Feeling Lighter...

[windinthemaples]

Today is day six of my renewed diet. As of today, I've lost six pounds. I can't possibly tell you what that six pounds consisted of but I suspect bloating, sickness, toxins, and fatigue. I started dieting in May and continued with that through July and that is also, I've realized, the time this year when my spiritual, magickal, and intuitive faculties were firing on all cylinders. I dulled down the pain of my kidney stone surgery with a return to mindless eating and that carried on throughout the fall and holiday season. Now that I've had a few clear-headed days of conscious eating and calorie counting and processed food avoidance, it is like I can think and breath and hear again. I'm not as heavily bound into my body without all the over-eating and digestive troubles and sugar roller-coastering.

I feel, energetically, lighter.

I'm perceiving flavor differently. I had some popcorn yesterday, air-popped without any salt or butter or seasoning, and I could taste the corn. I could taste the heat of the cooking process. Without all the overwhelming flavors of oils and fats and sugar, I'm reintroduced to simpler flavors like the mineral tang of carrots and the sublime crystalline sweetness of a ripe pear. I'm eating salads without dressing and really surprising myself with the reality that greens have flavor, unique and varied flavors, all by themselves.

I feel healthier, more alive, more present, and strangely--more like a witch. I'm not sleep-walking my way through meals anymore and that has changed so much about my days and my energy and my intentions.

I am feeling lighter.

Comments

[neva-butterfly.livejournal.com]

I'm amazed at how much you've lost already. That's pretty impressive.

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

I know! It's unreal. It must be a difference in salt and water-retention. I was eating a lot more processed things like Field Roast and Amy's meals. My clothes certainly fit differently! (i.e. I can button my pants comfortably again). :)

[suzanna-o.livejournal.com]

Sounds wonderful. :)

[elfinecstasy.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I send you continued strength and healing - I am so proud of you! :-) :-) HUGS again.