We're on the tail end of day 3 and it's going good. We watch movies, read and sit near the heater and sleep a lot. I've gone out a couple of times and when I pass the bakeries, I feel a little left out but not really super hungry. Tonight, I did find myself pulling out a couple of cookbooks to read through. I'm certain I'll feel inspired to cook once we break the fast on December 30, 2009. Here's a couple delicious recipes you might want to test for yourself:

This is an organic celery root. I love this one's heart shape.
It's delicious baked, with onions, cabbage and add some steamed spinach at the end.



Or shred it raw and add it to a coleslaw salad.
In fact, here is an easy delicious nutritarian cole slaw:
Shred some carrots, celery root and some raw beets too, if you're feeling brave.


Thinly slice some purple cabbage and green cabbage.



Add some sweet onions too, diced very small.
Add a handful of raw sunflower seeds and a handful of lightly toasted sesames seeds.


Mix together some fresh squeezed lemon juice, unsalted mustard, balsamic vinegar and a teaspoon of honey.
Pour it on, mix it up and enjoy!


We also wanted to share some interesting information that led us to make the decision to fast.

"Few health professionals are aware of the many, truly astonishing, physical adaptations that result from water-only fasting. Most believe that water-only fasting is simply “starving,” and that little or no benefits result from such an experience."

"In reality, water-only fasting is dynamic, complex, and involves many health-promoting processes. For example, studies have indicated that immune function is significantly enhanced during water-only fasting, an effect that few would suspect. There is also an enhanced mobilization and elimination of toxic products, including poisons such as PCP, dioxins, pesticide residues, and other pollutants.

It is now recognized that, in the industrialized world, most diseases are due to dietary excesses—especially of animal products and processed foods (such as oils and refined sugar). It turns out that voluntary, water-only fasting is often magnificent in its ability to assist the body in healing from the consequences of these excesses.

Fasting results in weight loss, elimination of excess cholesterol, triglycerides, and uric acid, as well as accumulated environmental toxins. Often, growths and tumors associated with dietary excesses, such as fibroids and cysts, are reabsorbed. Inflammatory conditions, such as arthritis, colitis, asthma, and hepatitis, often are greatly improved or resolved. Many enzymatic functions of the liver and other organs, including the insulin-resistance characteristic of diabetes, can rapidly normalize. For most adult-onset diabetes patients, medications become unnecessary...

Fasting also assists in an extremely important normalizing process—a process we call taste neuroadaptation. Many modern foods are not the normal foods of our species—they are foods that have been altered to create unnaturally intense taste responses. As a result, most of our modern foods are high in processed sugar, fat, and salt. Our taste buds adapt to these abnormal-but-appealing foodstuffs, making the consumption of whole natural foods less palatable by comparison. Water-only fasting helps to rapidly re-sensitize the palate, so that healthful foods can be fully enjoyed again. Of the many benefits of water-only fasting, this is, for many people, one of the most important."

--Fasting...the lost adaptation
Douglas Lisle, Ph.D., and Alan Goldhamer, D.C.
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We hope you're all having a wonderful time with family and friends. This is such a sweet time of the year.

Until next time,
Be well Santa cells,
Ruth and Matthew