- 11 weeks post fast by ausjulie
18 y
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Blog: journal of my 30 day juice fast
4 pounds gone since last week so now up to a total of 49 pounds lost. i feel amazing like a totally different person. i still have some to go but so proud of myself for the nearly 50 and total lifestyle changes and im sure the reamainding 10 will come off. i wanted it gone by my birthday which is in 3 weeks but im not putting pressure on myself if its gone its gone if not im sure it will soon after.
the 4 pounds is due mainly to lots of juicing and pretty much raw the rest of the time. from wednesday last week i juiced wed, thurs, raw friday, one cooked meal saturday nite, raw sunday and juice mon, tues, wed. i really wanted to get below 150 but i sit at 151 today. so next week hopefully will see the 150's out of site. mmm then i am meant to get off the scales...well that was last weeks goal???? we wil see!!
the one cooked meal i ate on saturday was a piece of grilled steak (small) and a few steamed asparagus. sunday morning i woke up fine and then about 10 am had a handful of raw nuts about 2 hours later i had the worst stomach ache. it continued much into monday which is the main reason i went back to juice to give my digestion a rest. this is not the first time this has happened to me and now i am really tryin to work out what is going on. i have posted before that it is the protein but now im wondering if it is the fat in the nuts????? i have eaten both protein and nuts seperately and felt fine but maybe the combination of the two is too much?????? anyway i decided to contact the wellness coach i have talked about before. john rose from houston.
i didnt meet with him just discussed over the phone so he just gave me some tips rather than true professional advice. he discussed many things it could be but one of them is that maybe my body is telling me to go raw. i think this is the case but im not willing to. i know raw is the way to go but for me it is an extreme way to live and i dont want to/not ready to. im not that far into my evolution yet! i still want to enjoy many of the meals my family adn i love to eat. not all the time and definately not the same quantities but i still want that as an option. so i have to fix this problem. the stomach pain has been so severe before that i seriously considered going to the emergency room. i was doubled over on the bathroom floor in tears. and i dont like pain. luckily it passed. anyway john suggested i do a parasite clean adn maybe a liver flush. taht in fact it may be my gallbladder/liver that is reacting to the fat in nuts rather than the protein. also to try a probiotic. so i am on paragone and a probiotic defense somehting. i am aslo ordering a herb chandra peiadra or somethign like that. this is meant to help break down the stones in gallbladder liver kidney wherever it is that they hang out.
so my new plan is to finish the paragone (30 days), take the probiotic, take the herb adn then do a liver cleanse/flush near end of may. im rather nervous about the liver cleanse but i will give most things a go at least once. i am goign to continue to juice half the week, raw the rest and try not to eat too much cooked food. maybe slowly introduce small amounts. i dont feel like i am lacking in any vitamins or mineral actually physcillay never felt better but i am bored with food and would like to eat the occasioanl meal that i prepare for my family. so hopefully i can work this stomach issue out. oh and by the way i had recieved pretty much the same advice from the wellness coach as i did from a fellow curezone member so thanks very much teleskier i really appreciate your advice adn i hope i can make it work. i will just be contacting you in future! ha!
as far as the exercise routine goes i had wrote last message that it was gettign tough. i really think the main thing was the weather here in houston has been disgusting. hot hot humid ycuk. when i would run i was hot a ball of sweat and not liking it at all. i usually dotn like it anyway but add in the heat and i was really struggling. so i have added swimming. we are lucky enought to have a pool in our back yard it is too small to do laps so i tied myself onto the ladder with somehtign like a bundgee cord and now i can swim in one spot. nto sure what the neighbour would think but it works for me. i can only swim for 15/20 mins but plan to build this up to 30 min. then i can run for 30 min and swim for 30. i think i can handle the heat for 30 min but the hour was really draining me. i am also trying to increase the strengh conditioning particularl for my abdominals. i have lost a fair bit of wieght i can fit into lots of clothes but i have a tummy overhang. so it needs to be toned up. i use an exercise dvd to motivate me. i absolutely detest these exercise "fun with kath' is the name of my dvd and i hate kath with a passion and have very little fun i actually find myself yelling abuse at kath and her smiliy friendly girls who all have taught tight bellys. but hopefuly i will eventually be able to complete the work out and too have a smaller tummy. sorry kath!
so here is my week plan:
thurs: raw, run hour, kath
fri: raw, swim 30 min run 30 min, kath
sat: raw, small cooked meal (prob veggies) day off exercise
sun: raw, walk 45 min
mon: juice, run 30 min, swim 30 min swim, kath
tues: juice, run 30 min, swim 30 min, kath
wed: juice/raw??? step aerobic 45 min, kath
that should see the 140's come around
so heres to a great week everyone
cheers
julie
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- Your Welcome by teleskier
18 y
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Hi Julie. I haven't been checking the blogs lately, just monitoring the Liver Flush and Bowel cleanse forum, but then I remembered about you and enjoy reading about your journey, so I checked in today. How Funny.... As I was reading your last post, and you talked about the pain after eating nuts, I was thinking....Oh, that might be gallbladder issue...I wonder if she remembered I told her about Liver flushes. And then was pleased to hear your practioner recommended them....and then further on your actually mentioned me. That made me laugh. Yeah! I got mentioned and thanked on Curezone! I'm famous! Funny!
Anyway, I have done two liver flushes now, and after the first one I spontaneously lost five pounds and have kept it off for 1 and 1/2 months now. I don't know why, since I am not overweight, per se ( am now probably 5 lbs from ideal weight) Very happy about it though, as being slim (not skinny) is good for you and I enjoy it. Since I have not done much else different, I know it was something about the flush. Perhaps my body is acheiving even more balance and health.
At any rate, I thought that should give you some encouragement! ha!
They are really not bad, and once you do one or two, you will be an old hand at it. There is a great book called "The Amazing Liver and Gallblader Flush" by Andreas Moritz that has all kinds of great info and walks you through, very thoroughly I might add, the whole process. My naturalpath recommended I get it and I am glad I did. Lots of people on the Liver Flush forum use it. That is a good forum, btw, to get yourself familiar with those flushes.
I didn't pass any stones the first time around, and only about 20 really, really small ones the second time, but I heard from the forum that that is really common. You are supposed to do a series of them, one every month or two, until you are stone free. I know a lot of people don't want to commit to that...so I guess you'll see how it works for you.
It seems like you are now on the "balancing and creating health" side of your weight loss. Bummer that there is more work to be done, but good that you are now seeing signs that things are out of balance. It's weird, but when people are overweight and eating poorly, they seem to not notice this pain or that pain, but now that you are obviously so much healthier and eating so well, you are dealing with things here and there. I wish it was over for you and you could happily skip along, but Oh well!
One of my ideas to help you through having to eat so healthy (which you are definetly doing!) is that once you achieve good health, you don't have to be so careful about what you eat. I am now in really good health, and while I eat very well, I am not perfect. It seems, though, that my body can handle it, and compensates well enough. Like you I love wine and beer, and margaritas too! I eat cooked foods every day, too. I try to eat whole, fresh, and wholesome, but also I eat organic bread, and cheese, etc. Anyway, what I am trying to say is that you may not always have to be so strict. (That is how it is for me....can't say if it will be like that for you, but I hope so!) Getting yourself healthy will be the means to be able to live a more normal life and let yourself enjoy "bad" foods sometimes.
Another small thought I had is that I soak all my nuts and seeds overnight. They are naturally hard to digest, and when you soak them overnight, it makes them sprout, ever so slightly, and then they are 100 times easier to digest. You might try it. They also improve the taste of walnuts a ton. I found raw, unsoaked walnuts so bitter. They are way better soaked.
Well, I have written a novel too, so I will sign off. Keep in touch!
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- Awesome! by midge
18 y
1,164
Julie, you are doing sooooo awesome!! My hats off to you for sticking with it and going for the GOLD!! I bet you're feeling great, looking awesome, and I bet your hubby is proud of you too!!
I starting another fast today. I bombed after I went off the last one. But, at least I'm back. I won't go into it here, I've got to go to my blog and start writing again!!
have a great day,
Midge
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