23 Days: no solid food, no "protein", just liquids...

Thoughts

I write this at the end of day 23 of my solid food vacation. Most of my eliminations (in the toilet) have been liquid filth with stool that looks more like little sedimentary rocks. The kind you would find at the bottom of the river. One day they were quite green, an unbelievable green. Like play dough. This is most likely from the juices.

I noticed that when I drink vegetable juices, this is much like taking an enema; however, the "water" does not enter through my rectum, but instead, the water first goes through my food tube. My throat :)

On the other hand, when I have fruit juices, I am filled with energy. Also, my eliminations are typically only urinary. I find this to be interesting that the juiced herbs and vegetables are an item that my body wants to eliminate through a watery elimination exiting the colon, yet the fruit juice eliminations go straight to my blood and are eliminated by the kidneys.

Last year's juice fast

Compared to last year's juice fast, I am physically much stronger. Last year I started a juice fast on September 1st, weighing 144.4 lbs. If you're wondering, I use the Withings digital scale. That app automatically stores and records my weight and BMI (body mass index), so I am able to look back in time and see my weight.

Anyways, that was my first 60-day juice fast. I started at 144.4 lbs and got down to about 114 lbs after 15 days of transitional re-feeding--this "re-feeding" is so that you can comfortably eat solid foods again. I lost about 30 lbs, and I was pretty weak, physically.

Physical Progress

Now, I can almost do a hand stand. Head stands are super easy now, and I can do them fluidly, slowly, and with great confidence.

As for my exercise routine, it is basically the same: about 5 minutes of exercise every 2-3 days. Instead of doing 1 or 2 types of push-ups, I'll do all of the different types of push-ups that I like to do, totaling about 64 push-ups. I also do planks longer, which is more than 1 minute and sometimes 2 minutes.

I started this fast at 130 lbs, and I am now down to 115 lbs. Clearly I am not losing muscle.

The last ~4 days of fasting...

I am definitely still eliminating old, ancient fecal matter. Lately I've drank a lot of juices based on parsley, lemon, and ginger, and this has helped. Today I had a drink made popular by Lou Corona and Dan McDonald called the "Lemon Ginger Blast". I forgot to add the ginger, so you can just call this the "Lemon Blast", and yes...there was a blast later. Someone turned up the heat in my guts @.@

Lemon Ginger Blast -- minus the ginger...

• 1 cucumber
• 1 bunch of dandelion leaves
• 1 bunch of cilantro
• 1 bunch of parsley
• 1 habanero pepper
• 1 lemon
• 2 granny smith apples

And here's more pictures of me being happy, lively, and enjoying the process :)