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.
Well I started the day with a lovely lie - in, and I really needed it after yesterday’s activities.
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.
Bloody Hell! Day 90. I can hardly believe what I’m typing. Man this has been a long journey, and even though people who’ve juice feasted for 92 days have said that it actually went by pretty quickly, I didn’t believe them - well I wouldn’t would I?
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.
After a delicious 3 hours sleep, yes, 3, my sugars this morning were 3.9
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
Well, I failed again to deliver a video, but I did try. As I write this, the application I was using to record and edit the movie just crashed, so as they say in Sweden: “Sod that for a game of soldiers.” It’s almost midnight and I’m ready for bed so I’ll do one tomorrow, I promise.
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.
My sugars this morning were dead on 4.0, who could ask for mo-. No I’m not going to do it.
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.
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.
Hi, I'm Chris Sherry, and I live in Fernie, BC in the Canadian Rockies.
I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes in May 2002 and have been trying all sorts of different things since then to live with it.
On September 1st 2008 I embarked on a 92 day Juice Feast.
