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.
My sugars this morning were 4.4 again, and I had a lie in this morning - after a late night last night, so that’s not too bad.
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.
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.
My sugars this morning were 4.2 - Up from the last few days but still good. Maybe it’s because yesterday, I drank almost double what I have been drinking? I don’t know but it’s still good.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
