Steve, i support whatever choice you choose to make because i know you will make what you feel is the best choice.
Here are some words for thought..
you talked about a couple articles ago, about how attached people were to connecting over food. There are alot of ways to connect with your kids that have nothing to do with food.
I used to sit down alot with my cousins over a meal, but when i went vegan, they would eat all sorts of stuff i did not want to be around durning the transition. SO i stopped eating with them as much.
I found by missing meal times with them, i got to be around to do more fun stuff with them watching the stars, or snuggling together and reading a book. I had never really thought about it before i read that blog post of yours. If you are missing connection, there are other ways to get it besides thru food.
to keep what you are doing in perspective, i keep relating it to exercise. We live in a country where at least 90 percent of people agree that exercise is good for you. Maybe they dont agree on what type or how or how often, but the general consensus is that exercise is good for you.
Imagine that was flipped and that 90 percent of people thought it was bad for you, and everyone tried to be as sedentary as possible. People would have all sorts of reasons why it is bad. Perhaps the only people who move around alot die younger because they are manual workers who die of malnutrition. Or maybe, when a sedentary person starts to move around, they get chest pain and maybe even a heart attack or their blood pressure shoots up and they get a headache or stoke or an aneurysm. All things that would lead for many people to continue and even prove to themselves that exercise is bad even deadly.
If all the sudden, you did a 92 day trail of daily exercise and you had lived most of your life connecting with people via board games or video games or whatever. It would take time to build connections with people who play basketball and connect with them or whatever.
Also, you would be uncomfortable for weeks (depending on how out shape you are) or months or years as you try to exercise.
People might also look at you like you are crazy, and hurting yourself. There are due to be some rough spots as your body adjust. Some feelings of disconnect when you can no longer do what you once did to connect. Some frustration that every thing is new and that it takes so much time during the day. Maybe even stop wanting to do it unless you figure out how to make it work for you (yoga, running, team sports, solo sports, etc)
anyway, how is your knee doing? still feeling better? have you gotten to go back to running more?
Have you been spending time in nature? I know when i feel very disconnected, i need to spend more time in nature. i remember you mentioning once that when you feel disconnected nature helps you as well. what about taking a hike with the kids?
on one of the posts you mentioned, that each day on a juice feast takes your body back 120 days. well at day 23 you are at 7.5 years. This is way before your blog. Is what you are going thru now mirroring the disconnect frustrated state you felt that long ago?
my personal opinion is that with all the positive results people get from being on the 92 day juice feast and the potential benefits, why not stick it out? This is what i would do. But i cant say what is right for Steve.
If i stopped at 23 days or 30 days or whatever, i would end up doing it again because i would wonder what if???
Adrienne
