Day 13
Still waking up with lots of tiredness, the initial feeling is that I haven't really slept that much but I know I have. Once I drag myself up I come around after a bit, but I am used to feeling quite awake in the morning.
The cravings appear to have subsided and I notice that I am actually looking for the flavours in the things that I eat more. Usually there is some condiment lathered on the side or something else to distract my taste buds. I believe that sugar has a numbing effect on the mind as well as the taste buds. Sugar makes me lazy for flavour, once I've tasted that I am less interested in other things. I remember my mum saying "Don't eat a biscuit you'll spoil your dinner!" and I'd reply "But I'm really hungry! I'll still eat everything". I think the situation is more that once I had eaten a sweet biscuit I would lose interest in the taste of her savoury food, sugar has that effect.
I spend the day in the woods, with provsions to last the day. Its nice and cool and despite being a sacrificial victim to mosquitoes and horse flies I spend the day trying to make fire with a bow drill and making nettle cordage. These craft activities are effective at taking my mind off the food situation and there is not an ice cream van to be heard. As I am making a bad job of splitting some wood a barefoot man and a dog spring out of nowhere and it turns out he teaches primitive fire making. He makes an ember with my kit, reassuriung me that the kit at least isn't duff. I however still have a long way to go to get it. Mood is pretty low today as it was Tueday and Monday so try to keep on through although I feel pretty rubbish.
Day 14
Make a conscious effort to buy different nourishing food stuffs and give my head a break. I have been thinking constantly about finding a place to live as despite four different possibles, they all have fallen through for different reasons, nothing has born fruit yet. I want a place to be pretty badly now despite it being great to spend time with my sister's family. Anna comes around in the morning on her way to Starry Skies and offers some advice and helpful words on the sugar thing. I spend the morning bashing nettles and stripping fibres to make more cordage. I make a small bracelet, not a grand work of art, and also a new drum beater with a sycamore handle and cordage to tie the soft leather at the top. Again its a starting point but I find that the craft activities help with the busy head. This could be lack of sugar but also lots to sort out over the coming months. Make a special effort with food today and feel much better by the end of the day with tofu, leafy greens, nuts and seeds. I am getting used to no condiments something I thought would never happen. My bathroom trips....suffice to say that what I am experiencing comes in colours that are not overly familiar. Hopefully this means that the herbs and tinctures are working....we'll see......Spend the evening making a fire in the wok and attempting unusual cooking methods for my bushcraft weekend ahead. We are being reviewed by The Independent....... The food is edible I would say only in a survival situation. Good job I have road tested it. Think about my friend's wedding which falls just at the end of the detox and make a note to take it easy on whatever food stuffs are available and to eat just a small amount of anything not savoury.
Still waking up with lots of tiredness, the initial feeling is that I haven't really slept that much but I know I have. Once I drag myself up I come around after a bit, but I am used to feeling quite awake in the morning.
The cravings appear to have subsided and I notice that I am actually looking for the flavours in the things that I eat more. Usually there is some condiment lathered on the side or something else to distract my taste buds. I believe that sugar has a numbing effect on the mind as well as the taste buds. Sugar makes me lazy for flavour, once I've tasted that I am less interested in other things. I remember my mum saying "Don't eat a biscuit you'll spoil your dinner!" and I'd reply "But I'm really hungry! I'll still eat everything". I think the situation is more that once I had eaten a sweet biscuit I would lose interest in the taste of her savoury food, sugar has that effect.
I spend the day in the woods, with provsions to last the day. Its nice and cool and despite being a sacrificial victim to mosquitoes and horse flies I spend the day trying to make fire with a bow drill and making nettle cordage. These craft activities are effective at taking my mind off the food situation and there is not an ice cream van to be heard. As I am making a bad job of splitting some wood a barefoot man and a dog spring out of nowhere and it turns out he teaches primitive fire making. He makes an ember with my kit, reassuriung me that the kit at least isn't duff. I however still have a long way to go to get it. Mood is pretty low today as it was Tueday and Monday so try to keep on through although I feel pretty rubbish.
Day 14
Make a conscious effort to buy different nourishing food stuffs and give my head a break. I have been thinking constantly about finding a place to live as despite four different possibles, they all have fallen through for different reasons, nothing has born fruit yet. I want a place to be pretty badly now despite it being great to spend time with my sister's family. Anna comes around in the morning on her way to Starry Skies and offers some advice and helpful words on the sugar thing. I spend the morning bashing nettles and stripping fibres to make more cordage. I make a small bracelet, not a grand work of art, and also a new drum beater with a sycamore handle and cordage to tie the soft leather at the top. Again its a starting point but I find that the craft activities help with the busy head. This could be lack of sugar but also lots to sort out over the coming months. Make a special effort with food today and feel much better by the end of the day with tofu, leafy greens, nuts and seeds. I am getting used to no condiments something I thought would never happen. My bathroom trips....suffice to say that what I am experiencing comes in colours that are not overly familiar. Hopefully this means that the herbs and tinctures are working....we'll see......Spend the evening making a fire in the wok and attempting unusual cooking methods for my bushcraft weekend ahead. We are being reviewed by The Independent....... The food is edible I would say only in a survival situation. Good job I have road tested it. Think about my friend's wedding which falls just at the end of the detox and make a note to take it easy on whatever food stuffs are available and to eat just a small amount of anything not savoury.
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