Irritable bowels but Happy Go Lucky mood

Let's see. The other day, after eating two bagel sandwiches in one day, I got a killer migraine headache. Again, I did not drink enough water, which I know seems really obvious to do. But eating the dry bread I think requires even more water to process. My headache felt like my body was squeezing any bit of water it could from any part of the body it could, and it went to the frontal lobe of my brain to see what it could squeeze out there. They say dehydration effects your mental capability, because there's not enough water to keep the brain's actions flowing. I think that is quite true.

I went home that night and just went to sleep. Woke up feeling better. But I think my body has re-adjusted to eating the breads and animal proteins. I had egg sandwiches for breakfast yesterday, and felt fine. I had chicken and mashed potatoes for dinner. No problem. I even had caffeine yesterday. That was interesting - I needed to stay up late last night, and the soda and little bit of coffee I had kept me up easily until 4 am this morning. So that was cool, to see how I can use the stimulants in small doses to help me if I need them. Didn't get everything done I wanted to, should have maybe tried just taking more caffeine, but oh well.

My lower belly feels jelly again. My neck is starting to feell stiff again. All that clearing out of the pain is slowly creeping back on. In just two weeks time of eating the Standard American Diet, all the benefits of taking off from eating are creeping back on. It is interesting to see how quickly it reappears.

I think when I am ready to go back to the fasting, I am going to add in sun gazing, and see how that affects the fasting experience. I saw HRM speak on how he lives on water, sunlight, and maybe some vegetable juices and teas to be polite when people offer coffee. But he says the sunglight provides all his nutrients. We are living beings like plants, he says, and our nutrients come from gentle, early morning or late evenings levels of sunlight. So, once I get ready to fast again, I'm going to see if I notice a difference adding that in. I live in Chicago, and it's December, so it might be pretty tricky seeing any sunlight. But we'll give it a go.

That's it. My face is still chalky and dry, my skin is dry, my lips are chapped and dry. I am drinking probably 60-75 ounces of water a day - I delude myself into thinking that I am getting thirst quenched when I am eating, but I do not think this is the case. I'm going to make a concerted effort to drink all the water I'm supposed to. The funny thing to me is that it seems like so much to get into me; the food plus the water is a lot of shoving into my system. But, I know my chapped lips are a sign for more water.

I'm not working out, other than walking to the train station or my car that's always blocks away. Speaking of - I gotta go. I parked over night for free in a meter, and just remembered that they now charge for parking on Sundays starting at 8 am. It's 10 am on Sunday - hopefully nobody's been up yet to ticket. I'll let you know if I escaped unticketed. Talk with you soon.