Just got back from lunch. I'm realizing more and more the need to be mentally prepared for the fasting/cleansing/praying/food slash diet change I will soon be implementing.
I've been (intentionally) fasting from the last meal the night before to noon ish the next day; drinking 2 large glasses of water when I wake up and taking vitamins, then drinking tea and water throughout the day until lunch.
Then at lunch I stick to the (1-bowl meal idea) and eat veggies, hummus, 1 pita.
For example:
cucumber and olives mix (hand chopped the night before), baby tomatoes 2 hand fulls, some mashed avocado, small container of hummus, and 1 med size pita. Takes about 3 minutes to prepare the night before and does me pretty good so far. Sounds boring but I'm usually pretty full if I chew long enough. (more on THAT later also)
Then later I'll have either a fruit smoothie (Odwalla if on the run) or eat a bowl of fruit for dinner; or I'll have soup, or make a salad or whatever.
That's about it.
Still perfecting the list but I'ive learned SO much about how we overeat and overstuff and overwork our digestive systems way past capacity, less is REALLY more.
More about the 1 bowl/item meal and food combining (acidic/alkaline foods) coming soon.
BONUS: Newest "changed my whole food complex about life" piece of information:
Myth: when your stomach "growls" , this means that we are "hungry"
Our bodies, as sophisticated as they are in preserving life, are always in the business of self-preservation and finding ways to save and conserve energy. So, when an organ is not "in use" it shrinks just a bit in size so that energy can be used in other parts of the body. As a result, we often hear out stomachs "growling" when we haven't eaten for a number of hours after being awake. We believe this must mean we are "hungry" and so proceed to feed our stomachs and the "hunger pains" go away.
Truth: Actually what is happening when we hear our stomachs "growl" is our stomach is simply shrinking and this is the noise that it makes when doing so. The reason the stomach starts to shrink a bit is because the digestive system is now going into rest mode so the energy usually used for the digestion can be used elsewhere (more on that later), and the reason the sensations go away after eating is because now the body is back to work to attempt to digest the food you just ate.
Some experts suggest that as much as 80% of the bodies energy goes towards digestion. When digestion stops the body then transfers that energy for other uses, such as healing.
After digestion only 20 percent of our body's energy remains for cardiovascular, immune, neurological, reproductive, and respiratory functions. It makes sense to support the digestive process. "If you want to stay healthy or get healthy, you need to free up as much digestive energy as you can spare," explains Bohager.
After digestion only 20 percent of our body's energy remains for cardiovascular, immune, neurological, reproductive, and respiratory functions. It makes sense to support the digestive process. "If you want to stay healthy or get healthy, you need to free up as much digestive energy as you can spare," explains Bohager.
TIP: Try mentally overcoming the sensations of "hunger" during your fast and recognize the "hunger pains" are actually your body's way of initiating self-healing. Better said: Growling hunger pains don't actually always need to be fed. lol
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