Day 21 of Juice Feasting - candida brain

A supportive community : a crucial element in the success of a Juice Feast.  Log on to Juice Feasting for sure.  Tonight, the candida is acting up big time, because I had loads of greens, and only 2 green apples worth of sweet juice, no carrots or beets... and the little critters ain't likin' it!!  Problem is, they speak in your voice, confuse your thoughts, and make you think that reaaallllly this whole cleansing business is stuuupid.

So here I am cranky and grumpy, watching the only movie I can find at my friends' house where I am goat-sitting (yes, that's right, taking care of the goat and chicken and all) and the movie is showing all this cheese and bread - aaargh!  My favorites!  (I'm from France, remember)

And no, I don't want any juice and yes this thing is stupid and....I log on to facebook, and here is a little message from one of my friend sharing with the world how great it was for him to do a Juice Feast, and comments below on how transformative and wonderful of a journey it is... and all of a sudden my mood shifts, everything comes back in perspective, and I am grateful to do this cleanse again.  mmm, thanks for sending me to read this Universe!  Whoever said that food is not a real addiction really doesn't know what they are talking about!  I'm sure what I am going through is similar, in a less dramatic fashion, to addicts going off drugs.

Maybe I need to figure out tasty green veggie juice recipes, with the ingredients that are available here (read: scant to none) before I jump into the no fruit zone.  Today was a bit hard, because frankly, the juices tasted yuky.  I had 1 liter each of bok choy, tomato, cucumber, fermented kale, 1/2 liter of celery, and was combining them as I went, as well as a tall glass of wild grass with 2 green apples and a bunch of mint.  That was the one juice of the day that was fabulous!

I think I need to find herbs, and freeze them, so I can have different tastes available.  Bok choy juice makes my skin crawl, and my nose wrinkles at the smell of celery.  I think I need to lay off celery completely for a few days, so that I can like it again.  Luckily, I unloaded about 1/2 my case of Bok Choy to unsuspecting friends, who have a family of nine.  I'm sure they love bok choy.  They love cabbage, that's kind of similar, isn't it? ;o)

I'm still transforming a lot of feelings about not eating my favorites foods anymore.  I was doing that as I was driving by the pizza places, french fries, cheeseburgers, ethnic restaurants etc... on my way to my friends house today.  What do you mean, eating raw means not eating junk food?? How can I really live without junk food? is screaming my candida infested mind.

The entire family is on board with the raw ecovillage I'm creating, and I now have the two oldest sons working on assignments for the business plan and research.  Excellent recruits.  I'm thrilled. We are going to look at more land hopefully in a week.

Hey, I'm not cranky anymore, Yippee!

Life is grand.

Starry nights and spirulina dreams!