You know you might enjoy life too much when you hike 2.5 miles to the top of a mountain only to cook bacon on an iron skillet over a fire and to enjoy nutella spread thick atop a lovely slab of local seeded sour dough bread. By the way, in case you were wondering, I did hike this train with my vibram's. As a matter of fact, two of the other people I hiked with were also wearing Vibram Fivefingers. They went on to hike the 20 mile rocky trail. I got to do some trail running on the way back. Not only is trail running fun (your running down a mountain, what is not fun about that?) but it makes the hike go by much faster. I would have rather done the 20 mile hike, but one of my good friends struggled on the trail so I drove back to Columbia with her. I still had much fun and given the bacon, nutella, and a beautiful view of a seemingly endless mountain range, the trip went very well. The picture is of us trying to start the fire.Now, I am not avoiding the subject of fasting with you. I have just been extremely busy lately and a lot has happened so I have not been able to tell you about my experiment. For those of you who don't know, I went 6 days without eating food. Instead, I drank a concoction of lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper. I did that for 6.5 days before getting bored and eating a cliff bar (holy CRAP those things are super good!). I will tell you now that I feel like I did gain some mental strength from this. If you want to practice self control, get rid of nasty food eating habits, and get rid of controlling food cravings, then this fast is good for you. If you want to lose weight, then DO NOT go on this diet. I got some major cravings on the third day but managed to get past that and by the sixth day, I just wanted any real food in general. And really, it isn't that bad as long as you drink the lemon juice mix as often as you need to. I drank 7-9 servings a day and only got random cravings of junk food. I knew when I was really hungry because any food sounded good, even food that I normally wouldn't want to eat (that could just be a side effect of starving yourself though). In the end, I am not going to say it is a miracle diet. It did help me and I might do it again in the future, but you can get similar results from eating natural, whole foods all the time.
Speaking of good food, here is a picture of what a well balanced grocery store visit looks like. I call this, the backpack diet since I bike or walk to the grocery store and have to fit everything I get into a backpack. This time, I had an extra bag to store stuff in. Here I have several different types of squash including paddy pan, spaghetti, butternut, and acorn. I have apples, sweet potatoes, corn, and cucumbers for the rest of my produce. For grains, I have granola, pita bread, and corn bread mix. I have Greek yogurt for protein, probiotics, and just because I love Greek yogurt and cliff bars for snacks between classes. Finally, you will see that I have a jar of creamy, delicious nutella. From the farmers market, I also got a watermelon, the paddy pan squash you see above, and some seeded sour dough bread from Heather's Artisan Bakery. Oh how I love good food!
And here is a picture of the new kitten. His name is Rajah. Do you get the reference?
For now, I will leave you with a song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvbCV6E0Wro&feature=BFa&list=PLAD6D08DC4A5364AA&lf=mh_lolz
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