My fruit fast ended officially about ten minutes after the 65th hour (yesterday at 5:10pm). I’m very happy with this. I would have gone a full three days but I started feeling really weak and light-headed. Had I not been busy with a lot of stuff yesterday, I would have gone to bed and just rode it out, but I had too many things to do.

I feel I’ve received several benefits from the fast though. There’s been a definite slimming of the tummy and waist area, plus some internal cleansing that has taken place. My cravings for fatty, salty and dairy foods has been removed. (I credit both the fast and prayer for that). I woke up today feeling marvelous.

As we know, all great things must be accomplished one step at a time – even though I personally like doing things overnight. In reflecting on my diet and where I want to be and where I am, I realize I’m really happy at the moment. Sure, I’d love to be on my perfect ‘high vibration’ diet. However, I almost am! In the past couple of weeks, I’ve finally gotten off dairy (day 4 and I am completely committed to sticking to it, except for the week I’m at the college, more below on that) and I’m off the daily caffeine. And in the last several days, I’ve had whole and almost totally organic foods almost exclusively! I broke my fast yesterday with some oatmeal and a can of light tuna. (Not sure why those go so well together but they do). Later I had a bowl of whole wheat cereal and some of my salad.

All in all, I’ve made some important steps towards my goal.

I have decided to stick to a diet based around these organic foods: fruit, veggies and greens, potatoes, oatmeal (with a variety of stuff thrown in), fish, free range/organic chicken and turkey, brown rice and beans. I decided that perhaps now that my body is cleansed a bit, I will react better to the rice and beans (and not become hungry after an hour of eating them). I’ve decided to forgo wheat products because last night after having the wheat cereal, my scalp immediately began to itch. (I have a touch of psoriasis on my scalp that acts up with certain foods and conditions).

Eventually I will cut out the chicken and turkey, and then I’ll officially be on the high vibration diet!

The only exception I will make to dairy is when I’m up at the college from Aug 11th-Aug 18th, and there is something in their meals with dairy that cannot be avoided. Their dairy comes from their very well & lovingly cared-for cows, so I doubt it’ll be an issue.

Right now I’m having a bowl of this stuff mixed with a few raw pumpkin seeds and cinnamon, and it is DELICIOUS!

I was worried that the oatmeal would be too plain, but it’s actually perfect. The days on fruit only cleansed my palate, so I can appreciate cleaner and more pure foods.

I’ll be eating some of these yummy Kumato tomatoes later:

Speaking of pure foods… I’m really fascinated with saints, yogis and their diets. The Peace Pilgrim, for example, lived on mostly oatmeal and fruit on her 25,000 mile walking journey – and was said to be in excellent health. Saint Germaine was reputed to live on a specially prepared oatmeal for much of his life. And many other famous and obscure yogis and holy men/women live/lived on simple boiled rice, potatoes, lentils, etc. I’ve been fascinated with this subject (food and spirituality) for some time and plan to explore it more in writing at a later time.

Anyway, I’m really happy that I’ve reached this place! Alcohol free, dairy free, mostly caffeine free, mostly craving free… I’m still over 30 pounds from my goal weight, but I’m confident that the rest of the weight will come speeding off in the months to come. Especially this month. No doubt I’ll lose a good 10 pounds or more by the end of August.

The coolest thing about the diet I’m on now is that it’s almost totally organic! Actually, the only non-organic thing I’ll be eating is fish and occasionally cucumbers, as for some reason I can’t seem to find organic cukes anywhere these days. However, the fish is all wild-caught… which makes it technically organic, right?