14 Days to Freedom: Day 2

Day 2: 

I feel fine.  When I got out of bed, I was nervous that I wouldn’t make it to the bathroom fast enough!  I felt like my bladder was going to explode!  But I made it!  Whew!  When I turned on the bathroom light, my vision was so much sharper.  It was as if I was seeing in HD!  I’m talking 1080dpi, not 720.  It was amazing!  Things that are always in my bathroom looked surreal and so sharp that I literally reached out and touched my son’s hooded shark towel.  That blue has never looked so…BLUE!  So beautiful!  I smile and reflect on some of the things I’m grateful for and feel tears fall from my eyes.  I’m thinking, “Life is pretty good,“  when my sense of gratitude is abruptly disrupted by what sounds like a saber-toothed tiger.  It was my stomach.  I was feeling a bit hungry, but after I drink a few sips of water and vegetable broth, the tiger was calmed and I feel ALIVE!  Wow!  Who knew organic vegetable broth was so invigorating!  I’m noticing a couple of minor physical changes---a mild break-out on my forehead and cheeks, and by midday, I’ve developed a slight headache.  I ditched the headache after sipping some water and herbal tea, but the break-out seems to have worsened.  

I’m not as focused on food as I was on Day 1, but out of habit, I still go to the fridge as if I have the option to nibble on some solid food, but I see the reminder I put on the refrigerator door that I’m fasting until January 12^th, and I slowly step away from the food storage appliance.  I think it may have whispered my name as I walked away.  I’ve got to say, I feel beautifully energized and during my personal training session, I seemed to have to take less breaks than usual during the hour-long torture, I mean, session.  I feel good.  I did find that I needed to drink water more frequently during my work-out.  My skin feels a little itchy after the workout, but it’s tolerable and the dry-brushing helps to relieve it significantly.  I’m guessing the itching is just toxins being released from my pores.  When I breathe, I feel like my whole body breathes and I’m much more conscious of every breath.  My thoughts are a lot clearer and my usual worries, although they have not been resolved, don’t seem to have as much significance.  Everything is pretty great, but I’m not sure I had been focusing on all the greatness for the last few weeks, maybe even months, before I started this process.   I feel thankful and happy, and still really, REALLY productive!  I worked out, played like a gazillion games with the littles, read some books, meditated, wrote an article, logged what I want to accomplish for the first 3 months of the year, did laundry, cooked for the kids and still felt energized!  Now, I know that I’ve done this amount of work before, but by the time I reached the finish line, there was nothing left.  I still had energy to spare today!  This is by far the best feeling ever---to be able to get all that you’re responsible for done and still have some fuel left to care for yourself.  That’s pretty awesome!  I’m convinced that God is sitting shotgun with me on this ride and I smile myself to sleep. 

P.S.: Still looking at recipes.