Detoxing is Allowing Your Body to Have a Voice

Today I ate:
No Breakfast (I chose sleep over breakfast this morning)
Lunch:
2 bowls of:
cabbage salad with sliced cabbage and apple, apple cider vinegar, Bragg's Amino Acids, olive oil, caraway seeds, dulse, cayenne, sea salt
Sunshine cheese with soaked cashews, nutritional yeast, water, sea salt

Snack:
part of 1/2 pint of raw Oreo Cookie ice cream (from last night's Pure Juice Takeaway adventure)

3o ounces of lemon water

Dinner:
large salad with romaine, radish, carrot, 1/2 avocado, sprouts and sunflower seeds with a dressing of olive oil, nutritional yeast and sea salt
4 thin slices of Manna carrot raisin bread with smears of raw crunchy almond butter

Dessert:
part of 1/2 pint of almond buttercup ice cream

8 ounces water

As I've been 100% raw again, my body has been showing some of the detox signs it did 3 3/4 years ago when I first went raw. I know it's detox because 1. I just know, as I trust my body and it speaks to me often and 2. I experience the "symptoms" largely one moment, and then the next day they are completely gone. Last night, I had muscle and joint pain in different parts of my body; it also happened last Thursday night. Then it showed up in my lower back and legs and last night I think my arm and leg. Turning over in bed was uncomfortable. Last week, touching the floor was impossible! Dr. Fred Bisci writes about this, and it really does not get spoken about. When we shift our bodies into a space of only eating raw, the nutrients are super high, where they weren't before. They are now trying to target the parts of our bodies where they are most needed. They first focus the nutrients on our blood and our organs; so the energy or fuel involved in this process of feeding our bodies is pulled away from the "Wei Chi," as they refer to our external body system in Chinese Medicine (which partly encompasses our muscles, tissues and joints) and is utilized first for our organs and blood. Fred speaks about this redistribution; I've added in the Wei Chi part from from my background in Chinese Medicine as applied here with respect to the raw food lifestyle. As a result, we may temporarily feel weak (and I would add, have some isolated pain) until the nutrients can then also be offered to these other parts of the body system (the Wei Chi). The same with sleep; a couple of nights I'm completely exhausted and others I'm only needing five or six hours. Allow your body to speak to you. What is it saying? Observe the changes and don't panic. Of course our bodies change and shift as our food changes and shifts; doesn't that make sense? Our body is a cellular being that responds to what nourishes it. Honor its voice. Trust; your body will respond to you.