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3 comments posted in uncategorized may 3 2011 after f a s t by wilson time flies when you re eating food ten days have elapsed and i ve found many wonderful culinary delights since that first bacon smoothie passed my lips shortly after midnight on easter and it hasn t all gone according to my original plan all my research told me that i would need to ease back into my diet carefully so with the exception of that little bacon treat that s what i planned to do smoothies orange juice guacamole i also planned to target some foods that are known to be beneficial to the old liver and kidneys two organs that i ve been beating up on as of late broccoli cabbage cauliflower and brussels sprouts were on my agenda so my first meal was a bacon smoothie with two strips of bacon on the side it just seemed like the right thing to do i accompanied it with a little fresh broccoli later i made myself a cocoa peanut butter banana smoothie with a side order of cabbage yum honestly i didn t want to be one of those people that only shows up to church on easter and christmas eve but despite not having a church home at present i really wanted to go so we attended the easter service at rev rummer s church the service was part of a really refreshing morning made all the better by the explosion of flavor i found in a simple glass of orange juice prior to heading out for the service i discovered that michelle had bought the boys a really nice spiral sliced ham i put it in the oven and we departed when we returned i pulled it out to check its progress and decided that it would be a spectacular idea to make gravy from the drippings since the boys wanted mashed potatoes i m the gravy maker in our family and this batch would have made picasso jealous i tasted it and decided that i too would have a little mashed potatoes and gravy they re both soft after all and i figured a bite or two of ham couldn t hurt crazy good it was and my belly rejected it not so i had a little more and a couple of deviled eggs i needed a nap but not a trip to the emergency room i was full sooner than normal but in no discomfort after my rest i set myself to my planned task of brewing 10 gallons of beer five each of berliner weisse for late summer and a belgian wheat fermented with dates after all that lifting and whatnot i was ready for more mashed potatoes and ham and still felt good we reflected on the day noticing that unbeknownst to us as everyone had supported me with the best of attitudes all along this day of us pooling a feast was sheer delight we d missed it it had been a gaping hole in our last six weeks our drooling over the deliciousness of the gravy enticed michelle and i m happy to report that she is an omnivore once again on day 2 there didn t seem to be any reason to hold back so i had a blueberry kale smoothie for breakfast leftovers for lunch and michelle fired up a batch of sour cream chicken enchiladas a family favorite and guacamole yep michelle ate the enchiladas and like me she is back to normal it s been a great week of appreciation and rediscovery my only tummy frown came on wednesday when i had lunch with one of my favorite octogenarians at a local grease hole restaurant the company was delightful but the burned out oil didn t feel right with firm resolve to reestablish my weight i can report that in 10 days i ve put on 13 pounds which sounds bad anywhere from 2 7 more will be fine i smoked bacon ribs and pulled pork with the boys on saturday and on sunday we had a successful morel mushroom hunting expedition i ve exercised quite a bit to ensure i don t just turn to fat i ve hit a lot of those liver and kidney foods and i had michelle design me a yoga practice that targets those organs as well much like my initial effort to plump up before the fast the key has been several small meals per day and these last two i ve laid off a bit knowing i m nearing my stopping point and readying my gut to find its appropriate plateau all is well i ll update this blog if it seems pertinent but if you d like to continue following my exploits i ll point you toward brewvana my regular blog to which i ll be returning with greater fervor now that this side project has run its course again thanks for tuning in j share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print like loading 2 comments posted in uncategorized april 29 2011 gallery is up by wilson day 43 kcci s follow up piece shows a leaner machine when side by side with day 1 michelle suggested taking photos every day of the fast just to track my melting and so i ve accumulated a few of those shots and put them up on a gallery page in case you re interested which you can find here i know some folks are interested to hear about the breaking of the fast and how things are going so i ll try to put up a post detailing my first week or so back i have a lot happening this weekend but will try to do that in the early part of next week peace and pints j share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print like loading leave a comment posted in uncategorized april 27 2011 the weight guess winner by wilson back on day 30 i initiated a contest to see who might be able to guess my final gravity though there were two guesses of 134 5 and one guess of 134 8 that winner was ben who correctly guessed 135 pounds on april 7 and he wins i ve contacted ben and as soon as i get his address he ll have a copy of beginning homebrew on the way to his mailbox congratulations ben share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print like loading 1 comment posted in uncategorized april 26 2011 day 46 part 2 by wilson the unexamined life is not worth living socrates since there have been a few negative reactions to my anticlimactic journey s final post i thought i d take a moment to clarify following that the world is free to agree or disagree with me in short some of my final day 46 remarks offended a few of my catholic readers i ve read it over a few times and have decided to talk about three areas of the post to clarify my thoughts and language clarity is always helpful after drinking beer and eating no food for 46 days i hope folks will understand that fatigue was certainly setting in that i didn t get grumpy and blatantly attack the neo prohibitionist denominations out there during this journey is a minor miracle in addition to putting up 46 generally pensive posts as well as conducting countless interviews and writing a whole lot more on my own time it s easy for me to have forgotten what i said did or wrote where further many blog posts and certainly all of these are basically short first drafts on top of this part time project i have a family and full time job offensive statement 1 some catholics have construed the spiritual element of my journey to be my willingness to give penance reason 1 this wasn t a broad brushed indictment on the catholic church this was a statement made in response to comments or emails i ve received in the last few weeks people alluded to my willingness to give penance in this way but as i ve said from the beginning this isn t why i took on the project the second part of the opening paragraph explains why my historical study into this beer legend as i said i had an openness to spiritually thrust enlightenment but that wasn t the primary reason for the project the media hasn t been helpful i ve been clear about my intentions but some tv stations and print publications sidestepped my clarity or they used sub headers like and he s doing it for religious reasons not exactly i clarified that whenever i was live somewhere whenever i could fit it in offensive statement 2 i believe that god forgives when we ask it and not for the number of our fathers or hail marys we lift up or for simply attending confession reason 2 i don t have a problem with our fathers or hail marys or confession i think they have value i simply stated that i believe that god forgives when we ask it and that confession and forgiveness can happen anywhere if someone wants to dispute that maintaining an open communication line with god is a lousy idea i d like to hear their arguments though i ll be honest i m not likely to buy them one piece of this story that really didn t make it to the blog was my time at conception abbey it was an amazing eye opening experience and i wrote 14 pages while i was down there i acquired a new respect for the catholic church while i was there but only posted a short piece of video to cover that time i wasn t going to post 14 pages on a blog and i didn t know where to start to distill it down offensive statement 3 confession and forgiveness can happen anywhere and the key is more about maintaining an open communication line with god and not in donning a suit and nodding off for an hour on sundays sitting in a church doesn t make one a christian any more than sitting in a garage makes one a car reason 3 just because this project started with a group of catholic monks doesn t mean that my thoughts are limited to the catholic denomination as i ve said before i don t care about denominations the common denominator among them is christ that s the part that i personally choose to focus on so it s important for me to point out that people don suits in all churches and don t necessarily take christ seriously in their lives i grew up in a small town where everybody knows everybody and occasionally my mom forced me to go to church there i found people who surprised me i d seen them in other contexts and the church didn t seem to suit them that s a problem i ve had with christians all my life some of them are poseurs and that cuts across all denominations other thoughts the aforementioned words by socrates sum up my view on life i asked a lot of questions about god and the church when i was a kid and i shied well away from them both for a long time not everyone who was brought up catholic stays there they call themselves recovering catholics for some it happens the other way around some come to god having been brought up with no church background at all we are all different thank god i still interrogate life and god and the church if i m to crack on this denomination or that it would be the ones who pretend that jesus didn t drink wine or wine with alcohol in it or don t acknowledge that the bible contains 27 references to wine as a blessing or 20 references to the loss of wine or strong drink as an example of god s curse i m a nice guy but some things need not be sugar coated during day 46 i had more in my head than i had contained in the post and for that i m sorry unfortunately these issues distracted a few from some of the meat of the post in which i challenged myself to continue always on the path always growing i mentioned that i had discovered as so many from cultures all across the globe had before me that there is a lot of value to fasting my experience reinforced my beliefs that today s culture of excess breeds waste and gluttony i discovered that my body and probably yours too is capable of so much more than i could ever fully realize with any luck i ll have the good sense to apply these tidbits to my life cheers all j share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print like loading 11 comments posted in uncategorized april 23 2011 day 46 by wilson some catholics have construed the spiritual element of my journey to be my willingness to give penance though for me it was primarily an openness to spiritually thrust enlightenment during the time of my historical study into this beer legend of course god will have noticed my sacrifice knowing my deep rooted personal self and appreciate that i would so willingly endure it but for me penance wasn t the reason behind this fast there was history and wisdom to be farmed out of this ground i believe that god forgives when we ask it and not for the number of our fathers or hail marys we lift up or for simply attending confession confession and forgiveness can happen anywhere and the key is more about maintaining an open communication line with god not in donning a suit and nodding off for an hour on sundays sitting in a church doesn t make one a christian any more than sitting in a garage makes one a car in the early days of this journey i worked through a monk in the world curriculum put out by abbey of the arts and feel compelled to return to a few words that struck a chord for the long haul as monks in the world we are always on the path always growing we never fully arrive and so we always have more to learn being a monk in the world is not something we simply become and arrive fully it means being committed to the process of discovery a transformation of a lifetime as an avid cook i know that simple uncomplicated ingredients can open up a world of health and pleasure going without food for a time can heighten appreciation for food and many other elements of life while cleansing and fine tuning the body and spirit as many cultures over history have discovered there is a lot of value to fasting today s culture of excess breeds waste and gluttony and if the roman empire could fall like so many others over history then perhaps it isn t farfetched to consider that ours might too it is paramount for future generations for us to develop sustainable practices and steer away from our commodity lifestyle of fast and over processed food maybe i didn t get all the nutrients i needed these last few weeks protein especially but for a short burst of fast induced focus proved that one could not only survive but thrive on a simple diet of beer and water somebody call myth busters we are capable of more than we will ever fully realize i walk away alive well and with a stronger understanding of discipline focus and priorities this journey ends but it s a stepping off point for what comes next if i have the good sense to apply it to my life thanks for being a part of the journey peace and pints j yesterday 132 today 135 share this email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on x opens in new window x print opens in new window print like loading 22 comments posted in uncategorized april 22 2011 day 45 by wilson these days it s hard to be mindful of the stuff that s most important said rev rummer as we met for our final friday the good 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