Lovely Saturday

My Saturday began as usual with my morning coffee, but this time there was a little bowl with prunes. The prunes are helpful in getting your metabolism and intestinal work going after the fast. Then I went to breakfast for the first time here, I felt so full after it that I even skipped out on breathing aerobics. I did participate in the other morning sports activities though.  At lunch time it was time for lunch, I mean real lunch not just broth. As a starter I had this really tasty carrot salad followed by a portion of mashed potatoes. That was amazing. In the afternoon I went to a nearby city called Hamelin ( the tale "the pied piper of Hamelin" stems from there). In the evening I ate a light dinner of vegetables with cottage cheese dip.

Here are my impressions in pictures

Morning coffee and prunes

Breakfast: ryebread crackers with cottage cheese and jam

Lunch: carrot salad

Hamelin

Spotted the first rat right by the train station

Interesting architecture of Hamelin buildings  

Throughout the whole city you can find these little rats

Dinner vegetables with dip and a kiwi for desert

Yours truly

V. 

Breaking the fast

Today was as regular a day as any other day here except that I got reintroduced to solid food after the 10 days of fasting that I did. As usual the day started with a weigh-in, was followed by morning coffee and the variousorning excercises that I do. At ten instead of the cleansing ritual I got a plate with two apples and a note that congratulates me on finishing my fast. One apple had to be eaten in the morning and the other in the afternoon. 

Then followed the regular sports regimen. In the afternoon I had my last fasting broth for lunch, before I went to the city to buy some souvenirs. Thereafter I went on a hike with friends I made here. In the evening I went to the proper dining room and instead of juice I received a real meal of potato kohlrabi soup. When arriving at my place there was a little personalized diploma of completion of a fast of 11 days on my plate. I must say that I really liked the presentation of the food. Here are my impressions of the day in pictures

The two apples I had to eat during the day

Graduation of broth lunch. Last one was a tomato broth with Italian herbs

Flowers in town

On the hike: yellow fields through the forest

The first meal tasted so amazing after the fast and the cute presentation made it even better

Evening walk to town

Yours truly

V.

The last of the fast (day 10)

Yippy, I have done it! I have been fasting for 10 full days! To some this may seem like not a big deal but to me it's a celebration! Beside the usual morning program that I do (breathing aerobics, group arobics, water aerobics) I added Callanetics to the program. In the afternoon I attended another cooking class that is supposed to teach you recipes you can so at home to stay on track with the healthy life. A thing I started doing in the evenings is interval walking on the treadmill, so that's another thing I did today.

Here are my impressions of the day in pictures

Herbs and greens that one should incorporate in ones meals 

The dietologist chef explaining how to use what and why

One of the recipes I learned today: yellow bellpepper and rhubarb soup with sunflower seeds

The last dinner juice that I am getting here, because the fasting is over and I will be getting food for dinners in the next two days

Yours truly

V.

Day 2 so much to do...

Today it was a little harder for me to get up but the thought of coffee,coffee, coffee made it a lot easier. Unfortunately I didn't get to my coffee as fast and that's because today was weigh-in day. Like clockwork my coffee was brought in at 7.10 and the lady told me that there was already a line at the weigh in chamber! I went to the weighing about ten minutes later to find that there is still a line. I sat down and waited while thinking "how long can it frickin take to step on a scale???". There were 4 people in front of me and it seemed like an eternity, which it probably wasn't! When it was finally my turn I was really quick and the nurse who wrote down my weight and checked my blood pressure was surprised that I was so eager to get out of there and told me that most people love to stay and chat or tell you all about their "pains". During the day I went to personal back training, aqua aerobics, group hiking and to a lecture about what happens when ones gets home. Since I was busy all the time I forgot to take pictures at all those events. But here are some of my impressions of the day.

Here the coffee I so waited for in my sunlit room

At lunch I had vegetable broth again even though it looks like coffee in this picture :)

This is what my day looks like (left) and me planning the next day (right)

In the evening after a whole lot of doing I decided to relax while drinking yogi tea and sketching the flowers in my room with a pen (because that's all I had) and on a little notebook which I ,uh-oh, stole from the lecture I was at today :)

Now it's bed time for me thus the no-makeup.

Yours Truly 

V.

Fast, fast, fasting day 1

The morning began rather early for me because the morning tea is supposed to be brought to the room at 7 in the morning, so I got up early! Since today was the first day I had to go the lab first to get blood drawn! After that I could finally enjoy my morning coffee! 

You are supposed to be drinking tea but I am a coffee person and starting a day without coffee is not an option for me, so they let me have some! 

After that came the morning cleanse ritual where you drink all that and then..well it has to leave the body again, helping you to detoxify! 

While waiting for the action I did something beautifying! Gel patches for the eyes are a great invention! 

After all the cleansing that was going on :) I decided to have my daily lunch time vegetable broth in my room. 

In the afternoon before a massage appointment I took a long walk in the area. Very beutiful and serene souroundings!

After my massage I decided to walk down to the town center!

Magnolias in full bloom

Town library

For dinner today I had carrot juice in the juice room, which fits perfectly to the flower table decor today!

Gym time! It's hard to take a picture while  running on the elliptical! :)

Finally it's time for an evening yogi tea and the soft, soothing scent of a vanilla candle!

Yours truly,

V.