Day 4

I'm feeling so good today, wahoo! It didn't start out that way though. When I woke up - the second time after waking up before 6am to watch the birds on the balcony and and going back to sleep - my body felt like lead. I didn't think I'd be able to get out of bed. It was terrible. I heard some kookaburras laughing outside my bedroom. This motivated me to get up and run outside to the balcony to find them. Once I was up I felt fine. Aside from the running down the stairs and it feeling like death to my legs (yay for squats), I felt really good. So being in bed feeling awful was just muscle strain along with a heavy influence of a poor state of mind. Proving to me the importance and power our minds have. Healthy and positive thinking is part of this whole reboot process. I mustn't give in to negative thinking - thank god for the kookaburras  - otherwise I could have just been lying in bed for hours feeling sorry for myself. I'm so glad I didn't do that.

I had to experiment quite a lot today because I had run out of an awful lot of ingredients. Plus, my order online had failed to go through so I wasted an hour but I sorted out later so only a few hours of my day was ruined. Anyway... I couldn't follow the recipes exactly, apart from one juice: carrot, apple and lemon juice. It was absolutely delicious. After the Internet failing me with my shopping, creating a terrible mood, I had this beauty and my mind was completely changed. It was like having a treat. This may become a regular. So, as I was saying I'd run out of ingredients. Kale being one of them! So instead of having my least favourite meal, reboot green salad, for lunch I made my own rainbow salad. It had, red cabbage, radish, avocado and tomato. It was so good. I enjoyed it way more than the other one ( sorry joe!). I think it was because there was no leafy greens :/ I know I need to have them, I need to find some I can enjoy.

I mentioned yesterday that I was going to try a new method of making smoothies to tackle the avocado and banana mix issue. Today's challenge was to make green island juice, containing those two.  I mashed the avocado and banana together and slowly added the juiced spinach and coconut water. It worked! I made a smooth and tasty smoothie. No more getting stressed in the kitchen.

This evening for dinner I had another serving of the apple and butternut squash soup and I struggled! I never struggle!! So, this has to be a good thing but, it is weird seeing as I felt very hungry earlier today. But I haven't felt sick after eating food today so that's a step forwards. Other observations: I smell like curry? It's really weird, I haven't eaten any spices or anything. Why is curry such an overwhelming smell? Hopefully it will go away. It must be part of the process, I guess.  Since doing this reboot I feel like a cloud has cleared from my mind. I can think much clearer and I don't feel bogged down. I didn't even realise I did feel like that until now, when I don't. I used to think about food a lot anyway but now I think differently. It's so important to have natural nutrients. Obviously I crave and miss food I had before especially cream, cheese and coffee but, I'm noticing a huge difference by not having it after only 4 days!!! Tomorrow I have just juices and liquid food no solids. It's the last day that I'll eat. Bring on day 5!