Three Days a Charm/ Day Four Feelin' Fine

I didn't post yesterday. Not intentionally, I guess I just filled up my day more than I realized. I hit the hay hard last night.

Yesterday, Day Three, started out rough. I had this weird "mental fog". I began researching it and came across some ideas about feeding bacteria with fruit juices... Candida something... Well no sooner was I 15 tabs thick in research did my brain fog magically lift. It was interesting... Haven't experienced it since. I was starting to get paranoid about what I'm putting my poor body through- detoxing 29 years of crap- and maybe it couldn't handle it... But I guess it wanted to prove I was just fine and the body knows how to care for itself- especially given a rush of vitamins and minerals. Come dinner time, which was an amazing combination of like 12 vegetables (thanks to Chef Michael), I felt fantastic. I couldn't stop noticing how AMAZING I felt. We were watching a movie and I just felt so alive. I felt like I was experiencing everything at a whole new level. It was really cool.

The move we watched was The Apostle... one of Michael's favorites. Robert Duvall is a pastor whose humanity (which I guess he embraces more than the average person) leaves him wifeless, childless and with a warrant out for his arrest. It was interesting... As a Christian, I was kinda upset at first- the guy is a fighter, a flirt, and runs from his choices AND wanted to call himself a Christian?- but it was those very things that helped me really appreciate the movie. He was human. He embraced who he was- very flesh, but very spiritual- the average Christian should resonate with that. He builds up a church in the middle of nowhere, changes most of the lives of the people that encounter him, and ultimately balances being true to himself and God. It had multiple fantastic scenes that had you fired up or crying. I like for a movie to move me. It was awesome. I would totally give it a 4.75/5- only because 5/5's should be reserved...

Rewind to lunch... Michael and I had the idea that we wanted to "go out for lunch" by finding a cool juice bar. Well the Interwebs led us to the Lemon Street Market in Lancaster. We were pumped because it advertised itself as a co-op, a juice bar, an espresso bar and a healthy grocer and listed multiple products they had- right up our alley. I called LaToya and she was game to join us. Michael and I were starving, but thrilled. We get there and there is NO JUICE BAR!! Not only that, but.. and this is just a HUGE pet peeve of mine... the woman working there spent the first 10 minutes of our time there trying really hard to help this good-looking gent. When she wasn't able to help him and he left, I had to go up to her and inquire about the juice bar, just to clarify. She did apologize that it was on the website. They intended to have one, but it fell through. I advised she let the web designer know to change that. She then said she was sorry, but they didn't have ANYTHING along those lines. We decided to browse anyway and within 5 minutes, Michael walked up to me with a home-made organic vegetable soup- which contained all veggies and salt (unfortunately). As a sales person, who was running around frantically trying to help the gent before us, she could of at least attempted to help us or sell us SOMETHING... ARG! Sorry... just venting. Anyways... we thought we still found a goldmine for when we enter into "normalcy". The home-made veggie soup was really good. We could tell immediately that there was too much salt, but we were in a bad situation. We had to eat something. Home was now another 45 minutes away... Ah well... I'm learning that I looove the taste of raw fruits and vegetables. I didn't like the salt content. Yay. This is working!

We rounded up our journey to Lancaster by going to That Fish Place. We like to torment ourselves with all the animals we are not allowed to have with renting. Gosh, I fell in love with 3 of the cats. Just a few moments of petting them and I felt my stress go down... I've read multiple places that cat ladies live FOREVER... I want to be one, and married. :-)

I woke up today at 8 AM feeling very alive. I Tumblr-ed in bed until Michael started stirring. We had yummy fruit juice again for breakfast with green and red grapes, cantaloupe, pineapple, and cherries. We mixed in a little C-Monster and 'legit' orange juice. It was fantastic. For our walk today, we went to Rails to Trails on our way to the Mennonite stores. It was really nice out today. We walked for half an hour, then proceeded to BB's. I got my bottled lemon juice, which I'm probably addicted to... but I can't drink water without it... and it encourages me to drink a whoooole lot, which is helpful at this time and lemons are great for detoxing. We were on our way to Horning's and found an awesome little roadside market, we think is called Zimmies? It had gorgeous tomatoes and locally-grown strawberries. We ate the strawberries for lunch. We know! We shouldn't be doing that... but we are still trying to work around needing to be home to juice without exception. We don't want to be too rigid or we'd drop it as soon as we had one blip. They were realllly good. At Horning's we really lucked out- mangoes were .25 cents each (organic), green peppers were 2/$1, red and orange peppers were 3/$1, we got peppermint and hot and spicy oregano for $1.50 each, we got turnips and cucumbers- probably like 25 lbs of fruits and veggies for $18. It was awesome. We came home and tested the mangoes and they were to die for! Yum! Dessert right from the Hand of God... literally.

That's something that I've been thinking about a lot. When I snack after this fast, I want to crave a chilled mango. I want to yearn for one-bite-sized strawberries. I want to pine after a pineapple. I'm certain that will happen. This "experiment" of sorts, in just 4 days, has taught me to appreciate what God has provided from the earth. He's given us everything we NEED to nourish our bodies with nature. What a wonderful God!

Michael got kinda grouchy, but he's so awesome- he announced it, it lasted like 5 minutes, then he had himself laughing. I'm a lucky lady. :-)

Tonight after our dinner, we are heading to Sue's house to play games. I'm excited. Should be a good time focused on each other instead of food. Man... Sue knows how to cook. I hope and pray she has everything put away by the time we get there!