Day Nine: The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Trip to the student health center today to meet the sports medicine specialist and see if we can't figure out what the hell's wrong with my right shoulder. While waiting, I helped myself to the scale in the hallway, and clocked in at 167--probably about eight pounds lighter than I was at the beginning of the fast, which is right about what I was expecting based on the reduction in my waistline. So, I'm completely satisfied with that, and although I'd like to get down to a trim 160, that will happen (if it happens) while gradually reintegrating solid foods into my diet and taking down the exercise from 80 miles a week on foot to more like 30 or 40. A pound a day is, after all, not a sustainable weight loss strategy in the long term, so I'm shooting for more like a pound a week from here on out.
Walked five miles to the campus med center, pushing the total to 106. News from the doctor sucked--likely an old rotator cuff tear that has since accumulated scar tissue and inflammation known as Adhesive Capsulitis, or "frozen shoulder." This typically requires a combination of steroid injections (boo!), anti-inflammatory meds, and physical therapy (can't afford copay) in order to avoid becoming permanent, so that should generally blow all around. It could be a million times worse, I know, but that's not the same thing as being good.
In any case...
6:30 pm: About 20 ounces of juice: Red grapes, strawberry, cranberry, grapefruit, granny smith apples. Yum. I hadn't done strawberries since day two or so and had forgotten how wonderful they are juiced. Took three mike walk with Rachel and the dogs between about 8:30 and 9:15, followed by a pint of sparkling water with lemon and lime. It's one of the best on-the-cheap appetite suppressants that on is likely to find. Thank you, San Pellegrino! (Perhaps they will offer me money for this ringing endorsement. One can dream, after all.)
11:30: About a quart of juice, mainly romas with mixed greens and a couple of carrots. I've noticed that I'm accidentally using less juice than I'm allotted for the day, and wondering if this is good, bad, or indifferent. I suppose it doesn't matter all that much, as tomorrow is the end of the all-juice diet and the beginning of using juice as an additional part of a diet that was already pretty high in vegetable intake.
My plan is, as it should be, to ease the solids back in slowly over the course of a couple of days so as not to make myself sick. Some toast with diced tomatoes Wednesday morning sounds good, as does spicy cabbage and rice for dinner. Rachel and I are planning to do January all-vegan, as a separate-but-related kind of experiment, before I go back to regularly eating fish and shellfish in February.
Totals: days, nine; miles walked, 109.
Walked five miles to the campus med center, pushing the total to 106. News from the doctor sucked--likely an old rotator cuff tear that has since accumulated scar tissue and inflammation known as Adhesive Capsulitis, or "frozen shoulder." This typically requires a combination of steroid injections (boo!), anti-inflammatory meds, and physical therapy (can't afford copay) in order to avoid becoming permanent, so that should generally blow all around. It could be a million times worse, I know, but that's not the same thing as being good.
In any case...
6:30 pm: About 20 ounces of juice: Red grapes, strawberry, cranberry, grapefruit, granny smith apples. Yum. I hadn't done strawberries since day two or so and had forgotten how wonderful they are juiced. Took three mike walk with Rachel and the dogs between about 8:30 and 9:15, followed by a pint of sparkling water with lemon and lime. It's one of the best on-the-cheap appetite suppressants that on is likely to find. Thank you, San Pellegrino! (Perhaps they will offer me money for this ringing endorsement. One can dream, after all.)
11:30: About a quart of juice, mainly romas with mixed greens and a couple of carrots. I've noticed that I'm accidentally using less juice than I'm allotted for the day, and wondering if this is good, bad, or indifferent. I suppose it doesn't matter all that much, as tomorrow is the end of the all-juice diet and the beginning of using juice as an additional part of a diet that was already pretty high in vegetable intake.
My plan is, as it should be, to ease the solids back in slowly over the course of a couple of days so as not to make myself sick. Some toast with diced tomatoes Wednesday morning sounds good, as does spicy cabbage and rice for dinner. Rachel and I are planning to do January all-vegan, as a separate-but-related kind of experiment, before I go back to regularly eating fish and shellfish in February.
Totals: days, nine; miles walked, 109.
posted by JPS at 1/10/2012 12:48:00 AM
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