talibanbarbie should be preparing for her appointment at 2:30.
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10 months ago
Will start to get ready for the cleanse on Saturday. I am doing it with my friend and coworker John. We start the actual cleanse on Monday.
How to do a cleanse
It made me
clear-headed 
"The juice is the important part, forget about the toxin absorbers and digestive stimulants!"
How I did it: I've done this a couple times now. The first time I blended my own fruits and vegetables and fasted for 4 days. I did a lot of research and learned that you really can't go wrong with drinking blended fruit and vegetable juices for a couple days.
This last time, I decided to try a packaged solution from BlessedHerbs.com. It came with an instruction manual, different levels of difficulty, digestive stimulants, and toxin absorbers. I thought this would create a more controlled and advanced level of cleansing.
I did do some research on this and thought it was a bit of a stretch even then, but it wasn't until after day 3, having read the instructions, websites, wikipedia pages, etc that I began to see their program as intentionally misleading.
I'm all for doing something out of silliness and being a bit out there (for example, psychics and cults are interesting to me) but I disliked the sensation of having been tricked into paying $100 for supplies that claimed to do something that they didn't actually do.
The digestive stimulant claims to remove "mucoid plaque" from your intestines, with pictures supporting what mucoid plaque looks like. There are even contests to send in pictures of your disgusting mucoid plaque. Of course, after a little research, I learned that this plaque is simply what the combination of the two supplements looks like when ingested during a fast. It's a funny phenomenon for sure (as fun as swallowing a nickle and waiting for it to come out) but it's not what they claim it to be. That, and according to Dr. Weil, the colon sloughs off its outer layer daily, rejuvenating itself like all other parts of your body.
What are toxins anyway? I know they exist, but a solution that claims to remove them from you in a visual manner is probably trying to trick you.
The juice fast itself was great. I feel calmer, more clear headed, and more grounded than I usually do. And nobody will dispute the value of a juice fast every once in a while for the mental benefits alone.
Lessons & tips: Research juice fasts, avoid packaged and marketed products that help you do something that can be done with fruit, vegetables, and a blender.
Resources: Dr. Weil articles:
Articles about mucoid plaque:
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17 months ago
I broke the fast after 5 days. That was my goal, but immediately after, I broke out horribly. I will do the fast again in a few weeks. This time I HAVE to go 10 days or more, like they say to. I just wanted to give my digestion a rest for a few days, but I guess my body wanted more!
2nd day
17 months ago
Wow. I was hungry yesterday. The lemonade did no justice when my friends were eating mexican food at lunch. I craved all the bad things! Doughnuts, fried chips, torta bread! I read that these are part of the symptoms. This morning I woke up not hungry. How amazing! I did the laxative tea at night and the internal salt water bath this morning. That was…gross and interesting. Actually, it was facinating. I’m going to take it easy today. I have to work tomorrow while doing this so we’ll see how it goes! Maybe no salt water bath in the am…
The Master Cleanse
18 months ago
Well, I’ve suited up for the next ten days. Organic lemons, organic maple syrup, organic cayenne pepper. Not to mention, sea salt and laxative tea. Woohoo! I’ve never fasted before, let alone CLEANSED. I am so excited! My kidneys will be loving me soon!
One down, the rest of my life from here on out!
19 months ago
I did a major full organ 30 day cleanse in January. Def a great way to start off the new year. Since then it has been a rollercoaster of emotions. Not what I anticipated, however, the more I add proper supplementation, and substract processed foods, the more sensitive I am becoming. Even physically for that matter, however, given my sensitive nature already I expected that. Now I can’t even go a few days with eating gluten without getting a migraine. Not to self: new association, gluten=days in bed not working, making no money, hard time paying bills, all the while in excruciating pain. Blow that picture up…..it ain’t worth it!
Day 2
20 months ago
And I’m off and running. I feel pretty good, surprisingly. Yesterday I was starving all day, so I expect some of the same. But I woke up after only getting 5 hours of sleep and felt ok, which NEVER happens for me. Hopefully eating absurdly healthy foods had something to do with that…
and so it begins, for real this time.
23 months ago
went to the market before work and picked up The Herbalist’s Intestinal Rescue (psllium husk and seed, guar gum, ginger root, bentonite clay, citrus pecin, korintji cinnamon bark and rhubarb root) and Detox tincture (oregon grape, yellow dock, dandelion, burdock and fennel), some Mega-Green juice (lots of spirulina & other greeny foods), and a natural bristle body brush. came to work, drank a TBL of the Intestinal Rescue with 8 oz. of water and 8 oz of green juice with two droppers of Detox. “Had results” within twenty minutes.
Ah.
I’m going to start the diet in earnest tomorrow.
Super excited.
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23 months ago
I’m going to start doing a cleanse based on information from The Herbalist in Seattle (www.theherbalist.com). Basically just using bentonite and psyllium (their Intestinal Resue blend) and eating only alkaline-forming foods (soaked almonds, berries, dry fruit, fresh vegetables, garlic and ginger, quinoa and millet, spirulina, honey, maple syrup, lemons, miso soup, raisins, olive oil, sprouts, kraut, tempeh, and sea vegetables) for 7 days. It also calls for a dry brush massage and jojoba oil massage ever morning (dry brush, rub in oil, wait 5 minutes, shower off). Anyone know why jojoba oil in particular?
its getting easier
2 years ago
i can go a few hours between massive vegetable feedings… and i’m getting creative with my veggies. either this cleanse has made my tastebuds totally whack, or broccoli coconut soup is damn yummy.
but sugar, oh sugar, how i miss you so!
all in my head?
2 years ago
i’m starving… i want carbs!
its crazy because it’s only been 2 meals, and i went to the grocery store yesterday and loaded up on all the yummy things i can eat. i made a sundried tomato and basil pesto (sadly, no pinenuts allowed) that i ate yesterday on top of my wilted greens and poached egg. this morning i made a steamed egg with scallions and ate it with tomato slices with fresh ground pepper and sea salt. i even cheated and had a piece of sprouted whole grain toast.
unfortunately, candida isn’t a totally vegetarian friendly cleanse because they allow you to eat a variety of “natural” “free range” and “grass fed” meat proteins, but no tofu or soy products are allowed. so the only protein i can have is my free range organic eggs. and i don’t know how many eggs i can really eat a day without dying of cholesterol.
but seriously, i’m eating a lot. its weird how we are psychologically hungry and full based on what we perceive completes a meal and really makes us satisfied.
