i'm always amazed in the way your 'original' in what you are doing/trying...

go Rudolph, go... hehe

it is day 9, morning.

on day 5 there was no BM so I drink laxative sena tea early afternoon, and few hours later what come out was like mucu-mudd foamy... so I decided to do SWF next morning and that cleaned out the rest of it.

appart from that I do not feel the need at this stage for SWF, every day at least BM sometimes 2-3.

Still drinking mainly warm water or grean tea with honey and lemon, and only very little juicing.
Doing lots of chewing instead. I take carrots and appless with idea to make a juice but somehow to decide to chew and spit instead. I am not sure if it is lazyness to clean the juicer etc, or if body is asking for that extra energy which comes from chewing ?

My regime is actually half way to MC (maple replaced by honey), so it is not exactly juicing feast.

From very frist days my detox symptoms were : sore throat, congested sinuses, painfull ears, and some slight congestion of bronchi and lungs.
All of that was my typical childhood - teenage stage, so hopefuly the old rubbish is comming out.

I was quite weak, did not do any exercising appart from sunday weight penthathlon and tuesday evening track walks at masters athletics, feeling weak, and lethargic at boths. I also feel quite stiff, lower flexibility, stiff joints and tendons, and some joints - tendons actually quite painfull - elbows, shoulders, hips, knees, ankles, achiless.
I relate these to my old states of bordering on rheumatism-arthritis, rheuumatic fewer etc and related antibiotics.

Finaly on day 8 I started to feel bit better. Decided I need to get moving, and needed to change the traing system for this period,
So put down list of exercises whuich I need to do to cover whole body and target the most important muscle chains systems, and decided to do just easy set of low reps with easy weights, just to get through the movement and speed up teh circulation, elimination etc.

That worked well on day 8, now on morning of day 9 I feel it and am bit stiff and tired so am not sure what I am going to do today.
On day 10 and 11 I have state masters track championship, with 3000m racewalk on day 10, and 1500m racewalk on day 11, and javelin and weight throw on day 11 afternoon. I also volunteered to be officials helper during both days, when I am not competing, unfortunately weather forcast is promissing 35 degrees and full sun exposure.
To make it more complicated we are nopt alleowed to brihg cars there as the car park is used for something else, so either to use public transport or to get a lift with those who get the parking permission but it means I cant take lots of stuff with me and would not have a chance to keep it in the car and just pop in to take new drinks etc.

I realize that I feel weaker and would not be able to perform my best, was hoping for PB's in all events, but decided long term to stick with detox is more important.

Mmmmm cucumbers are lovely. I adore them.

You know Rudy that Don Tolman says that when you react to a food that, unless the reaction is anaphylactic shock, the reaction is the body OVER REACTING to nutrients in that food to which it is deficient. I trust that you know what you are doing but I do notice in a lot of people who fast that they can no longer tolerate foods and I wonder if the fasting is creating deficiencies.

If you feel like experimenting I can send you his program (it's not copyrighted) to get you having these foods again. It's up to you either way.

I loved your pentathlon post. Your sense of humour towards yourself is inspiring. Congrats on the medal!

xoxoxox

day 14.

last few days I managed to get some reading time, I picked Tanya's book again, reading chapters on water hydration and dry fasting. I am glad I have, teh dry fasting issue is writent very well in there or at least it had all I was after and needed to read. So decided to give a go.
Monday had plan to stop eating at 2pm and do dry fast (abosolutely no water etc) for 36 hours, but with the idea of being flexible and sensitive about it. 2pm had carrot apple parshnip juice. That just made me very hungry, and so was chewing on fruits and some vegs till 6pm.

I found the chewing on fresh corn very satisfying and very energizing.

so dry fast started 6pm monday, but no water or tea since 2 pm so was getting the feeling of slight dehydration later evening.
Amazingly I was still producing lots of pee, even had to get up 4am to pee, and than another pee when I finaly get off the bed after 6am next morning.

During the day I was getting tired, dizzy, sleepy, had about 2H nap midday, and the only thing I was able to do when getting up after 2 pm was drop in fron of TV. 3pm as I got off teh couch, I get so dizzy, was just so close to fainting, that I went down on my knees and hands to get close to floor in case...
after 5 minutes I slowly got up, and manage to walk to kitchen decided to end dry fast after 21 hour.

chew on 3 oranges and 1 grapefruit, than 3 appless, lots of lyches, cucumber, some lettuce, bit of carot, and the most energy again came from chewing corn. at 6 pm I was feeling quite good, so we went the whole family to masters athletics evening, I as not really sure what will happen after fast and dehydration (onmly had about 400ml of green tea between 3-6pm), We were laqte, no time for warm up, stretches etc, and straight the first walking race - it felt very easy and good, appart from short of breath from lack of warmup. Very good time result, that it was some silly team-rellay where every person runs 400m and walks 400m with break in between when the other person competes, my turmn was 400m walk first, and I went super fast, catching and overtaking better walkers, was exited by the time, but UI was aware I was breaking teh contact rule - I am not used to walk at this speed at all, so it ended up as a partial run.
Last race for me was 3km walk and I was very satisfied with the time and teh pace during the race.

So I would say these dray fasting periods with some juices after can produce much better performnace, hope it is a sign of improved health - better detox etc.

Of course I am not making conclusion from just 1 short experimenet, but the pointy is that I was feeling so low and helpless during teh day, and than with 3 hours of chewing on some fresh raw fruits and vegs completely restored energy levels and than some.

I am trying now to combine this JFing, detoxing system with Tanyas system of daily fasting of say 16 hours and make that dry fasting so will try to get my last daily food and drink at 2 pm, so am going to graduly move it there.

I use to eat and drink right before bed, regardless so it could be 8-10pm.

Today I am still planning on green juice - cucumber+cellery at 6pm, hoping tomorow to stop 4-5pm.

had some raw purple corn the other day was quite different from normal corn. i used to fast every saturday as a kid and always had allot of energy for rugby on sundays. i find fasting on water almost impossible these days but can do an orange juice fast real easy. cant wait till they are back in season in qld.

Rudolf, are you taking the chia seeds and or other super foods during your juicing?

okay thanks Rudolf.  I happened to pick up Tanya's book again a few days ago too.  My only concern is that if I dry fast for too long, and I could possibly be dehydrated, I could be causing more damage to my body than the benefits of the dry fasting.

I love the chia in the o/j too..the only way I like having them at the moment.

Rudolf, you are coming along in leaps and bounds well done!!