Feel Good Project day 33

Fast day 3 was successful.

It seems like day 3 is always the magical number in my fasts where I kind of cross over to not thinking much about food throughout the day. This day is always a hard decision day as to whether to keep going or choose to add food back in.

I truly felt as if I could have kept going no problem as I got into a pretty good routine. BUT I decided to end the fast at dinner tonight (as it had officially been three days from when I started at this meal) with a sense of satisfaction in what I accomplished.

Felt overall lighter, less digestive discomfort and less inflamed. That was my hopes in this and that’s what I achieved. 🙂

What I find challenging is not feeling guilty about choosing to eat again. I always ask myself if I should keep going longer as I feel SO great when I am doing it. Then reality sets in though and I am reminded I cannot live off of bone broth and juices forever, and need to not stay on the juice fast just because I am afraid to eat again as I might have some challenges come back.

So, I actually decided to break this fast differently than other times.

With all of this new information I have been receiving lately about histamine/sulphur/thiol problem causing foods, I originally planned on keeping those foods at a complete distance for weeks and months to come, to really give my body a chance to see how it felt without consuming items from these lists.

Justin brought up a great idea today though, which was why not use this fast as a means of clearing out old problems, giving my digestion a rest, and then adding back in a few choice foods that I have been on the fence about for awhile now.

Foods like the One World Whey protein powder and sweet potatoes just to name a few. I am not sure with those foods if THEY were the root problem, or if it could possibly be other foods that I was eating around the same time as those.

It’s so complicated, as most of us eat so many things mixed together in a day that it becomes truly hard to really get a gauge on what exactly the offending item might be.

SO, after some deliberation and discussion with Justin (he sure knows a thing or two:), I decided I would use this fast as an experiment to slowly add things back in one by one and give my body enough time in between additions to really get some reactions (in both good or bad ways).

When I make decisions these days, I seem to jump ALL in, and this decision was no different. I decided to make my first experiment be with the whey powder. So at 4pm this afternoon I took a full scoop of it and blended it into water with a tiny bit of coconut cream (coconut water blended with the flesh only) and down the hatch it went.

This seemed to be the only way to truly know if I was intolerant of this whey that I so love! To be honest, I was a bit nervous, as I have been feeling so great, I didn’t want to start feeling crappy.

After about 10 minutes I had the feeling of nausea and I got really shaky, but this faded withing minutes thank God. No bloating of the stomach, no hurting organs. No gas or burping-so I believe this nausea would have come from eating just about anything other than broth and juice.

It was as if my system didn’t know what to do with this foreign substance, and it soon settled down.

Hmmmm. I am still not sure and will experiment around with it again tomorrow to see how I continue to feel when I add more back in. This is honestly one big guessing experiment, and I am just as clueless about the outcome as anyone. Who Knows!?

There most definetly is a list of certain foods I do NOT plan on experimenting with though as I know without a doubt they will do me no good, at least for now until I am more healed up.

I waited three hours after the whey and then added in some homemade chicken vegetable soup I had been slow cooking all day with the extra broth from the fast.

Eating SLOW was the name of the game with more solid food.

I felt a bit like I did with the whey at the beginning, so I put the bowl down and waited for the slight nausea to pass, which it did. About a half hour of slowly sipping my soup and I felt great.

Wonderful way to ease back into the world of food in my opinion.

Realizing I still had a lot of fear involved in this process was surprising to say the least, as I thought this time around was going to be different. I know there is still work to be done there, which was happy to have light shed upon these issues.

Feels satisfying to be able to eat again, and I will continue to document this journey of mine and watch where it takes me from here…

FEEL GOOD MOMENT OF THE DAY: Having enough soup to be able to share with a friend who came over that is single and probably has not had a home cooked meal in awhile if I had to guess. I LOVE that God blesses me with MORE than enough to be able to share with people. I really do love to GIVE. In fact, this might be the best way in which I feel good.

P.S. Oh yea-and the glorious RAIN all day again! This keeps getting better! Christmas and coziness in the air…