slowing down

still on health posting. i’m not a methodical vegetarian for lack of a better term, a methodical vegetarian is (by that i mean)   someone who, when he/she goes to parties or reunions or any extended  gathering or meeting or who when he/she sleeps in others houses,   brings his/her own food (vegetarian) on top of the reglementary food or wine  for the host so that if only food with meat is served, he/she  has a back-up plan for nourishment. it’s like… going to war. you bring supplies.  but when it comes to attending parties or social gatherings, i’m impulsive. i don’t treat it like… a war, you know.  you go to gatherings to break bread with family and friends; oh, if only bread were served in these gatherings and reunions. So now. Fast, it’s the 19th hour, it’s only 3pm. don’t worry i’ve done this before. some people fast or detox on a mixture of maple syrup, lemon juice, and cayenne pepper. (that’s what Del did a couple of months ago. that’s what many celebrities do! or apple juices and other liquids. but since i eat cakes and creamy sweets the rest of the time, and i’m not a celebrity, i don’t put maple syrup and fruit juices anymore during the fast, just wheatgrass and lots of water). but no physical or mental activity (others can.) writing this is not “mental activity” — it’s just that i’m awake, i have to do sumthin, not too strenuous anyway, i’ve already done lots of “meditating” when you consider sleeping today as meditating, i’m being facetious you know that don’t you. i should have measured my heart rate but  didn’t know i’m semi-documenting this this time —  it’s too late because i just took wheatgrass, that raises my heart rate to above 58 bpm, i want to find out how low or how far down i can slow it down. i’m not trying to put myself in a coma…just fast and slowing down.  xxx

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(i’m supposed to have stopped writing here. but added some more.) xxx

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(kulay dilaw na ba ako, translation,  is my skin turning sallow. i’m being melodramatic. it’s only been 19 hours) (writing stream-of-consciousness and unstructured is a form of semi-documenting, right? at least, you know i can still…spell). ayt. xxx

and added some more. POSTSCRIPT: i think detox (detoxification) is supposed to be for more than 24 hours, it’s supposed to be for days, so i’m not really on detox. just fast and slowing down. MAYBE I SHOULD BE A METHODICAL VEGETARIAN. (by the way, i should put vegetarian in quotes, i still eat fish and sea food, so i’m not really vegan. Technically, i’m… pescoterian….i’m already getting hungry, i should stop writing and editing this…seafood marinara…seafood marinara. it’s tomato-based. with olive oils….it’s my 20th hour, it’s 4pm now.)

fasting

i will fast today.

(don’t ask why.)

Or detox, as Hollywood “celebrityhood” and locals put it — i just call it fasting. lots of water.   wheatgrass.   no mental activity. lots of water (did i already say that…?) no strenuous physical activity. but i can go without food for only  17 hours. big deal. at least i try. wheatgrass is technically food; but…. you know what i mean.

health post for today.

Does fasting work…?  don’t know,  don’t necessarily recommend it to anyone. it’s just that… there’s a monster inside this stomach, it eats big portions the rest of the time — the rest of the time there’s  mental and physical activity….so…  i fast when i’m able to slow down. don’t necessarily recommend it to anyone — get to know your own body.

17 hours is small-time compared to what others do, it’s not really fasting, it’s called… sleeping. okay, i already said no mental activity. photos of reunions later. ayt. xxx

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[POSTSCRIPT: ACTUALLY,  i’ve come to thinking — IF YOU COUNT FROM LAST NIGHT, IT’S ALREADY THE TWELFTH HOUR! — i’ll be eating in a few hours! yehey! (my threshold is 17 hours, follow what works for you)… can  that even be called fasting? maybe just  slowing down and quieting up,   just took a 12-hour sleep and will defer breakfast… very big deal for a health post…]

(Photo shot the other week.)