Day 28 - Transition day 10-24-09

Today I am starting to drink juice and eat a couple of almonds as a way of winding down the fast and ending it - tomorrow I eat. Well not eat eat I am planning on some juice and banana with the possibility of a salad - we will see how it goes. I decided today seems like a good day to end it for now, it is day 28 and completes four weeks of water fasting - unbelievable. I have really been reading a lot about how transition and what your body might be telling you when your ready. One of the big things was that you would start to actually get hungry again and I definitely am developing a growing hunger - not really like the old hunger more of a genuine need to eat rather than a desire.... I don't know it's not like I am that in tune to my body or anything - it used to be a mystery to me why I felt bad after an hour at the Chinese buffet.

Deciding what to eat and how to eat going forward that is the real question. After careful consideration and research I have narrowed it down to one of two things:
A. The Filbertos/Great wall/ Hometown buffet diet - this diet involves eating crap load of foosd once a day (for the most part this is only a guideline and may have to be increased to twice) - this diet featuring multiple cultures and use of saturated fats, with high sodium with unlimited carbs should supply the proper energy I need (side note this is not a physician sponsored diet - I got it from a guy named Jim at the car wash....I think his name was Jim...it doesn't really matter.....he is not a Dr.....even though he commonly offers breast exams to the ladies......yeah wait his name is definitely Jim... I remember because this chick Lydia said "JIM your disgusting and your not a Dr".....and I was like come on I need my car.....and she was all.....wait that wasn't Jim it was....hell I can't remember..... the point is he isn't a Dr....I don't think)
B. The second choice was a raw foods diet - which is fairly self explanatory....you don't eat anything cooked....so it's raw.

I went with option B the raw food thing - It is pretty exciting and I will try to explain it better as we go along - if you really even care at this point. This particular blog has taken the lead as the most tedious blog so far in my opinion and I am writing it - I can't even imagine what your going through.....I know it's getting worse....I will stop now.

OK now onto the traditional Saturday thing kids sports - My son had a soccer game this morning, he didn't get to practice all week because he was sick so he played goalie in the game. He played pretty well - our defense played really well and made the keeper job pretty quite -the other team did get dangerous one time and the boy made a very good save. We finally scored a goal late in the 2ND half after being in their end almost the whole game. Coach Bacon made a good choice with a goalie change and our regular goalie Mitchell made a absolutely spectacular save very late in the game to preserve our lead - it was really cool. Lebo played a short time at forward and had a good opportunity to score from a great pass by JJ...the only problem was it ended up on the useless appendage known as his right foot and pppffftttt opportunity lost - toe poke that sucker boy! Overall the kids played really well, our most complete game so far - and the littlest kid with the biggest heart scored the game winning goal - It was very cool for him and Mom and Dad.

Hannah had district playoffs for her school volleyball team... I missed her game because it was the same time as Lebo's...it did not go well they lost. It was a really frustrating volleyball season and we are all glad it is over. Hannah got a lot better over the course of the season but lost her way a bit toward the end.... she needs to get it back she has tryouts for a club team Nov. 1st - we will see.

We went to the Y today as a family in the afternoon and Hannah and I had a race in the mile run and I will be damned if she didn't beat me - I hate to lose even to my own daughter. I sprinted like hell to catch her on the last lap but she kicked it in and held me off....she ran it in 10:55 and I was at 11:04...this my best so far but I still lost....I was so proud of her despite the taunting that followed.

That's about it watched some movies and chilled with the family...pretty good day overall.
Talk to you soon.
Joe
Peace!