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Thank you to Kate Magic Wood for sending me the following as a MySpace Bulletin:

After receiving over 50,000޲views in a few޲hours and޲on its޲way޲to shoot to the top޲ of the޲most viewed޲chart, You޲Tube brazenly pulled޲a popular video from their rankings system޲Friday޲in an act޲of wanton޲censorship.

“Question޲Your Reality,”޲a stirring and well put޲together video montage featuring޲talk show host Alex Jones was rocketing up the charts, already having reached number 2 most viewd on News and Politics and soaring up the general most discussed and most viewed categories.

A moment later, it was nowhere to be seen as You Tube cleared the slate and prevented the clip from going completely viral.޲

You Tube is owned by Google, who have pulled this trick many times before, but by spreading the video far and wide you can help offset their censorship and wake people up.

There are some rather unpleasant photos and also some shouting in the video, so I'd recommend watching it when you feel in the right frame of mind.



The URL is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpFu_bYkomc

Unfortunately the second month of my juice feast hasn't been particularly well documented... Work has been absolutely manic, and it's been more than just my blogging that has suffered - the house is a complete and utter mess and I'm behind on EVERYTHING! I can't even remember the last time I checked my RSS feeds...

Anyway, yesterday was my day 60, so today I've decided to break my feast! Since I have done two 21-day fasts previously I feel that 60 days is enough for me. I've got some prunes in the cupboard, I didn't use to like them, but now - who knows? My tastebuds certainly have changed! So has my skin, the colour of my eyes and teeth, my body shape (will try to do some new measurements soon), my hair, my nails... And that's just the stuff I can think of right now (I'm afraid I'm writing this in a rush - I've got a deadline to meet later today!). The weight loss hasn't been that great, though. I reckon that is because most days, I didn't get enough juice in. Totally my own fault - and the one advice I would give to any budding feasters would be to make sure you get more than enough juice every day! In my case, I think it's just because my body and mind are so used to fasting - I don't feel hungry, so I simply forget to drink until it's too late in the day to drink 4 litres of juice! I also have only had 2 enemas (even though they are SO easy to do!). I've also craved water a lot, and there have been several days when that's been pretty much all I've had. So it's pretty much a case of do as I say, don't do as I do... ;o)

Anyway, according to my scales (and bearing in mind that it's THAT time of the month), I've lost about 7 kg. But the change in my appearance has been more dramatic, I think:



It's a bit silly that I'm ending my feast now - when there are SO many people all over the world starting the Global Juice Feast tomorrow! But I may join in again for a few of those days - I have a friend coming to visit me in March who would like to feast for a few days with me! :oD

Right now, I'm enjoying chewing again - liquorice root rules (the corners of my mouth are getting really sore, though)! :oD

Oh, and in case I don't get a chance to write much about my feast breaking, you can learn all about it here: http://www.juicefeasting.com/JuiceFeastingIntro/BreakingtheJuiceFeast/tabid/324/Default.aspx