DAY ONE - You are preparing your system for the upcoming program. Your only source of nutrition is fresh or canned fruits. Fruits are nature’s perfect food. They provide everything that you could possibly want to sustain life except total balance and variety.

I’ve never done a health food fast, but I’ve heard a lot about them from some of my more ‘health conscious’ friends. I remember talking to Matt and Sally about fruit diet ‘cleansings’, and stuff as drastic as living off of lemonaid, syrup and pepper for longer than a week from Toby. They all reported positive affects and recommended that I participate in something similar.

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I’m rarely one to back down from anything that involves excrement or digestive processes, so when Mollie brought up the idea of doing a health fast, it seemed like a natural thing to do. I haven’t been able to torture myself with any grueling backpacking or skiing lately, so I might as well suffer a little from starvation right? Mollie has a friend at work who recommended a certain fast found at this website:

http://www.ruchihealth.com/health/diet_program.htm

So here I am in the middle of day 1. Only fruit. No bananas. Must drink 10 glasses (not cups, glasses) of water every day. For breakfast I had plenty of watermelon, honeydew, an apple, shortly followed by an orange. As of 4pm, I’ve lost count of how many apples I’ve consumed, something around 4 or 5 today. I’m out of fruit at work, and am not really looking forward to dinner. I’m rather suprised how much fruit you must consume to make up the caloric content of my usual awful diet.

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We are allowed coffees and black teas, a minor bit of spices…and that’s about it besides the ‘menu’ of the day. So far I feel hungry, but not aweful. When I eat some fruit I very quickly feel energized, but it seems to disappear just as fast, and is replaced by mild but nagging hunger. Bring on the misery….

Last night I was sitting just under 199lbs.  Heaviest I’ve been since college.

Tomorrow is Vegetable day.