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.