Hard Head Soft Behind...Bad Food Combining = Indigestion

So, I am a mentor for a girls group at the church we used to attend. Tonight we had a cooking class to show the girls how to make basic dishes, teach sanitation, and oven safety. The food was SO GOOD!!! I also tend to eat more when I'm around other people. I didn't over eat this time, BUT I did do some HORRIBLE food combining. I did not stick to my vegan ways and I am paying for it. I felt nauseous, bloated, was burping, and my bowels were threatening me all the way home.

I am miserable and shame. I am telling you all this so that when the path gets rough you will know that it's not just you. For some reason I am one of those people that doesn't half way do anything. If I am going to be undisciplined I'm going all in. I have gotten lazy because my workout buddy hasn't been around, then I hurt my back gardening, then...hell I just got lazy. My plan is to get back on track Sunday or Monday doing SOMETHING. I have got to put an hour in doing some kind of something. Doesn't matter what it is as long as I de-ass my couch for at least an hour.

Just try to be mindful of what you do while you are doing it. You are going to get paid back whether your decisions are good or bad. I can't even lay down right now, because even after 3 Tsp of vinegar I still have indigestion really bad. It's better than it was, but it's still REALLY bad. I'm going to do better. MY body needs to be vegan and it's won't act right until I comply...

Drum Roll Please!!!

Today is my first day. Here are my stats and they are pretty bad in my honest opinion.
Height:  5'2"
Weight: *Pre-colon flush-169.4 After flush 166.4
Chest:  39"
Waist:  37"
Hips:  43"
*Lemme explain the reason for doing two weights. I knew that I was constipated from all the meat, dairy, etc that I ate over the holidays. I have often read that people lose weight just from flushing their colons. I lost about 3lbs of waste this morning and although the pics don't look like it my stomach is not near as distended as it was. 


Anyway, here are the pictures...I must really love y'all and myself to be doing this...

My goal for this picture is to get rid of the 2nd chin. There should only be one chin per face and I have exceeded that limit. I would also like to see the love handles go. Why? Because fat on your torso is EXTREMELY dangerous and eventually deadly. 

Okay, this should be obvious. My freakin' chin is just ridiculously out of control.  Back fat and "mama arms" gotta go.  And the 4 months preggo look ain't cute since my children are 8 and 12. Sorry y'all that ain't a baby OR baby fat, and it shole ain't Baby Phat. lol

So far this morning I have had a ton of prune juice and am now working on drinking my powered Master Cleanse mix which my friend Mushirah was right about. It is NOT good. It really just tastes like I am drinking cayenne water. I am going to finish it because I bought it, but I must admit that I am disappointed about $20 worth. 

After going to the bathroom about 3lbs worth this morning, I've found that I am trying to talk myself out of the enema, but I think it has more to do with the unknown. I'm going to do it because I have let you all know what it's like. 

I haven't decided it I will allow myself a smoothie this evening or not. We'll see how everything goes. This will be a cleanse of listening to my body, so nothing is set is stone except the fact that we need to be able to be prune juice in bulk. Any ideas?

Btw, I don't know if I mentioned this before, but I cleanse with a group of women. LOVE THEM! I was thinking of asking them to guest blog to tell their experiences with cleansing. We'll see if they are interested. I hope so. 


Forgot to mention that the white stuff on my pants is cleaner. I am also cleaning my house along with the cleanse so that in the end I will have a cleanse body and a decluttered house. This is coming from the book by Queen Afua called "Heal Thyself". I am doing this in conjunction with an online group. 

My bowel movements now!

This is a continuation from my last post. So I made a salad for dinner and that is just what the wholistic practioner ordered! The cleanse pills I take have both a stimulant and fiber. I guess without food the fiber didn't have anything to bulk up. So I will be trying to do everything raw and still have maybe only one meal a day. This is a little more difficult than usually because my food processor broke. *insert sad yet pissed off face here* I am going to push through however. 

On another note. I am thinking about trying to take grain out of my diet eventually and just eat fruits, veggies, and seeds (quinoa). What do you think?

Remedy-Day 4

I know I was slack because I usually write earlier in the day. I've been busy with errands and such. So, I've had lots of energy today, but I think it's more because this cleanse is almost over. I'm mostly finishing because I like to finish things I start. Here are conclusions I've come to while doing this cleanse:

This is not for someone who has cleansed regularly or already eats a relatively healthy diet. We were already vegetarian. We already drank chlorophyll daily. We'd already stopped eating out a lot. Blah, blah, blah...That being said, I didn't see any profound change. This would be an excellent starter cleanse. I will however incorporate all of the things I've learned and build on what we already have established healthwise. At a later time I will, however, do weeks 2-5 of the cleanse. I don't have the funds right now to do everything as it should be done, so as stated above I won't do it until I can do it completely.

Bowel health is very important to me. That being said, I was more comfortable with MC in that I saw "results" daily. With this cleanse I only had results when I chose to drink prune juice as my juice. I am a little nervous that I am going to have to do some extra work to get my bowels back on track. We'll see. I know that he mentions enemas and such in the book for those that have problems with constipation, but I didn't and I don't plan on starting now.

I'm going back to my old chlorophyll. I realize that his chlorophyll might be better, but what good is something that I hate drinking? Maybe as I continue this path I will revisit it, but until then...I'm over it. I also like liquid chlorophyll more than powder...especially grainy powder.

A cleanse shouldn't make you tired imho. Okay, so when I did MC I had the energy of 10 women. I was waking up without my alarm clock, taking walks, and exercising. Well with this I've been too tired to even read my books, which pissed me off a bit.

This is an excellent cleanse for a beginner. The cleanse is short, sweet, and to the point. You also are able to have a break the monotony with the juices and you are also able to choose which juices you want which I love!!!

I realize that my commentary doesn't line up with most that sing the praises of this cleanse and maybe the next time when I am able to do the entire thing I will see a difference. I'm not giving up on it just yet. I'm definitely going to revisit the concepts with my own tweaking. I would suggest that you try this cleanse for yourself and if nothing else buy the book, because it has SO MUCH KNOWLEDGE in it.

Btw, today is the last day of the cleanse, but tomorrow is a recovery day. Don't ever do a liquid cleanse and think that you don't need a recovery day.