WOW...12 cans a day?! What sort of pop are you drinking? This may be a significant contributing factor to your digestive problems...and also weight issues.

Glad to hear that things are starting to move a bit better for you. Feel free to take more enemas a week to get things moving faster.

You can do the ParaGone cleanse while doing the colon cleanse...just make sure to take the herbs at least an hour before or after the shakes.

Hi there Sprite!

Oh yes...you must cut out all those carbonated pops!! (they are carbonated, the ones you drink, right?)

Here is what Edgar Cayce says about carbonated drinks: He also stated that carbonated drinks were to be almost always avoided, not just because of the Sugar or artificial sweetener in them, but because they interfered with the interaction between the liver and the kidney.

At 12 pops a day...your liver and kidneys musn't be very happy Sprite!! Remember, that in Traditional Chinese Medicine, they say that the Liver is the 'general' of the body...the most important organ. If the liver isn't healthy, then the body won't be healthy.

Taken from this site below:
http://www.edgarcaycebooks.com/HealthandHealing.htm

If I were you, I'd go on the Edgar Cayce apple fast...you can read about it (and many more health/diet tips) on the Edgar Cayce Forum.

Then, of course, you're going to have to start flushing out your liver! Have you done that yet? With all those carbonated drinks I'm sure your liver needs some flushes...

Glad to hear your bm's are happening more often! That is awesome!!! Quite a switch! Good for you...you are taking all the right steps to get healthy and happy...

Tracey

Wow! that's a lot of pop! The Sugar or if it's diet, the artificial sweeteners could be causing problems.
When i quit drinking pop, I substituted it with sparkling mineral water with a little twist of lemon in it. Then, I slowly reduced the amount and replaced with plain lemon water (without carbonation).
If you're drinking pop with caffeine, you might have to gradually cut down because you'll probably have some wicked withdrawal headaches.

Sprite, glad to hear you are doing ok. I totally understand the soda thing as well. I too, am used to consuming 12 sodas a day. And my thing has been Pepsi. I had to have them! You know that if you have to have a soda BEFORE you eat breakfast, you have a problem. I would drink a soda before 7 in the morning! I've tried numerous times to get off of them. I have been in the hospital behind them, with a tore up bladder-no water just Pepsi. It took me to realize that I really didn't WANT to stop drinking the soda! I decided to start a cleanse and after trying plenty of times, I haven't drank a soda in about a month and a half. I can't say that I am completely over them. But I can say that I had to admit to MYSELF that I didn't want to stop drinking the soda. I try to do 4 P&B shakes a day and realize that if I cleanse all of the mess out of my system, them my system doesn't know that it wants the mess. So I guess it is working. Good luck.


spelmangrad

P.S. I drink about a gallon and a half of water daily and don't have a desire for the soda or anything other drink....

When I read your message about the 12 cans of pop a day I actually put my arms around my waste and hugged my digestive system so the organs wouldn't all be scared while I was reading it....seriously.

Not to mention what that amount of Sugar is doing to your organs, your brain will also end up suffering dramatically later in life right and your teeth will be very affected too.

I drank a lot of Mountain Dew in college until my body actually starting rejecting it. If your body is not rejecting it that maybe you have a tougher system BUT you have to stop and I don't care if you have a friend take you away for a weekend into the wilderness far away from it (take pain killers), just do it. I actually can't even drink colas anymore at all because they actually taste too sweet and that's coming from someone who has a sweet tooth! AND you will automatically shed pounds. Depending on what you are drinking there are other things besides the sugar, the carbonation can cause extreme bone loss, and the caffeine (!) don't even get me started. Anyway, I switched to fruit juice to quit soda pop. At the time I didn't know that fruit juices were also loaded with Sugar but I did it in stages. If you like the bubbles you can "cut" fruit juice with sparkling water and then eventually taper off to just the sparkling water and then to water. But in your case, which I think is drastic, you may want to go cold turkey just to get it overwith.

Whatever you decide, good luck good luck good luck. I mean it.

Hi Sprite,

I don't know if you're still checking this post but I had to respond. I used to drink a ton of soda myself. Last January I stared replacing my soda drinking with sweet tea. Not the best alternative but I figured it was still better than soda. In June I was drinking only a soda a week. Then I went to a birthday party and had 4 sodas in one day. Afterwards, I felt horrible. But this feeling was quite familiar. It was how I always felt when I drank soda. I did not feel sick when I drank soda nor did I think that I was feeling any different after stopping. It wasn't until I experienced this immediate comparision that I realized how much better I was feeling. Now I'm replacing my tea drinking with water. I think tea to water is easier than soda to water. I think you need to get over the carbination before the sweetness. At least that's my opinion. Anyway, I hope you read this.