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Day 2, Fast and detox Koh Samui
Oh dear. Had to get up with tummy troubles 4 times in the night... there certainly won't be anything to come out of me now. Also got woken up by the wierdest sounding animal I have EVER heard! I had to record it on my iphone. Turned out to be a 1 foot long gecko-y type thing.
Got up at 6.45am, went to the detox bar to collect my bucket and pills and have my first detox drink of the day. Geez, there are so many thin brown healthy-looking Ozzy girls here. And giant fat old men with walking sticks. Jolly strange. Pity it's pouring with rain since I arrived - absolutely typical of my luck, destined to be white..
It's becoming clear that I am going to be very busy with this routine!
7am detox drink - psyllium husks and bentonite clay to absorb toxins from gut and provide bulk for the Gunk to adhere to, with a nice pineapple flavour. Drink quickly, or you cant drink it at all. Pick up my designated bucket with coffee solution in it. Go back to room and start "rigging up" the bathroom!
7.30 to about 8.30 (except it took much longer!) give myself a colema - more here.
8.30 pills - herbs to loosen the Gut Gunk
Optional yoga / chi gung
10am detox drink number 2. Take bucket from room back to colema bar.
11.30 - 6 more pills and liver flush drink or a carrot juice or a coconut water or a veg broth
1pm - another detox drink number 3
2.30pm - 6 more pills
4pm another detox drink
5.30 6 more pills and liver flush drink or a carrot juice or a coconut water or a veg broth. Collect Bucket and prepare bathroom for evening colema...
7pm last detox drink . Take bucket back to detox bar.
8.30 pm 6 more pills
9pm 1 white pill for good bacteria
And this routine is basically repeated every single day. You can get takeaway detox drinks if you want to go off an do stuff.. but everything takes a lot of energy!
First colema I did was wierd, ok, not very satisfying, but interesting. Second one - Oh. My. God. This is the first time I really believed. Just wierd as hell that this stuff was coming out of me. It wasn't poo. I resolved to keep photographic records logged and catalogued with date and time...
To see what happens when you give yourself a colema, click here.
Click here for Day 3
Day 1, Fast and Detox at Koh Samui
This is a much shortened amended version of an account of the fast I'm doing in Koh Samui Thailand. If you are only reading one post, read here.
Day 1
Arrived 9am from Bangkok. Feeling coldy, ill and run down, cross that the receptionist wasn't particularly friendly and that the taxi driver charged 4 times more than usual. Had a chocolate muffin and my last cup of tea - with condensed milk, since they have no normal milk here - on the plane, so feeling a little guilty.
Was advised to start with a liver flush drink, consisting of lots of olive oil and ginger and cayenne pepper - recipe here>
The Liver Flush recipe:
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil – anywhere from 2 Tbsp. to 1/3 cup, as you prefer
- Freshly squeezed lemon or lime juice, 1/3 cup
- Fresh garlic, 3-5 cloves
- Fresh ginger, 1/2″
- Cayenne Pepper, dash to taste
- Freshly squeezed orange juice, 2 cups
Transition in Kensal Rise
Back in October '07 at the Be the Change symposium in London, (www.bethechange.org.uk), I met Rob Hopkins who started Transition Town movement in Kinsale, Ireland first of all, then Totnes in Devon. I wondered how it could be done in London and took a long time feeling defeatest about it, but realised when I heard Duncan Law in Brixton was initiating it there of all places, I realised it could be done. Once I'd got settled in my new abode in Kensal Rise, London, I slowly set about trying to find anyone else in the area to set it up with. It wasn't until May 2009 that I met a group of others who were thinking the same thing, and we've now properly set it up! We've got no end of ideas but since our initiating group is only 4 in number, we're concentrating on getting funding and raising awareness to get others on board.
People need to have a certain amount of self-starterishness about them - too often people wait to be told what to do and how to do it. We've all got jobs, and families, hobbies and commitments, so everything must be done in our spare time. But it's worth it because we bring the community together on a small, grass-roots scale. So far, in 6 or 7 months, we've networked madly, built a website, got at least 130 people to join, held several stalls, had 3 or 4 film nights with discussions and speakers, so we're really pleased with ourselves. However, as usual, i am swamped with ideas and bogged down with admin. (See my other posts on OVERWHELM!) BUT, anyway, it's taken on it's own momentum and it's all about delegating and empowering others.
For more on what transition towns are all about, see www.transitiontowns.org or google it, and see my other posts.
For OUR LOCAL WEBSITE, see www.ttkensaltokilburn.ning.com:
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