Entries in Category: Fasting

Today was a pretty good today. I have had no cravings at all. I've been hungry -- or rather, I've had the inclination to eat -- several times today, but nothing overwhelming at all. In fact, I've not even had overwhelming urges to drink the lemonade. Since this is Aimee's first time, she's had cravings pretty much all day: cinammon rolls and deep-dish chicago style cheese pizza in the morning, and homemade spinach/tomato pizza this evening. And, we stopped by ...

Day 1 went off fairly well without a hitch. We started the day bright and early with a yucky salt water flush. I'd forgotten exactly how yucky it really is on the tongue. I remember it being fairly salty last time, but this time it almost felt like salt-poisoning or something. To boot, it made me feel a little ill to my stomach for a while (until the flush part of it). Aimee had similar symptoms. Strange effect, and I'm ...

So the thing about blogging is that when you stop for a bit, you stop for a bit longer. And then a bit longer and on. Well, that's what happens to me anyway. Take Rach, for example. I owed her a letter probably 6 months ago. And then I'm thinking of what to write, and more and more, then I wait, because there's more to be thought of, and then I realise it's getting later and later, and so I ...

That's right, folks, the results are in. I got my blood test results in the mail today. I don't know what the half the stuff is, but my doctor underlines all the critical bits. Here's the thing. In February my liver enzyme level was 219 or something (219 of what exactly, I don't know, because dammit Jim, I'm a developer not a doctor). So, in April it was down by 190, in June or July it was down by 150, ...

Well, I did what I said I'd do last night. I started drinking the epsom salts mixture. Let me warn you, the damned stuff is bitter. Pretty nasty. The only way to do it (you have to drink three-quarters of a cup) is to throw the stuff back. Just chug it. If you sip some water right afterwards, the water tastes sweet. So that's pretty good, and a sip is enough to remove the taste. At about 10:20 or so ...

Well, here it is. We're at T-minus-zero today. So, I had a breakfast of toast and blueberry preserves (2 pieces of toast, thanks!). And I had as much apple juice as I could before 2pm (14:00). According to the recipes I've seen, I'm not allowed to eat or drink after 2 (14:00). So, it's 6:45 in the evening (18:45) now, and I'm home. I didn't get to write my entry at midday today due to various scheduling conflicts. So anyway, ...

First of all, my apologies to all your RSS reader users out there for filling up your screens with my other two entries for today. But, uh, back to the lecture at hand (Perfection is perfected, so Im a let em understand), the apple juice "fast." So, with all the bloatiness of yesterday, I was barely able to drink two glasses of apple juice at work. I got home and the bloat started to rid itself off, ...

Yeah, so I've discovered something. Unfiltered organic unsweetened apple juice is thick. It bloats me right up. I'm physically unable to ingest a gallon a day. So I'm doing my best to ingest half a gallon, on the theory that some is better than none at all. So, the idea is that the mallic acid (is that what it's called?) in the apple juice softens the stones. I'm not a biologist, an internist, a physiologist or a gastro-intestinologist, so I ...

Ickness Alert. Skip this entire blog post, is my advice, quite frankly. True story: When I was an undergraduate in the arctic colds of Rochester, NY, I lived, for a while, in the on-campus housing. Now, a central facet of most dormitory buildings is the shared bathrooms. So each "hall" typically has its own set of bathrooms and showers that is shared with your neighbours. I detested these for anything but showering (and even that because my choices ...

I want to thank all my readers for enjoying my adventures in the Master Cleanse. To be honest, I don't know if I could have finished the fast, had I not constantly blogged about it. I kept having this 3pm like deadline to submit a status report to you all. And really, that helped. It kept me motivated to continue on with the fast, despite some of the unpleasantness. I should shout out to The CureZone forums and <a ...