Day 6

Almost a whole week on the fast - and time has flown by. Really. I kind of have a rhythm down now although the weekend does throw things a bit into turmoil. Mainly because I really like sleeping in. Weekdays - up at 7 and juicing by eight. Saturday - up by 8:30 - quick juice because then we had to go get our taxes done. The good news - we owe less than $1000 in taxes. That was a lot less than I expected.

Then we went to the movies. This required me to have juice made in advance and to bring for the evening. We saw "The Reader" first - it is still renting space in my head. A multi-layered film and that Kate Winslet is pretty frickin awesome. Then off to the drug store to find an enema kit - this time I was successful. Fortunately we were out of town so I didn't have to use the slick ruse I had developed to save myself embarrassment. I figured I'd buy a "Ha! You're turning 50" card to give the impression that it was all a gag gift. Slick huh? Kind of like buying condoms in the old days - it was good of "American Graffiti" to show me how. After that we saw Frost/Nixon which lead to a long discussion on the car ride home about Ron Howard movies. Another great film from him.

So this morning I used above mentioned contraption - 2 things: one, it was not as weird as I thought it would be and 2: It was as weird as I thought it would be. Plus - it sure took a lot longer coming out than going in. And that's that. I do feel better today. The David Rain interview said that doing an enema a day for the first couple of weeks would be very beneficial and eliminate headaches and sluggishness. Today I would have to agree - it might be a placebo effect - but that's okay by me.

Tomorrow (Monday) starts a new week. I'll weigh in and continue the feast. I'm not feeling enormously different yet - but I am feeling the benefits of no caffeine, no junk food, no diet soda and lots of liquid veggies.