Healing old wounds? (Day 12)
Healing old wounds?
I woke up with pain in my bottom jaw and teeth in one of the areas it had got fractured in September last year. I wasn’t sure what was wrong. At first I wondered if I may have been gritting my teeth in my sleep. The uncomfortable feeling stayed through the day and evening. While looking into reported effects of detoxing I came across a perspective that says: during stage three (day 8 to 15) of a detox, old wounds can feel painful again. It is said that this is due to the body healing that area properly, as during a detox, the body runs at an optimum healing capacity. When the healing took place originally, it was done with the nutrients and capabilities my body had, based on the lifestyle and nutrition I was providing it with then. With the new improved nutrition and less toxic body it is said that the body is able to revisit the old wound and heal it properly. Whether my pain in my jaw and teeth and my chest feeling filled with fluids is just a coincidence, I don’t know. But it is interesting to see that what I am experiencing is correlating with what has been recorded by people who have previously undergone detox regimes.
My weight rose 0.5kg to 69.2kg. My Body Fat dropped 0.6% to 17.9%. My Body Water rose to 56.4% and my Body Muscle rose 0.3% to 42.7%.
I did the second part of my experiment by repeating the same exercises completed the night before but this time first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. I weighed myself before and after completing two laps of the park (took me 1 hour 48 seconds) and doing cardio on the cross trainer for 11 min11 sec. My readings before were: Weight: 69.2kg; BF: 17.9% BW: 56.4% BM: 42.7%. After the exercise my readings were: Weight: 69.2kg BF: 17.7% BW: 56.5% BM: 42.8%. That’s a fat reduction of 0.2% and a muscle increase of 0.1%. This is some useful evidence in favour of the idea that doing cardio on an empty stomach can burn fat stores as long as you don’t over do it, which will lead to muscle burning too. I will continue to monitor my weight and do follow up experiments with shorter but more vigorous forms of cardio to see which approach will give the optimum results for my body.
Muesli, raspberries, blueberries, almonds and Agave Nectar
For breakfast I had a hot fresh lemon juice followed by protein shake. An hour or so later I had low fat yogurt with muesli, blueberries, raspberries and the last of the roasted almonds with a drizzle of low GI Agave Nectar.
For lunch I had green lentils with coleslaw and a slice of wholemeal bread with peanut butter.
A couple of hours later I did the second part of my workout. Apart from my first set of lat pull downs in which I did 200 reps, the rest of my workout was not as good as previous days. This may have been partly due to the hot weather, or possibly because I had divided my workout into two and this was the second part (normally I would do resistance first followed by the 2 laps). After my resistance training I did an extra 30 min on the cross trainer.
Post workout I drank carrot juice and a protein shake.
Corn on the cob
A few hours later I ate corn on the cob. Shortly after it was followed up with cottage cheese with salad, coleslaw and houmous. The rest of the evening I drank detox teas.