co head honcho over at juicefeasting.com.

He emailed me today with some interesting thoughts and guidance on my energy levels and HaemoChromatosis. I’m going to get confirmation from him on a couple of things, but one thing he’s suggested is that I can introduce carrot juice, lemon juice and even juiced blueberries to my green juice!

Now I want to make sure that I can, before I go ahead, so I asked him to double check, but that’d be a great lift for me I think. He also suggested that it might be time for me to come off the feast! (Even bigger wow!!!) if I’m not overweight. Well I’m not overweight, for sure - I’m around 140lbs - that’s 10 stone or around 63kg and I’m 5′10”, but the thinkg I’m worried about on that score is stopping before my cellular structure has regenerated sufficiently.

I don;t want to have some so far, and then stop, only to have been weeks away from the necessary time period for completelt healthy cellular regeneration. It’s quite an investment I’ve made so far, so I’m pretty reluctant to just stop right now… We’ll see. Obviously I’ll keep you informed, and who know - I may or may not need to change the name of the blog?

Like I say, an interesting day all round. And tomorrow? I’ve got myself a colonic hydrotherapy session to look forward to - no shit! (Geddit)

That will be interesting as I’ve never had one before, and maybe I won’t ever want one again, but I might as well go for it while I’m doing this marathon cleanse eh.

OK, enough from me for today, I’m going to head off to bodkins and get some kip ready for “close up” tomorrow

‘night.

I got up pretty early this morning - had real difficulty sleeping soundly. I woke up around 4am with all sort of random thoughts invading my brain. Work and domestic thought, but mostly work.

Anyway I lay in bed thinking, well If I at least stay horizontal, that’s some kind of rest I suppose.

I manage to about 6am and then had to get up, I wasn’t getting anywhere. So I made myself a cup of blueberry tea (I’ve been finding all kinds of wonderful teas since I’ve been doing this juice feast) and headed down to the basement to do a bit of work. As Travis Bickle once said, “I can’t sleep, so I my as well get paid for it”.

I ended up getting a little more sleep later on in the day, which was well needed.

I met up with my wife for a cup of tea downtown - I had a strawberry rooibos, and very nice it was too. My wife had her favourite, a chai latte, and very nice it is too.

I picked up another supplement today whilst downtown: bee pollen granules, they’re supposed to be pretty nutrient dense, lots of B12 and that kind of thing, and they don’t taste too bad either, which is always a nice bonus. You can get pretty tired of things that don’t taste too good on this diet let me tell you.

We went for a walk later in the day too, and winter really is on it’s way here now. The mountain tops were all covered with snow today and look fantastic, and the temp was nice and crisp and cold. Good stuff.

One of the reasons we moved to Canada, and Fernie in particular was the 4 seasons that you get, and each one has something attractive about it.

Well, I’m going to finish off with a bit of tech news, and let you know that soon I’ll be writing this on a refurbished macbook pro. That’s right, I’m going mac. My vista machine has a tendency to run really sluggishly sometimes, and even crash, which for me and my work is not on. It’s not on for anyone really, but when it’s your bread and butter, and you use it all day it gets pretty tiresome. So I’ve order a macbook pro, which will hopefully be here by the end of the week

I still  need to run some windows stuff, but I can do that on the mac, so I guess my dell / vista will be my backup for while. There - that was interesting wasn’t it?

Right, gonna sign off now and try and get a decent sleep.

Oyasum Nasai

My sugars this morning were 4.3

Wow, what a disaster last night’s sleep was. let me take you through it. So I set up the inflatable mattress in the spare room - the idea being, I’ll got o bed earlier, my wife won’t have to, I can lie in in the morning and then go about my day with more sleep and rest under my belt. Right? Wrong.

I had real difficulty getting to sleep in the first place, probably got off to sleep around half midnight, then…and this was the really hilarious part, I woke around 1:30am to find that the matress had deflated. So I blew it back up and went back dizzily to sleep. I figured it must have been the valve - maybe I hadn’t tightened it enough?

No it wasn’t the valve. That’s what I found out at around 4:00 in the morning, so I went downstairs and crab some cushions off an old couch we have, and used those as my bed.

I had a pretty fitful sleep on that bed in my sleeping bag, but the best bit?

My son’s alarm going off after my wife and son had both left for work and school respectively. That was it. I went back into the bedroom (the proper one) and pulled sheets over my head harrumphing and moaning to myself. I did get more sleep (because I needed it), but blood hell, what a fiasco!

Sometimes it’s like the gods of sleep just don’t think I deserve any. I swear.

I’ve just come down from finishing off yet another loaf of bread, and this one is better. I let the yeast get more “active” this time before adding it to the flour. Looks pretty good to me anyway, then then a deep fried fly would look good to me right now.

I’m off to bed in a second, up later than I should be, but at least I’ve got a self prescribed (hopefully successful) lie in to look forward to in the morning.

So, Thanks again for keeping up to date with the goings on of my journey, and please do spread the word to anyone and everyone you think might benefit from reading. If you’re thinking “Yeah, I should. He’s right, [insert name here] might really benefit from knowing about this. I’ll tell them tomorrow” - Screw that, tell them now! Send them a text message or an email, or phone them (if it’s socially acceptable at the time you’re reading this), but get them told!

The more people that educate themselves and take charge of their condition the better. It can only be a good thing.

Thanks for listening…

‘night.

Had a pretty productive day as far as DIY goes, got more of the garage done, all the walls are secured now, pretty much ready for the dry wall. Just got to hang the doors in the garage and the basement. Then we’re good to go.

I made another loaf of bread today, tried putting some olive oil in there as well as oregano at the behest of my wife. I used more yeast too, but it didn’t really seem to rise any more than yesterdays. My son said he preferred yesterday’s bread. Hey Ho, I guess I’ll keep practising

When I was plaing some wood today, it absoutely knackered me out, I had to lie down on the floor of the garage at one point, whle my wife finished it off. That’s not right.

I’m also thinking of going for some colonic hydrotherapy too, while I’m doing this whole juice feast/ enema extravaganza. I think it can only help, so I’ll try and get that sorted out in the next week or so.

Well, enough from me, I said I’d go for earlier nights this week, and later mornings, so I better get off this computer and head up the wooden hill…

‘night.

Something’s been happening the last few morning that I’ll mention now. When juicing, which is usually about 20 or so minutes after getting up, I feel like I’m really struggling to stay standing, like my heart needs a rest. Almost like I’ve been doing some intense exercise and I’m about to collapse.

This is good, so I’ve decided that I definitely need more sleep, for what I’m putting my body through. So I’m going to dedicate next week to catching up on sleep. I’ll be going to bed early every night and getting up when I get up every morning. My work will be done during the late morning and afternoon I guess, but I feel like I really need to address how I’ve been feeling, and apart from the obvious (diet) I think it must be lack of sleep.

We did a bit more DIY on the garage and the Homeopathic clinic today, and I made bread for my son and wife too - first time not using a bread machine, and they both said they really liked it. Now, while this might seem like a completely selfless act, there’s method in my altruism. When I get off this juice feast I’ve decided I’m going to make my own bread, control the sugar content (i.e. none), flour type and flavour. But I also decided that I don’t need to wait until I’ve finished to start practising! I can practise on the fam until I get it right, by which time, (hopefully) I’ll be partaking You see!

Anyway, I’m glad they liked it, I think I’ll make another loaf tomorrow (needed a bit more yeast if you ask me).

My wife and I went ’round to a friend’s house tonight and had a nice evening with more friends - a good Saturday night. It was a little tough watching everyone dig in to dips and chips and beer, but I can’t exclude myself from all social get togethers can I?

As I type this closing sentence, I’m hungry and tired. But thankful to, that I’m not also cold and wet. All four is no fun for anyone.

‘night.

As I write this, I’ve just come back from a nice evening out at friends’ where I had a lovely Bengal Spice tea, but I’m hungry now and ready for bed, so this won’t take long…:)

I got some results back from the hospital tests I took the other morning, and they’re interesting to say the least:

My Hba1C level is 7.9 - pretty good considering the 3 month period it covers contains 1.5 months of pre-juice feast higher sugars. It was 10.6 before the feast remember.

My cholesterol was slightly high according to the printout, but evening more intersting…

The Ferritin test cam back as a high level, meaning it looks like I do have an excess of iron in my blood.

I didn’t speak to the doc today, just got the results, but he wants to talk to me, so I’m seeing him next Wednesday afternoon, so hopefully there’ll be further tests for Haemo Chromatosis - If I’m right in my interpretation of the results.

It’s strange to think that if I do have Haemo Chromatosis, all the time I was giving blood, I was actually keeping myself healthier, and stopping (because of injury, acupuncture and bureaucracy) could have been responsible for the eventual build of iron and subsequent complications leading to diabetes.

If I am HaemoChromo then at least I will have reached the route cause and can address it, and who knows what my pancreas can do when it isn’t battling an excess of iron?

Time will tell I guess.

Off to bodkins now…

‘night.

I was always a glass is half full and half empty kind of guy. And the connotations to either needn’t be positive or negative. You could say for example, complainingly: “Well it’s only half full, it’s not full” and you could say “Hey don’t worry, it’s only half empty, there still plenty left”.

So thinking that the glass is half empty isn’t always a bad thing.

Now then… the mountain. Eagle mountain as I like to call it. I’m halfway up, and that’s a good thing, but there’s also a side of me (just call me Harvey Dent) that isn’t so keen on the fact that I’m only halfway through. That means that everything I’ve just done, I’ve got to do again - holy #^*@!

Except I don’t do I? I don’t have to do 3 weeks of first thing in the morning enemas, and I’ve got a routine now, allbeit sometimes excruciating hard to deal with. So I’m just going to plod on, drink up and keep going. Like I’ve said before, I don’t have any choice. Giving up is not an option for me.

Eagle Mountain - why Eagle Mountain? Well one of my heroes, Myamoto Musashi, battled against the elements and his mind to conquer Eagle Mountain, and for me I’ve always felt that the only way I’m going to beat this is to embark on what I feel is an epic struggle, something I can do and achieve, something to conquer.

So this is my Eagle Mountain, and I’m halfway up.

Back to the here and now, I worked pretty hard today, too much screen staring I think too. I just went out for a nice brisk walk and I’m going to hit the sack now, get some well deserved kip, ready fo the second leg of my journey.

Good night, and may we all conquer our own Eagle Mountains.

For the first time since I’ve been tested for blood, it didn’t really wanted to come out. She found a vein OK, but there wasn’t the usual flood into the testube, and it stopped a couple of times. Maybe the low blood pressure?

My sugars this morning were 3.7

One thing that the doctor mentioned yesterday that I neglected to share, which I want to rectify now is Haemochromatosis - follow the link for a full explanation, but basically it’s a disease where the lucky recipient or carrier or host has an excess of iron in their blood. this excess deposits itself in vital organs, one of which is the pancreas, which then inhibits the pancreas’ ability to produce insulin…

Well, how does one go about treating HaemoChromo (as I’ll call it). You get Theodoric The Medieval Barber on the case: seriously. Here’s a vid to lighten the mood, and then I’ll continue….

Yeah, so basically, the treatment is what’s called phlebotomy or “Blood letting”, they take your blood until the levels of iron have sufficiently depleted, ending up around 4 times a year to keep it under control.
Now, I have been diagnosed with this yet, he’s just asked for the initial test to be done for iron levels, but an interesting thing occurred to me lying in bed last night.

Back in around 2000 I started getting acupuncture for a couple Tae Kwon Do injuries, to my hamstring and the arch of my foot. Bare with me, this’ll make sense… Prior to this I used to give blood regularly, but the next time i went to give blood, I had to answer “yes” to the “Have you have acupuncture” question, and they didn’t want my blood (needles and aids risks I guess), any so I stopped giving blood sometime in later 2000  early 2001. When did my diabetes symptoms kick in? Late 2001. 

Maybe it’s just coincidence, maybe not. I’ll find out in a couple of days whether I have an excess of iron in my blood though. It’ll be good to know either way.

The doc thought of this possibility as I’m not overweight, nor was I really when I was diagnosed. I was certainly bigger, but far from “fat”. So if you have, or know of anyone with, diabetes tell them to check out this entry, and get their / your doctor to check for HaemoChromo. You never know.

Another thing I wanted to mention (this is a long post n’est ce pas) was how I’m feeling about the possibility of this whole adventure not working.

It bums me out. It does occur to me that this might not work, I might go back onto food, albeit predominantly vegan (I love cheese) and my sugars go haywire and I’m back to square #1. But it also occurs to me that even if my sugars to go back to a “diabetic” level, at least I will have tried, and in trying is success. I will have made my body far more healthy than it would otherwise have been, so I’ve only gained. Either way, this will not be in vain. I can’t lose.

On that note,

I bid you goodnight.

I didn’t. I was pissed off this morning. This morning was not good.

My sugar was 4.4

I had an appointment with my doctor this morning for a complete checkup and also a test you have to take for driving - to show that you’re not a liability because you have diabetes.

My doc was a little concerned at my rapid weight loss (I’ve lost 35lbs now since I started on September 1st). And I didn’t really think I had 35lbs to lose.

He explained why my blood pressure would be lower, and heart rate would be higher -  It has less fuel to work with (therefore lower blood pressure) and has to work harder to pump out the blood (therefore elevated heart rate)

Anyway, I’ve got a few tests to take at the hospital tomorrow, including a HBa1c which will be interesting. That measures the amount of glucose that attaches itself to a blood cell over around 3 months, so it’s basically a long term average of the level of sugar in your blood stream.

Before I started it was 10.6 it’s supposed to be 6 and less ideally. We’ll see in a week or so when the results come back.

The dog went missing today - he got out through a hole in the fence that I fixed several times, but I think the next door neighbour’s dog must have broken it again last weekend when they came over from Calgary. I went for him on the bike, no luck, then in the car (it was getting dark and cold).

My wife rang the pound to see if he’d been handed in or anything, and then while I was still out looking for him my wife rang me to say he’d just turned up. Little bugger. I gave him a piece of my mind when I got home - showed him the gap in the fence and told him “NO!”. So that won’t be happening again. Ever. Yeah Right.

Apart from the curious incident of the dog in the night time, my day got better as it went on. I think I’m focusing too much on time again, as I come close to the half way mark, time is featuring more in my mind, time passed, but more significantly, time to go. So I need to stop that.

Anyway…time for bed right now.

Oyasumi Nasai.

It was a weird day today, Thanks giving monday, but I worked and had to go out at one point, and everywhere was dead. it felt like a Sunday - still does really.

Went for a walk later on in the day with my wife and out dog. It’s getting pretty chilly out there now, but in a good way - so long as it’s dry I don’t mind cold, although I am feeling the cold more now I’ve got less fat on me.

Oh yeah, and today I actually felt, for the first time, my sitting bones on the chair in the dining room. Meaning that even my ass is getting smaller. Damn!

Well I’m going to go off and try not to think to hard about the 8.5 reading I just took and get some sleep ready for tomorrow.

A domani.

Sugars this morning: 4.9

Highest they’ve been in a while, but at 4.9 its not completely ruining my batting average now is it?

So, yeah, the title of this post… I went to Tim Hortons. I’ll get to that later.

Had a nice walk with my wife this afternoon, and then they day got even better, I went for my Ayurvedic massage! The one that my wife bought for me when I crossed the 30 days threshold.

Francesca, a local yoga instructor and friend gave me the massage and it was really relaxing, as well as invigorating in places. Bottom line - fantastic. It’s been ages since I’ve had a massage and I really appreciated it and enjoyed it.

And then, after the massage I went to Tim Hortons and bought a French Vanilla Capuccino, a box of 10 timbits, and long john and a double chocolate douhnut. That’s right - they weren’t for me!

I got them as a treat for the fam back home, and when I got home they’d just finished their dinner / tea, whatever you want to call it, so they were ready for dessert - good timing.

We all sat down a little later and watched “The happening”. If you get the chance to watch this movie, don;t bother, do something else instead. I don’t like ragging on movies but I think Mr. Night Shyamalan is losing his touch big time. It’s been going downhill since Sixth Sense, which was a great movie.

Right, after more time in the basement webbing and blogging, my wife has just let me know she’s off to bed, so…I am too, ready for a new week tomorrow. Bring it!

‘night.

It was good day today, although I measured my blood pressure this morning and it was 74 over 54, which is pretty low I’d say, but I’m seeing my doc on Tuesday, so I’ll get his opinion on it.

After some enematic hi-jinx, and breakfast juice I cycled downtown to visit my wife who was running a stand for her homeopathic business at a local craft / art fair. She was up really late last night preparing for it and it paid off, the stand looked pretty good.

Cycling into town was pretty hard though, I have to say, I felt like I was cycling underwater or something, and felt pretty weak and light headed when I got there. 

I’m starting to think I should be having something else in my juice, or maybe I should be forcing myself to drink more?

After visiting the craft fair I paid a visit to a friend with my guitar. He plays the harp, no he’s not an angle, and it’s not that kind of harp - a blue harp - harmonica,, and we jammed for an hour or so…and then back home and playing online with my mate back in England, “Soul Calibur IV” and “Worms”. He actually said at one point “I’m so glad we’ve both got worms” Oh how we laughed.

My wife and son went out to friends for a thanks giving dinner tonight. I was invited too, but just can’t face that kind of evening right now, it’s all about food and drink you know, so… I made sure that my wife accepted the invitation though, it just wouldn’t be fair on them to miss out on a nice evening because of what I’m doing. And I don’t mean to sound holier than thou, I’m just telling you how it is.

As it is I got some good constructive work done on a website while they were out.

And then….

I got a comment on this blog from David & Katrina Rainoshek!

David is the contributing author on “There is a cure for diabetes” which I’ve obviously mentioned before. You can read the comment on the previous post. Talk about Synchronicity! Anyway, we exchanged a couple of emails tonight and they have been so kind that I’m lost for words really - they’ve gifted me (because of my blog) membership to their juice feasting site: juicefeasting.com

As I’ve mentioned before, it’s an incredible resource for not just information, but also support and guidance, so if you haven’t yet checked it out, go now (well after you’ve finished reading this) and do so!

This is turning into quite a long post, and I’m sure you’ve got better things you can be doing, so I’ll finish off by saying that I had a really nice day today, very restful for my mind, which I’ve needed, and topped of with a fantastic gesture from David and Katrina.

What a good day.

‘night.

Thinkchronithity

Something a little alarming this morning though, got me thinking, and got my wife saying” You need to get a checkup at the doctor”…My blood pressure.

I measured it this morning after getting up and measuring my blood sugars. It was 89 over 69, which is pretty low, and would explain why I can’t gee myself up for things like squash I think. My pulse rate on the other hand was 114bpm, and that’s before any exercise.

I have a little theory though, that I’m going to try out before I panic. I think I’ve been taking too much serrapeptase, I checked the bottle and the recommended dosage, and yes I have. it says that 1 tablet 2-3 times a day, so that’s a minimum of 2 tablets, and a maximum of 3 tablets right? Right.

And what have I been taking?

9 a day. Dick.

So no more Serrapeptase for the next week or so, and I’ll see if things change. I’m still going to go to the docs to try and get a full check up though, I don’t see why our car should be the only one to benefit from such attention. No, the doc doesn’t examine our car as well - you know what I mean.

I met a couple of friends for tea downtown today, so that was nice, and had a chat with a new web collaborator, things seem to be moving along nicely there.

Watched “Righteous Kill” with my son this evening, and we both enjoyed it, and it was pretty good, although I think if you’re after a movie length version of the tension and drama between Pacino and DeNiro, that there was in “Heat”, then you’ll be disappointed. Don’t get me wrong, they’re both very good in it, and it’s worth a watch, it’s just no Heat “Coffee Shop” scene.

OK, it’s a late one again tonight, but at least a lie in beckons in the morning, so that’s not too bad.

Off to bodkins for me right now then,

‘night.

I played squash again today and I didn’t even get a sweat on. why? because I didn’t have enough energy to. I just couldn’t get going. you when you try and start an old car that won’t turn over. That was me, wouldn’t turn over, couldn’t get to the next level in adrenalin production and “va-va-voom”.

I can function pretty well, don;t get me wrong I’m not a zombie or anything, I do my yoga and stretching in the morning, and some press-ups, but squash is starting to seem a little too much like “the next level”.

Before the juice feast, when playing squash I would just stretch a little, jump up and down and be good to go, but not now, I’m going to have to wait until December before I can expect to be able to do that again.

On a side note about press-up / push ups, I did 30 yesterday morning and for the first time that I’m aware of i felt a tightness in my chest. It went away later in the morning, but i thought that maybe I’d over done it. (When I got up out of bed in the morning I almost fell into the wardrobe with light headedness, that’s something I’m having to get used to - you  know that old headrush feeling you get sometimes when you get up to fast? Times that by 10 and try and stay standing - that seems to be me most mornings. But once I’m up and steadied, I’m right.

Which leads me onto another thing, my blood pressure, I think it’s getting a bit low, but it might be because I’m taking too much Serrapeptase? Not sure, I’ll keep tabs on it.

I have also started taking spirulina and milk thistle supplements, for proteins and liver respectively.

Well lots about my body and not much of me on this post - thanks for reading and I’ll speak / type to you tomorrow.

Ciao.

My sugars this morning were a little crazy:
First it measured 3.3, so naturally I did it again: 3.6, so once more unto the breach: 3.9

What the hell? ”I’m not having that!” I thought. “I should have just stayed with the 3.3. Damn!” Anyway I did again and got 3.6 so we’re calling it 3.6 this morning.

One of the things David Rainoshek from juicefeasting.com says on his site is:

Because of the great intention with which you heal yourself, and the purity of the foods you are taking in, you become a vortex for wonderful things to come into your life. Synchronicities will happen, and even the events which do not look initially positive will turn out to be very good.

Well, in terms of leaving the mine and setting up shop as a self employed web developer, business is going well, and I seem to be making more contacts than ever, with more jobs looming on the horizon. Busy and exciting times. Is that synchronicity? I don’t know but I’m open to the idea.

The weather’s really turning here now, starting to get colder, and the snow line is creeping down the mountains, so roll on December and the ski season.

That’s enough from me for the evening anyway,

Oyasumi Nasai.

Well hold on and I’ll tell you. First of all, my sugars this morning: 3.8

OK, 1998:

Well, in their book - “There is a cure for diabetes”, Gabriel Cousens and David Rainoshek reckon that, depending on the severity of your condition (obesity etc.) for every day you juice feast, you take your body back in time between 80 & 120 days. That’s right, everyday I do this juice feast, my body gets younger.

So… assuming that I’m in the middle of the road, at 1 day = -100 days, then I’ve just gone back 3700 days or more simply put: 10 years.

So my body is enjoying 1998 right now, which is pretty safely pre-diabetes (I was diagnosed in May 2002 after several months of symptoms and a mis-diagnosis).

Anyway, back to 2008. I took our dog out for a walk today and it absolutely tipped down on us - thick sleety hail. Winter she’s a comin’ alright!.

Another late night of work tonight, but I did manage to get into town earlier on this afternoon - picked up some kale and ran a few errands.

So, as I wave good night from 1998, I’ll see you here tomorrow…

‘night.

I did however not have a good morning in terms of dealing with this whole journey. I felt for the first time in a while that it was getting hard, was looking at what was left to do, instead of what I’ve done. I need to stop doing that. I told myself to keep taking it day by day. Get up, juice, drink it, sleep, get up, juice drink it… and hopefully lots of fun stuff in between.

Anyway, it soon passed, and although it was pretty cold here today, the sun was shining and it lifted my spirits while was out on the deck swigging.

I also chatted with a friend of mine on skype today, who’s in Calgary and we were roughly planning shennanigans in December, when I’ll be back on food, and a nice little bit of wine too - oh yes. Something to look forward too.

Something else to look forward to is an Ayurvedic massge! I think I neglected to mention, that when my wife presented me with my Bronze Award, included with it was an Ayurvedic massage from a local yoga instructor. That’s on Saturday morning, so I’ll be keeping the rest of Saturday clear I think, ready for chill mode.

Right, I’m off to bodkins now. Thanks for reading!

A domani.

Sugars this morning were 3.8 - damn fine for a lie-in morning.

The Fernie half marathon was held today so after my enematic hilarity and breakfast green I went out to support a couple of our neighbours who were doing the run. It was pretty cold standing around with a camera, but good conditions for running I reckon.

I did the run myself last year, and was going to do it again this year, but I decided against it, what with having the stamina and physical drive of a pot smoking sloth on valium.

Next year.

Anyway, I’ve been working again today, and now I’m spending even more time staring at the screen! I’m off to bed to catch up on some well deserved sleep, ready for another week.

Take care. (And don’t forget to spread the word - see yesterday’s post).

‘night.

I had a lie in, plus a late night last night so that’s not bad at all.

Today ended up being a “bash it out at the PC” kind of day, and I ended up getting quite a bit done, but I didn’t really get out and about as much as I should have. All work and no play etc…

I felt really lethargic when I got up, maybe because I’d had a late night, or maybe because I got up late, or maybe both? I don’t know. Do you? Let me know.

One thing I’ve been thinking about for a while now is trying to get more people to read this blog, as I want as many people with diabetes to know that if they want to, they really can fix themselves.

So if you’re reading this right now, please tell someone you know with diabetes (unfortunately, diabetes is so prevalent now, I think all of us know someone with it) to come and read the blog. Especially if they just been diagnosed, that’s a key time to address their physiology. I think If I’d have done half of what I’m doing now when I was diagnosed, I wouldn’t have had to go through all the struggling with diet etc. that I did.

Or just tell anyone, even if they don’t have diabetes, because chances are, they’ll know someone who does.

Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you in the next post!

Got up and did the do, bit of yoga, my press ups and stretching, and went to my meeting, which went well, fingers crossed for more web work. I met my wife in town as I was driving back home, she was cycling back from a Yoga class, so we went for cuppa at the Fernie Tea and Coffe House, where they do the most amazing teas. 

We both bought some loose leaf teas, my wife got a japanese green tea and I got a Rooibos Vanilla - which is really nice. Then back home for more work…

We decided to go to the theatre (cinema) in Fernie to see Lakeview Terrace, the new Sam Jackson movie, but when we got there we were told that the film hadn’t arrived, so we watched Eagle Eye instead. It was a very good back-up movie, gotta say. Good action, plot, script and acting.  You can’t ask for more than that.

I’ve just been following a ruby on rails screencast from peepcode.com and now I’m about ready for bed.

So, I’ll just type a few more words…

And then it’s off to bed.

‘night.

Sugars this morning were 4.2, still good.

People have been telling me that I’m getting more colour (and it’s not green thankfully). Namely: my friend with today (yes it almost broke me again), the lady from Jamocha’s told me yesterday, and a friend of my wife’s commented to h that I looked healthier, so the general consensus is that I’m looking healthier - which is nice.

Because I seem to like to make things hard for myself, I managed to put too much garlic in my juice this morning - nice! It had a hell of a bite to it. my wife had some and she didn’t notice it as much as me, but I think that’s because she’s still eating normal food and has garlic most days.

Today seems to have flown by I must say, lots to get done and not much time to do it in. - hence the late night entry. (ooer).

Ok, I’ve still got some work to do before I head to sleep, and it’s almost 12:30 already, and I’ve got a meeting to go to tomorrow morning, so I best sign off and get cracking.

‘night.

“Outstanding Achievement in the strive for good health”.

It’s a card that my wife made, it’s really cool and is much appreciated.

The juice tasted good (relatively) again today, so that helped. I’m still on about 2 quarts a day, but again I’m thinking that I might need more, maybe 2.5 or 3 quarts a day - something like that.

I’m also thinking about maybe adding some garlic and ginger to it, so spice it up a but, give me a bit of a change.

My sugars this morning were 4.1, still good.

I went for a walk with my dog this afternoon, and the weather is phenomenal for this time of year, the sun is blasting down in the afternoon. The mornings are cold and starting to get frosty, but if you were to wear a coat in the morning, you’d be carrying it in the afternoon.

A friend of mine who’s doing a lot of hunting at the moment isn’t to happy with it though as it makes it harder work trekking after his prey, and also mean the Elk move futher into the trees to cool down.

You can’t please all the people all the time eh.

Watched a very interesting movie tonight, a documentary, called “Young Yakuza”, about a 20 year old kid in Tokyo who joins a yakuza clan, and what it involves. Gotta say, it’s not all night clubs, suits smoking and strippers. He had to serve tea, dry his boss after shower, and plenty more more mundane stuff. So next time you see a yakuza walking down the street (as you do), just think - “You’ve dried a naked man” because he probably has.

But don’t tell them I told you.

‘night.

My sugars this morning were 3.6 - the lowest yet, and once again, I felt fine on it - did my stretching and press-ups (or push ups) this morning too.

The only thing I have noticed health-wise is that my pulse rate in the morning is way high - like 100+ and that’s before any exercise, but my blood pressure is pretty low too - around 115 or 70ish, but according to a nurse friend across the street, that’s nothing to worry about.

In related news… If I was doing this to lose weight, I’d also be a happy bunny, as I’ve lost around 25 pounds during the month of September. The figures are - September 1st, I weight around 175lbs and now I weigh 150lbs, and it’s still going down. Hmm.

My juice today tasted fine, it was a lovely change. Getting rid of those celery leaves did the trick. Man they is bitter!

Off to bed for an early night tonight, got to get ready for the next month

Ciao!

The juice was bitter again though - all day - that really sucked. I think I figure out what it is though. We got celery form a different organic supplier, and the celery we got was alot more leafy. I think it’s the leaves that’s been making the juice so bitter.

As I may have said on my last post, it really isn’t good when you’re only source of food makes you wanna vom. Not good.

But, as I was saying to a friend today though, I should still be grateful that I have food, right. Lot’s of people don’t.

My sugars this morning were 3.9, so back down again. See what’s happening there - I get up earlier (working week) and my sugars are lower. I get to the weekend, have a couple of lie-ins and my sugars are higher. You can see it on the graph, but so far, each time, the bumps are getting smaller - which is great.

I put up my first invisible shelf tonight successfully, so I’m chuffed with that, I’ll do a few more tomorrow. My office is slowly taking shape.

Well, I’m trying to de-brand my son’s phone for him tonight so he can play mp3 ring-tones (rogers have kindly locked that feature out for him), and then I think it’s of for a much earlier night than last night.

As my friend who I had tea with today might say:

“Laayla Tov”

This morning was a low morning. And I’m not talking about my sugars. I didn’t want to get up and when I got and I didn’t want to be anywhere, I just wanted to (as I told my wife) curl up on the couch and cry  - nice manly stuff. She helped me through with a well timed hug and lots of positivity; “You’ve almost done a month.”, “In another couple of weeks you’ll be halfway there.” etc.

It helped, it always helps.

To add insult to injury, whatever the difference was in my ingredients this morning, the green juice was really bitter. I didn;t make the mistake of trying to sweeten it up again though, I just suffered it all day. It’s kind of shit when you don’t like the taste of your only food you know.

My sugars this morning were 4.8, so up again from yesterday but still within a good range.

I put together my new work desk today - got it from the Salvation Army in the states, for $34.50, a definite bargain. After that, my wife and I had a walk into town for a cup of tea each at Freshies, a lovely tea and coffee shop on the mainstreet (2nd Avenue) in Fernie.

Work beckoned after we got back and I’m pretty much ready to head to bed now. A bit of webbery before I do, and that’s me.

Oh, learnt a new phrase today:

Oyasumi Nasai

I was in some outdoor cafe with a couple who I don’t know, and the waiter is bringing us all bacon and egg sandwiches. He puts mine down in front of me, and the egg is just the way I like it, just the tiniest bit runny, and the bacon looks good too.
This waiter obviously takes pride in how these sandwiches are presented too, as my egg is slightly sticking out from between the slices of bread, so he takes of the top slice and moves the egg to a more central position in the sandwich with a knife, which almost pops the yolk, but this guys knows what he’s doing so the yolk is safe.
The next thing I know I’m realising “Holy shit I’ve got a bacon and egg sandwich on my plate and I’m supposed to be juice feasting!”
I tell the couple that I’m with: “Sorry guys, I can’t do this.”
I push my plate between the two of them and they both kind of shrug and just grab the contents of my plate and put it on theirs and continue eating.
I then realise that I’m chewing egg and bacon sandwich, so I lean down under the table and spit it out as discreetly as I can.

And that, was the dream I had last night.

This morning wasn’t much fun to be honest - that sandwich tasted good in the dream, even though I didn’t eat any, I did taste it, and it was f*cking nice.
The little demons in my mind actual started to put forth the idea this morning that “Hey you’ve almost done a month, you can stop after a month, you’ve proved your point”. Bastards.
Well I listened to them, you’ve got to listen. But you don’t have to comply.
I was a little wary of drinking my juice this morning, after yesterday’s taste fiasco, but when I finally did it was OK.

Before I forget, my sugars this morning were 4.3, and that’s after a lie in (which was really needed). The reason I mention the lie in is that usually when I rise a little later, my sugars are higher, but 4.3 compared to 4.1 yesterday is fine.

We progressed nicely with the basement today - getting the drywall framing pretty much secured and ready for the doors and drywall itself.

While my son went off to a hockey match, my wife and I watched a movie: “The Celestine Prophecy”. it was all right, but that’s about it. I only wanted to watch it as I’d read two thirds of the book and wanted to see how it turned out. The ideas mentioned in the book make a lot of sense, but the film needed to be longer to do the book any justice, but I glad it wasn’t if you know what I mean. My advice - read the book.

Anyway, off to the land of nod now, ready for a bright new day tomorrow.
‘night.

My sugars this morning were 4.1, so still pretty low. Happy with that.
What I wasn’t happy with however was neglecting to buy enough cucumbers yesterday. Damn! I had to make up the rest of the juice with Broccoli and believe me it was shit, really bitter tasting. So I decided to add some Stevia, a natural sweetener that’s about 5 or 6 times sweeter than sugar, with no carbs (totally allowed), but I put too much in. Damn!

So long story short, I ended up with a Thermos flask full of green sweet tasting shit that I didn’t want to drink but had to because I got hungry. There’s still some left in the fridge, so as soon as I’ve finished this entry I’m gonna go upstairs and throw it away. Yuk. I’m actually looking forward to a normal tasting green juice tomorrow - I guess everything is relative eh.

Well, I’m bushed so that’s all from me for today,
A domani.

And I’m feeling OK on it too. First thing that is. As the morning progresses I do kind of find myself feeling drained, but then as I move into the afternoon and evening I feel better. The evening infact, seems to be my strongest time of day.

Went to the library today and took a few books back, got a couple out, as you do, and enjoyed just being downtown for a little while - the weather was nice and so were the people.

We had the electricians in today also, working on the wiring for my wife’s Homeopathic clinic, which we’ll hopefully have ready by the end of October, once we get the drywall up, mudded and painted and all that good stuff.

Watched an interesting little anime movie tonight called “Tonari no Totoro”, I actually convince my wife to watch it too, and although it’s not something I’d usually watch, I enjoyed it.

Well I’m knackered now, so I should be going to bed. I’m not though, I’m put up a show for my podcast - Kaflooey. You can check it out at kaflooey.com if you’re interested in a bit of a laugh and some good tunes.

And then….I’ll get to go to bed.

‘night.

My heads been in a funny place these last couple of days - lots of things on my mind, but I think I got a bit more of a handle on things today. Let’s hope so.

I took Bailey (our selectively genius dog) out for a walk in the afternoon, as I was pretty much glued to my PC all morning with work. We went around a few holes on the disc golf course, and then walked by the river. He had a good time, and so did I, the weather was nice and it was good to get out of the basement / office.

My wife came home early from work with a splitting headache, which she started the day with and she’s in bed resting as I type. Hopefully she’ll start tomorrow feeling better. 

I’m starting to believe, really believe that this is going to work, that everything about the whole process just makes sense. I’ll be honest, sometimes I have my doubts. I’ll think, “When I get of this diet it’s only going to last a couple of weeks before everything starts to go back the way it was before the juice feast.”

But then I think “No way, that’s just scared talk, negativity. How can it not work?”

The way I see this juice feast period working is like resting an injury. If you get a hamstring injury, and the doc says “OK, no football for 6 weeks!” and you’re like “Really? How about 4?”

“No, you need to rest, otherwise you’ll just trigger the injury again when it’s nearly healed and you’ll be back to square 1″

So you take his advice in front of him, and then ignore him and low and behold: Twang! it goes during a match you shouldn’t have been playing.

It’s the same with this. the digestive system and the pancreas needs a break from creating all that insulin and breaking down all that food so it can take care of number 1 for a while. Keep eating the wrong stuff and you keep doing the damage.

So after 92 days my body should have had the time it needs to recuperate and mend itself, ready for my new beginning in December.

Makes sense really doesn’t it.

A domani.

And, more good stuff, which I forgot to mention yesterday, what with all the birthday shenannigans, is that since days 21 I no longer have to have an enema everyday. Now that is good news! Bad news is that I’ve got to do one kind of every 3 days.

The point of the enemas by the way is to ensure that you’re getting rid of all the toxins that are being released into the system, as fast as possible. I heard a story about a woman who did a detox thing, and was supposed to do enemas too but she didn’t and her head fell off! No not really, but it made here very ill.

So better safe than sorry / comfortable.

Picked up some more Kale from Jamocha’s - ooo yah love that name. Say it with me: “Ja Mow Kaz”.

Yeah, and had a cup of tea too. (Ruby Chai baby).

I decided it was time to get rid of my mane today too, so I trimmed it myself.

My juice tasted slightly different today, and not in a good way - don’t know why, but we’ll see what happens tomorrow eh.

‘nighty ‘night.

I had a chat with him yesterday about what to do about going out for a meal, as we usually go out for a meal when it’s one of our birthdays, and I told him, that I’d be happy to go and just drink my juice if he wanted, or if that’d make him feel awkward then I would understand and not go, he could just go with his mum. Well I left it with him and today he decided to stay at home and have a homepade pizza with his mum.

I joined them for the pizza (I obviously didn’t “join them” join them), but I was there. It smelt absolutely delicious - my wife makes good pizza. Good most things actually.

Anyway, my sugar this morning was 4.5 - good stuff.

I almost forgot, I went for a nice cup of Ruby Chai at the new Organic cafe again “Jamocha’s” with my friend. He had (what I can only imagine was) a lovely tomato and basil soup too.

All in all, a pretty good day, I felt a little weary realier on in the day, but as the day progressed I seemed to feel like I had more energy. I think I see a pattern maybe?

Oh well, I’ve been working on customising the theme for this site tonight too, so I’m up way later than I should be.

Just a few more key presses from me and then it’s good night.

Good night.

That’s a good thing.

My sugars this morning were 4.9, but I had a late night last night and a late rise this morning (I’m allowed).

Anyway, I’m still happy with that, if my higher sugars are still as low as 4.9 that’s a damn good thing.

I pretty much spent the entire day working downstairs for someone who’d been left in the lurch. I didn’t out other than to drink my green juice on the deck. Not too bad though as the weather was dismal today.

Watched “Iron Man” with the fam and we all enjoyed it, and then, well, you’re reading it now.

‘night!

My wife and I went for a hike today, up to the fossil of an ammonite in the nearby hillside.

We’ve tried to find it previously, but it was late spring and the river was too high. This time though - we found it! Here’s the directions: It’s up the second draw to the south of Coal Creek. There you go, you can find it too now!

Anyway, needless to say I was pretty whacked after that, had a little lie down on the sofa to recover. It was very  enjoyable though I must say, and I even took some green juice with me.

Just watched the Forbidden Kingdom with my son and we both enjoyed it. Nice to see Jet Li and Jackie Chan in the same movie. There’s even one scene where someone mentions Bruce Lee to them, and they both look at each other as if to say “Who?”. Classic.

Enough of me babling about kung fu movies though, of to bodkins now I think.

A domani.

A whopping 3.7. Come on!

And I feel fine! Did a bit of yoga this morning (well my version of it anyway) and some press-up (or push ups if you like), and still feel OK. Previously i could never have sugars so low without feeling like I’m gonna faint, get the shakes and all that good stuff, so hopefully this is a sign that my body really is adjusting.

Hopefully.

My son had a birthday party today, and a couple of friends came down from Calgary.

We sat oiut by the fire pit and the kids enjoyed the pizza and cake that was provided for them.

Me - off to bed right now - tired out.

3.8

Yeah, 3.8. So I checked it again - as i do when Ii get a reading that I’m not expecting… and I got 4.0

So we’ll call it 4.0, no sod it let’s call it 3.9.

3.9 it is.

After having my enema this mornig though, man I felt ill again. Fortunately I only have to have them for the first 3 weeks, then I can lay off. I’m pleased about that, and I’m sure my ass will be too.

You know what I want? A nice cup of coffee and a vegetable stir fry. That’d be nice.

Hey ho.

I played squash today and it almost killed me, I had really bad stomach cramp and was keeled over between points from the 3rd game until the end. I lost, but I fought valiantly Maybe I shouldn’t have played, but I never was very good at turning down a good run around.

I felt lighted headed after the game and pretty knackered. I got home and lay out on the deck in the sun and just baked for a little while.

There’s a new organic cafe that’s opened up in Fernie called Jamochas and it’s run by the same folk who I get my organic Kale and cucmbers from. Anyway, I went this this afternoon with my wife and we had a lovely cup of herbal tea each.

I had ruby chai, not sure what my wife had. Mine was so good I bought a box of it. Hey you gotta get your pleasures where you can on this gig!

I’m off to bed shortly, try and get some rest.

Until next time,

Ciao.

But today and yesterday I’ve felt pretty nauseous in the morning. And I don’t think it’s the MSM as I’ve been careful with how much of that I’m taking now.

I got better later in the day, and went for a walk in the sun at lunchtime - the weather’s been absolutely fantastic here recently, it’s like summer again really.

By the end of the day though, I slipped into a pretty bad low. Don’t know where it came from, but I felt like, well, shit. really low. Once again my wife helped me through this and we had a good chat for a couple of hours, which helped me get a little perpsective.

I’ve found that that’s usually the difference between feeling good and bad - perpective. Quite often not that much, if anything has changed, just your perspective, and if you can keep a handle on that, it helps get you through the lows. My wife helped my find my perspective.

Hopefully i can keep it for a while.

My sugar was 4.8 this morning, no double checking or anyting this time.

I went for a bike ride with Bailey the genius dog at lunch time and I think that made me feel a little better to - getting out in the sun - it was a really nice day.

I’ve taken to drinking my juice on the deck out in the sun, gets me out of the basement and my computer screen and into the world. Feels good.

Anyway a friend of mine managed to grab a copy of Soul Calibur IV from Calgary today so I played that in the evening - thoroughly enjoyable.

5.0 - How’s that? fair enough. I think so.

It was a day of work mostly, picked up some more Kale and cucumbers from a local supplier and shoved them in the fridge.

Nice evening, had a round of disc golf, followed by some Halo 3.

Off to bobos right now though, knackered.

A domani…

Went for a bike ride with my wife today and played golf, or walked around a big field trying to hit a ball into lots of holes - probably more like the second one. I’m not very good at it, but I enjoy it, and it was a lovely day so there you go.

I think it’s time to up the juice load now though, I’m not feeling like I’ve got a lot of energy, and I think I should at least be feeling a little bit more tip top than I am.

Oh yeah I should mention that I had a dream last night that I was in some kind of outdoor cafe… somewhere, not sure where and I was chweing some green vegetable and eating bread or a croissant or something. Then I realised what I was doing and was thinking (in my dream) “Shit! I only made it to two weeks and I’m eating bread! I’ve blown it!”

Make of that what you will…

Anyway, off to play scrabble with the fam.

Ciao.

I’m taking this supplement while I’m juice feasting called MSM and you’re supposed to take between a 3rd of a teaspoon and 1 teaspoon full (as I understand it). I’m taking it as an anti inflammatory. Anyway, when you take a bit too much, and I mean a bit, you feel like shit. Well I do anyway.

So that’s how I felt this morning after taking a little bit too much.

On a great note, my sugar this morning was 4.5 so things are looking steady now which is, well it’s great, and that’s an understatement.

Still not much energy today though, went for a bike ride into town, and it was hard work. When we got into town guess what was on?

Only the yearly celebration of FOOD that is “Taste of Fernie”. Damn!

Oh well, there’s always next year

My sugar this morning was 4.8 - Still good.

I’m going to try and get a graph setup on here and I’m also going to link to a video and website that are key to this journey.

I played a bit of tennis with my wife today and felt pretty low on gas if you know what I mean> Maybe, I’m thinking, it’s time to up the amount of juice I’m having a day?

It’s time for bed now, and I’m a little hungry, so yeah, maybe it is time.

Good night.

Oh… 4.2! It was actually 4.1 the first time I read it, so I checked it again and it was 4.2. Damn fine!

I’m (hopefully) going to be playing squash later today, so we’ll see how I cope with that.

I think it’s getting easier, but I’m not going to get complacent because there’s plenty of lovely looking food lying around the house to tempt me…so one day at a time.

The book that I’ve been reading and following for this juice feast is:

There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+Program

It’s by Dr. Gabriel Cousens and David Rainoshek

However…My sugar this morning was 4.9! Good times.

I didn’t do much Yoga this morning, just a bit of stretching.

I am definitely starting to feel better in myself though - gotta say. I felt pretty positive all day.

I’m still only drinking about half of what’s been prescribed in the book that I’m following, but when I get hungry, I have another drink, and then I’m not hungry, so it seems to be an OK amount for me.

Also, my serrapeptase enzyme tablets came today, so I’ve started taking those to. They’re supposed to help with inflammation (internal).

Well that’s it from me - goodnight and sleep well. Hopefully I will too

I’ve still got a sore throat though, don’t what that’s all about. Too much Alkaline Veggie Juice? I hope not because that means I’ll have a sore throat for 3 months.

I felt absolutely awful this morning. Headache, my more is sore inside, it was sore yesterday and the day before, but it’s getting worse. When I swallow at night in my sleep, it wakes me up. Great fun!

I felt really tired this morning and just didn’t want to get up, my voice was pretty hoarse too, so maybe there’ another thing to look forward to eh?

Anyway, I got up about an hour and a half later than I should have, did the do and started getting on with the day.

Good news: sugar was 5.8

Bad news: The roof of my mouth is killing me

Sugar this morning was 6.7, same as yesterday, but thinking about it those readings have been taken a little later the the preceding ones. It is the weekend after all.

The last couple of days, I’ve seemed to have more energy at bed time than in the afternoon. For example I have enough energy to do a few situps etc. at bed time, whereas in the afternoon if I stand up too fast I feel so light headed it’s crazy.

As a good friend of mine likes to say: Go Figure!

Sugar this morning was 6.7, so up a bit from yesterday but still good. I think (and hope) it’s going to go like that but in a downward trend.

Today was a pretty emotional day too.

I cried for the first time in years.

Thankfully my wife was here to help me through today, nothing wrong with the juicing side of things but my head, as a good friend of my says, was “fucked into a cocked hat”.

We all had a nice afternoon and evening though, so a nice end to the day.

I almost forgot. I had a dream last night that my family and I all went out for a lovely roast dinner and it was great, then I realised that I was still on a juice feast and felt really guilty.

Got up and did the do. Sugar this morning was 5.8. Yes!

Feel pretty crap again today though, hey ho, got to keep holding on.

It also now seems that the slightest bit of exertion gives me a dizzy headrush feeling. Oh well.

Again, I didn’t take any insulin last night, so that’s still good. I actually went to the theatre in Fernie last night and saw Pineapple Express with a friend - fantastic! What a movie, If you get a chance, go and see it.

I felt pretty nauseous again this morning after my first juice, but hey, what are you gonna do?

No insulin again last night, and this morning my blood sugar?

6.0 Good stuff.

As I write this though I’m feeling pretty nauseous, so I think it’s time for a peppermint tea.

I woke at 6:45 and immediately hit the snooze button. I actually did feel like I was sleeping “properly” this morning though, as opposed to the really light, non refreshing sleep I’ve been having, so tonight should be good.

Anyway, on with the routine, enema done, bit of yoga / stretching.

Blood sugar this morning was 9.7.

Insulin units taken last night: 0 - That’s right I didn’t take any.

Juicing this morning wasn’t good though, I felt like I was gonna puke just thinking about drinking the green, but I didn’t. But i did make half as much juice as yesterday.

Yesterday I made 4.4 quarts of juice, today I made 2.2, figuring I’m gonna vom anymore than that up anyway.

So, I got up at 6:45 or thereabouts and went downstairs to drink my quart of water. That’s was harder than I thought it was gonna be, turns out a queart of water is quite a bit.

And then… yeah, well then I had the enema. It’s to help clear your system of all the toxins that are gonna come out.

Once the enema was done I did a bit a yoga,  just about 10 minutes or so and then moved onto the main event, the juicing.

I was supposed to be drinking my first juice by 7:30am, turns out it took longer to juice the veggies than I thought. I was done juicing and tidying up just after 8:30am - probably about an hour of juicing.

So we’ll call it 8:30am for my first juice.

I had my last juice at 5:30, it was supposed to be at 7:00pm but I couldn’t stomach any more. literally.

I went to bed at 6pm feeling really ill, and before I got there I was sick, green. Nice.

I had a hammering headache and managed to sleep for a couple of hours. I got back up at around 8pm and had a cup of red bush (rooibos) tea. Again with the headache. Do you remember the Chinese TV series called “Monkey”?  Well if monkey misbehaved the priest Tripetaka did some chant that shrunk the golden crown mokey wore. That’s what it felt like. Like there was a band around my head being tightened and tightened.

Once again with the vomit at around 10pm, and with every puke, the crown tightened, the headache was worse.

Got to say, after a pretty good start, day #1 sucked big time.

Almost forgot: I took 16 unitsof insulin the night before (August 31st) and had a blood sugar of 14.0 this morning.