Day 4 of taking turmeric everyday

As this is the first week, I still haven't decided on what datapoints to follow but I am starting to feel the need for it. By this weekend, I'll reread the week's entries and decide. You're welcome to make suggestions.

[Read about Day 3 here]

I forgot to mention yesterday that the cat cut me up. Not on purpose. She was jumping onto the sofa and my hand happened to be in the way of her landing. I put the cut into my mouth straight away and it was slow to bleed.

Today, the cut looks red and a couple of times something got caught in the gap between the healing skin. I noticed these bumps around the cut, too. When I was younger, I used to have these skin dots appear out of the blue and stay for a while. They look like air pockets under my skin, although I suspect they were filled with some fluid but were too small and too hard-to-pop for me to be able to find out. I never knew what they were. Once, I went to the doctor to ask about this as it was a particularly itchy episode. He didn't name it either. He was, however, happy to give me steroids for them. I was none the wiser about steroids, then, so I used the cream in hope that the spots would go away. More than how itchy they were, though, they were just annoying to have around. Plus, their namelessness and mysteriousness caused me concern, close to the point of anxiety.

I really wanted to be able to fast today but I had some physical urges which I succumbed to later on and regretted. I ate yogurt for breakfast, with some pumpkin seeds, honey and cranberry. I had tea for lunch (tea with milk and some butter biscuits). For an early dinner, I had quinoa with tomato, pepper and mustard dressing. There was too much lemon juice in my creation which cut out the pleasure of my favourite home made dish.

I'm upset with myself about something else. Yesterday was my designated off day, but today I didn't touch any work either apart from a small interaction on instagram with an ideal, a current and a future client. I tried reading but the subject did not pull me in except in the way that boosts my false sense of self (I realised that I like to teach and enjoy the role, but it was a book about learning how to learn and try as I might, it is too much to palate). This book has come to me early. Wrong timing. I am not yet humble enough for it, so that's my work moving forward.

So often the emotional and mental states merge and I'm unable to separate them. What I think and feel are confluencing all the time. But I feel that my thinking is normal. No brain fog, just standard level sharpness of mind, which is somewhere at the level of being awake but not necessarily alert.

Likewise, spiritually I feel dull. A part of me is ready for more but many other parts are stuck in wait. It's unclear what the wait is for.

When I wake up tomorrow, will the cut on my figner completely heal and the skin joins to become one? The bumps have already dried up by this evening.

Did I mention that I have dry, almost bloodshot eyes? Three days ago they were redder, and they've reduced every day. I suspect it's from the sunscreen I'm wearing. It's fairly fluid and might have creeped into my eyes without me realising.

Tonight, I take my fourth turmeric pill with a tall glass of water and some tortilla chips. I was aiming to reduce the amount of processed food that I consume.

In the next few days, I am going ahead with the apple + olive oil + lemon combo in a few days. I've already bought some ingredients. Now, how might I create the ability to see this detox through?

The final thing to report is that I don't feel any muscular aches. Today, like yesterday, I didn't exercise. A friend is coming over tomorrow to have a swim at this condo's lovely, massive pool. I'll exercise with her then.

[Read about Day 5 here]