Day Four: Yeppers! Weight: 173.5. That’s six pounds since Monday. This is Thursday morning! Wow!  Just getting crankin’ – Another great day of detox. No problems to report. Stuck with my Choline Punch drink for most of the day. Again I ate brown rice with green peppers, cabbage, tomato sauce seasoned with wheat free soya sauce and turmeric. This evening Katrina did up some spinach and tomatoes to go with my brown rice. I found Brown Rice Protein at the GNC and mixed it with Metagenix Protein Shake and a banana. Feeling slimmer and plenty of energy. Now I am thinking of continuing this plan up til the 15th! It’s not difficult at all once you get past the first 2 days of water fast.

Today is the day I got the urge to start blogging for real. It’s fun to capture these experiences, and I hope that some of my dietary supplement clients will get a kick out of me suffering like this. Actually, I was really busy this morning and wasn’t even hungry.  Oh, the weight: 174.5 it’s ok. According to the BMI charts at 5’8″ I am suppose to be 165 tops. Well that may or may not happen. Depends when I can get back into the gym. Vaughs says to do some hydro therapy shock like go into the sauna then jump in to a cold shower. I could do that.

I decided around 10.30 to have breakfast.

You guessed it: Brown rice, but with cucumbers this time! Whew. Taste buds are going gah, gah over cucumbers! This is really cool. I feel like I am appreciating my food and not just scarfing stuff down my face.

Dentist appointment, physical therapy, webinar. good. busy afternoon.

That 10.30 breakfast kept me all day. I did all my appointments and stopped at the store. Had intentions of going to Whole Foods for some special detox needs but the weather was crummy so I just stopped at the local store and shopped for the family. Bought another bag of brown rice, some green peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes and will add that to the romaine lettuce we have at home.  I did pick up the Advanced Probiotics from the warehouse.

Tonight’s dinner: Brown Rice, what else? I did cheat a little though. I had a banana when I walk in the door. I really wasn’t that hungry but felt like a needed a little something to keep me til dinner. No headaches at all today. Brown rice is the answer! OMG, Katrina cooked up cabbage, green peppers, tomatoes and asparagus with wheat-free soya sauce and turmeric using some olive oil, and OMG was it delicious! Either my taste buds have had this huge change or I just was ignorant  how good food can be! I am stoked.

Day Two: Wake up early, with a headache. I am thinking, boy I am glad to get rid of these toxins out of my body. Go P. Weight: 175.5, yes! 4 lbs in one day! Is that healthy? I am happy. I walk about for awhile,  headache subsides.  Work, work, work, work, drink, p, drink, work, p, work, work, p, drink, drink, p, drink, p, drink, p. Now it’s 12.00 noon. What am I having for lunch. Cinnamon Plum tea, of course.

About 1.30pm I notice my speech has slowed and brain can’t think about too much, headache is back. I drink a Choline Punch drink, wow, I can feel the vitamins. This is so cool. Headache goes away for awhile. Then it’s back again. I am to eat brown rice and vegetables for dinner. I talk with Vaughn on the phone. He says it’s probably hypoglycemia, meaning low blood sugar. Hmm. Never knew that’s what hypoglycemia feels like. I don’t like it. I wonder how much longer I can last. Ok. Time to eat. 4pm. My 48 hour water fast lasts 46 hours. Katrina boils the brown rice and I find some asparagus in the fridge.

Three bites of brown rice and I can feel my body right itself. Like a crippled ship listing in the water, I begin to perk up. I eat about a cup of brown rice and 6 asparagus and I am feeling really, really fine.

The rest of day is nice. One strange experience, I picked up a spoon to stir my tea and apparently it had been used for the making of a turkey sandwich. I got a hint of the taste of turkey in my tea. Sounds weird, but the awareness and the sensitivity of  my taste buds is rather electrifying. Now that I am starting the light eating part of the detox, I figure I better go back to Vaughn’s notes and see what I am supposed to do and what I have missed. Obviously, I am not a good student and I didn’t prepare because…

I need to buy a few things:

Liquid Bentonite Clay
Nurtibiotic Brown Rice Protein
Wheat Free Soy Sauce (ok, i confess, I used soy sauce with wheat on my rice.)
Flax Seed Oil
More veggies…

To bed I go pretty happy that I am feeling great. Still thinking about Indian food, though. I also became very sensitive to food commercials on TV. I could smell the food right out of the TV. What’s that about? Guess my imagination is working well, creating my own reality.

Oh, in my glazed over state, I crashed my beloved website! It was down for about 25 minutes. I was trying to adjust a module for the front page. I deleted two lines of code and copied two other lines, but there was a parser error and my site was hacked by me!  The error was a missing  “)” end parenthesis. Fortunately in my fasting stupor, I went back to the original joomla template and looked up that code in the original and was able to see what I had done. While it’s not surprising that one missing “)” can crash an entire site with hundreds of pages of content, I was in awe of the metaphor. What little thing missing in one’s life can make cause such annoyance, discomfort, even pain and death. Not sure if you have heard the parable: For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of the horse, the king was lost. For want of the king, the kingdom was lost. All because of a nail.

The body can make millions of adjustments to the ever changing environment. But over time, lost nutrients and tiny micro milligrams of toxic material entering the body, can wreak havoc. I am amazed at this little bio chemistry set I have to play with during this fast and detox (my body). Makes me grateful.

I am playing catch up. Today is actually Day Three but I want to share my detox experience with you from the beginning.

Day One: Monday Morning. I had committed to doing the 7 – 10 day detox starting on Thursday December 4th. But today was Monday and what better day could I ask to start fasting than today? I guess I am just a little sick of the weight I picked up recently. What’s my intention for this fast and detox? Lose weight? Yes. Get healthy? Yes. Learn more about my body and my health? Yes. Really I just want to be in charge of my own health. I eat too much “convenience” food and am not fully committed to truly living a nutritionally abundant life. So the Bible says beware of those “whose god is their belly.” Uh, ok. I really don’t want to be governed by seriously off putting behaviors. Besides, its now or never and my blood lipid profile better be clean this time. Next exam is on my birthday in 15 days.

So the decision is made before I get out of bed. Fasting with water only today. Go pee. Weight: 179.5. I take all my supplements as usual with the exception of the Res-Q 1250. No meat or fish oil this week while my body resets.

I am pretty cool with it up til about 11am. No worries. I have my large size blender bottle, drank about 3 of them so far. Hmm. A little hungry. Maybe some Cinnamon Plum tea. Nice. We’re good, so far. About 2pm I am in the warehouse working processing orders. Back of the head headache setting in. I’m busy, I will manage.

Make it til evening. The kids are cooking some mighty fine smelling dinner. Ok, forget about it. Water is good.

Monday Night Football takes some of the edge off. I am flat out on the couch in a stupor, watching TV. Can’t wait to see how much weight I have lost in one day!!! (Gotta keep the pep talk going in my head.)

In bed, with a headache.

I found this interesting on the one hand and mind-boggling on the other hand.

CBS reporter blows the lid off Swine Flu hype

By Dr. Joseph Mercola:

…In case you didn’t realize it, Sharyl Attkisson is the investigative reporter behind the groundbreaking CBS News study that found H1N1 flu cases are NOT as prevalent as feared.

In fact, they’re barely on the radar screen. How did this startling information come about, and why is the  U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  painting a different picture entirely? I spoke directly with Sharyl Attkisson to find out.

Watch the Videos and Read the Article: CDC Nailed

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