Today is the first day of eating since, well, February! I'm starting slow....This morning for breakfast I ate some raisins that had soaked all night in a bowl of water - very soft, and easy to digest. I had, oh, probably a quarter cup of them, and felt full.
I'm still juicing, of course, it's just that drinking the juice is more like an event now, rather than a continuous transfusion. I'm trying to get back to the "mealtime" mentality; gauging my hunger and estimating how much I need to consume to fill up. I know my stomach has shrunk to the size of a pea during this juice fast -- but the last thing I need is to start snacking every waking minute now that I'm going back to food.
I need to change my relationship to hunger. It is no cause for panic. It is good. Acheiving hunger before a meal makes food taste better -- even plain vegetables! And it means I didn't overeat at the last meal!
By lunchtime I was hungry again, so I had some more raisins with my juice. Then, since I was serving fresh cherries to my family, I ate a few. Probably no more than 10. That's all it took to feel full.
No indigestion yet, no stomach cramps. My stomach feels heavy, though -- well, what can I expect after 3 months of nothing but juice? It's not as uncomfortable as I expected. I'm a little sleepy.
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