I slept terribly. Tossed and turned and just couldn't sleep. We congregate at 8.30 for a breakfast of..... nothing. I had a cup of herbal tea and a glass of water. We drive 5 minutes to a dam and started our morning hike. Ania is wittering away non stop so I plug my headphones in and listen to my favourite Crime Junkie podcast.
The hike is beautiful, over the dam and through forests. We stop for some stretches, and there is a pleasant distraction of dozens of army boys turning up to jump off the dam, but it's still 3 hours of hot, hilly trekking. It's 12.45 when we get back to the villa - time for lunch? Only there is none. I retreat to my room to catch up on some emails before I am too grumpy. On closer inspection, the whole place needs a good clean, and my 'towel' (note the singular form) is old, hard, greying. My room is spacious enough and I have my own bathroom (unlike the others it appears) but its tiny and in the corridor not my room.
After an hour of snoozing by the pool, we have 'gentle exercises'. Gentle my arse - it was gruelling! She explained that gentle didn't mean that it felt gentle, but that we weren't jumping up and down. It woke up some long-forgotten muscles and I am now looking forward to my bowl of broth.
Dinner is worse than last night. This time a cucumber was floating in it the pot, but nothing floats in my dishwater coloured bowl. Who makes broth out of cucumber? No wonder it tastes like shit. Paco's croquettes are starting to look tempting. After dinner, we have a talk on the benefits of fasting. Before I came, many people told me that fasting was dangerous, bad for you etc... I don't agree, especially when you have plenty of reserves (as I do). Our ancestors fasted all the time (by need not by choice obvs) and our bodies ability to fully function despite fasting is one reason the human race survived.
When we fast, after an initial couple of days of using up recently eaten reserves, the body starts to look for resources internally. And no it doesn't start eating your muscles, it starts eating your fat and anything else that it thinks you can live without. So it will eat cysts, tumours, and anything else growing inside you that shouldn't be. There will be a little bit of muscle loss which is why we're taken out hiking every day to maintain that muscle whilst burning off the bad stuff.
With a cup of camomile tea and some renewed enthusiasm, I go to bed.
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