I had to travel this weekend. I packed a salad, with cherry tomatoes, hummus, crispbread, cashews, black olives, and crunchy peanut butter. In London at times in has been difficult to find suitable foods and has required a bit of searching and crossing things off the menu. In the late afternoon I was in Chinatown and ended up spending a lot of money on a very small bowl of beancurd and sweetcorn soup and miniscule plate of crispy seaweed. "You don't want a main course!" said the surprised waitress. I didn't attempt to explain myself. It hit the spot though. In the evening I went to a social club. On the way there I grabbed two apples from a shop. At the club I only drank water. Later on, after a long walk to find a night bus I was ravenously hungry and stopped in a 24 hour Italian cafe at about 2:30 am and had a salad and some penne pasta with plain tomato sauce. I had to stop the restauratuer from piling on too much of the pasta onto the plate. It tasted so good I would go back there again for sure.
For breakfast this morning I had some crunchy cereal with milk which was the only thing readily available at the time. At lunch I ate a peeled carrot that I had in my pocket for a snack. At about 2:30pm I was hungry and found myself in a hotel which only had rich meaty food, but luckily the soup of the day was creamed asparagus and watercress with a wholemeal bread roll. Perfect. In the evening I had wholmeal bread and Marmite because that was all there was at the time, no problem, I really enjoyed it. I ate the last few dates I had left over. I also had a couple of cups of ordinary tea for the first time in at least six weeks. Toast and marmite and tea I love you and I am glad to have you in my life again.
My digestion is good but I am still sticking to small amounts and no full fat cheese or meat, no white bread, no alcohol. So far so good. Even though I've always known about eating small amounts post fast, I still learned the hard way. After one fast a couple of years ago, when I was having an orgasmic food moment I over did it eating seconds and thirds and I ended up with chronic indigestion. Never again.
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