Day four

I was in very good spirits all day and wide awake. The clay bath has an unusual texture, it seems very drying so I added some bubbles. I am continuing with this experiment quite happily. I do not seem to have too many cravings.

Today I had:

2x Juice of beetroots (raw!) courgettes, parsley, lime (threw in the whole thing - ewwww), carrots, celery ............ interesting but drinkable

Pumpkin soup, some soda bread and butter

A bowl of pineapple chunks

and at 9 pm I got really hungry and had some of the pearl barley risotto I had made for G and very nice it was too!

Day three

A busy day being a domestic goddess and a visit of a lovely friend. I cooked soup, baked bread and apple cake plus some of those pesky household chores on my list. Still have this soar throat and woke up choking in the night with a very dry throat. Also seem to need more sleep recently - it is highly unusual for me to go to bed at 10pm two nights in a row. My dreams are very vivid and as always filled with a cast of thousands, lots of excitement, drama and difficult decisions for me to make.

The fight with the cold is over - the heating was fixed. You know it is cold in your kitchen when you open the fridge and warm air wafts out!!


Today I had:

2 x Cucumber, celery, carrot, ginger, apple and parsley + the delicious crackers I made from the pulp mixed with a can of tomatoes and some garlic

Pumpkin soup, soda bread and a piece of apple cake

I start the mornings off with some warm water and either lemon or grapefruit juice and tomorrow when the house has reached a normal temperature I am going to try the clay bath supplement my sister gave me - it is supposed to help detoxification through the skin.

Day two

Can you tell I am doing something new? The beginning of my self imposed little challenges always get me excited. I am taking bets on how long for.......

I listen to a lot of podcasts and like guided meditations. Last week I came across one which made me laugh out loud all the way through. I can not remember the name of the guy who did this recording but he is a well known hypnotist. Anyway he starts going on about how people nurture their inner child, especially if they feel they were hurt when they were young. What rubbish he says, lets take a machine gun to your inner child - aim carefully and shoot it. You can always rebuilt it. In fact lets take a cannon to your inner child - buuuuuummmmmm. You can always rebuilt it. Initially I was shocked - how could he???!!! But then I started to giggle and when I had taken my first shot at my own whiny self pitying inner child I could not stop laughing.

I have been using this technique quite often since on my inner chritique, on my inner 'lets not conform and be naughty' and of couse my inner child. I can always rebuilt that part of myself to suit me a little better. After all these are not real flesh and blood, they are just concepts in my mind.

Today I had:

Lots of my special crackers

A cup of yesterdays soup

A juice made off broccoli, courgettes, beetroot and apple

Potato mash and Sauerkraut (without one of the lovely sausages I cooked for G)


I had a sore throat today and started with a flu headache this morning. No wonder considering our heating packed up on Friday at about 4.45 pm and the earliest I can get it repaired is tomorrow. It has be COLD here and we have to huddle by the one electric heater we own.

Day one of going veggie

I am a confirmed carnivore so I am dictating this with some trepidation but also with a lot of excitement. I am going to attempt, actually it is more than attempt but at the moment I do not want to use a stronger word, so I am going to attempt to go seriously veggie this week.

Lately I have started juicing mainly because we have had a bumper crop of apples and pears in our garden and I did not want to waste all of those lovely fruit. So I mixed apple and pear juice with carrots, leeks and anything else I could find in the vegetable box. Some combinations are obviously more successful than others. The leeks were particularly interesting as they have a very strong onion after taste which was a bit of a marmite moment

Today I have had:

Juice made of spinach, carrots, celery, apple x2

Lime water

Carrot, sweet potato and ginger soup

and a lovely slice of homemade bread

plus endless cups of my current favourite herbal tea

oh and some of my special crackers

When juicing there is always a lot of pulp and I had the ingenious idea to dry it and make delicious thin crackers in my dehydrator. I also produced a stunning apple cake by just using apple pulp, a little agave nectar and perhaps some raw almonds all or some raisins. Completely healthy of course and a delight to work taste buds. Even G likes both.

More tomorrow!