Day 41

Ugh, that's a busy day & one before the last one... ;-) Up at 6:45, tired; lunch bag for Berry; shower & moisturizing; my hubby made my orange juice & moisturized my skin; goodbye hug & kiss; clothes on; out, driving my Corsa to her yearly maintenance; walking back home for some "dental calculations" in order to decide how to proceed with restoration of my teeth; dentist appointment; back home for a mid morning juice; out again, this time to my "yesterday's RDV" with my gineco for a regular yearly checkup (I was waiting for it almost 2 hours); back home well after two o'clock, greeting Aida, showing her around (she's replacing Sonia, our cleaning lady, who's on vacation 'til August) ... and out again, not to be under her feet. Where to? No clue.

I was not going far, just walking through the main Brussels shopping area (we live right next to it), trying on some shorts but finally bought nothing; apart of two body butters at Body Shop as my skin is still reddish, my dentifrice & breakfast bread for Berry. Opel Bert called me before five and I picked up my Corsita soon afterwards. Back home, I decided to make my first raw food cake ever, despite all. When I was putting it together (mixed almonds & dates as a cake base (dough), mango smoothie on it, and raspberries for decoration), Veerle finally called back. I invited her to come over in the evening, to try this - hopefully delicious - cake & see her at least for a while. Berry was late (again), but he got a mixed salad (mix of young salad leaves with ruccola, spinach & finely cut tomatoes, as well as pinons, pumpkin seeds & baroque dressing) with small toasted tempeh chunks (natural & smoked) for dinner anyway. ;-) Observing him, I could see & say it was delicious, kissing him, I could also taste at least a bit of my salad dressing. ;-) When Veerle, came soon after eight, I repeated mixed salad exercise for her too. We were talking about a lot & about all but mainly about us, I didn't forget to serve my newly discovered mango cake (apparently delicious - I'll be able to try a tinny piece of it tomorrow), and we just continued with our interesting, vivid & at times touching discussion almost until midnight. I really liked it!

• Humor: Moderate • Feeling: Worn out but OK • Hungry: No
• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (280 ml), red raisins juice (400 ml)
• Veggie juices: Carrot juice (350 ml), tomatoes, green pepper, spinach, young onions, basil, thyme, parsley & garlic clove (400 ml) 
• Photo above: Midnight moon from our bedroom (by Berry)  
• Walking: Four hours for sure • Special treats: Berry moisturized almost my entire body 
• Max. daytime temperature: 27° C • Weather: Fair, cloudy, sunny, fair... night.

Day 40

Wow, it was precisely 5:55 a.m. when I came to our kitchen! Another sunny day, smoggy as well. This is really awful in Brussels: we eventually get more sunny days in a row (unbelievable), and than smog cover just gets thicker & thicker, so we have less and less air, as well as less and less sun, but it's getting hotter & more humid... Anyway, my teas were done first; no juice for breakfast as I need to leave some blood in the lab before 9; lunch bag for my hubby; who later moisturized everything before leaving for work, not only my skin... ;-) C'mon, it's hard to resist, sometimes literally impossible. Which is definitely cool. We all could & should make love more often, as well as go with a flow regularly. Well, no complaints, today started in a perfect manner indeed! 

Some browsing & blogging before walking to the lab & back home where plumber needed my assistance for few minutes; and than to the Post office to pick up my copy of just published revised edition of  Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom that each adult woman should read & have at home (I gave its first edition to Sara). I went back home, to deposit this heavy book, turned around right away, and went to my gynaecologist; only to find out that my RDV was cancelled but they couldn't reach me (wrong phone number in their database) - postponed only until tomorrow. Nope, no pre-sales shopping, resting at home was what I really needed; so much action & walking before 11 a.m., and no breakfast nor juice, made me tired.

Exhausted, I was also feeling quite blue in the early afternoon... so I went for a sure mood boost and let Kathy made my hair fresh & curly! I felt better even before I left the hairdresser salon where she works. And back home, I really liked my smiley, slightly tanned face in the mirror, so I decided to take some photos of it; if for nothing else, for this blog. What, Sara was and is doing that all the time, why couldn't I try as well, with this sophisticated Berry's camera? ;-) Wow, I was seriously surprised! Not in a good way. I was browsing & staring at twenty photos in a complete unsettling disbelief, and I had some hard time to chose the one that looked less awful to me. Who is this old lady with a big nose?!? OK, sun was into my face, but... Ugh, do I really look that old?!? All the time? At nearly & only 46? Even before I lost 11 kilos and before my fasting cure? Anyway, I have quite a different picture of my face in my mind & I look back at me with a different face from mirrors: with a lighter, smoother, younger face, and I don't see nor feel me as old as I look here. What have I missed?! I need a hug!!!

PS: Know what? When Berry came home I showed him those photos. He said that he hasn't that kind of face in front of him, that he doesn't see me like that neither, and that none of them should be publicly shared, so I decided to remove that awful photo. Mateja, your photos are the best!

You know, I'm glad my fasting cure ends in two days! Otherwise I'd need to end it beforehand. I have had it! I have enough! I have enough of herbal teas (I dropped four of them already few days ago) and purest juices possible! I have enough of only liquid for some time! And at this point, I'll keep it going only out of sheer stubbornness. I so miss tasting food, eating & chewing you can't even imagine; when I make juices, I dream of fruit pieces melting in my mouth; since yesterday, I'm planning dinners for Berry but I simply can't make them (he went out to fetch him two kebabs & fries today), although, lunch bags are still OK (for tomorrow, I've made him four sandwiches with herring & onion, and he'll chose a box of fruit he'll prefer); I miss cooking food for our chatting lunches & dinners side by side; I miss eating out & am eager to finally have a lovely dinner at Tan; my humor is like yo-yo but basically going downwards; my energy level seems to hit the bottom... All I'd like to do around noons is to return to bed, sleep all over... and cheerfully wake up into one sunny after-fasting day, without goiter & with nodule free thyroid gland! Amen!

• Humor: Good (in the morning) • Feeling: Quite fine (in the morning) • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas: Sage tea and pimpernel leaves tea • Fruit juices: Pineapple juice (290 ml), watermelon juice (650 ml)
• Berry's veggie juice: Tomatoes, carrot, a bit of green pepper & kohlrabi, spinach, ruccola, young onions, basil, parsley & garlic clove (250 ml)  
• Walking: Three hours • Special treats: Berry moisturized & satisfied my entire body in the morning; hairdresser & curly head
• Morning: 17° C • Max. daytime temperature: 27° C • Weather: Fair (cloudy & sunny)

Day 39

Up at seven; lunch box for my hubby; moisturizing my sunburned body; goodbye hug & kiss; my teas & orange juice; some chores; and until dentist, laptopping a bit and reading a great & entertaining book I've started yesterday, The Female Brain... 

Back from dentist for a fresh juice, and out for some chores & shopping. Kathy (my hairdresser, young, lovely & kind Turkish woman) wasn't working today, so I might go curly tomorrow... ;-) Two and a half hours later, I came back home with some new goodies, just in time to turn around for a RDV with a control dentist at work. He approved all works that dr. Kosa (our dentist) put on her quotation. Cool. And bloody expensive. Ugh, I'll see how to handle all these reconstruction works & how to combine them with my other dentist in Brežice. Not an easy one; the choice & planning of this. Afterward, I was slowly walking back home, enjoying this hot summer afternoon, checking few shops bu I bought only spinach for our veggie juice. Result? I was exhausted. And couldn't do anything any more. No energy for Berry's dinner either. Lady, you'd still need to pace slower & less at times...

• Humor: Moderate • Feeling: Tired & a bit blue • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas: St. John's wort, peppermint & balm tea mix, and pimpernel leaves tea
• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (210 ml), watermelon juice (700 ml), red raisins juice (450 ml) 
• Veggie juice by Berry: Tomatoes, carrots, green pepper, spinach, alfalfa sprouts, young onions, basil, thyme & garlic clove (delicious; 450 ml) 
• Walking: More than four hours • Special treat: Berry moisturized almost my entire body in the morning, and all of it in the evening
• Morning: 19° C • Max. daytime temperature: 29° C • Weather: Sunny & smoggy

Day 38

Awake at 6, out of bed a bit later; laundry; my orange juice by Berry; cooking his lunch (veggie steaks & common beans in a salad) as we're going with bikes to Cadzand; my teas; snack bags for Berry at work (pecan nuts, pistachios, salted cashew nuts); shower & all; walking to & from Marché du Midi with a lot of fruits & veggies. When back home, I was already quite tired after that two and a half hours walk, therefore we decided to go to the coast without bikes & just enjoy a day & company of each other. Berry made my juices, I packed our stuff, and we left a bit after noon. We came back before 22h, after a great, sunny, hot & zen afternoon on the Cadzand beach which resulted in my red skin almost all over (Berry has only a reddish face), it hurts a bit as well, but despite that I feel great & relaxed. It's obvious I'm not used to regular sunbathing at the beach any longer. It's been nine years since my last seaside vacation (living a year in Alicante in Spain doesn't count - it's not entirely the same as being on vacation)!!! Well, if my skin recovers until 1st July (which I doubt a bit), I might return to the same beach to celebrate the last day of my fasting cure... ;-)

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Quite fine • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas: Sage tea and pimpernel leaves tea 
• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (220 ml), apple juice (550 ml), canary melon juice (700 ml)
• Veggie juice: Tomatoes, "tricolori" peppers, cucumber, spinach, young onion, basil, thyme & garlic clove (550 ml)
• Walking: Three hours • Special treat: Berry moisturized almost my entire body; afternoon on the beach
• Morning: 15° C • Max. daytime temperature: 29° C • Weather: Fair (cloudy & sunny)

Day 37 & 5 days to go

Good morning around 7 a.m.; shower; wiping water off my body, I discovered a patch of urticaria on my arm (?!); my teas & orange juice; moisturizing; some chores, blogging & waiting for two geobiologists' visit (géobiologie) to check our tinny apartment. They came on time, checked thoroughly the place, were surprised that the apartment was so "clean" & quite energetic, and all they've installed were three "geomag" blockers (one for our electrical system, one to block pulsing of RTBL antenna, and one to block pulsing of a nearby mobile phone base station). I felt the effect right away - the energy level in the apartment quite increased. Hopefully that won't disturb us too much nor our sleep within next few days. And while chatting, I was reminded that I could regularly reiki clean what they can't handle nor block: influences that come from people living in the building (!), below, above & next to our apartment. Ugh! Why do we so often keep forgetting about beneficial stuff we know and it works or useful skills we've acquired?! I tend to hope it's not just laziness... ;-)

Later, we went out to buy three radiators and to stop at Berry's house to fetch some tools & stuff he needs at renovation site. While Berry was searching for all what's needed, I was picking lavender & daisies into two lovely bouquets... ;-) We made a stop at Bio Planet store as Berry wanted to see where & how it is, and bought some delicious goodies for him. When coming out of it, I was struck with a stomachache & I realized I was hungry. And a slight headache installed when we were driving home. Shall I stop this fasting few days before foreseen? Or not? Doubts, those persistent tinny doubts whether I'm doing the right thing etc... Coming home, my attentive hubby made me a delicious carrot juice that fought stomachache right away, and headache evaporated soon afterwards. Berry was eating dinner he made & browsing for "new" movies, I was reading old Slovenian magazines. Later, he made me another juice & we were scotched to our laptops for few hours. Until we finally decided not to watch a movie but rather go to bed before 23h.

• Humor:Good • Feeling: Quite fine • Hungry: In the afternoon as I didn't drink enough • Headache: After the hunger but not for long
• Herbal teas: Sage tea, Angelica tea, and pimpernel leaves tea • Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (260 ml), apple juice (400 ml)
• Veggie juices: Carrot juice (300 ml), juice of tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, ruccola, spinach, young onion, basil, thyme & garlic clove (700 ml)
• Supplement: One BiOmega • Special treat: Berry moisturized almost my entire body; picking flowers; a bit of sunbathing in the evening
• Morning: 15° C • Max. daytime temperature: 27° C • Weather: Fair (cloudy & sunny)

Day 36

Kisses woke me up around 6... but I stayed tucked in for a half an hour more; olive oil pulling when making my teas as - ugh - there was no hot water to take a shower (third time in a month); lunch box for my hubby (cauliflower with a delicious dressing & three small, juicy & nyami sandwiches); goodbye hug & kisses; shower; pondering over whether I really have a toothache or this tooth is just not settled yet; FB & blogging... Hey, it's a measurements day, and Berry left already! Cool, 10 kilos less in 35 days... It's not too much off; still in "health line"! I really like this side effect of my juice fasting cure... ;-)

Nowadays, I might be a false blond indeed... but I have the impression that some things just stay impregnated in one's life... ;-) Go figure, I needed almost the whole cure - more than thirty days - to realize that leftovers, foam & particles of my fruit juices could be used for at least facial masques. C'mon, not when Berry is at home, let's keep some stuff entirely private, but... ;-) Raisins' foam was on first, some pineapple mousse landed on my face later. And I cleaned my tongue in-between. Good girl! ;-)

Nothing special during rather cozy evening: fine dinner for my coming-home-late-hubby (carrot juice, veggie steaks & huge bowl of diverse green leaves with a delicious dressing), nice chat, veggie juice for both, as well as cuddling while watching quite poetic movie with a great soundtrack before going to bed around 23h - The Straight Story (1999). Wishing you a good night!

• 1st morning • 6th morning • 12th morning • 18th morning • 24th morning • 30th morning
• Weight: 55 kg • Waist around sacral (2nd) chakra: 76 cm • Low hips: 90 cm (wow, wasn't that once an ideal measure?!)
• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine... not really. Blue & tired • Hungry: No... but get me some food to eat & chew anyway!
• Herbal teas: Sage tea, Angelica tea, and pimpernel leaves tea • Smelly necklace: More than two hours
• Fruit juices: Orange juice (280 ml), white raisins juice (280 ml), pineapple juice (210 ml)
• Afternoon veggie juice: Carrot juice (300 ml) • Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies)
• Evening juice: Tomatoes, peppers, kohlrabi, celery, spinach, ruccola, alfalfa, young onions, parsley, basil, thyme & garlic clove (400 ml)
• Special treats: Short sunbathing session in the morning; two consecutive facial masques
• Morning: 15° C • Max. daytime temperature: 23° C • Weather: Sunny; partially cloudy/smoggy; cloudy; slightly sunny

Day 35 & one week to go


Awake around 5:30, out of bed before 6; shower & moisturizing; lunch bag for my hubby & my sage tea;  a map for Berry to get to Micheline & his first lymphatic drainage massage; my orange juice by him; clothes on; goodbye hug & kisses; blogging; greeting Sonia; some browsing & out to a busy day.

A quick shopping at Brico (support stick for my huge no-name plant with gorgeous leaves), an early appointment with my psy (back to work in July, part time), quick  food shopping at GB on my way to another appointment, to RDV with our control doctor at work (she doesn't let me come back to work on 1st July yet), and a quick, relaxing chat with a smoking Nat afterwards (I really miss her company, our talks & our laughter). In the meantime, Berry was SMSing me where I was. Bizarre (we rarely call or SMS one another). Only until my call back, around noon, when I was already driving home, when he was "obliged" to tell me... that he took a day off. Surprise! At such a busy day of mine? I love it & I love the way he handled it (he loved massage, his lymph is running smoothly; he was at Makro, checked our renovation site as well, and ate some stuff from lunch bag at home... but afterwards, he was getting lonely)! You bet I was "running" home! ;-) Later, after we made two juices for me (one for my lunch & one as my takeaway), we went together for my long awaited walk with Veerle & her dog. Along Brussels's canal, hot & sunny summer day, great company & an easygoing, fine chat. Back home, it became clear that these events & contents were too much for me today - at only 16h, I was feeling exhausted & completely drained. Moderation? Ugh...

• Humor: Moderate • Feeling: Fine • Hungry: No... although I'd really love to eat & chew!!!
• Herbal tea: Sage tea • Fruit juices: Orange juice (280 ml), Charentais melon juice (230 ml), apple juice (420 ml)
• Veggie juice: Tomatoes, peppers, iceberg salad, fennel, spinach, basil, thyme, garlic clove & young onion (400 ml)

• Walking: More than 2 ½ hours (with Veerle, her Sluffer & Berry)
• Special treat: Berry moisturized almost my entire body; interlaced & satisfied before a good night sleep... ;-) 
• Morning: 13° C • Max. daytime temperature: 26° C • Weather: Sunny

Day 34

Woke up before my alarm clock went on at 7:02; teeth & tongue cleaning; lunch box for Berry (a pot with two mozzarellas, tomatoes, lots of basil and spices & a pot with fruit salad); teas & orange juice for me; goodbye hug & kiss; shortly out to buy radiators & fetch a package at the Post; soon back for sunbathing & reading; some chores... waiting for 16:00 and decisive football matches. ;-) Hard to believe I couldn't care less for this game before & after each "copa mundial"... Nope, Slovenia isn't going to the next round ;-(

• Humor: Moderate • Feeling: A bit tired • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas: Sage tea, Angelica tea, and pimpernel leaves tea

• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (200 ml), pineapple juice (450 ml), canary melon juice (600 ml)
• Veggie juice: Carrot juice (300 ml) • Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies)
• Walking: Less than an hour • Special treats: Sunbathing in the morning & in the evening
• Max. daytime temperature: 26° C • Weather: Sunny & partially cloudy

Day 33

No lunch box for my hubby as he was the one who woke me up before leaving at 7:10. Well, I was awake at 7:02 but had no lust to go out of the bed, despite this gorgeously sunny day outside... I miss eating & chewing! And I wasn't sleeping enough.

At nine, I had my fourth colon hydrotherapy (and I'm more and more grateful for it), afterwards my consultation with dr. Henry.
Not literally and much longer, but here is more or less all the essential of her comments:
• "It's extremely rare that people fast for so long! Amazing!
• All vital signs OK, incl. blood pressure, and you haven't lost too much weight (for your age & size it's normal to have from 57 to 60 kilos).
• When you restart eating, go back really slowly (up to approx. 30 days), and try to stick to raw food as much as possible.
• Foodscreen is surprising - only three allergies! Parameters that are above 1 & below 18 - they don't mean that you're allergic to a certain food.
• It's strange that vitamin B12 is so high... vitamin D sometimes increases fast, sometimes really slowly.
• Vitamin A & cholesterol levels might be already fine because of your juice fasting cure.
• Omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids (28 May, page 2) are too low, so check & learn with which food to boost them when you restart eating.
• Thyroid gland parameters are all fine... My comment: As usual & all the time.
• Wow, that's most unusual: dopamine level so high and serotonin parameters low! I'll need to consult about & double check that...
• Excess of candida might be eliminated by now, but I propose an additional test (MOU - intestinal ecosystem) to get more data regarding it.
• Since you'll fast until 2/7, I'd propose you repeat some colon hydrotherapies (because of candida), we repeat blood & urine sampling for your vitamins & neurotransmitters, and check up more candida parameters. Arrange that at the end of your cure, and we'll get the report approx. two weeks later."

Berry came home soon after 18h again! I couldn't be more glad & grateful! Apart of all the rest, I'd seriously like to grow old with him, in good health & shape & with as less as stress possible! Thanks, Precious! I was enjoying sun, we were chatting, he met an electircian at renovation site, and later, he didn't want me to make any "decent" dinner for him, so he got his wish: a fresh fruit salad. A huge one. We were watching a half of Victoria Boutenko's second part of  12 Steps to Raw Foods as we were too tired... and went to bed before 23h.

• Humor: Moderate • Feeling: A bit tired & blue in the morning • Hungry: A tinny bit in the morning
• Herbal tea: Sage tea • Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (200 ml), white raisins juice (550 ml)
• Walking: Less than an hour • On a bike: Almost three hours around the city 
• Special treats: Colon hydrotherapy, sunbathing in the evening • Smelly necklace: One hour and 40 minutes
• Morning: 10° C • Max. daytime temperature: 21° C • Weather: Sunny & partially cloudy

Day 32 & 10 days to go

Awake before 6:30, woke up before seven, into a gray cold morning. My first tea, lunch box for my hubby (bowl of soup & small bag of "golden balls" for it, two Moroccan oat bread sandwiches, marinated baked peppers & half of galia melon) & waiting whether a plumber will finally come or not. He did. At least one. Six days after he initially said he would.

In the late afternoon, I was walking to the lab to fetch the copy of the report of my Friday's blood "giveaway". Concerning my current health, juice fasting story, and the fact that for already a week and 24/7, I'm feeling something is going on in my neck (there where thyroid nodule is - ups, was), I kindly requested from "my" physician to get checked all thyroid parameters, and at least vitamin D (still extremely low few weeks ago) and iron. She was so pissed off with 29th day of my fasting cure, that she wasn't even listening to me. She also completely forgot that it was her who requested I come for a blood sample that day as my proteins were so low few weeks ago... And what was actually requested from the lab? Well, I have precisely two lines on the blood(y) report: iron and T4. You seriously lack respect for (your) patients, dr. Deom, and you're far too locked into you perspective to see a broader than just allopathic picture! Adieu!

Whatever... My hubby came home earlier today (yesss!), so we had enough sun, time & lust for lizarding & fulling around on our Playa St. Lazare, massages included... ;-) We wrapped this bizarre day with an insignificant movie Walking Tall: The Payback (2007), six slices of home made tarragon "potica" & two of the one with raisins for Berry, and a smelly necklace & veggie juice for me. One in bed before midnight, the other one before one... ;-(

• Humor:OK • Feeling: As without energy • Hungry: No
• Herbal tea: Sage tea • Smelly necklace: Almost four hours
• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (200 ml), Charentais melon juice (200 ml), watermelon juice (800 ml) 
• Veggie juice: Tomatoes, all three peppers, spinach, diverse tinny sprouts, basil & thyme stalks, parsley & garlic clove (500 ml) 
• Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies) • Special treat: Sunbathing in the evening 
• Morning: 10° C • Max. daytime temperature: 18° C • Weather: Cloudy, rainy, partly cloudy, sunny, darker...

Day 31

Brrr, it's really cold today... We were walking to and back from Marché du Midi, altogether two hours and a half. And we have an abundance of diverse melons & pineapples at home now, as well as white raisins, deliciously smelling red tomatoes, cucumber, common beans, a bush of thyme in a pot, and fifty red freesias for me... ;-) Back home, some eating & drinking, some chores, siesta for Berry, some browsing for me, some cooking, eating & drinking again... We wrapped up this cold & lazy day with Next (2007) and Spanglish (2004), and Berry kindly made a delicious veggie juice for me in-between; with too much garlic (by accident), but he was kissing me anyway... ;-) Ugh, late to bed, again.

• Humor: Moderate • Feeling: Puzzled • Hungry: No, but I was really desperate to eat & chew in-between movies...
• Herbal teas (6 cups): Sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, and pimpernel leaves tea
• Fruit juice: Apple juice (370 ml), watermelon juice (800 ml)
• Inspirational veggie soup: Cauliflower, onion, carrot, parsley & garlic cloves (300 ml of broth)
• Veggie juice: Tomatoes, green pepper, spinach, some basil and thyme stalks & one of two two garlic cloves too many (400 ml)
• Walking: Two hours and a half • Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies)  
• Morning: 10° C • Max. daytime temperature: 13° C • Weather: Cloudy

Day 30

Berry was awake before 4h, I was awake soon after 5h, and we simultaneously woke up around 5:30. That's what happen if one is early in bed, soon after 22:00. Berry was occupied with his breakfast & yesterday's news on internet, I was making my teas & melon juice. Showering. Moisturizing. And another measurements day! Minus 9 kilos & minus 10 centimeters around my waist in 29 days! "Don't get skinnier", he smilingly said after assisting... ;-) No worries, I still can't see my pubic hair without bending slightly... ;-) And this won't happen without stretching & exercising! Ugh... Clothes on. His lunch box (pot with pineapple chunks & pot with sushis - he has working Saturday). Goodbye hug & kisses. Blogging. Ugh... light rain shower outside.

As I had no lust to go out in this somber & cold Brussels weather, I spent majority of my day blogging & studying my detailed lab exam which finally landed in our mailbox yesterday. The expensive foodscreen test is rather good: I'm allergic only to amaranth and extremely allergic only to oyster mushrooms & poppy seeds. Well, if nothing worse than these... ;-) Although, I'm seriously glad I have a RDV with dr. Henry scheduled next Tuesday! As per 28th May, my body overproduces vitamins B12, B9 and dopamine (!!); there's a lack of vitamins A, D and serotonin (!); I have a cholesterol & erythrocytic fatty acids mess inside of me; and candida albicans parameter is ten times higher than maximum. So help me... Nature!

The evening was a cozy lazy one as well. Berry was watching a football game, I was first making a veggie juice for both, and than finally got back to reading that awesome Lipton's book The Biology of Belief. Afterwards, we were together dozing off & on while watching downloaded finale of La Nouvelle Star, and were therefore really late in bed (before one a.m.) which is not so common for us any longer.

• Weight: 56,2 kg (said Berry) • Waist around sacral (2nd) chakra: 76 cm • Low hips: 93 cm
• 1st morning • 6th morning • 12th morning • 18th morning • 24th morning
• Humor: Moderate • Feeling: Not much • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas (6 cups): Sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, and pimpernel leaves tea
• Fruit juices: Galia melon juice (divine again; 310 ml), pineapple juice (400 ml), white & red raisins juice (200 ml)
• Veggie juice: tomatoes, carrots, green pepper, both sorts of basil stalks, parsley stalks & garlic clove (300 ml)
• Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies) • Special treat: Berry moisturized almost my entire body
• Morning: 10° C • Max. daytime temperature: 15° C • Weather: Cloudy, rainy, timid sun, cloudy, rainy... hard on us in Bxl!

Day 29

I've seen a fraction of sunlight at 6:30 when I woke up, now, there are only thick clouds, smog & cold. Showering. Moisturizing. Watermelon in his lunch box (pot with ½ of it already cut in pieces one can put in a mouth ;-). Nagging at apparently inappropriate time about his work-overload... Goodbye hug & kiss. Clothes on. Making teas & orange juice. Blogging. Out for a RDV with my physician at 8:30, for vital functions check-up & some blood sampling...

At first, walking back home, I was still in a shock, and then in a slightly angry disbelief, now I'm just plain sad... and recovering my powers, self-esteem & positive determination. For sure, there are quite some things more humiliating than experiencing the raw power doctors execute over patients, and also smack it straight into your face, but there aren't many situations in life when one feels more powerless and as without options as when a doctor, no matter the reason, doesn't agree with you or your (sound) request. In order to get the bitterness out of my system, here's the whole story.

Medical doctors, you really & often behave as being All-Knowing-And-Infallible-Gods, and the only source of wisdom. But you definitively aren't; proven many many times. The last portion of my idealism - that doctors are there to support us, our health, and our optimal well-being - has definitely gone with Brussels wind today. And now, I need to realign & tune into my growing belief that we are capable to cure ourselves by changing our thoughts, our attitudes, and our actions. All by ourselves. With undeniable help of  "the best doctors in the world: Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman" (by Jonathan Swift). 

2 : 2  •  Slovenia : USA    Congrats! Slovenians can do it! I can do it!!! We can all do it! ;-))    Wishing you a relaxing evening & good night!

• Humor: Moody • Feeling: Blue • Hungry: No 
• Headache: Almost the whole day (Really weird - low outside pressure or low blood pressure or my period? All three, I'd reckon!)
• Herbal teas (6 cups): Sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, and pimpernel leaves tea
• Juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (200 ml), watermelon juice (620 ml), carrot & spinach juice (400 ml)
• Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies) • Smelly necklace: 100 minutes • Special treat: Berry moisturized my entire body
• Morning: 11° C • Max. daytime temperature: 16° C • Weather: Cloudy

PS: Berry was home before19:30. I was just finishing another sushi combination. This time closer to original ones - with rice, tomato sauce (spices & ume plum vinegar), sliced salmon & cucumber stripes. So, his starter was served really fast. "Leftovers" baked in a foil (rice, tomato slices, salmon, spices & olive oil) were delicious as well. Yap, I really love cooking. On one condition: that it doesn't take long time to prepare & cook the whole meal, preferably less than a half an hour. Afterwards, we had a serious & fruitful talk, but went to bed quite early (before England vs. Algeria match was finished with zeros ;-).

Day 28

Up into a fair morning (clouds & modest sun) at 6:30; shower; moisturizing; tongue cleaning; clothes on; sage tea; lunch box; goodbye hug & kiss; orange juice; blogging; welcoming Sonia; out at 8:30.

I was admiring these white (and orange) opium poppy flowers on the way to our dentist and back, through a nearby park Botanique. For so long that I was too late for taking photos of the orange ones which were awesome. Lovely, this white one, n'est pas? And they're huge & tall in comparison with red ones I know from home & nature.

I went food shopping before RDV with my psy at 9:45, and after chatting with him for 45 minutes (my cure & Berry's working conditions), straight home. Wow, what a surprise in our mail box: written report from the first endo I saw in Brussels on 3rd May! Unbelievable speed! And my physician was getting nervous as she still hasn't got the report from the third endo(crinologist) I saw on 20th May in St. Luc... ;-) Later, Mojca's refreshing "unprevista lunch visit" (she didn't want salad, only my orange juice mix), some more internet research... Calm evening, wrapped up with a Boiler Room (2000).

• Humor: Moderate • Feeling: Blue • Hungry: No • Headache: In the late afternoon (first day of period or not enough of liquid intake?)
• Herbal teas (6 cups): Sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, and pimpernel leaves tea
• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (220 ml), apple juice (420 ml)
• Veggie juices: Breuss juice (no black radish & potato; 100 ml), tomatoes, carrots, spinach, basil & garlic clove (300 ml)
• Special treat: Berry moisturized almost my entire body
• Morning: 12° C • Max. daytime temperature: 22° C • Weather: Fair or sunny?

Day 27 & 15 days to go

Good morning, sunshine! I still find it unbelievable how cheerful & grateful I get each time there's a clear sky & sunshine outside or on my face. I definitely run on sun! And we seriously lack of it in Brussels...

Berry was very late yesterday, but came with an awesome bouquet of freshly cut light pink peonies from his garden (he was at his house & with his kids). For my first sushis, I got a surprised & very pleased facial expressions, as well as "Wow! This is so delicious! You can stay." YES! ;-) Later, he told me he's almost without tobacco (he rolls & smokes Drum), and that he didn't buy another pack. Precious, I wish you'd stop smoking indeed & make me company on this no-smoking-path. If not, I'll need to put you on a juice fasting cure! ;-) Btw, the same applies to you, my baby!

I made our evening somber. Berry came home at 19:20 - 11 hours at work, at least 10 working hours, and not a simple phone call re. renovation which is stuck (as he's busy non stop) - and I don't know how to cope with that any longer. Although, I'm also not capable to precisely communicate what's inside of me; at present. Ugh, I don't like it & I don't like how it makes me feel...

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Sunny in the morning, cloudy in the evening
• Hungry: No; but I'd love to eat dinner with Berry (tagliatelle with smoked turkey in my curry sauce)
• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (210 ml), galia melon juice (divine; 380 ml)
• Veggie juice: Tomatoes, young spinach, ½ of fennel & garlic clove (250 ml) • Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies)
• Walking: More than three hours • Breathing exercises: Some • Special treat: Sunbathing in the morning & in the evening
• Morning: 9° C • Max. daytime temperature: 22° C • Weather: Sunny, with clouds

Day 26

Before 6, "Good morning, gray Brussels!" Lunch box for my hubby; shower; moisturizing of my body which is peeling on the "cycling" spots; making my teas & my first juice. After nine, too cold & windy to sunbath... ;-( Listening to just downloaded Victoria Boutenko's seminar on 12 Steps to Raw Foods. She's so interesting & common sense! In the meantime, I've ordered few "raw food" books - mainly recipes, in order to spin off my inspiration & get some new skills and ideas... ;-) Finally, at noon: lymphatic drainage massage! Micheline is really as good as she said she was! On top of it, I had no lymph blockages in my body, and no ganglion nodules to loosen! No wonder, 26 days of juice fasting has done many tricks already & my body has got rid of bunch of tocsins so far! I feel sooo gooood... ;-)

I couldn't resist - for the very first time, I've done sushi at home. Yap, no cooking involved (therefore, no smells) and à la Aida. I used couscous leftovers, put fresh tomato mixed with spices on it (sauce), added stripes of avocado, and stripes of smoked turkey (into 4 big rolls) and stripes of beef tongue (into 2). One big sushi roll = eight usual sushis; it'll do for Berry's dinner & tomorrow's lunch. Ugh, I'm so curious how they taste...

Some sunbathing afterwards, listening to last two CDs of Dyer & Northrup refreshing tandem on Inside-Out Wellness, and wondering how late Berry will come home today... And now, I'm finally going to start reading Lipton's revolutionary The Biology of Belief... Wishing you a fine, cozy evening, and good night!

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine, a bit tired & skinny • Hungry: No • Headache: Minor one, in the afternoon (first one since Day 2; massage?)
• Herbal teas (6 cups): Sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, and pimpernel tea (leaves found, roots not yet)
• Fruit juice: Pineapple juice (370 ml) • Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies)
• Veggie juice: Tomatoes, pepper, spinach, parsley & two garlic cloves - I adore it, although this one was spicy; no kissing this evening (400 ml)
• Special treats: Berry moisturized my entire body; lymphatic drainage massage; sunbathing in the evening; my favorite position in bed... ;-)
• Morning: 11° C (at 8h) • Max. daytime temperature: 19° C • Weather: Fair

Day 25

A golden early morning around 6:30 turned into a fairly cloudy one soon... Shower; moisturizing with a body cream; clothes on; Berry's lunch bag; hug & kiss for a good day; orange juice; making of my six teas; my Corsa into garage (ventilator's engine changing); walking home; folding dry laundry & into the cabinets with it; making photos of peony's transformation from a bud into a beautiful flower head with many layers of petals; some blogging & e-mails; sunbathing in this feeble sun (with a bit of news reading, few breathing exercises, and some moments of meditation); cleaning of my tongue; dentist at 14h.

Berry was really late, he came home well after eight... Concerning all, I can say that this is a borderline to slavery. Borderline? Plain slavery!!! And it's getting worse... He's leaving after seven, he commutes approximately a half an hour (each way), an hour lunch break is never one hour long, so he usually works far more than 9 hours and up to 11 hours per day! I seriously dislike it, more & more. If one would get at least compensated for ongoingly extending himself! Nope, not at all; ever!? And as they're so heavily understaffed (not only recently, since I've met him!), they can't do their work properly & they can hardly take some of their piling free days off... Yes, it is extremely hard to maintain a positive attitude! This won't "end up" fine for Berry and other employees nor for the bosses, that's for sure.

As he was so late, I couldn't stand the thought of not making him a simple dinner, without too much of smells: medium bok choys (steamed), chicken frankfurters (cooked), a glass of white vine, and crème brûlée. We finished a day by finally watching Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (2009). Guys, please watch this documentary! Regarding my cure, current studies, thinking, cooking, this movie... we've both got aware we're in the process of changing quite some of our habits, our food intake & more. It'll be challenging, but we feel it's worth the initial effort. One step at a time!

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas (6 cups): Sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, and pimpernel leaves tea
• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (240 ml), red & white raisins juice (350 ml)
• Walking: At least two hours • Breathing exercises: Few
• Special treats: Berry moisturized almost my entire body ("almost" because I only do torso); sunbathing in the morning
• Morning: 13° C (at 9h) • Max. daytime temperature: 21° C • Weather: Fair

Day 24

Waking up already at 5:30, well before the alarm clock! Yap, we need to drive those two visiting kids to the airport this morning. Oh, it's a measurements day too! Minus 7 kilos & minus 8 centimeters around my waist in 23 days! Well, slowly but steadily going down; a nice byproduct indeed... ;-) And since I so much miss eating & chewing, I wonder whether it make sense to schedule an ultrasound check-up sooner... Ugh... a tough one!

We left home at 7:30 and took "kids" for a Moroccan breakfast at Marché du Midi; that's what we try to arrange for all our visitors. While they're eating delicious Moroccan pancakes (commonly with cheese, olives-veggie mix & honey) and drinking Moroccan tea (green tea, fresh mint & sugar), I was purchasing pineapples, melons, tomatoes, white & red raisins, a lot of mint for Sara & a bouquet for us. On the way back to the car, I've got a pot of fresh Greek Basil (cute basil with mini leaves), and a bouquet - gorgeous dark red peonies! Off we go & park at Charleroi airport well past nine, on time. Ugh, my baby is leaving me, again... Great to see, hug, kiss & talk to you in person, and nice for having you both around, even for such a short time! Have a fine trip & take a good care of yourself!!! Bisous!

We went back home for a lazy day. First football match & victory for Slovenian team at World Cup! Veggie soup for both & delicious lunch for Berry - small & soft beefsteaks, couscous with mint & lemon juice, and steamed broccoli. We watched half of The Good Guy (2009) and ten minutes of Adam (2009). I was resting and dozing off & on, but finally served strawberries with sugar during Equilibrium (2002) he watched alone. We finished this Sunday with The Contractor (2007), "moelleux au chocolat" (well, Berry only), and final twenty minutes of a foot match Germany : Australia. Wow, 4 : 0!

This evening, I've realized that cooking is most probably "killing" me indeed. I love cooking and spoiling my loved one(s) with food, but it's almost for sure inducing my growing longing for eating and chewing, as well as much too much juice drinking. So... I'll try to stop. No more cooking?!? It'll be hard on me! I can't imagine Berry eating sandwiches & other (junk) food for several weeks... Let's see what happens, and how he & I will cope with me not cooking fresh home made meals, and preparing his nyami lunch boxes & special treats... Ugh!

• Weight: 58 kg • Waist around sacral (2nd) chakra: 78 cm • Low hips: 95 cm 
• 1st morning • 6th morning • 12th morning • 18th morning 
• Humor: Good • Feeling: OK • Hungry: Re. the quantity of juices today, one could say I'm hungry, but I think I just miss eating food so much.
• Herbal tea: Sage tea • Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies)

• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (200 ml), apple juice (500 ml)
• Broth: Onions, garlic cloves, ½ kohlrabi, some celery leaves & parsley stalks (veggie cube; no oil; 1x 350 ml & 1x 200 ml)
• Veggie juice: Tomatoes, pepper, spinach, two sorts of basil stalks & leaves, and parsley (350 ml; garlic clove missing)
• Special treats: Berry moisturizing all of my my skin with aloe vera spray, and making my veggie juice in the evening
• Morning: 7° C • Max. daytime temperature: 17° C • Weather: Cloudy

Day 23


We woke up at 7, simultaneously. Barry made his usual breakfast (coffee & toasted bread with Nutella), I took a shower, cleaned my tongue, and claimed some assistance with body butter... ;-) Later, I tackled my sage tea & orange juice, as well as I already prepared a smoothie for sleeping kids (who were unconscious until noon).

I need to share with you that the past two days were quite tough on me - I thought I'd crack and restart eating. I'm almost never hungry, but I miss eating and chewing sooooo much... you can't even imagine. Yes, it might not be OK that I cook for Berry (and eventual guests), but I do have the impression that by cooking & serving meals, I feed at least my eyes, as well as keep myself occupied. Berry offered to undergo the same regime for the rest of my cure... I feel flattered but I can't say "please" or similar, as I don't feel like this would help me, nor ceasing cooking for him. Well, not at present at least. And I was thinking about whether the goal of this cure would be reached or not; and whether to get a thyroid ultrasound sooner; and... I don't know how I'll manage to cope within the reaming days of my fasting cure, but I hope I will.

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Slightly weak & vertiginous • Hungry: Not really; yes; not really... I miss food!!!

• Herbal tea: Sage tea • Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies)
• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (200 ml), pineapple juice (200 ml)
• Veggie juice: Tomatoes, carrots, bit of pepper, basil stalks & leaves, parsley & garlic clove (350 ml) 
• Special treat: Shopping for first birthday present for Berry - black Canon PowerShot SX210 IS
• Photo: A trial whether new camera really reacts on smile - it does but we need to practice ;-) 
• Morning: 13° C • Max. daytime temperature: 20° C • Weather: Cloudy

Day 22

I woke up at 5!!! No comment. Wow, I'm into the second part of my cure - I could start a countdown... ;-)

I was making all my six teas (no more kidney tea!), lunch box for my honey, "moelleux au chocolat" (on my photo) for evening dessert (5 ramekins only), delicious breakfast smoothie and sandwiches for the kids... as apparently we do go to the coast today, including some biking on dunes (which was my only condition). To Cadzand after Sara's dentist appointment! We'll leave a bit late, around noon, but I really like the idea of this team building afternoon, although I'm feeling a bit weak right now.

Forget it, kids changed their minds - no cycling on dunes today but strolling around Brussels! Fine, on one condition: Eat all sandwiches I made! I escorted Sara to dentist & went back home with Berry who had an appointment prior to hers. I brought him his lunch bag but next to his car, he decided to take another coffee at home before leaving for work. Only to let me know later he took a day off! I was melting. I adore this kind of surprises!

We were considering options what to do or where to go (I served kids a brunch with their sandwiches in the meantime), we crossed out renovation & Cadzand, and decided for Berry's idea: a walk & lizarding at Gaasbeek Castle Estate... Good choice for this cloudy & sunny weather - we had a great zen afternoon (near the chapel on this photo), and came home around 19h. We still caught some sunbathing on our sofa... where we were not making war... ;-))

We wrapped up the evening with almost 15 minutes of Land of the Blind (2006), more than a half an hour of Notes on a Scandal (2006), and the whole The New Daughter (2009) - don't do the same horror mistake...

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine but weak • Hungry: No, but I extremely miss eating & chewing

• Herbal teas (6 cups): Sage tea (for the road), cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, and pimpernel leaves tea
• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (150 ml), watermelon juice (500 ml), apple juice (450 ml)
• Special treat: A weekday with Berry; walking, talking a bit, lizarding & sunbathing • Breathing exercises: Few
• Morning (at 7): 17° C • Max. daytime temperature: 24° C • Weather: Mostly cloudy, sunny...

Day 21 & 21 days to go


Alarm clock at 7:02. Lunch bag for Berry. Preparing all of my herbal teas. Goodbye hug & kiss. Shower. Clothes on. Finished crème brûlée custard & put ten ramekins in the oven. Woke Sara up & walked my severely constipated princess to her first colon hydrotherapy. Left her with Micheline, purchased some necessities while walking around downtown for almost an hour. Went home to leave goodies there, took a car, picked Sara up & took her to laboratory (a thorough blood check will be done). Back home, I put crème brûlée ramekins in the fridge, and made this young couple a breakfast - great smoothie: mango, nectarine, banana, kiwi, raspberries (frozen) & two handfuls of almonds. Me? C'mon, drinking teas only... ;-) Hey, by the way, today is my 21st day which means I'm right in the middle of the cure!!!

Than it was already my turn to go for a colon hydrotherapy. What a great feeling that is, when they clean your inside! Well, it's not that it's much to clean the third time during fasting, but as I'm not making daily or at least regular enemas (colon irrigation) at home, I felt I needed this third session sooner then foreseen (on 22nd). We were chatting with Micheline who was explaining, among others, her morning session with Sara (no details, sorry ;-). I took notes of her suggestions for gluten intolerant Sara, diet & all. Yap, we both need to change our "intake habits"...

After it, we met for lunch at macrobiotic resto, and parted after it as I had a meeting with an electrician. A bit of relaxing behind the screen (blogging, of course), and suddenly, I realized we have no starter for today. What goes well with mussels à la buzara (mussels in a huge pot with garlic, white vine & parsley; we don't put bread crumbs in this sauce mix any longer)? Shrimps cocktail! And out I went again... not only because of lack of shrimps at home (no worries, a decent Delhaize shop is across the street), but also because I forgot to go to the pharmacy for Sara's pills...

Their dinner: shrimps cocktail & 2 kilos of mussels à la buzara, and the most delicious crème brûlée far around for dessert (on my photo). Nyami! Well, I couldn't resist the smells, and I took a plate of mussels sauce as a broth... Mea culpa or Carpe Diem? Hmmm... alcohol evaporates, so this can really be considered as a soup. Voilà! 

We skipped playing social games with kids (sorry, not a light decision) - both extremely tired, we were exchanging our days on our huge sofa, and were off to bed pretty soon. Most probably, I was sound asleep around 22h already; right after a short chat about our impression that our libidos went almost dormant during this cure of mine, simultaneously...

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine & sooooo busy • Hungry: No

• Herbal teas (6 cups): Kidney tea (last day!), sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, and marigold tea

• Consumed: Clear miso soup (250 ml; mistake - diarrhea before bedtime), Charentais melon juice (100 ml), "mussels" broth (200 ml)
• Walking: Around three hours • Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies) 
• Max. daytime temperature: 21° C • Weather: Cloudy, drizzly & rainy