Good afternoon & Happy Monday all!
Today I finally have the opportunity to open up about my week before I left for Maroc. Whilst in the midst of it I was too shook up to openly talk about it, and well as timing would have it I left the continent straight after.
What the hell am I talking about? A new and eye-opening detox experience. A profound, albeit somewhat scary, result of combining a high raw diet with Bikram yoga. I finally got to experience first-hand something I all too often read about with other raw foodists: hitting new, deep levels of cleansing.
Raw Food + Bikram Yoga = !
I’ve been into raw foods for some 5 months now, and into Bikram for 4ish. However, I never combined the two as intensely as I started doing some weeks ago. Where my Bikram practise was somewhat erratic before, as was my eating raw, I suddenly found myself going every day. Taking a class every day, became my new normal. A routine, one that really added to my every day.
I’d already thought to myself all those months that Bikram yoga and a (mainly) raw foods diet must be a very powerful combination in terms of ongoing cleansing and detoxing. That’s what also what stopped me subconsciously, I guess, from going more than a few times a week back then. Until, at one point, I just found myself naturally going every day. At the same time I was still experimenting with eating higher raw as well. All was well, nay great, for a while, until BAM.
I felt weird. Restless. Not myself. Unusual cravings arose and hit me like a thunderstorm. Cravings for things I hadn’t been craving, nor eating for that matter, for months. Namely refined sugar and dairy. Also wheat.
I could try and go into detail to try and explain how I felt that week but honestly, it was a haze. I was taken by surprise by all these strong feelings and urges that were rampaging in my body that week and it was hard for me to make a conscious account of it, like I’d normally do. Analyze and rationalize weren’t really an option, or so it felt.
Instead, I want to tell that I did eat dairy, wheat and refined sugars that week, lots of them too (except the dairy). I felt like I was on auto-pilot or something, like my cravings were taking over my body. Not a nice feeling, no, and I can tell you that week sucked. I was scared, didn’t know what the hell was going on, and I felt angry and ashamed. At myself, for ‘giving in’. For putting things in my body I know are unhealthy, perhaps even harmful (some more than others, of course), and some definitely in contrast with my ethical views.
I felt like this basically every other day for a week. Until at some point I acknowledged, OK, something is going on, don’t be too hard on yourself. And by the end of the week it started to dawn on me what that was. I literally felt like I had been propelled back into the times in my life where I ate tons of dairy, wheat and sugars. I talked with my mom about this the day I left before Maroc, and then as I was traveling by train Nathalie, one of my online friends, happened to send me a link to a blog, a blog about raw foods and bikram yoga ( bikramyoga365days ). Reading that blog was like reading about my very own experiences from that last week. This blogger had written about very similar experiences while combining raw foods and bikram yoga. Old feelings and old cravings (notably dairy) surfacing after years, and passing again just as quickly as they came. Reading this confirmed my theories and made me feel more at peace with myself once again. I wasn’t a hypocrit or a bad person for eating some dairy that week. I was going through a phase of closure, letting go of past behaviour. I do feel this has now completely passed, aka no urge to eat either dairy, refined sugar or wheat at all anymore, but I am also hesitant to think I’m all done. From what I’ve learned so far from detoxing your body, is that you’ll always hit new levels and enter new phases. And it’s not always a walk in the park, to say the least.
Yet, here I am, grateful for the experience. After a louzy week, I now know something in my body has been released, expelled, and let go. Leaving my body more adept at moving forward. Ready for a new phase.
3 Day Juice Fast
Speaking of which, while in Maroc I decided to embark on my very first 3 day juice fast! I’ve always seen my one day juice fasts as the beginning of something bigger, and now I feel the time is ripe. For starters, I really want to. Also, since I ate so clean, and light, for almost two weeks, it’s perfect timing (eating light before fasting makes it easier). Lastly, experiencing Ramadan in a Muslim country was really inspiring to me. To me, fasting is a great thing, in oh so many ways, and seeing so many people devoted to it really instilled this further in me. After my fast I am doing a round of 3 colon hydrotherapy sessions (the recommended amount for a thorough cleaning, after which only maintenance is needed), I feel this will aid my body well in releasing some of the junk I am wiggling loose.
I am so so excited for all this! For some, this might be hard to imagine, but I get excited about stuff like juice fasting and getting colonics like others would get excited about a huge shopping trip, going to a concert or planning a holiday. I get navigated into certain directions naturally and I’m simply looking forward to all the new things I’ll get to experience.
So, the day after I got home I went to my beloved farmers market and loaded up:
I got 5 heads Romaine lettuce, 2 pounds dinosaur kale, 1 bunch endive, a pound spinach, lemons, apples, pears, oranges, ginger, nectarines & peaces, celery and probably more ;)
I’ll document here day by day how the fast is going!
Love,
Sabine
Good afternoon & Happy Monday all!
Today I finally have the opportunity to open up about my week before I left for Maroc. Whilst in the midst of it I was too shook up to openly talk about it, and well as timing would have it I left the continent straight after.
What the hell am I talking about? A new and eye-opening detox experience. A profound, albeit somewhat scary, result of combining a high raw diet with Bikram yoga. I finally got to experience first-hand something I all too often read about with other raw foodists: hitting new, deep levels of cleansing.
Raw Food + Bikram Yoga = !
I’ve been into raw foods for some 5 months now, and into Bikram for 4ish. However, I never combined the two as intensely as I started doing some weeks ago. Where my Bikram practise was somewhat erratic before, as was my eating raw, I suddenly found myself going every day. Taking a class every day, became my new normal. A routine, one that really added to my every day.
I’d already thought to myself all those months that Bikram yoga and a (mainly) raw foods diet must be a very powerful combination in terms of ongoing cleansing and detoxing. That’s what also what stopped me subconsciously, I guess, from going more than a few times a week back then. Until, at one point, I just found myself naturally going every day. At the same time I was still experimenting with eating higher raw as well. All was well, nay great, for a while, until BAM.
I felt weird. Restless. Not myself. Unusual cravings arose and hit me like a thunderstorm. Cravings for things I hadn’t been craving, nor eating for that matter, for months. Namely refined sugar and dairy. Also wheat.
I could try and go into detail to try and explain how I felt that week but honestly, it was a haze. I was taken by surprise by all these strong feelings and urges that were rampaging in my body that week and it was hard for me to make a conscious account of it, like I’d normally do. Analyze and rationalize weren’t really an option, or so it felt.
Instead, I want to tell that I did eat dairy, wheat and refined sugars that week, lots of them too (except the dairy). I felt like I was on auto-pilot or something, like my cravings were taking over my body. Not a nice feeling, no, and I can tell you that week sucked. I was scared, didn’t know what the hell was going on, and I felt angry and ashamed. At myself, for ‘giving in’. For putting things in my body I know are unhealthy, perhaps even harmful (some more than others, of course), and some definitely in contrast with my ethical views.
I felt like this basically every other day for a week. Until at some point I acknowledged, OK, something is going on, don’t be too hard on yourself. And by the end of the week it started to dawn on me what that was. I literally felt like I had been propelled back into the times in my life where I ate tons of dairy, wheat and sugars. I talked with my mom about this the day I left before Maroc, and then as I was traveling by train Nathalie, one of my online friends, happened to send me a link to a blog, a blog about raw foods and bikram yoga ( bikramyoga365days ). Reading that blog was like reading about my very own experiences from that last week. This blogger had written about very similar experiences while combining raw foods and bikram yoga. Old feelings and old cravings (notably dairy) surfacing after years, and passing again just as quickly as they came. Reading this confirmed my theories and made me feel more at peace with myself once again. I wasn’t a hypocrit or a bad person for eating some dairy that week. I was going through a phase of closure, letting go of past behaviour. I do feel this has now completely passed, aka no urge to eat either dairy, refined sugar or wheat at all anymore, but I am also hesitant to think I’m all done. From what I’ve learned so far from detoxing your body, is that you’ll always hit new levels and enter new phases. And it’s not always a walk in the park, to say the least.
Yet, here I am, grateful for the experience. After a louzy week, I now know something in my body has been released, expelled, and let go. Leaving my body more adept at moving forward. Ready for a new phase.
3 Day Juice Fast
Speaking of which, while in Maroc I decided to embark on my very first 3 day juice fast! I’ve always seen my one day juice fasts as the beginning of something bigger, and now I feel the time is ripe. For starters, I really want to. Also, since I ate so clean, and light, for almost two weeks, it’s perfect timing (eating light before fasting makes it easier). Lastly, experiencing Ramadan in a Muslim country was really inspiring to me. To me, fasting is a great thing, in oh so many ways, and seeing so many people devoted to it really instilled this further in me. After my fast I am doing a round of 3 colon hydrotherapy sessions (the recommended amount for a thorough cleaning, after which only maintenance is needed), I feel this will aid my body well in releasing some of the junk I am wiggling loose.
I am so so excited for all this! For some, this might be hard to imagine, but I get excited about stuff like juice fasting and getting colonics like others would get excited about a huge shopping trip, going to a concert or planning a holiday. I get navigated into certain directions naturally and I’m simply looking forward to all the new things I’ll get to experience.
So, the day after I got home I went to my beloved farmers market and loaded up:
I’ll document here day by day how the fast is going!
Love,
Sabine