The Closure

Still need to lose more!

It's natural to be disappointed when you lose only a couple of kgs after a week of fasting, detoxing and yoga. Even more so when Tanya has lost 6 and Yurgen is down 4, and feeling 'feeling like a baby again'. No doubt, I am feeling much better, and lighter, but that scale is not confirming it. May be my mother has been right all along - she always said I wasn't overweight, I just had heavy bone structure - but then she really is incapable of finding any faults with me - I guess that's how moms are. Could I just do another couple more, please. Ok, just one more, pretty please...

First Acupunture in Life

To make the matters worse, I developed some skin rashes. 'this is a natural response to cleansing - body is detoxing through skin' I am told. Khalid thinks he can fix this with his acupunture, and even without believing it much, I book him for couple of sessions. He says he will charge me for only one because I am his friend now. Pushpa says she uses coconut oil. Manta prepares a clay mixture to be put at night, which eventually dries up, comes off and I get up feeling like I was sleeping on a sand dune. Khalid gets me a herbal concoction to drink, which will help purify my blood, if the taste doesn't make it curdle up in protest first. I am not yet willing to try the cortizone creams, giving the naturalist a chance first. So I am trying every all of these. It's helping, but slowly, I guess that's the way nature works.

A new dawn

Tomorrow will be a happy day:-)

The program is almost over, just another three days left. I might just have to go back without reaching my internal goal, even though liver detox was still pending. I mean, how much can you lose in a day? Even with drinking just water and herbs mixed juices, and making multiple trips to the loo. I guess a lot. Last day of program, I am happily surprised to see the marker down a little over 4 kgs from the day one reading. Celebration time! Start with a full bowl of papaya, the first solid food in last 10 days. It is time to rent a bike and go exploring the island, before I go back.