36 hours to go!

I have just enjoyed a very wholesome breakfast, yet I have been trying to cut down on quantities which meant one bowl of muesli instead of two.

Weleda Birch Extract is another delicacy I have been sampling. It is an elixir made of birch tree leaves laced with lemon. It is supposed to help flush out the toxins. Another less elegant sounding remedy I'm using profilactically is psyllium husk, which alledgedly helps spring clean the good old colon.

Tomorrow, on my parents' wedding anniversary, I am meeting up with my dad, brothers and sister in Ostend. We will be eating out together. I'm not sure what I should do. I suppose a small salad might be a good food on the day before my fast starts.

There is this lingering feeling that I am moving into this fast slightly unprepared. But I doubt I'll do myself any injury and it will be educational feeling hunger properly for the first time, although I suppose I have kind of felt hungry before. When I volunteered in an orphanage in Belarus, we weren't being fed properly and I remember thinking of food all the time. I'm curious if this will be similar.

Five Days to Go!

I am stuffing my face as I am typing. Food is good. I feel somewhat like a hamster with fluffy, full cheeks. Rice cakes are nice for noisy nibbling whilst your thoughts are elsewhere.

I can't help wondering what I have let myself in for. Next Friday I am starting a week-long Fast. I'm taking a week off work and will immerse myself in the joys of ascetic living.

You might be curious what it feels like to fast and I might feel the overwhelming desire to complain, whinge and discuss the salubrious, sacral and savage details with you, my dear Friends.