master cleanse
today is day 5 on this master cleanse thing. check out therawfoodsite.com for instructions if you’re interested. I got more interested in trying juicing and more raw foods since reading the Gerson therapy stuff. I wanted to start juicing and take on the protocol for a true Gerson therapy regimen, but we’re almost out of this insect haven place, and the idea of busting out the juicer and coating all inner working parts with yummy fruit and vegetable juice (read ‘insect honeypot’) just doesn’t rub me the right way, so I figure fine, I’ll do the master cleanse thing first. Additionally, I’ve read and I can see it being true, that doing a cleanse or fast before going even-more-raw can make it much easier because fasting resets the body’s tastes and eliminates cravings from built-up toxins. So, anyway, it’s going quite well. I have to say that the site above and the book I ordered (all the info you can find on the site, btw, plus more) are filled with very reasonable accounts and theories of what and how to do the cleanse, yet just now as I as waiting for the rest of the SWF (salt water flush) to make it back out, I read 2 or 3 instances where water fasting was poo-pooed or talked about as if it is lesser. For example, these people claimed that they can still job for miles, etc on the MC, but no water fasting. Well, ok, so that’s them. Personally, on a water fast I had no difficulty doing 60 minutes of very intense aerobic/muscle building type kicking punching non-stop workout. Granted I felt different and went through periods of low blood pressure or just different feeling as my mind cleared, but these all happen on any fast.
Before reading the MC comments on water fasting I noticed a couple of other things too. On water fasting I did not have as many detox symptoms. For example, on day 2 of MC I got a very bad headache and nausea for a few hours. I’m quite a baby when i comes to nausea, maybe, but it was horrible. As soon as I was about to fall asleep I’d have to jump up and pace around as another wave of nausea hit. This never happened on water fasts in the past. THAT SAID, those water fasts were all done during a time when I lived mostly by myself –when I live alone I naturally eat less and what I do eat is pretty much organic, veggie stuff.
(Anyway, on the water fasting I didn’t notice hunger as much in the early days as on MC, but then again I didn’t have others around making/eating food either. As far as having more detox symptoms, I suppose it could be a combination of SAD-eating-weekend and the lemons juice and cayenne pepper possibly cleaning out some stuff faster than just water. maybe. )
Whereas now…. I’ve been eating a lot of fresh veggies and organic stuff (for the last 4 months or so, but mixed with slightly more SAD type stuff for the 2 years previous), BUT last weekend before starting the cleanse I ‘got a wild hair’ as they say here in texas, and for the first time in many months decided to get a sampler of various kinds of SAD (standard american diet, as the MC ppl call it -cute). So that was fun– and not all un-nutritious –had souper-salad, movie popcorn(!love), KFC (hadn’t had extra crispy chicken in YEARS) with the gross but yummy thick mac&cheese and those distinctly KFC mashed potatoes, yummy pho the next day, which included one of those disgustingly sweet but deliciously clever way of getting even more delicious coffee flavor in it– iced ‘Vietnamese coffees’, also a super big latte the same weekend. SO…. … I think the headache could have been just from the 2 or 3 coffees I had over the weekend, even though I don’t tend to drink caffeine on a regular basis. This seems very likely, as some years ago a similar thing happenend: not being used to drinking coffee all the time, I went 3 or 4 days having one big late each day, then stopped and couldn’t figure out what the headaches were about (didn’t know about caffeine withdrawal headaches before).
Anyway, shooting for 10 days for this first ‘MC’. Should be timed just right to have 2-3 days to ease out of it, in time for b-day celebratory outtings with family. I’m really looking forward to a particular restaurant I don’t go to all that often, but for now not hungry at all. though… day 1-3 did bring some challenges and delicious smelling sessions helped. I noticed that thinking about the most delicious foods helped more than trying not to. ON day 1 I cooked dinner for Chad -thought that was mildly heroic -j/k. Actually, besides wanting to be nice, we’d bought all this really good food from Whole Foods I didn’t want going bad -one of them being a CHEESE (yum), and I just couldn’t stand the thought of that delicious natural cheese just sitting in the frige. So I made a yummy-smelling basil pesto, ricotta, tomato pasta dish. Turns out the natural goat ricotta was a little mmm interesting. Chad just could not describe the taste to me, and the smell was too mysterious, so I took a gob and smeared on my tongue, then washed my mouth out. Wow. I don’t think it was bad, but just goaty. I mean keep in mind that most trips to WHole Foods are like white bread kids in a whole new land (not that I grew up on white bread, but I know someone who got through most of college on sugar cereal and easy-mac -glad you’re still with us, beebs), so we hadn’t had goat ricotta before. But the best way I can describe it is it tasted like if you saw a big hairy goat and stuck your nose deep into its furry coat and inhaled deeply. lol. I called it feral pasta. Well ,supposedly it worked great with the other ingredients -or so he says, he’ll eat anything I give him, so keep that in mind.lol. but seriously, I was thinking how nice that is really, I mean sometimes I don’t get how he can not have food cares –like he never gets up and says ,”you know, a baked potato sounds really good, that’s what I want today”. He never has any requests or certain desires for food. Not me. So sometimes it’s a little frustrating because I sometimes like to make what I know ppl want to eat, and since he likes everything nearly the same.. you get the idea. ANyway, it also makes it easier to do these healthy food experiments because he goes right along with it. THough you know…. sometimes I still think he just doesn’t share his opinions and nature with me…like yesterday he was talking weird about driving through somewhere and getting a shake. hmmm, wonder if he did. skinny sugar lovers, a strange breed.
OH, SWF (salt water flush) -this is recommended each morning -2 tsp non-iodized salt in 1 quart water. I was reluctant to do this because I’ve been avoiding salt, and read that some people do not get a flushing response, and just absorb the salt -not what i wanted, so I waited until day 5 to do it. Though many people report problems getting it down, etc, I found it to be pretty simple and doable. I did 2 cups with 1 tsp, then another –drank all but 1/2 cup. Took about 3 minute for it to work, and about 45 minutes of off and on but peeing. fun. but seriously, if I’d known it was so effective I would have started it sooner. It says you can do the lax tea morning and night if you don’t do the SWF, but I found that the SWF really cleans things out more efficiently. I mean it’s day 5 and this morning I actually got solid stuff out. So anyway, yeah, might not do it for the first 3 days or so to wait for food to clear, thus lessening chance of absorbing it, but then again, if i ever have such horrible detox symptoms again on early days (1-3) I will do the SWF.
ordered a complete terrarium getup for Bella. Yep, that’s my fantasy now: The bad-ass terrarium will be assembled with night heat lamp, day lamp, waterfall, fogger, under-tank heat pad, etc. I will place this heavenly terrarium on the floor in the kitchen, just in front of Bella’s under-fridge hide. Then add in a couple yummmmy worms and deliciously crunchy crickets… and she will not be able to resist the urge to get in that terrarium! I mean maybe a little far-fetched, but maybe not… It’s been very cold here still. What with the heat always not working if we go for a day without using it (get tired of calling maintenance so we just live with it, I mean it’s Houston, it’s a very mild winter for like 6 weeks). But anyway, I think it’s been a little tough on Bella, sure the frige makes heat, but even that not so much wince it doesn’t have to turn on as much during the cold.
So, that’s the plan. I think I will also turn the frige to the highest setting -no point in fucking around -thought of unpluggin it but don’t want to break it, as can happen with friges left unplugged for too long. If a day or 2 with heavenly terrarium placed nearby don’t lure her, then it’s time to try a variation of the ‘funnel trap’, THEN if that doesn’t work, get out the thick gloves and just pull out the fridge and grab her without losing a finger. fun!
So, about $350 later, the attempted natural roach control becomes a pampered pet, so that we can stop trying natural roach control.lol Naw, it’s that this old ass building is not sealed up. They don’t bother to keep up on sealing cracks inside or outside, all they do is more and more poison. I’ve tried to block he cracks, but it’s a losing battle. Moral of the story is any old and cheap apartment in houston is likely to have bugs if you don’t let them spray poison every 3-6 months. If a place is sealed up and maintained my usual natural solutions work just fine.
off for a walk…