The Fast Has Ended

With celery, peanut butter, hummus, and pita.

First let me say I have had nothing but water from when I blogged last night till 10:00 PM tonight. I didn't have any sort of hunger issues till around 5:00PM. I am tired, but don't really have any other symptoms that I know of. I enjoyed the experience and will be doing it again next week.

I spent a good portion of the day researching fasting and found remarkably little negative information. I googled "fasting health" and "24 hour fasting." At the bottom of this blog you will find the websites I read. Many of the websites talked of detoxing the body. While I can't really tell if my body is detoxifying, I can believe that it is and my mind will work wonders. Like anything else, I strongly believe the mind can do wonders if I truly will it to.

Since it was the Sunday before spring semester starts, Peabody was at a still before the storm. So I took the time to practice, walk, put a record on to my computer (my new toy!), and read... a lot. I finished messenger by Lois Lowry. Messenger is the third of The Giver triology. I read The Giver in middle school and was transfixed by it. Then recently I bought the second book Gathering Blue, it was not as good as the first, but I figured I would read the last one, Messenger. I liked this one a lot. It spoke to me a lot about the evolution of the US and humanity's increased greed and selfishness. Selflessness saves the day... indeed a sacrifice of oneself. I will have to read Gathering Blue again, but if your interested I would read The Giver and Messenger...

Tomorrow the real world begins, although Mondays aren't that bad. I do have three rehearsals tomorrow though... I guess thats the life?

Fasting Links:
http://www.webmd.com/diet/fasting
http://drbenkim.com/fasting.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-04-28-fasting_x.htm
http://www.freedomyou.com/
http://www.healthpromoting.com/
http://www.hps-online.com/index.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16513299
http://www.fitwise.com/Fasting_Program.asp
http://www.ehow.com/how_4475779_water-fasting-weight-loss-detoxification.html