It's one week into my fast and
I'm feeling surprisingly positive about it. By now I thought I'd be a pathetic
mess, having cartoon-like hallucinations that people resembled various forbidden
foods, yet there's barely a grumble in my tummy. They say that the first 3 days
of fasting are the hardest, if this is the case then the next 2 weeks should be
a breeze! Rather than feeling hungry and weak as I expected, I feel healthier and a bit chirpier, I even have more than enough energy to run around at my new
job which I started around the same time as my fast. In fact, working over the lunchtime
period helps distract me from the occasional hunger pangs that I tend to feel at
about 2ish then again at around 6.
Each day my routine has been fairly similar;
I'll have a banana for breakfast which lasts me through until I get home around
5 when I'll have a snack of either some more fruit or some raw vegetables (carrots,
red pepper etc) then at about 6 I will have my dinner. This week my main meals have
consisted of: baked potato with salsa and olives, homemade pea and sage soup, homemade
butternut squash soup and grilled vegetables. I spent my day off work this week
cooking up 2 surprisingly tasty vegetable-only soups which are so nice in fact, that
my dad, the 'it's not a meal unless there's some meat on the plate' sort of guy,
asked me to make some for him too. Now there's a compliment!
I may technically be
classed as an adult (ha!) but it is quite upsetting that I don't get the delight
of advent calender chocolate each day. I have made a deal with my parents that I
get to open the advent calendar each day and they have the chocolate until the end
of my fast, after that they're definitely not allowed near it!
So, 1 week down,
2 to go and I'm feeling surprisingly positive about it. Don't forget though that
my fast is pointless without donations so please visit justgiving.com/Jess-Marshall1 to donate
towards my volunteer trip to India, I will hopefully have more information on my
trip soon so I'll keep you updated!
