Post-Fast Log: Day 5 and 100 Health Quotes

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POST-FAST LOG: DAY 5

Today is my final day of my post-fast!

I’m now 123.6 lbs.!! So, I’ve lost a whopping 20.40 lbs. in just 15 days (10 days fast plus 5 days post-fast).

I’m positively thrilled with the results!! I love my body at this weight. I love how clear my mind is and how much extra energy I have. I still get up at 5:00 a.m.; but, I feel wide awake instantly. No more cloudy head for 15 minutes, like I had before the fast.

Today, I’ll have some grapefruit, grapes, and cherries for my fresh fruit. And, for my fresh vegetables, I’ll have a heaping salad of romaine lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, cucumbers, and mushrooms with fresh lemon juice and black pepper for dressing.

Starting tomorrow, I’m striving for a diet of raw nuts, fruits, and vegetables and cooked tofu, fish, and chicken. I know my weakness is going to be white rice, kimchee, and ramen. I absolutely love these foods. My comfort foods. But, they’re either too starchy or too salty and always make me feel bloated afterwards. Ugh!

Let’s end this series about fasting on a happy note with quotes about good health. They would be funnier if our health and well being wasn’t such a serious topic! : )

100 QUOTES ABOUT GOOD HEALTH

1. I see rejection in my skin, worry in my cancers, bitterness and hate in my aching joints. I failed to take care of my mind, and so my body now goes to hospital.
- Astrid Alauda

2. When it comes to eating right and exercising, there is no “I’ll start tomorrow.” Tomorrow is disease.
- V. L. Allineare

3. In health there is freedom. Health is the first of all liberties.
- Henri Frederic Amiel

4. An illness of the mind is an illness of the body, and vice versa.
- Madrianne Arvore

5. When it comes to your health, I recommend frequent doses of that rare commodity among Americans: common sense.
- Vincent Askey, M.D.

6. A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison.
- Francis Bacon

7. As a remedy against all ills, poverty, sickness, and melancholy, only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work.
- Charles Baudelaire

8. It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery, it’s the friction.
- Henry Ward Beecher

9. Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it.
- Josh Billings

10. Energy is eternal delight.
- William Blake

11. Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- Buddha

12. Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
- Buddha

13. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
- Buddha

14. Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

15. Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
- Thomas Carlyle

16. Live in rooms full of light
Avoid heavy food
Be moderate in the drinking of wine
Take massage, baths, exercise, and gymnastics
Fight insomnia with gentle rocking or the sound of running water
Change surroundings and take long journeys
Strictly avoid frightening ideas
Indulge in cheerful conversation and amusements
Listen to music.
- A. Cornelius Celsus

17. Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don’t feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.
- Emanurel Cheraskin, M.D.

18. It is time to lay to rest the notion that germs jump into people and cause diseases.
- Emanuel Cheraskin, M.D.

19. In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
- Cicero

20. When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay down and relax for a while before trying to get back up.
- Candea Core-Starke

21. Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.
- Charles Caleb Cotton

22. Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
- Charles Caleb Cotton

23. The longer I live the less confidence I have in drugs and the greater is my confidence in the regulation and administration of diet and regimen.
- John Redman Coxe

24. Happiness lies, first of all, in health.
- George William Curtis

25. A healthy body and soul come from an unencumbered mind and body.
- Ymber Delecto

26. Doctors are always working to preserve our health and cooks to destroy it; but, the latter are the more often successful.
- Denis Diderot

27. You can set yourself up to be sick, or you can choose to stay well.
- Wayne Dyer

28. Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.
- Tryon Edwards

29. The first wealth is health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

30. Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

31. Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness—an open and noble temper.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

32. Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.
- Martin H. Fischer

33. The best doctor gives the least medicines.
- Benjamin Franklin

34. Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin

35. The physician is Nature’s assistant.
- Claudius Galen

36. Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone; and, if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
- Goethe

37. Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
- Hannah Green

38. My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.
- Leslie Grimutter

39. Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food.
- Hippocrates

40. Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.
- Hippocrates

41. If we doctors threw all our medicines into the sea, it would be that much better for our patients and that much worse for the fishes.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., M.D.

42. It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
- Horace

43. After these two, Dr. Diet and Dr. Quiet, Dr. Merriman is requisite to preserve health.
- James Howell

44. The scientific truth may be put quite briefly, eat moderately, have an ordinary mixed diet, and don’t worry.
- Robert Hutchison

45. Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind, and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
- B.K.S. Iyengar

46. Without health there is no happiness. An attention to health, then, should take the place of every other object.
- Thomas Jefferson

47. Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
- Thomas Jefferson

48. The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise; and, of all the exercises walking is the best.
- Thomas Jefferson

49. We drink one another’s health and spoil our own.
- Jerome K. Jerome

50. To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.
- Samuel Johnson

51. Health is certainly more valuable than money because it is by health that money is procured.
- Samuel Johnson

52. The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
- Carl Gustav Jung

53. Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
- Juvenal

54. Health is my expected heaven.
- John Keats

55. Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
- Doug Larson

56. If you don’t take care of yourself, the undertaker will overtake that responsibility for you.
- Carrie Latet

57. In minds crammed with thoughts, organs clogged with toxins, and bodies stiffened with neglect, there is just no space for anything else.
- Alison Rose Levy

58. If by gaining knowledge we destroy our health, we labour for a thing that will be useless in our hands.
- John Locke

59. To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.
- William Londen

60. Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor’s nose.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

61. Without health, there is no point. To anything.
- Everett Mámor

62. Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.
- Marcus Valerius Martial

63. So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
- A.J. Reb Materi

64. One grandmother is worth two M.D.s.
- Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.

65. Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman

66. The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds such as now rule in the medical profession.
- Florence Nightingale

67. Poor health is not caused by something you don’t have; it’s caused by disturbing something that you already have. Health is not something you need to get; it’s something you have already if you don’t disturb it.
- Dean Ornish

68. Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.
- Ovid

69. Do not let either the medical authorities or the politicians mislead you. Find out what the facts are, and make your own decisions about how to live a happy life and how to work for a better world.
- Linus Pauling

70. All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
- William Penn

71. It is remarkable how one’s wits are sharpened by physical exercise.
- Pliny the Younger

72. Health consists with temperance alone.
- Alexander Pope

73. Illness is the most heeded of doctors: To goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
- Marcel Proust

74. The … patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don’t take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop.
- Quentin Regestein

75. A feeble body weakens the mind.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau

76. One of the signs of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

77. One of the final challenges for human beings is to get old with as much verve and gumption as possible.
- Alison Judson Ryerson

78. Good friends are good for your health.
- Irwin Sarason

79. It’s supposed to be a secret, but I’ll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within.
- Albert Schweitzer, M.D.

80. Not only is example the best way to teach, it is the only way.
- Albert Schweitzer, M.D.

81. To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
- Seneca

82. The medical profession [is] a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity. … [U]ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.
- George Bernard Shaw

83. Of all the anti-social vested interests, the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
- George Bernard Shaw

84. How can I get thinner? Give up lunch and dinner.
- Alan Sherman

85. Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
- Charles Simmons

86. The preservation of health is a duty.
- Herbert Spencer

87. Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.
- Edward Stanley

88. People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
- Laurence Sterne

89. I nourish myself.
- Wallace Stevens

90. Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings.
- Publilius Syrus

91. All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.
- Publius Cornelius Tacitus

92. Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
- Henry David Thoreau

93. Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that; it is its nature. Let life go on in it, unhindered; and, let it defend itself. It will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies.
- Leo Tolstoy

94. Be careful in reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain

95. The way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.
- Mark Twain

96. The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil

97. Doctors give drugs of which they know little,
into bodies, of which they know less,
for diseases of which they know nothing at all.
- Voltaire

98. To avoid sickness eat less; to prolong life worry less.
- Chu Hui Weng

99. A man’s health can be judged by which he takes two at a time—pills or stairs.
- Joan Welsh

100. Health is a large word. It embraces not the body only, but the mind and spirit as well; … and not today’s pain or pleasure alone, but the whole being and outlook of a man.
- James H. West

CONCLUSION

I’ll be updating everyone on my weight exactly one month from today, on August 17, 2008. I will strive to develop and stick to new, healthier eating habits so that I will be able to report that I am still as healthy—and svelte—as I am today! Who know? I’ve been so inspired by all the great quotes above about exercise that I might actually begin an exercise routine and gain some lean muscle mass, too! : )

[Note: More health quotes in the comments section below! : ) Rather than changing the title of this post—which would require changing all the links, too—I simply added the ones I found later while working on other quote lists.]

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