minimalism and orange-juice-feast
tomorrow it starts. my minimalist year. a year in which i will not consume anything that is not absolutely necessary.
that means that i won't buy any new (or used) clothes (the children will), buy new books or decoration articles (fortunately i hardly have any). the children will of course still get well-considered gifts.
instead I will continue to clean out the mess.
every piece has to find its place and can be brought back there again and again. everything that is not needed is donated. i've been mucked out for weeks. carloads of things leave me (but i've been living in this house all my life...) and that feels really good.
so: one year no personal consumption for me.
this will be a holistic reset and it will do me good.
so that i can finally concentrate on the important things in life again.
in the end i actually bought them.
in the evening, i read a book in bed. in this book, the protagonists were discussing the advantages of handkerchiefs. i quickly looked up amazon's website to see how expensive such things could be and realized that they weren't that expensive after all. i quickly looked at the clock, it was before midnight, and bang, i ordered them.
yes, these are such little moments of happiness that are triggered in us by them. but now the time is up and i'll see if i can't get these moments of happiness in a different way, because only then they will be more lasting. and today i actually had plenty of them. because my middle son had his birthday, his 18th, in the circle of our household, and we had so much fun, it was so nice ... that's lasting. then the memory of it also makes you a little happy.
i am very well, i was hungry only shortly before i was allowed to drink again, then rest for hours. but i was also well distracted by the birthday party.
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and i am looking forward to tomorrow. a free sunday!
i love sundays when you don't have any annoying obligations. we slept late, then had a late breakfast (orange juice for me, of course) and i was outside with the dog for a while. then i played a little with my youngest one and i could even get up to do some work. voluntarily. completely at peace. so it's fun. however, i had the feeling today that facebook only shows me advertisements of things i had seriously considered if i would need it urgently. while reading the comments on the thing, it came to my mind that what i'm doing right now is completely useless, because i won't buy it anyway. so, facebook closed and did something more useful.
this personalized advertising is really tricky. and i fell for it so many times already...
later on, there was a little walk through the rain (actually, i like to walk longer and extensively on sundays, but with this weather i preferred to sit on the couch).
today i sorted out only a few photos from my mobile, which can be liberating. i actually had 27.000 photos on my mobile and cleaned out the july and august 2019. now i have 1200 photos less... that can also be liberating.
today i had a total of three glasses (2.25 l) of freshly squeezed orange juice and 3 glasses (0.3 each) of water.
tomorrow i have to work again, from 07:00 to 17:00. let's see how i am doing with it.
i woke up and felt great. also i wasn't hungry again. i have an interesting feeling in my stomach, a great lightness. something is happening in my stomach and intestines. also the normal "fasting coating" on my tongue is much less today. interestingly, the number of days of my period has increased. i started fasting during my period and it is now twice as long as usual. so i am definitely detoxing over it.
i enjoy not having to worry about what i'm going to eat. this mono-nutrition seems to give me more free time, both mentally and physically. i like the mental clarity it gives me when i eat just this one fruit.
my life is simplified!
orange juice seems to be my food at the moment. my husband has other beautiful fruits and there are more at work, but they don't appeal to me at the moment. all the bananas, pineapples, cherimoyas... seem to be so concentrated next to orange juice... and this does not appeal to me at all at the moment.
i notice how my color vision is improving. that's interesting because according to nutritional analysis orange juice contains much less beta-carotene (good for vision) than many other fruits.
my limbs and joints feel very loose and flexible today, as if i have fewer obstacles inside myself.
i have a lot of energy and am very efficient. quite different from water fasting in the beginning. when i have to work, i am bursting with energy, but when it is time to rest, i am actually very tired. during the lunch break, for example, i was able to lie down and sleep. that felt good, and then i was able to continue my vigorous work. by the way, i had so much to do this morning that i didn't manage to drink my freshly squeezed juice in the morning. and that was ok. this evening I had double the portion, so that I got back to my approx. 2 l. I drink an average of 1 l of water in addition. in a moment I will go into the bathtub and then into bed. I think I will sleep very well tonight.
"it takes about 150,000 liters of water to prepare a typical dinner for eight people.
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well... i have learned several things. firstly: such a laundry basket is not stable enough to hold me. secondly: it is not bad to ask for help sometimes. because my husband could easily reach the bulb and unscrew it. thirdly: i am actually a little restless that i cannot throw away the broken laundry basket immediately. several minutes, if not hours my thoughts circled around this laundry basket. ok, i don't need a new one, at least not this one. i definitely have enough. but now it's lying around here broken. unfortunately it's still quite enough that it doesn't fit in the garbage can. i.e. it's now standing around somewhere getting on my nerves and waiting for the garbage collectors to come on tuesday, and i don't forget to ask the garbage collectors to take it away. well... i didn't have such problems before.
tomorrow is the last day of my first week. and of the 50,- € organic oranges i still have a few. so for tomorrow it is enough in any case and tomorrow comes my new delivery, so that i start with this again on friday. so i get 20 kg of oranges and 50,- € per week while juice fasting. that is very good for my circumstances. sometimes i always got more per week. let's see how i will eat when the orange days are over. but i could imagine that i will pay more attention to the money in the course of the minimalism i am practicing. we will see, i am curious.
i can only recommend the app... but unfortunately i do not get any commission for it...
in the german app-store it's called: daily budget. the logo is a piggy bank with a floating coin above it.
i got by with 50,-€ this week, for organic oranges, and have the same amount now for next week. it is a relief (especially in this time) not having to go shopping for myself.
i wake up without being hungry and then get through the afternoon without any problems or difficulties. today i had two half-hour walks and this morning i had an hour of gardening. there are still some leaves that need to be swept up. besides that i have a full-time job that is physically quite exhausting. and i can really manage all of this without any problems. in addition, i'm always in a good mood (also a performance during this time) and i feel really good. and that's good, because i have some problems with my work. i lost 3 kilos and i had bowel movements almost every day.
so i will continue and tell you more. thanks for reading and have a nice evening.
then i kept my kids company at breakfast and was about 1/2 hour gassi. then i had to tidy up for two hours and clean and twirl around, in our offices. there we had a viewing appointment at noon. so far so good. after the appointment i made my first orange juice today, 1,5 l, and wanted to rest. but surprisingly i got a phone call. we have a "living advent calendar" in our town. this means that 24 stores have got together and brought out a flyer. you can buy this flyer for only 10,-€ (which will be donated) and with that you can visit all these stores and get a little bag with a little something in it. there is a number on the bag and after you have visited all the stores, you will have 24 small advent calendar wickets with a little something from the store. that could be a cookie, a little tea, a nice saying or a self-made button to put on it. i've done this with my kids a few times before and there was always something nice to be happy about. this year i was unfortunately too late. the flyer is limited to 300 pieces and i only remembered the calendar yesterday, when the time to buy the flyer was long gone.
you can only collect the gifts tomorrow at the most. and then i got a call from my bakannnten. she is a goldsmith and has a store in the part of town where the whole thing takes place. i told her that i hadn't thought of it in time this year. she called to tell me that miraculously, in one of the stores a flyer appeared, and that i could pick it up from her. what a joy. i quickly drank the orange juice and then set off. first to her. get the flyer, pay the 10,-€ and also the first bag. the 10,-€ i find justified in this case. because first of all this is not a purchase for me alone, but for all of us every day a small joy and i get to know the stores, see what they sell there and then i know where i can buy alternatively to the big internet store, so that the small stores remain for us and not all of them fall victim to the internet. then i visited all other 23 stores. all today, all one after the other, for which some have taken several days. because they are sometimes quite far apart. I walked 14 km today. and I felt really good. ok, so in the end I already noticed that I am getting a little tired and hungry (hungry for the first time, by the way), but that would have been the case with a normal diet.
the interesting thing about the stores was that i was able to look at them from a certain distance. i still found them beautiful and the stores are usually very nicely decorated, but i don't feel the urge to own them all anymore. just looking at them fills me up. and to say: i already have, look at that, i could have bought it here.
at home i set up the advent calendar nicely in the living room on the windowsill and decorated it a little bit minimally, with a few lights and i'm happy i had such a nice afternoon. now there's another 1.5 l orange juice and a relaxing bath and then i fall into bed, pretty exhausted. good night.
but now i'm looking forward to tuesday, when i can open my first wicket, from the gifts i collected yesterday and our neighborhood.
and this morning everything was fine again. what my body has thrown out again... already interesting.
not much is happening today. a lot of work before christmas and after work preparations for writing during work and conception. this will determine my life until the middle of next week.
but what i wanted to tell you... my hand mixer broke down. and i always used to make mashed potatoes for the kids. but i didn't buy a new one. i borrowed one from a colleague, sometimes from the neighbors.
then there was a post on facebook in one of the groups, which said that you should write in the post what you would like to have for christmas and maybe someone else has it about and could only send it there against postage. someone wrote that he would like a kettle. and because i didn't need mine anymore, i offered to send him mine against postage only. the person was very happy and said that he didn't live so far away and would rather pick it up. i made someone happy.
and then i wrote in that i'd like to have a hand mixer, and someone actually got back to me. unbelievable. the nice lady said she had another one in the cellar, because at the time she moved in with her boyfriend, there was already one in the cellar. and she'd like to send it to me. 4,90€ postage paid and suddenly i had a super working hand mixer. and i didn't have to keep bugging my neighbors. that was a great action. i'm seriously thinking about opening an own group on facebook, maybe regional, for such a barter.
thursday, 03.12.2020 - day 14
today is already day 14? how fast time passes. and how effortless and easy it is for me with the orange juice. i wouldn't have thought that. so, on we go! today i have a lot to get rid of again in the form of "snuff"... but it's not as bad as it was two days ago. during the day i'm very fit and full of energy. at night i can sleep wonderfully. a juice a day has now settled in on me.
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however. today, fresh durian arrived. from malaysia, from dear maria edesse. durianfrucht.com, my sweetheart ordered it to surprise me. so i couldn't very well say: oh, thanks, nice of you, but i'll stick to orange juice. no, i decided to share it with him. and what can i say? it's nice to eat something different for a change. and it's so delicious. i've never eaten such a ripe, fresh durian before. heavenly.
however, after i was done with it, and full and completely satisfied, i just thought: oh how nice orange juice is. i don't think i could eat durian exclusively every day. orange juice somehow is...
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sunday, 03.01.2021 - day 45
the christmas stress and the new year stress is now over and tomorrow the normal life starts again. luckily i am allowed to work, that's how you have to put it at the moment unfortunately. i
enjoyed the free time very much. the many being together with my family, sleeping long, being outside, not having to wory about food for me, etc. in short, i had a good time.
unfortunately, i can't write here as well anymore, because my son took his laptop again, which i had always used. now i have an ipad mini with a keyboard here, where the w fell out and the e also
flies out every now and then and i have to push it back in. it's a bit annoying, but it works. i'll just use his laptop on days when my husband is home and on the other days either not write or keep
trying here with this ipad.
i am surprised and very pleased that so many of you have written to me about when i would continue writing. that's great to hear that you are interested in what i have to say here.
i have now ordered more oranges for january, because it still doesn't feel like fasting (and it's not, after all). i simply consume far too many calories and nutrients through the orange juice.
sometimes even more than if i were to eat normally. only i consume them in liquid form and thus relieve my digestive system.
by the way, i didn't have any stress at all on christmas and new year's eve. we made it very nice and cozy.
we slept a lot. sometimes up to 10 hours. and that was really good.
tomorrow we have to get up again at 06:30, and since we don't sleep that early, there won't be any more hours.
my skin, my nails, my hair... everything benefits from my cure. i lose little to nothing, as i said, simply too many nutrients, so that i could continue for a long time. i have cravings from time to
time. for example, when i see a picture on facebook, when someone posts his plate with bananas doused with strawberry sauce. but otherwise i'm doing very well.
i've lost my way a little bit with minimalism. because i had to take care of so many gifts, i also fell into the advertising trap and actually ordered some clothes for myself again. somehow
automatically, as a matter of course. but i actually have enough things. i don't really need any more. it must be a psychological thing. but you can't do anything else right now. otherwise i could
say i'm treating myself to a sauna or a massage or going to the swimming pool or the cinema with my boys... but i can't do anything else. and maybe, because everyone got something, i wanted to treat
myself. i don't know. anyway, it was interesting when i told myself that this had to stop and that i would definitely start a new beginning on 01.01. i had to quickly order something again on 31.12.
before i wasn't "allowed" to order anything anymore. but this attitude is nonsense. after all, i'm always allowed to, but i don't want to. it was exactly the same with the final stop of eating cooked
food. until the self-imposed start, i still had to stuff everything possible into myself. psychologically, such a greed arose, that's really unbelievable. well, but apparently i can actually do
better completely or not at all.
let's see if i like the things at all when they eventually arrive. one more reason not to order anything and rather look at it in the store, touch it, try it on.
let's see when we will be allowed to do that again.
but for me, this is the end. i will report whether i can go through with it and how i feel about it.
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tuesday, 05.01.2021 - day 46
this morning i had to go to the main station with my son, quite early for me, after 2 weeks of vacation and sleeping in. at 07:30 we started walking. about 2 km there, take care of that and on the way back still in two stores, something for him to buy.
since i got dressed right after getting up, drank only a little water, and had to start immediately, and he really walks very fast, my circulation didn't have the chance to adjust to the unaccustomed movement in the early morning and i actually felt a little unwell. at times i felt really queasy in my stomach and i think i also felt a little sick.
at the train station i had to wait a bit with him, i had the urgent need to sit down somewhere, but since all the benches were closed, i had to go through.
despite all this, i somehow liked the morning movement and especially the clear, cool air.
after we had finished and also bought some food, i felt much better. i didn't mind the way back. somehow i had woken up. we were on foot for a total of 2 hours and on the way back i felt really good again.
at home it was a bit stressful at work, but at noon i was able to make a huge portion of juice and sleep a little. after that the afternoon went like clockwork.
towards evening i noticed that i was hungrier than usual, so i drank more. then i realized that i had gotten my period today, so maybe i was a bit dizzy this morning and hungrier today. let's see tomorrow how it will be.
together with a friend i created a new facebook group today. (just in german) it's not published yet, we still have to agree on something. it will be a giveaway group. nrw-wide. that means that everyone who has something he doesn't need anymore and wants to give it away can put it in there. and if there's someone who wants to have it, he can get in touch. that way we achieve more sustainability and make people happy. let's see how it will be accepted over time.
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thursday, 07.01.2021 - day 47
yesterday and today i was allowed to get up a little less quickly. i was able to do it comfortably and in peace and already my circulation was much better. also the walk with the dog and my son was without problems.
shortly before noon and shortly before evening i always get hungry on time, then i have my juice and it's good again.
our new facebook group now exists and it is called:
Nutz-Bar ➡️ R-regional, N-sustainable, W-reuse - giving away in NRW (in german)
and with it i was now also busy the days. i have also already put something in. a mispurchase from me?♀️ maybe now someone is happy about it.
this group is a great idea.
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saturday, 01/16/2021 - day 50+++
after 50 days of juice fasting, i stopped. i felt it was time and i had to eat again. that was on 11.01.21. the very first thing i had was a honey melon. and it was delicious. sweet and
juicy.
since then i eat very carefully. i continue to have orange juice, 750 - 1000 ml at noon and another fruit meal in the afternoon/evening. today i had a little more, i had four bananas in the
afternoon, cut into small pieces, mixed with a sauce of dates/strawberries. and soon there will be some peppers, cocktail tomatoes and cucumber. i feel very good with this, i feel good.
i realize that i should do some exercise, but it's really cold outside and that's a wonderful excuse for not doing anything right now. after all, you could also do some exercise inside...
well, we'll see.
minimalistic is going quite well now, i don't buy myself anything, because i don't need anything. the facebook group is slowly growing and every now and then someone posts something.
one thing i have to admit though, i bought anyway, but i can somehow chalk it up to: urgently needed. a laptop. a used one. because i need it for this blog, for my tax return and for my books. by the
way, it's already 10 years old, the laptop, a bit slow, but it works and i did something good. saved resources and recycled them.
speaking of books... i have written a children's book. now i "only" have to paint the pictures for it. that will take some time, because i don't have time for that right now.
but it will be something this year, i am very confident;-)
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