Carrietlc

Lost it in Nevada
Approach it this way: You want to be healthy for your body’s sake. Not skinny to impress anybody, fit into a certain size jeans, etc. That may come, eventually, but you will rush yourself and get a diet mentality and set yourself up for an eating disorder. A long term solution is to be healthy. You want to feel better physically to move freely. To not feel tired all the time and have energy.
I was about 117 in high school, 135 from ages 16-25, then 145 from ages 25-30, then up to 183 at my highest in 2003. I read “The Detox Book…” by Bruce Fife. I was physically ill with Chronic Fatigue & Fibromyalgia.
Late 2003 I weighed 183, then I lost 15lbs. In 2004 I lost 15 more, from 2005 to Spring of 2006 I lost another 15 or 20 or so. I weight 133-135 I wasn’t trying to lose weight, I was trying to cure the fibro & chronic fatigue (which is gone by the way)
Read the colon chapter first. Do the coffee enema every 3 or 4 days for a month. That is probably causing lots of sugar and white flour cravings because you aren’t getting nutrients from your food because your colon is well…read the book. During the same time, you need to detox your body from “non-foods” like coloring, additives, preservatives, hormones in meat, pesticides, etc.
For a month, I basically ate organic oatmeal from wild oats and cooked it, then added soy milk. (I was withdrawing from all my pain meds so I could care less what I ate, most of the time I was grossed out by food, but when I was hungry, all I ate was oatmeal). Sometimes I added raw organic honey or grade-A all natural maple syrup. But really you should stay away from sweets all together as they feed the bad bacteria in your stomach. Then you do a kidney cleanse with the herbs they tell you. You start walking 15 minutes a day, 4 times a week. Then 20 min a day 5 or 6 times a week. Work up so that you have hand weights that are like 3 lbs in each hand as you walk. Especially when you start to lose weight because there is less of you moving, so you wont get the same benefits. It’s mostly for getting your lymph system flowing to get the toxins out. It’s important to sweat.
Read the natural foods diet. That is the key. Everything you eat should be an actual food or as close to nature as it can be. White flour is not the way nature made it. All the nutrients are taken out and dough thikening agents and preservatives are put back in. You can eat tons of white bread and get no nutrition. Ezekiel bread has nutrients. That’s another thing I eat. Toast some of that up and spread some almond butter on it. White sugar is not a natural product. All the nutrients are taken out. The mollasses is the nutritious part of the sugar cane. Use honey instead.
Anyway, the Detox book will help you understand the biological implications of food.
Don’t beat yourself up if you aren’t perfect.
I was totally perfect when I first started. Eventually I ate everything I wasn’t supposed to. Now I have a happy medium. I avoid white flour with a passion and I avoid cheese. They both plug me up. I eat whole wheat flour when I make cake. I buy whole wheat noodles. I rarely eat pizza (once every 3 months?) It makes me feel terrible. Once you feel good, you know what makes you feel physically bad, so you will naturally avoid it. I also don’t drink coffee anymore. Good Luck.

I was on methadone for 2 years for pain management.
I had fibromyalgia really bad.
I cured fibro myself with toxin-free food, coffee enemas, etc.
If you are on methadone maintenance for an addiction, stay on it. If you are on any kind of steady dosage by a doctor, stay on it. But, if you are a recreational user, just getting high, get off if it.
The withdrawel was the hardest thing I did in my life. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. If I had to do it again, I wouldn’t do it. It took a full year to get my head back to normal. The worst part was the first 3 or 4 weeks. Nothing will take away what you feel physically or mentally. If you could go to one of those places that detoxes you in like a day, DO IT!!! But, when they say you are no longer addicted physically, it’s not over. There is post acute withdrawel syndrome to deal with. With me, it lasted one year. I could barely form a sentence for a while. Sorry to tell you the facts. I wouldn’t reccommend it. Unless you are such a strong-willed person, who won’t break down, when you are pretty much being tested like someone is putting razor blades under your fingernails nonstop for months, and you aren’t allowed to sleep even. If you can put up with that torture, if that’s what kind of survivor you are, if you’ve got what it takes then do it. I had that kind of drive to quit. I never tried heroin so that didn’t keep me on methadone. I was no longer in pain, so that couldn’t keep me on methadone. The only reason I would take methadone any longer was to feed the addiction. I could’t be addicted. That wasn’t me. I reduced the methadone from 80 mg. down to a little tiny spec of a piece. That was no problem. Once I stopped that little tiny spec of a piece, look out!
My friend had quit methadone a long time ago. I talked to him every other day or two for a week. He would just say, Give it another day. Then after 2 weeks went by he would say, Give it another week or two weeks. Then after 1 month went by he would say, give it another month. Then after 2 months went by he would say, give it 2 more months. So, fortunately, I didn’t believe how bad it would be. Fortunately he was there for me. Oatmeal baths were a lifesaver. But I couldn’t live in the bathtub. I did take Clonazepam when I was having over-the-top full-on panic attacks. They barely touched the anxiety by the way.
He said that he would drink a ton of straight vodka, thow up, drink some more, then pass out. I didn’t drink though.
He, by the way takes methadone now again. He quit methadone for a year and had a relapse (heroin). He is in his 50s and says he will never go through withdrawel of methadone again.
If I ever had to get on methadone for some type of chronic illness again, I would never get off. I feel like I wasted a year of my life going through withdrawel.
That’s my two cents. Good luck whatever you choose.

I was sick. I was on Lortab, soma, amytriptaline, backlofen, etc. I eventually had to go on Methadone. I got trigger point injections in my back. I tried everything. My husband massaged my body frequently which hurt sooo bad. And it usually made me want to throw up. I had heating pads and tennis balls to roll on the floor. I had a pain management Dr. I had epidurals in my spine (could be related to my herniated discs?) I couldn’t even take a bath without help (lifting my arms up). I prayed for a mirace. Or for God to end this miserable existence. I was physically ill with Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. My brother sent me a book. “The Detox Book…” by Bruce Fife.
I left it on the shelf for six months. He begged me to read it. Finally I agreed to one chapter. Oh my God! The author was talking to me. I did a coffee enema. I quit eating grocery store meat, sugar, white flour and cheese. I started drinking pure water. I quit (drinking) coffee. I did another coffee enema a couple days later. I started using organic produce, whole wheat bread, and chemical free products. I started walking. Within one week the pain started going away from my low back (around my hip area). A couple of weeks later it was gone through my whole body. The most important pain was the flu-like pain down your spine. That nagging feeling that the pain-killers don’t help. You feel “sick” all the time.
For the first time in years I felt more alive than dead. Within 2 months I was physically better. Here’s the catch. I felt physically great, better than I had since I was 18 (I was 34), but, since I was no longer in pain, I quit all my meds cold turkey, including methadone. That’s another story. Anyway, I’m off of all pain meds, muscle relaxants, everything. This was in 2003. It is now late 2006, almost 2007. I did alot more than this, but if you buy that book, it will tell you what to do. I have lost 50 lbs too. I was so strict with myself and did about everything in the book so that I would get better. And I did. Gradually you forget how sick you were, so you start doing things you did before you were sick (drink alcohol, go out to restaurants and eat crappy food), but you get to know your limits before the tiredness sets in. I have had the fatigue come back when I don’t follow what I have learned, but not the Fibro. Not the physical pain.
Read the colon chapter first. Do the coffee enema every 3 or 4 days for a month. (I still do them because I feel that’s the most crucial part to getting better)
For a month, I basically ate organic oatmeal from wild oats and cooked it, then added soy milk. (I was withdrawing from all my pain meds so I could care less what I ate, most of the time I was grossed out by food, but when I was hungry, all I ate was oatmeal). Sometimes I added raw organic honey or grade-A all natural maple syrup. But really you should stay away from sweets all together as they feed the bad bacteria in your stomach. Then you do a kidney cleanse with the herbs they tell you. You start walking 15 minutes a day, 4 times a week. Then 20 min a day 5 or 6 times a week. Work up so that you have hand weights that are like 3 lbs in each hand as you walk. Especially when you start to lose weight because there is less of you moving, so you wont get the same benefits. It’s mostly for getting your lymph system flowing to get the toxins out. It’s important to sweat.
Read the natural foods diet. That is the key. Everything you eat should be an actual food or as close to nature as it can be. White flour is not the way nature made it. All the nutrients are taken out and dough thickening agents and preservatives are put back in. You can eat tons of white bread and get no nutrition. Ezekiel bread has nutrients. That’s another thing I eat. Toast some of that up and spread some almond butter on it. White sugar is not a natural product. All the nutrients are taken out. The mollasses is the nutritious part of the sugar cane. Use honey instead.
Anyway, the Detox book will help you understand the biological implications of food.
Don’t beat yourself up if you aren’t perfect.
I was totally perfect when I first started. Eventually I ate everything I wasn’t supposed to. Now I have a happy medium. I avoid white flour with a passion and I avoid cheese. They both plug me up. I eat whole wheat flour when I make cake. I buy whole wheat noodles. I rarely eat pizza (once every 3 months?) It makes me feel terrible. Once you feel good, you know what makes you feel physically bad, so you will naturally avoid it.
Well, that’s my 2 cents. Email me if you want: carrietlc@aol.com Good luck