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Feb. 1st, 2004 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kirkcudbrightI've just come off a 5-day fast. It was not the water-only fast that you might envision - it was based on the so-called "Lemonade Diet" promoted by Stanley Burroughs for colon cleansing. (Simple recipe here, more context and other fun things to cleanse the colon here.) I'm not overly concerned with my colon, but I've found fasting helpful for interrupting eating habits; I always eat better and more consciously when I come off a fast.
The basic recipe is ¾ cup fresh-squeezed lemon juice (preferably organic), ¾ cup grade B maple syrup, and ½ teaspoon cayenne, mixed with ½ gallon water. I've also taken to adding a teaspoon or so of freshly grated ginger, at which point it tastes rather like ginger beer. And that's your nourishment for the day. Whenever you're thirsty, take a sip. Whenever you're hungry, take a sip. Whenever you're bored, take a sip.
In my experience, it's not a horrible challenge to maintain this sort of a fast. I felt perfectly healthy, perfectly energetic. It's only 600 calories a day from the maple syrup, but the constant intake keeps me from feeling hungry, and keeps my blood sugar steady.
The only downside, which I keep forgetting, is that I'm not chewing anything, and drinking (sipping) sugar-water, so my teeth get really fuzzy, and I have to brush twice a day.
And I've gone straight onto Atkins. I'm aiming to lose 20-25 pounds, which should be acheivable, but which will entail cutting my body fat percentage in half.
So I went straight from an all-carb diet to a extremely low-carb, but less restricted diet, and my system freaked out.
Yesterday (first day) was fine, but this morning, I felt really weak and almost feverish. Eventually, I figured out that I'd exhausted my glycogen stores, and I was literally sugar-crashing. I felt better after breakfast, btw.
Did about an hour of ring-work with Cheyenne today. It would have been lovely to go for a trail ride, but I didn't have time.
Because I went out to see The Triplets of Belleville with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deguspice, quietann, and a minute crowd of other friends. This is a seriously surreal movie.
It was preceded by a yet more surreal short called Destino, which originated as a collaboration between Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney. No shit, in 1946 Salvador Dalí created 150 storyboards, drawings, and paintings, and even a 15-second animated clip. It was shelved for financial reasons, and only completed last year, under the personal guidance of Roy Disney. It has all the power (and coherence) of a Dalí painting brought to life. Oddly, this is nowhere to be found on the Disney website, but Wired has a good article about it.
The basic recipe is ¾ cup fresh-squeezed lemon juice (preferably organic), ¾ cup grade B maple syrup, and ½ teaspoon cayenne, mixed with ½ gallon water. I've also taken to adding a teaspoon or so of freshly grated ginger, at which point it tastes rather like ginger beer. And that's your nourishment for the day. Whenever you're thirsty, take a sip. Whenever you're hungry, take a sip. Whenever you're bored, take a sip.
In my experience, it's not a horrible challenge to maintain this sort of a fast. I felt perfectly healthy, perfectly energetic. It's only 600 calories a day from the maple syrup, but the constant intake keeps me from feeling hungry, and keeps my blood sugar steady.
The only downside, which I keep forgetting, is that I'm not chewing anything, and drinking (sipping) sugar-water, so my teeth get really fuzzy, and I have to brush twice a day.
And I've gone straight onto Atkins. I'm aiming to lose 20-25 pounds, which should be acheivable, but which will entail cutting my body fat percentage in half.
So I went straight from an all-carb diet to a extremely low-carb, but less restricted diet, and my system freaked out.
Yesterday (first day) was fine, but this morning, I felt really weak and almost feverish. Eventually, I figured out that I'd exhausted my glycogen stores, and I was literally sugar-crashing. I felt better after breakfast, btw.
Did about an hour of ring-work with Cheyenne today. It would have been lovely to go for a trail ride, but I didn't have time.
Because I went out to see The Triplets of Belleville with
deguspice, quietann, and a minute crowd of other friends. This is a seriously surreal movie.It was preceded by a yet more surreal short called Destino, which originated as a collaboration between Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney. No shit, in 1946 Salvador Dalí created 150 storyboards, drawings, and paintings, and even a 15-second animated clip. It was shelved for financial reasons, and only completed last year, under the personal guidance of Roy Disney. It has all the power (and coherence) of a Dalí painting brought to life. Oddly, this is nowhere to be found on the Disney website, but Wired has a good article about it.
