I’m back.  I feel 100% better than I did exactly one day ago.  Do I feel better than before I started this whole thing?  Actually, I may.  I am having a hard time discerning between feeling better because my liver and kidney and colon are clean, feeling better because I have some protein in my system, and just plain being happy because I can eat whatever I damn well please.  Either way I’m glad to be done.

So looking back, I have to say that diet sucked.  I suppose all diets suck.  But there is something especially annoying about starving oneself when one is perfectly healthy and in decent shape strictly in the hope that you’ll benefit from it someday.  It’s like freezing yourself in the hopes that the future people will be able to fix you.  It’s like buying the $200 accidental warranty plan on your new computer.  We’d all like to do it but only some can.  And I’m not talking about will power.  If we all knew for sure that it would make our golden years better, we’d eat horse manure for ten days.  I’m talking about those of us who are lucky enough to starve ourselves purely for the sake of our own benefit.  It just seems ironically insulting to those who are starving for real.  That’s all I’m saying.

Anyway, I made it.  It was a good challenge and I’ll admit I wasn’t perfect.  I ate avocados and quinoa.  Hell, some people say it’s worthless if you eat at all.  What I did not consume for ten days was meat, fish, dairy, salt, sugar, wheat, alcohol, oils, fat, and probably some things I don’t even know about.  I tried my best man.  I have talked to people who have truly fasted for seven days and one who drank only lemonade and cayenne pepper for a week.  They are stronger than I. 

Would I do it again?  Maybe.  No time soon and I will have to get some more hard research about the benefits.  I was actually worried that I may be doing harm to myself at one point.  So far, I think I’ve bounced back fairly well.  It seems my soul has returned.  I did get a few things out of it for sure.  I’ve said it before but I will try my best to eat more healthy food now.  I will also without a doubt appreciate what is in my food and how it tastes.  Those lessons alone make this a good endeavor.

I hope my kidney and liver and colon and whatnot are refreshed after their vacation though because I have a list of to do’s for them.