Failure or Victory? Are there such things in detoxification?
In this blog I would like to be as honest as possible and reveal some of the dark sides of raw food diet. And lift the curtains of positive blogs all over the internet.
I have ended my juice fast on the 5th day in the evening. First 4 days were absolutely fine, heavy detox, my tong was covered in white mucus and I had the same on my teeth. It wasn't pleasant. I had mood swings and I also was feeling waves of energy and waves of weakness during my 4th day.
So what happened on the 5th day of my juice fast and why I decided to break it?
I woke up as usual around 9am and had my glass of water with lemon, with a bit of added honey. Then I juiced my lovely oranges as usual and was enjoying them. We decided to go for a walk, as in London, UK finally we had rays of sun, I juiced my apples. It was about 1pm and I was feeling a bit anxious. I did not had much appetite, but had severe cravings for smoked salmon and bread with butter. Oh yes... And cravings started to come out the night before. I coped for the whole day, and at around 3.30pm I decided to have my juice. After about half a bottle I felt nausea and could not drink the juice anymore. We walked around our favorite Brick Lane and decided to go home. On the way back I bought some bananas because I decided to make a smoothie when we are back home. Just thinking about juice made me nauseous!!!!
At home I had my favorite banana apple cacao smoothie, and it felt great! Well, for sometime. As it was nearing evening time I felt weaker and weaker, had tears in my eyes and I was not very stable. I did not feel very hungry but I craved to eat something. It went on for a while. All this time I was sipping my herbal tea and it felt like it was helping. I couldn't think about any juice as nausea would come up straight away. Then at around 6-7pm my body started shaking and I could feel that I can't hold my cup of tea, and I was very close to passing out with vision blackout. I got scared! And now as I am writing, i can see that these were detox symptoms that I was waiting for, and ideally I should have gone to bed to sleep. Anyway, I was roaming around the house not knowing what I need to or what I want to do. I decided that I need to balance myself out somehow.I got out white cabbage and cooked it with carrots and a bit of spices and immediately I felt better. Well also my detox stopped at that point.
The next morning on Monday I felt very hungry as soon as I woke up. I had four bananas before I got to the office and then the whole day I was munching on some grapes, blueberries and hazelnuts. In the evening I had the same cabbage dinner as the night before and (terribly!!!) I had some plain crackers (store bought, not raw).
On the other hand, I noticed that I don't eat as much as I used to and my appetite is regulated somehow.
In conclusion I can say that every time I do a juice fast it throws me back to cooked food. I always crack in the middle! However, I am very proud that I did 5 full days on juices only, and next time it will be even better. It can be that morally I am not really ready for deep detox at this moment. What could have happened is that I forced my body into this detox and actually could not tolerate this level. There is so much to learn on this path to ultimate health!
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