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DELAYED TOPIC (continuation): THE MASTER CLEANSER DAYS 9, 10
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Day 9
Today started off on the right foot, only to end on the wrong foot with the wrong size shoes. :shock: My lady happily but nervously decided to start her MC this morning, towards the end of her cycle. This shouldn't have been a problem, and the SWF method I used was only modified by her to two smaller doses of it because I have a bigger mouth than she does(!). Everything was fine until maybe 30 mins later when both of us should've felt the tingling of the BMs occur. Then close to the same time we BOTH began feeling sick, bloated, and unable to do any BMs. She ended up tossing up the SWF + the tea + the chips she'd eaten the evening before, and I merely ended up rocking on the potty to my belly pains.
In the beginning of the day, since she is currently off until the 21st, she slept in while I went off to work. Both of us still having pains. I still took my LA dose and numerous other LAs throughout the day, and finally had an uncomfortable BM which I had to get off of the work van near a military shoppette in order to do. I barely managed to pass water twice more in the early morning, but was completely unable to for the rest of the work day. We worked from 0630 am to close to 7 pm, and today was the hardest most physical work we've done since last November when thousands of soldiers were going in and out to overseas locations. I realized that I should've added a couple of more tablespoons of my liquid multi-vitamin to my 2-liter bottle of LA, because with my body's resources fighting whatever the cause of the belly pains + the physical demand I had not much more energy left near the end of the day.
After getting off of work, I consulted with my still very ill lady and narrowed down the cause of the pains to apparently unfiltered water. Since she hadn't had the LA after the SWF, and I'd been taking the seasalt and MS daily w/o problems, the water used was brought forth from immediately after the pipes in the home unfreezing (probably allowing pipe contaminants to enter the water). So basically we had water poisoning.
The LA diet can flush toxins out of your body, but only when your body can pass them. At the stage of poisoning, we were both unable to pass the poisons at all except in her case where she continued to toss up portions of the SWF. By the time I was off of work, I was saturated with retained water and citrus acids, my belly was bloated and disturbed, and my skin was flushed with blood heat. The only solution I had in order to get the digestive system to process and eliminate wastes was to eat solid foods. I compromised by eating 10 corn chips and pausing to listen to my stomach. The pains began to go downward from my ribs through my stomach area, and the stomach acids started to calm down and the digestive process began. I had two BMs quickly, another LA, and passed out (slept) until almost late to work again less than four hours later.
Because of my on-call status, and this early morning schedule, I was unable to take my tea since I wasn't to go to sleep again until 8 am the next morning. The stomach rumbles and aches continued but not as bad as before. My lady only ate chicken soup and some water today, both liquids, and continued to stay sick all evening (I had told her to take some light solids since it worked for me...). G'nite, er, morning.
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Day 10
The day started out with bed about 8 am, woke up about 12 pm due to some phone calls and the uncomfortable belly aches. My girl was still aching all night, and aches even now. I reminded her to try solid foods in order to pass the poisons, because trying to properly start the MC while poisoned isn't going to help her do anything but toss up the ingredients. I work again in a few hours, about 3:30 pm I must leave. Since I was unable to take the tea the night before, taking the SWF now in the middle of the day won't do much good if I can't pass it as a BM. Retaining salt isn't healthy. So I'm stuck taking my tea tonight and LAs for the rest of the day.
On the lighter side, I've made it to Day 10, and the poisoning notwithstanding, I've felt great and look much better now! The scales when I woke up and stared at them cross-eyed, looked like they said about 213-214. I'll re-confirm this later tonight when I get off of work. This is a monumental thing for me, and even if I were to do the easy thing and give up the MC, I'm proud of what I was able to do and the support I've had from everyone active here!
For the MC, I'll not be starting Day 11 tomorrow (Monday), and have decided to go ahead and do the next day (maybe two) to get in the last chance for some special foods that I'll be supplementing with yogurt's probiotics. Then on either Tuesday or Wednesday I'm going to go for the gold and hit up another 10 days or more since the temptations will be lessened. I'm less than 15 pounds away from my revised weight goals, which were originally 205 and are now 200 pounds. I do know that once I stop the MC some of it will return, as with ANY diet or fast. So when I do the second round after my day or two break, I'll need to drop to about 190 pounds.
My ulterior motive for skipping Monday is the decision to try to remove the rest of the water poisoning from my system with solids, so combining Taco Bell's special with that goal makes sense. I do know that I'll be re-introducing toxins into my system, but the toxins are a lesser threat than the damage the poisoning can do, and toxins can be removed with the MC easier than the poisons. I'm currently still not doing BMs or passing water with the LAs, but did with only 10 corn chips as solids. Hence my reasoning. I'll be updating Day 8 tonight, and had to post Day 9 today because I had zero access to a computer all Saturday. I miss you guys!!!!! And I'll be sure to catch up on your journals this evening! I promise! Then off to my normal forums since I'm delinquent on my duties...yikes!
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Oh, and don't think I'm going anywhere just because I'm de-poisoning for a day or two! My de-toxification isn't complete by a long shot, even without the skipped day(s). I haven't experienced the ugly tongue syndrome yet, but my tongue is pink and no chances at bad breath. I've so much more support to give to others who are planning on making their own Journey while I'm here.
After returning from work, my lady was still in a bad way with the belly pains, nausea, and cramps. When on her cycle she doesn't usually experience the negative side of the cycle like many other women are unlucky enough to experience. She can barely eat anything, and has little craving at all. So I took her out for something to nibble on a bit at a time until her body can perform a BM or three. Both of us took a tea prior to leaving the house, since I am also still not experiencing much BMs or passing of water. As soon as I got home I had my first BM for the day...mixed dark and water - not the usual orange-yellow from the LAs. I'll finish off the night with yet another tea before bed to push tomorrow's BMs, and will probably do another mid-day so that any solids I do plan on toxifying myself with won't stay for too long.
A third reason for the skipped days is that we are out of organic lemons, and the only natural foods place I've found locally is run by some friendly Koreans who only sale the bottled organic lemon juice. I'm not too certain if the stuff would work quite the same, although the ingredients and Nutrition Facts show that they are lemons w/o additives. The price is also about $4+, and if I bought organic lemons down in Austin it would be $2.50 per pound (roughly 10-14 organic lemons). We've squeezed enough lemon juice to last about three days to cover this period, but I'd like my fourth reason for skipping so to start the 10 days over with my lady's official First Day on the MC. Enough for now, g'nite!
DELAYED TOPIC (continuation): THE MASTER CLEANSER DAYS 9, 10
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Day 9
Today started off on the right foot, only to end on the wrong foot with the wrong size shoes. :shock: My lady happily but nervously decided to start her MC this morning, towards the end of her cycle. This shouldn't have been a problem, and the SWF method I used was only modified by her to two smaller doses of it because I have a bigger mouth than she does(!). Everything was fine until maybe 30 mins later when both of us should've felt the tingling of the BMs occur. Then close to the same time we BOTH began feeling sick, bloated, and unable to do any BMs. She ended up tossing up the SWF + the tea + the chips she'd eaten the evening before, and I merely ended up rocking on the potty to my belly pains.
In the beginning of the day, since she is currently off until the 21st, she slept in while I went off to work. Both of us still having pains. I still took my LA dose and numerous other LAs throughout the day, and finally had an uncomfortable BM which I had to get off of the work van near a military shoppette in order to do. I barely managed to pass water twice more in the early morning, but was completely unable to for the rest of the work day. We worked from 0630 am to close to 7 pm, and today was the hardest most physical work we've done since last November when thousands of soldiers were going in and out to overseas locations. I realized that I should've added a couple of more tablespoons of my liquid multi-vitamin to my 2-liter bottle of LA, because with my body's resources fighting whatever the cause of the belly pains + the physical demand I had not much more energy left near the end of the day.
After getting off of work, I consulted with my still very ill lady and narrowed down the cause of the pains to apparently unfiltered water. Since she hadn't had the LA after the SWF, and I'd been taking the seasalt and MS daily w/o problems, the water used was brought forth from immediately after the pipes in the home unfreezing (probably allowing pipe contaminants to enter the water). So basically we had water poisoning.
The LA diet can flush toxins out of your body, but only when your body can pass them. At the stage of poisoning, we were both unable to pass the poisons at all except in her case where she continued to toss up portions of the SWF. By the time I was off of work, I was saturated with retained water and citrus acids, my belly was bloated and disturbed, and my skin was flushed with blood heat. The only solution I had in order to get the digestive system to process and eliminate wastes was to eat solid foods. I compromised by eating 10 corn chips and pausing to listen to my stomach. The pains began to go downward from my ribs through my stomach area, and the stomach acids started to calm down and the digestive process began. I had two BMs quickly, another LA, and passed out (slept) until almost late to work again less than four hours later.
Because of my on-call status, and this early morning schedule, I was unable to take my tea since I wasn't to go to sleep again until 8 am the next morning. The stomach rumbles and aches continued but not as bad as before. My lady only ate chicken soup and some water today, both liquids, and continued to stay sick all evening (I had told her to take some light solids since it worked for me...). G'nite, er, morning.
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Day 10
The day started out with bed about 8 am, woke up about 12 pm due to some phone calls and the uncomfortable belly aches. My girl was still aching all night, and aches even now. I reminded her to try solid foods in order to pass the poisons, because trying to properly start the MC while poisoned isn't going to help her do anything but toss up the ingredients. I work again in a few hours, about 3:30 pm I must leave. Since I was unable to take the tea the night before, taking the SWF now in the middle of the day won't do much good if I can't pass it as a BM. Retaining salt isn't healthy. So I'm stuck taking my tea tonight and LAs for the rest of the day.
On the lighter side, I've made it to Day 10, and the poisoning notwithstanding, I've felt great and look much better now! The scales when I woke up and stared at them cross-eyed, looked like they said about 213-214. I'll re-confirm this later tonight when I get off of work. This is a monumental thing for me, and even if I were to do the easy thing and give up the MC, I'm proud of what I was able to do and the support I've had from everyone active here!
For the MC, I'll not be starting Day 11 tomorrow (Monday), and have decided to go ahead and do the next day (maybe two) to get in the last chance for some special foods that I'll be supplementing with yogurt's probiotics. Then on either Tuesday or Wednesday I'm going to go for the gold and hit up another 10 days or more since the temptations will be lessened. I'm less than 15 pounds away from my revised weight goals, which were originally 205 and are now 200 pounds. I do know that once I stop the MC some of it will return, as with ANY diet or fast. So when I do the second round after my day or two break, I'll need to drop to about 190 pounds.
My ulterior motive for skipping Monday is the decision to try to remove the rest of the water poisoning from my system with solids, so combining Taco Bell's special with that goal makes sense. I do know that I'll be re-introducing toxins into my system, but the toxins are a lesser threat than the damage the poisoning can do, and toxins can be removed with the MC easier than the poisons. I'm currently still not doing BMs or passing water with the LAs, but did with only 10 corn chips as solids. Hence my reasoning. I'll be updating Day 8 tonight, and had to post Day 9 today because I had zero access to a computer all Saturday. I miss you guys!!!!! And I'll be sure to catch up on your journals this evening! I promise! Then off to my normal forums since I'm delinquent on my duties...yikes!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oh, and don't think I'm going anywhere just because I'm de-poisoning for a day or two! My de-toxification isn't complete by a long shot, even without the skipped day(s). I haven't experienced the ugly tongue syndrome yet, but my tongue is pink and no chances at bad breath. I've so much more support to give to others who are planning on making their own Journey while I'm here.
After returning from work, my lady was still in a bad way with the belly pains, nausea, and cramps. When on her cycle she doesn't usually experience the negative side of the cycle like many other women are unlucky enough to experience. She can barely eat anything, and has little craving at all. So I took her out for something to nibble on a bit at a time until her body can perform a BM or three. Both of us took a tea prior to leaving the house, since I am also still not experiencing much BMs or passing of water. As soon as I got home I had my first BM for the day...mixed dark and water - not the usual orange-yellow from the LAs. I'll finish off the night with yet another tea before bed to push tomorrow's BMs, and will probably do another mid-day so that any solids I do plan on toxifying myself with won't stay for too long.
A third reason for the skipped days is that we are out of organic lemons, and the only natural foods place I've found locally is run by some friendly Koreans who only sale the bottled organic lemon juice. I'm not too certain if the stuff would work quite the same, although the ingredients and Nutrition Facts show that they are lemons w/o additives. The price is also about $4+, and if I bought organic lemons down in Austin it would be $2.50 per pound (roughly 10-14 organic lemons). We've squeezed enough lemon juice to last about three days to cover this period, but I'd like my fourth reason for skipping so to start the 10 days over with my lady's official First Day on the MC. Enough for now, g'nite!