Day 20

Awake before 6:30. Olive oil pulling under the shower. Body milk everywhere. Making sage tea. At the same time delicious sandwiches for Berry and his lunch bag. Dressing up (wow, I'm so skinny & looking really great). Kissing him goodbye. Cleaning after us. Welcoming Sonia (Ecuadorian), our cleaning lady. A bit of cyber world. SMS to Sara. Out for food & stuff shopping - my baby is coming home today (my photo: Sara with Dane, her new boyfriend)!!! 

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine & a bit tired • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas: Sage tea
• Juices: Apple juice (300 ml), veggie juice (300 ml)
• Olive oil pulling: Under the shower • Walking: At least an hour
• Morning: 15° C • Max. daytime temperature: 19° C • Weather: Rainy, rainy...

Day 19

That's getting really weird! I woke up at 5:30! Well, since many days, I'm awake well before alarm goes on (at 7:02 ;-), and sooner each day. Although yesterday, for example, I was in bed before midnight, reading a bit, so I must have fallen asleep somewhere after midnight. A bit more than five hours of sleep?!? Weird. But I'm feeling fine... and I've already cleaned & rearranged few "black spots" in the kitchen... ;-)

Huh, not only kitchen! Yesterday, I cleaned & rearranged the cabinets with our clothes. And tried a zillion things in order to find stuff that suits me at present (plenty, no worries - I have a range from 55 to 65 kilos ;-)... At the end, there were piles of clothes, mainly mine, that Berry will drive to our cleaning lady today (Corsa is completely full of bags behind). It felt awesome! Well, it still does. And I feel good... ;-)

Those who know me, know that I don't really have a "bordelo" at home, things are more or less arranged and at their places (well, in such a small apartment it's really a must)... but within a year or two, we always manage to create some "black spots" that need to be cleaned & rearranged at some point, as well as stuff to be thrown out... How symbolic! Cleaning the body, outside of it, and some mind cleaning in-between... ;-)

Oh, yes, I almost forgot. I'm also in the process of a complete dental amalgam "detoxification" (all amalgam fillings out of my mouth as soon as possible), and reconstruction of all teeth that need one, including three implants. Enough of details. If you need a good & gentle (!) dentist in Brussels, who won't rob your wallet (it will still cost you, don't get me wrong, but not as much as I was at least previously experiencing in Brussels), I can recommend dr. Elisabeth Kosa (read: Koscha; a Hungarian from Romania) without a single doubt. And in SLO, I can highly recommend dr. Jernej Barlič in Brežice.

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine & in a cleaning mood • Hungry: No, a tinny bit, no... ;-)
• Herbal teas (7 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, pimpernel tea (leaves found, roots not yet)
• Juices: Pineapple juice (150 ml), Charentais melon juice (130 ml), Breuss juice (I forgot to put the celery in the mix... 100 ml)
• Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies) 
• Morning: 16° C (at 9:20) • Max. daytime temperature: 22° C • Weather: Cloudy, fair, cloudy, rainy, fair with rain... typical Brussels.

Q & A with Tom Coghill


Although Tom answered to all my questions on his site, I'm posting our "questions & answers" session here as well.

1) What do you think of combining Breuss Cure with some more juices fasting (fruit juices & veggie juices)?

Tom: If you do not have cancer, then yes, add what you want. The juices by Breuss are low calorie as not to feed tumor growth.

2) When juice fasting, do you remove all particles you possible are able to from the juice (as requested by Breuss)?

Tom: It is good to strain the juice as it keeps the colon more empty. Fiber is great when eating but fills the colon during fasting.

3) Mostly, I drink juices of one fruit only: apple juice, pineapple juice, orange or orange & grapefruit juice, white raisin juice, water melon juice... Which fruit juices would you actually recommend I add to my cure?

Tom: For cancer a massive dose of vitamin E daily over 2000 IU for it anti angiogenesis factor and pancreatic enzyme of the Kelly treatment that is more effective than the Breuss Cure.

4) Apart from Breuss juice, I really adore a veggie mix juice I make from 2-3 tomatoes, a bit of green pepper, 3 handfuls of young spinach leaves & bunch of basil leaves. Which veggie juices would you actually recommend I add to my cure?

Tom: What you are doing is perfect.

5) The one that's puzzling me quite a a bit is juice quantity. I didn't even try to stick to Breuss recommendation to take only a sip/gulp of a juice... Well, I try to, but I make many gulps... ;-) Usually somewhere from 150 up to 350 ml. What are your experience & recommendation?

Tom: Cancer love glucose and needs 10 times that of a normal cell.  Lower blood glucose levels are key to killing tumor growth. Therefor we had our cancer patients stick to 1/2 liter a day.

6) I'm a bit skeptical about mixing fruits & veggies into one juice, as apparently, we're digesting them differently.
As you have that kind of mixes among the recipes, please comment.

Tom: Juice need no digestion so what advantage can you get by food combining?

7) I don't eat/drink onion or vegetable broth each day - do your clients on Breuss cure drink it each day & what's you're experience?

Tom: We never had any broth with the cancer cure.  Most were terminal with day, weeks or months to live before entering treatment. Heat kills enzymes.  Broth would be fine for early stage cancers.

8) Would soaking dry acai berries and goji berries and later making a juice (out of one at a time) be worth of effort & money?

Tom: Sure as you are getting a wider spectrum of nutrients and they have unique health properties.

9) I liked colonic hydrotherapy (twice during my cure & so far) and feelings after it, but I'm quite skeptical about daily (or once per two days) colonic cleansing at home... During juice fasting, would we really need to do it?

Tom: During a juice fast an enema is not total necessary but for cancer the cleaner the colon the better the body detoxifies. For cancer, a daily coffee enema is recommended.

Again, THANKS, Tom!

Day 18


Clouds for good morning and fourth measurements day! Minus 6 kilos & minus 7 centimeters around my waist in 17 days! Cool, a nice byproduct... ;-) And the goiter & nodule in my neck are shrinking as well, n'est pas!?! Well, the last day of my cure is 1st July - still 24 days to go! Breuss recommends to wait with check-up exams for about 2 weeks, but as my birthday comes soon afterwards... I couldn't resist, and I scheduled an ultrasound (echography) on 9th July in the morning... ;-) I love personal & positive birthday presents!!!

The cure days? In general, I'm not hungry at all. Some mornings, I have little cravings which vanishes when drinking first two teas... or at latest with a first juice. Especially in the evenings, I have a considerable lust for eating & chewing, although I'm not hungry. And when watching movies, I crave popcorn from time to time. That's it. Moreover, I'm not drinking coffee nor smoking for 18th day, and I can't even believe I was... ;-) I don't miss them, and even motorical longing for cigarettes almost disappeared. I'm truly amazed. And I'm sure that 18 days ago, it was exactly the right time for starting this cure, and all the rest that followed. Today, I'm feeling great, much better than before the cure, I look great & I like my "old" figure back (apparently ideal weight for me at this age)... and more is yet to come. I'm thrilled about all this great stuff but lack of eating & chewing! :-))

Concerning the comments that I'm actually not really following & sticking to the Breuss Cure letter by letter... Indeed, I'm not.  
•  Breuss juice is not that bad at all... and at the beginning I was more or less fine with it. But I somehow started skipping it, and replacing it with fruit juices (I was craving fruits!), and later with veggie mixes as well... Well, after several variations of Breuss juice, I found out that the ingredient that makes my throat itch is this damn celery root (I'll replace it with celery stalks today, we'll see ;-)
• Almost each day, I drink all five of generally recommended herbal teas during this cure (kidney tea for only 3 days more!), and both that are recommended for thyroid & goiter problems (one replaced by leaves as roots are nowhere to be found). 
• From time to time - not each day and seldom twice per day - I eat/drink the allowed onion broth, but there are days I long for some more veggies in it, so I make an inspirational vegetable soup & eat/drink its broth.
• Lately, each day, I drink at least one fruit juice... and sometimes a veggie mix... but not as recommended by Breuss - a gulp or two - I usually drink somewhere from 200 to 350 ml. Well, I'm blond... ;-)

Anyway, people are juice fasting because of cancer or other health related reasons for ages, with fruit and/or vegetable juices, so... I do feel I'm on a right track & doing just fine with listening to myself & my body. And for few of my concerns & questions, I turned to Tom Coghill for his precious feedback. Thanks, Tom!

• 1st morning • 6th morning • 12th morning • Weight: 59 kg • Waist around sacral (2nd) chakra: 79 cm • Low hips: 96 cm
• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine & sensitive • Hungry: No, yes, no... ;-)
• Herbal teas (6 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea
• Fruit juices: Pineapple juice (350 ml), orange & grapefruit juice (270 ml)
• Veggie juice: Tomatoes, mix of sprouts, a bit of watercress, celery stalk & leaves (200 ml)
• Special treat: Berry moisturized my whole body and... ;-)
• Intermediate lab results (blood taken on Friday morning): 1st and 2nd - not bad at all!
• Morning: 13° C • Max. daytime temperature: 22° C • Weather: Cloudy most of the day

Day 17


Well, my shoulders, arms and upper part of my thighs were quite reddish & hurt a bit, so there was a need for a lot of olive body butter on them (and around)... ;-) Although, I got dressed, made a coffee for Berry who's renovating, and took a bottle of sage tea and a bottle of apple juice (one bottle too many) with me to Marché du Midi. Fruits & veggies shopping spree! Yap, also a bit more as my baby is coming home for few days! Countdown: 3 days!!!

I was walking to Midi, bathing in full sunshine & warmth of the morning - it took me 40 minutes of a steady walk to get there. Not bad. And as there wasn't so much traffic as during weekdays & Saturdays, it was definitely more fun as the straight way I took is really picturesque... including tourists. Two small dark green water melons, three huge pineapples, bunch of mangoes, bunch of avocados, few bouquets of mint, more than two kilos of deliciously smelling tomatoes, quite a bag of long green peppers (Berry likes baked ones), bit more than 200 g of young salad greens mix, two really small grilled chickens, and bouquet of eight peonies (simple ones, pink).

Soon after noon it started raining, so I headed home... walking... but I gave up at the second metro station, and took a tram home. I came home soaking wet... Welcome to Brussels! From sun to clouds and drizzle back to some sun and than, raining again... all within few hours... ;-) I spent the rest of the Sunday cooking for Berry & doing chores. And we were wrapping it up with about a half an hour of The Crossing Guard (1995), fifteen minutes of Sideways (2004), and the whole Curse of the Golden Flower (2006).

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine • Hungry: No (well, a bit in the morning)
• Herbal teas (7 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, pimpernel tea (leaves found, roots not yet)
• Fruit juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (200 ml), apple juice (300 ml) 
• Veggie juice: Tomatoes, pepper, watercress, celery stalk & leaves, a bit of parsley & garlic, and tinny bit of olive oil (300 ml)
• Walking: Almost 3 hours • Special treat: Five really cool pieces of clothing for eighteen euros... ;-)
• Morning (at 9:20): 21° C • Max. daytime temperature: 25° C • Weather: Sunny; fair; cloudy; rainy; cloudy, fair...

Day 16


Bottle of sage tea, bottle of fruit juice & bottle of Breuss juice, some clothes, bathing suits, beach towel, food goodies (four course meal ;-) and a bottle of Za for Berry... and off we go, with both bicycles on our car, towards the coast! So cool!

Back from cycling on Cadzand dunes! With three bicycles!!! I've got an early present for my birthday: a brand new Dutch bike!!! Gazelle Chamonix Plus! Tra la la la... Fully equipped: with a bike computer, two hanging bags across its luggage rack, a metal basket in front, a bottle holder with a huge thermos bottle, and a great security lock extension! Tra la la la... Thank you, Precious!

We certainly did at least 30 kilometers on bikes! Under the hot Dutch sun, at 26-28° C, mostly on dunes & along the sea! I was OK, not hungry at all, but it's true as well that we weren't cycling fast (not only because of my cure ;-). Later, we spent few hours on the beach, Berry eating my goodies, I regretting I had but Breuss juice left (not a treat, that's sure), sunbathing, dozing off... We wrapped-up the excursion with strolling in the water & on the sand... Well, we were in Heaven! Spending time together, going with a flow, enjoying this splendid day, and moving our bodies a bit more than usual. Great decision! And now... we both need a shower & a fair portion of soothing body butter afterwards... Yap, we're both "rosy" a bit, me especially... ;-)

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine and beautiful • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas: Kidney tea & sage tea • Supplement: Two BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies) 
• Juices: Orange & grapefruit (350 ml), Breuss juice (100 ml), veggie juice (tomatoes, ½ green pepper, young spinach & basil leaves; 310 ml)
• Moving: A lot!!! • Special treat: Berry moisturizing my reddish skin and... ;-)
• Morning: 14° C • Max. daytime temperature: 27° C • Weather: Sunny

Day 15


Each time I open my eyes in such a spotlessly sunny morning, it feels like a gift from Universe! Thanks!!! And each time he takes me in that unmatchable protective & gentle morning hug... it's like Heaven! I'm grateful for both, for sunshine & Berry!

Ugh, I couldn't resist - I was too curious to wait until 18th day to see where my weight collapsed: I have less than 60 kilos! Meaning, I lost more than five kilos in two weeks! Hopefully both in my neck are shrinking & disappearing as well!!! And I feel "très bien", I like my new "old" figure, and when I'm going to restart eating, I really need to monitor it and stop it around 59-60 kilos at latest... which is apparently the ideal weight for my height... at this age... ;-)

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine and skinny • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas (7 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, pimpernel tea (leaves found, roots not yet)
• Juices: Orange & grapefruit juice (310 ml), white grapes juice (470 ml) • Supplement: One BiOmega (fish oil & some other goodies)
• Walking: About two hours • Special treat: Full body massage by Jérôme; sunbathing in the evening

• Morning: 10° C • Max. daytime temperature: 24° C • Weather: Fair & sunny

Day 14

Two weeks without food! Not bad. Four more to go! Ugh.. it's seems zillion days away.

Later, I was told by phone that my level of B12 is almost non existing (116), vitamin D as well (22), cholesterol high (235), LDL on 159... and the complete blood report available in approximately two weeks. Low B12 is understandable as I don't consume fish nor meat, but c'mon - high cholesterol?!? I'm not eating at all, nada, zip, niente... no eggs, no oils, no meat, no sugar (apart from the very natural one from fresh fruit juices)... Even lover vitamin D than on 17 May, before this cure and before this extensive sunbathing at Playa Saint Lazare?!? Know what, I'll go for a quick blood test tomorrow in order to have a double check & some paper in hand as it looks I'd really need to start taking some supplements ASAP.

• Humor: Good • Feeling: OK • Hungry: No  
• Herbal teas (5 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, calcium tea & marigold tea

• Orange & grapefruit juice (350 ml), cherry juice (time consuming; 200 ml), veggie juice (as yesterday, more spinach & basil leaves; 250 ml)
• Special treat: Hairdresser (curls, again ;-), sunbathing in the evening

• Morning: 9° C • Max. daytime temperature: 23° C • Weather: Sunny

Day 13


Good morning! 
Good afternoon!
Good evening!
Good night!

Ordinary day. Although, in the evening, doubts about all this... I'm not hungry but I miss eating & chewing more and more... Ugh... And I still have twice this time to go plus three days!

• Humor: Good • Feeling: A bit tired but fine • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas (2 cups): Kidney tea & sage tea • Fruit juices: Apple juice (300 ml), orange & grapefruit juice (180 ml), white grape juice (350 ml)

• Awesome, hipper delicious veggie juice: 3 tomatoes, a bit of green pepper, 3 handfuls of young spinach leaves & bunch of basil leaves (210 ml)
• Walking: Over three hours • Special treat: Sunbathing in the morning & in the evening

• Morning: 9° C • Max. daytime temperature: 21° C • Weather: Sunny

Day 12 & 30 days to go

Good morning into foggy & third measurements morning! Minus 4 kilos & minus 6 cm around my waist in 11 days - not bad! Hopefully the goiter & nodule in my neck are shrinking too! Hmm... we were jokingly measuring whether I'm shrinking in height as well, but were completely blown away when it showed a bit more than one centimeter more than on the first day! Am I getting taller?! C'mon, we must have done something wrong the first time... ;-)

Nothing special during this foggy & sad day... We were watching brand new "Unthinkable" (2010) before going to bed... Yap, it's seldom only white or black... there's many shades of gray in-between.

• 1st morning • 6th morning • Tall: 165 cm • Weight: 61 kg • Waist around sacral (2nd) chakra: 80 cm • Low hips: 96 cm
• Humor: Good • Feeling: Fine • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas (7 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, pimpernel tea (leaves found, roots not yet)
• Juices: Watered bilberry & red currant juice (2x 125 g; 2,99 € & 4,99 €; 140 ml; the most expensive juice in my life ;-), carrot juice (300 ml)
• Vegetable broth: Onion, carrot, ½ kohlrabi, slice of celery root, soy sprouts, parsley stalks & some herbs (½ miso cube; no oil; 1x 200 ml)
• 5 Tibetan rites: In the morning (9) • Olive oil pulling: Under the shower • Walking: More than an hour
• My second colon hydrotherapy by a colon hydrotherapist Micheline - I highly recommend it to everyone! It's amazing to feel so clean WITHIN!
• Morning: 9° C • Max. daytime temperature: 15° C • Weather: Foggy; partly cloudy

Day 11

Woke up around 6:30. Clouds. Cold. No rain. Feeling OK. Toilette. Scraping my tongue. Brushing my teeth. And... 5 Tibetan rites! Finally! Drinking kidney tea & making all the remaining six, it takes me about 20-25 minutes. Shower. Clothes on. E-mails & a bit of browsing... Grrr... dentist at 8:30. Studying fasting, juice fasting, combination etc. for majority of this cloudy day... Preparing tomorrow's lunch for Berry: two delicious ciabatta sandwiches (humus, zahtar, gomasio, ruccola, slices of dry "bržola", alfalfa & leek sprouts, tiny spread of Dijon & mayonnaise) & fruit salad (strawberries, two pears, mango, lemon juice, rice sugar). RDVs with electrician & plumber. I dream about popcorn. Watching last two episodes of CSI, we felt asleep...


• Humor: Good • Feeling: OK • Hungry: Not at all, but I had a terrible lust for eating & chewing in the evening.

• Herbal teas (7 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, pimpernel tea (leaves found, roots not yet)
• Juices: Watermelon juice (400 ml) at midday & in the early afternoon, Breuss juice with parsley (260 ml) in the evening
• 5 Tibetan rites: In the morning (9) • Walking: 20 minutes

• Morning: 10° C • Max. daytime temperature: 14° C • Weather: Cloudy

Day 10

Around 6, I woke up into a completely gray morning... hungry & a bit irritated. Well, it's my 10th day without a solid food, I wasn't drinking any veggie juice yesterday, and I had the smartest idea ever - I went to a macrobiotic cooking class (unexpectedly a very long one, from 17h until 21:30) with one tea mug only! And I left it with a doggy bag when everybody started to eat the menu we were observing to be prepared and cooked by a leading macrobiotic teacher, Hikari Ogata & her assistants, from Lima Cooking School in Japan (established by George Ohsawa, the founder of macrobiotics). 

Extenuating circumstances? The course was announced as "What is macrobiotics?" Although, all that went on were many details about correct cooking of brown rice, and quite some about the rest of the menu: Brown rice cooked in a ceramic pan • Misoshiru • Cutlet of Fu • Hijiki Salad • Oyaki. And as Mrs. Ogata speaks Japanese only, we were losing much of the class time for a vague English translation. Nevertheless, it was interesting. And puzzling: Who the heck has so much time to cook like that each day; even more if there is only a person or a couple at home?! 

Surprise! We had the second part today, at 10h! Title of today's class: "YinYang Balance". Ugh, I was hesitant... But I went anyway; also because Berry was working - Daldecor had Open Doors Sunday! The same story as yesterday (vague translation & cooking only), with another menu. We were observing & participating a bit while the following dishes were done: Dried Daikon Soup, Chirashizusi and Sobazushi (I made two rolls ;-) as a main dish (often a celebration plate), and Agar-Agar Jelly for dessert. Berry will have a feast this evening or at tomorrow's lunch! Me? I survived with both of my mugs (apple juice & sage tea).

• Humor: Undefined • Feeling: Weak & irritated; much better in the afternoon • Hungry: In the morning, before class, later not at all

• Tepid water as a day starter: 250 ml • Walking: 40 minutes
• Herbal teas (7 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, pimpernel tea (leaves found, roots not yet)
• Juices: Orange juice (250 ml), apple juice (taken to the class; 420 ml), carrot juice (400 ml), tomato juice (120 ml)
• Vegetable broth: I drank macrobiotic soup at home (dried daikon, leek, kombu bouillon, soy sauce & sea-salt; less than 100 ml)
• Special treat: Macrobiotic cooking class in the morning (10h - 13:30); back massage in bed, followed by... ;-))
• Morning: 11° C  • Max. daytime temperature: 15° C • Weather: Cloudy & rainy or drizzly; partly cloudy; sun in the evening

Day 9

This is a part of my view from my bed around 7:20, but the sky was clear blue approximately half an hour before, when I opened my eyes... ;-)

I was really enjoying making lunch for Berry today; well, as most of days... ;-) He so much likes sardines fried as stakes, and a bowl of mixed salad beside (today: tomato, lamb's lettuce & ruccola). Of course, I like them too... ;-)

Vegetable soup was delicious as well, although all I'm putting in it during my cure is 1/2 of miso cube only (no spices & oil). I finely cut diverse veggies and put them in 500 ml water, I cook them a bit, and then serve Berry a plate with all or almost all veggies and a bit of broth, and I take the majority of broth which is usually 250-300 ml. Voilà! Although, today there were really too much of veggies in a soup. Instead of throwing leftovers away, I decided to make veggie stakes out of them. Mixing cooked veggies with two eggs, fresh parsley, some spices, salt & Dijon mustard, a bit of alfalfa & leek sprouts, sunflower & pumpkin seeds, and fresh bio-corn bred crumbs... Mix was still a bit too liquid, therefore I decided to bake it in the oven, as a sort of a pie or low veggie cake... ;-) Let's see what will come out of this! Hopefully dinner for Berry who's renovating today again.

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Weak but quite fine, thanks • Hungry: No
• Herbal teas (5 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, calcium tea, marigold tea
• Olive oil pulling: Almost 30 minutes, first thing in the morning • Tepid water afterwards: 750 ml
• Juices: Apple juice (130 ml), orange juice (200 ml)
• Inspired vegetable broth (lunch): Onion, carrot, ½ kohlrabi, and fresh parsley stalks (½ miso cube; no oil; 1x 300 ml)
• Walking: 40 minutes • Special treats: Sunbathing in the morning, and macrobiotic cooking class in the evening
• Morning: 11° C • Max. daytime temperature: 19° C • Weather: Sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy, rainy, cloudy evening & night

PS: Veggie cake was apparently delicious! Not-hungry-Barry was watching a movie, drinking white vine, and all pieces of cake just disappeared... ;-)

Day 8

That's cool! Opening my eyes around 6:30, observing foggy sunshine light that soon became almost pure sunshine... it wasn't difficult to get up before 7. Hmmm, I felt slightly dizzy and hungry. 

Ugh, finally! Several months ago, I realized that it's been a looooong time since I wasn't olive oil pulling any longer, and it wouldn't be bad to restart with this cheap detoxification rite again. Since then, it was for the third morning today... Basically, before taking a shower, I sip a big gulp of olive oil and I'm swishing it around my mouth during the whole showering session...When I spit it out, I can only barely imagine the quantity of impurities that went out of my body... Yes!!!

Later, I was walking to the lab... with a bottle of liquid (12h urine sample ;-)... which I left in a lab... as well as I left there precisely 52 ml (8 tubes!) of my precious blood... ;-) If I remember correctly, my blood was never so thoroughly checked as it will be this time. We'll see the results (loads of stuff, including eventual intolerance of 180 foodstuffs & borrelia)... general parameters soon, the rest in approximately three weeks. Walking back was slow, cool, sunny...

Today's biggest mistake? Joining my friend at macrobiotic resto Den Teepot AND ordering their daily vegetable soup (most probably I managed to swallow it without particles as I took all necessary equipment with me) - not worth the fuss, you're not sure what you're really eating, and you might get hungrier when observing so many people eating... Well, I won't repeat it while on fasting cure! 

I think I haven't shared that yet, but I'm cooking meals for Berry since Monday (4th day of cure). I have almost no problems with that - not with the smells nor with all the rest. The only thing is that I need to really keep reminding me not to try the food I make or lick a spoon or something similar (usual body gestures ;-). Well, the only thing which bothers me a bit is a cigarette smoke (he doesn't smoke at home any longer although he could, at least in the kitchen), and I heavily appreciate the fact that he's not making popcorn when we watch movies... Ugh, that would be extremely hard-hitting on me! Thanks a zillion, Precious!

Today's worst idea? Baking my delicious cheese cake, this time with strawberries!!! I wasn't hungry, I'm basically still not, but the smell of a freshly backed cake in the apartment is killing me... I have a lust for it & something sweet & something to chew on! Berry, better really appreciate it... ;-)

Day closure? With few minutes of "Le scaphandre et le papillon" (2007) - it's a fact - I can't watch that kind of movies any longer ("Mar adentro" was completely enough); followed with 35 minutes of "Blood and Oil" (2010) - interesting TV movie (and too depressing for me) but really more for Jaap who's supposedly going to work in Nigeria & around one oil hole soon; long phone up-date with Mateja... and "The Prestige" (2006) which I've seen already, but as it's a good one, I made Berry company until my eyelids started to give up... ;-) So, reading in bed at 23h, and soon, even before Berry joined me after less than half an hour, I was already asleep...

• Humor: Good • Feeling: Weak • Hungry: Yes and no; well, not really
• Tepid water as a day starter: 750 ml • Olive oil pulling: 10 minutes

• Herbal teas (5 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, calcium tea, marigold tea

• Watermelon juice (450 ml), red beet, carrots & black radish juice (250 ml), watered pear juice (similar mess as with strawberries; 200 ml)
• Consumed: Vegetable soup in a macrobiotic resto (less than 200 ml)

• Walking to appointments & back: Less than two hours • Breathing exercises: Few • Special treat: Hairdresser & curly head... (yap, still blond ;-)

• Morning: 9-10° C • Max. daytime temperature: 17° C • Weather: Sunny, partly cloudy, sunny, cloudy, etc. = Brussels way

PS: Ugh, sorry dearest, although I thought that your cigarette's smoke from the kitchen 
wouldn't bother me, I was wrong. Thanks for your understanding & for not smoking at home!!!

Day 7


When you open the eyes around 6 a.m. into a foggy & cloudy morning... Well, that's no booster!

Not much of a day... We finished it with movies: half of "Children of Men" (2006) - quite boring,
few minutes of "The Condemned" (2007) - no comment, and finally, "Extraordinary Measures" (2010) - fair enough.

• Humor: Undetermined • Feeling: Worn out • Hungry: Not really but I miss chewing...
• Herbal teas (6 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, pimpernel tea (leaves found, roots not yet)
• Tepid water as a day starter: 620 ml • Juices: Orange juice (250 ml), red beet & carrot juice (330 ml)

• Stinky necklace: 3 hours

• Morning: 8° C • Max. daytime temperature: 15° C • Weather: Mostly cloudy with short sunny intermezzos

Day 6

Good morning into a rainy day around 7:30... Let's see how juice fasting goes when gray & rainy outside. Hey, sixth morning - measurements checking! Not bad! Even though this was & is not the aim of my fasting - three kilos down (I only have Ikea's cheapest balance, so don't count on preciser info ;-) and four centimeters less around waist (pity I wasn't measuring this one yesterday, before colon hydrotherapy - apparently you lose some waist during this therapy) since the first morning of my fast. 

Wow, I'm bathing in freesias perfume when at laptop - smaller of Sunday's bouquets is right beside me... I adore this smell! And flowers. Especially red ones. Hmm, my tall hibiscus seems to be on strike: one gorgeous red flower a day before fasting, and no buds detected since.

Berry took a day off today, for renovating. I brought him a coffee mug around 11h. Unpleasant surprise on my way back: both elevators "under maintenance"!!! If one lives on 14th floor, one wishes to at least smack somebody at that moment... Although, apparently it's a great exercise, taking the stairs... Go girl! And I went. Slowly. Up to 14th floor. Stair by stair. Well, there's no coincidences in life... ;-) You don't want to exercise on your own? No worries, universe will make you do at least some... ;-) And by the way, I'm really in a bad shape at present... ;-(  C'mon, there's even a calorie counter for walking the stairs available on the web!

• Initial measurements • Weight: 62 kg • Waist around sacral (2nd) chakra: 82 cm • Low hips: 97 cm

• Humor: Undetermined • Feeling: Slightly tired & blue • Hungry: Not really
• Herbal teas (7 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea, pimpernel tea (leaves found, roots not yet)
• Tepid water as a day starter: 620 ml • Juices: Orange juice (260 ml), carrot juice (300 ml) with vitamin D supplement
• Inspired vegetable broth (lunch): Onion, tomato, 1/4 of green pepper, and garlic clove (1/2 miso cube; no oil; 1x 250 ml)
• Inspired vegetable broth (dinner): 2 onions and 3 garlic cloves (1/2 miso cube; no oil; 1x 270 ml) 
• Walking up the stairs: 1x 14th floor • Walking to appointments & back: 50 minutes • Breathing exercises: Almost none

• Morning: 8° C • Max. daytime temperature: 11° C • Weather: Rainy, cloudy & cold - Welcome to Brussels!

Day 5

Ugh, around 6 a.m., I woke up completely "broken", into a foggy gray morning. I joined Berry (already eating breakfast) in the kitchen, started washing, peeling & cutting fruits (strawberries, mango & banana) - Berry's dessert at work (I've done his tuna salad lunch already yesterday)... and drinking water in-between. I gave him a quick back massage with St. John's wort oil, and started a sage mix tea... And as there was such a lust in my back, I asked Berry to massage it (dear, I'm so grateful for it), only to discover my neck pain... I really need to start with stretching (and breathing) exercises!

I realized that whenever I'm passing by our nuts collection, I need to stop my hand... Ugh, I'd chew some almonds, cashews or Brasilia nuts with raisins with an ultimate pleasure... No go!!! So, I emptied remaining  four glass containers (in order to make place for all these tea mixes, I put two of them away already before my fasting) into small bags which Berry can just grab in the morning and take to work. One visual problem solved. Our huge bowl with fresh fruits doesn't bother me ( yet).

• Humor: Undetermined • I'm feeling: Blue • Headache: None (it's the last time I make this note... surprisingly, I had it the fist day only)

• Tepid water as a day starter: 500 ml • Hawthorn tincture: 1x 3/4 of teaspoon • Smelly necklace: 2 hours 

• Herbal teas (6 cups on our counter): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea, marigold tea

• Juices: Watered strawberry juice (300 + 250 ml (a total mess - don't do it)), watermelon juice (400 ml)
• Inspired vegetable broth: Onion, few small pumpkin chunks, two ts. of fresh parsley stalks, and garlic clove (1/2 miso cube; no oil; 1x 250 ml)
• My first colon hydrotherapy by a colon hydrotherapist Micheline - I highly recommend it to everyone! It's an awesome feeling!
• Walking: Fair "downtown" portion, more than an hour • Breathing exercises: Few (shit, I just keep forgetting about deep breathing)
• Special treats: Back massage (with massage oil "éclat"); exposing to a feeblish sun in the evening

• Morning: 11° C • Max. daytime temperature: 21° C • Weather: Morning fog quite soon replaced by sun

Day 4

What a gift from Universe! A third consecutive morning with a total sunshine & without a single cloud! In Brussels!?! It feels really great to wake up into such a morning... even if it's not much past 6. I feel OK but hungry. Kidney tea soothes that only a bit, so I keep myself busy with four other teas and a pineapple juice. I don't really know whether Breuss would agree with this juice choice (well, most probably he wouldn't... although, I'm just listening to myself & my common sense), but I so feel like drinking some real fresh food. Namely, when I drink his vegetable juice, it's more out of a "must" as black radish & potato make him not delicious at all... Hmmm... it feels so good to sip a fresh fruit juice... Nyami!

You won't believe it! I was cooking lunch for Berry (it's a national holiday in Belgium today, "Whit Monday"): vegetable soup (broth for me, soup for him), čevapčiči, spring onions & salad (spring onion greens, tomato & cucumber)! It was smelling so good... ;-) I think I could eat all although... no worries, I was fine. When I read about people fasting & cooking for others, it seemed so unbelievable to me... Wow, it's 15h and 25° C outside! Let's go for a ride!

Slow & calm evening... Katja Art of Living called... "drive over, we'll breath that through, and ayurvedic doctor will put together a recovery plan for you, including massages & treatments in our ayurvedic center..." Yap, it doesn't sound bad at all but... I'm too busy with this fasting cure & all around at present. "At least, go for long kriya and drink one liter of tepid water first thing in the morning - it'll be like a fresh oil for your "machine", for your endocrine glands."

• Humor: Good • Headache: None • Hungry: Not really 
• Coffee: I don't miss it a bit  • Cigarettes: My body misses some gestures & my mind is craving a tinny bit, that's all
• Herbal teas (5 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea • Smelly necklace: 1,5 hour
• Juices: Pineapple juice (200 ml), mandarin juice (140 ml), Breuss juice (without black radish & potato; 210 ml), watered apple juice (400 ml)
• Inspired vegetable broth: Spring onion greens, carrot, few small chunks of tomato & cucumber, and garlic clove (1/2 miso; no oil; 1x 250 ml)
• Sunbathing: In the morning & evening • Out on a bike: 55 minutes around the block • Breathing exercises: Few • Making love: Mmmm... ;-))
• Special treats: Facial mask (teaspoon of banana, mandarin leftovers & a bit of honey), Berry sprayed & massaged my body with aloe vera gel

• Morning: 10° C • Max. daytime temperature: 26° C • Weather: Sunny with rare clouds

Day 3

No wonder, after so much resting & sleeping, we woke up around 6 a.m... I haven't done my kidney tea in the evening!!! Ugh, I was so thirsty.. and decided to start a day as Berry - with a fresh apple juice. Although, my portion goes through "particles elimination" first... Wow, delicious! Berry went renovating, I was busy with my teas and juice... only to get back to bed as soon as possible. No, no sleeping, sunbathing! It's a completely cloudless & sunny day, they announce more than 20° C for later... Spring! Finally! Including sun!!! When on my back, I was breathing, deeply... and exhaling... I felt my thyroid afterwards... Heck, I need to do more of breathing exercises & go out walking or whatever else "in the move" much more...

Shower with extensive glove massage. Out. Market at Midi: fresh mint, veggies (spring onions, tomatoes) & fruits (strawberries, pineapples, watermelon), and a huge bouquet of red freesias! Well, I was not hungry, I was drinking sage tea I took with me, but it was extremely difficult not to put some fresh fruits in the mouth... Greek resto: lunch for Berry. Food around me & everybody eating? No fuss for me, interesting. Back home, Berry ate lunch & went back to renovating, I was taking care of laundry, cooking my onion broth, made my "smelly necklace" & put it on, and went blogging... Bizarre, I don't miss cigarettes, I don't miss coffee, I don't have a headache... I'm just dreaming about food, early in the morning (today) or late in the evening (yesterday)... Apparently, it will pass.. ;-) Mmmm... freesias smell all around - gorgeous!

When Berry came back, we nestled in sunlight on our newly discovered "Playa Saint Lazare" a bit, then drove to his house for some more machinery... Back home, we watched "Dear John" (2010) - ugh, I was dreaming popcorn - I made my kidney tea later, and went to bed around midnight... leaving my honey behind as he felt to watch another one... ;-)

• Humor: Good • Headache: None • Hungry: A bit (early in the morning & in the evening)
• Herbal teas (5 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea
• Juices: Apple juice (230 ml), Breuss juice (by recipe + some more carrots)
• Onion broth (by inspiration): Onion, spring onion greens & garlic clove (1/2 miso cube; no oil; 1x 250 ml)
• Walking: Fair portion • Breathing exercises: Few
• Sunbathing: In the morning & in the evening • Smelly necklace: 2 hours
• Morning: 10° C • Max. daytime temperature: 24° C • Weather: Sunny with rare clouds

Day 2

Hmmm... I woke up at 2 a.m., without headache, not really hungry but thirsty. I kept myself busy with browsing a bit, blogging, and making my morning tea. I went back to bed around 6 a.m. to get some hugs before he leaves for working Saturday... And I woke up before 9 a.m., in a gorgeously sunny day, and decided not to do more than try sunbathing in our bedroom. Unbelievable, it works! If it's sunny (rarity in Bxl), one can get a decent portion of sunlight lying on our huge bed, turning around a bit... from 9 until 11 a.m. for sure. I loved it! Why haven't I done it before?!?

I had a hunger craving before noon. After a plate of onion broth (seasoned with an ampule of vitamin D supplement), I feel much better. I don't miss coffee nor cigarettes, but I miss fruits (bananas & apples in a bowl look so delicious), and I'm persuading myself to do the rites, take a shower, and go out... There's no lust for whatsoever, not even for dwelling on "why the heck do I need to do this"... Go, girl, move your ass and your mind will follow! Well... eventually.

Shower. Long Skype talk with my "baby". Now she knows as well... <3 Out too late for a walk. To the office to take care of my plants & medical bills. Back home around 18h, directly to Berry's hug (he came home from work a bit before me). Talking about sunbathing in our bed, we started to move our huge sofa around, fetched our beach towels out, laid on sofa... We were sunbathing! Both of us! In our living room! Playa Saint Lazare indeed! That's so cool! Needless to say that we felt asleep, later just moved to our bed... and soundly slept until early morning.

• Humor: Existing • Headache: I felt my head in the afternoon, nothing major • Hungry: Not really
• Herbal teas (4 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, calcium tea
• Consumed: Breuss juice (by recipe), onion broth (by recipe, although with coconut oil & miso cube; 2x 250 ml)
• Sunbathing: In the morning & evening • Making love: Once (guess where ;-)

Day 1

Opening eyes at 7:02, out of bed at 7:20 when Berry left... Kidney tea for breakfast, sage tea mix for later, vegetable mix preparation... NO coffee, NO cigarettes... Go, take a shower! And out with a thermos of sage tea mix and a thermos of vegetable juice! Nyami! From 9:30 suffering at dentist, at 11:00 meeting with my psy... Remember: no stress (!) - no RDV that close together any longer! Afterwards, shopping for our concierge (how can he drink hectoliters of that green stuff, brrrr?) and a bit of food for Berry... Back home! Some more teas... and no lust for a thing. Refuge at my laptop... where I was, around 14h, smoking my last two cigarettes without much lust... Marlboro Light - ADIEU!

I got so tired around 18h, and my headache was increasing (go figure, no coffee for a whole day!), so I decided to got to bed and chase all away with a sleep... Dosing off and on, I remember Berry's kisses and hugs when he came home around 20h, but I was definitely gone after that... ;-)

• Tall: 164 cm • Weight: 65 kg • Waist around sacral (2nd) chakra: 86 cm
• Humor: None • Self-pity: In abundance • Headache: In the afternoon & evening • Hungry: Quite (manageable)
• Herbal teas (5 cups): Kidney tea, sage tea, cranesbill tea, Angelica tea, calcium tea
• Consumed: Breuss juice (by recipe), onion broth (by recipe, although with coconut oil & vegetable mix cube; 1x 250 ml)
• 5 Tibetan rites: In the morning (7-9)• Walking: Barely