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Day 8, Detox and fast on Koh Samui: BREAKING THE FAST
Jeez, can't eat till like midday as still have special flora-gro "insertion" put inside me to replenish all the good bacteria. Will NOT miss the smell of coffee I can tell you.
Weight check: 135 lbs! (lost in total, 7lbs, half a stone) (the 4lbs I put on 2 days ago must have been water, but it went the next morning)
12: 30 yuuuuuuummmmmmmyyyy papaya and mango and goat's yoghurt and bee pollen for brek. In a small bowl, but I felt stuffed!
3pm: was a bit naughty as supposed to eat only veg but spotted someone eating delicious raw vietnamese uncooked spring rolls with chilli sauce so ordered them too. Ate them in restuarant on the beach. YUMMY! Stuffed. Was only 7 mouthfuls!
8pm; another raw salad but only ate 3 mouthfuls as felt no need for food at all. (Highly unlike me!!)
UPDATE: Straight after this detox/fast, I was able to cycle across from Northern Thailand to Laos for 11 days - sometimes doing 70 miles in a day! Didn't suffer at all. Was eating normally (but Thai food is healthy generally) - and drinking a beer a night. When I got back to England, I was still the same weight I was on the last day of the fast. I think this 7lbs was the weight of the GUT GUNK that is sitting in all of our intestines.
It's now about 12 weeks later, and I am STILL the same weight - (it goes up and down a little), and I haven't been neuroticly sticking to a raw food diet in the slightest. However, I have invented loads of new salad combinations and find that I get very excited by these. You can see these on my other blog Zizzie's Tahini. (eventually!)
Day 7, Detox and Fast on Koh Samui
It's my last day of the fast and boy am I relieved not to be giving myself any more colemas, even if there is more to come out. I wish I could have put a bit more detail about them in here but you never know who's going to read it! It's definitely a skill I've been proud to learn. My body aches from being weak but I feel excellent generally. I can't wait for papaya and bee pollen breakfast tomorrow. I had such an astounding time looking at the contents of the colander after the last colema. All I can say is, do it yourself.
I feel nervous but better equipped to handle the challenges of normal life in London - maybe I'll enjoy not feeling quite so full after meals in my future healthy state.
Click here for Day 8 - Breaking the Fast!!
Day 5, Detox and fast on Koh Samui
MORNING: Time is going too fast! This morning was Day 5 of the detox and I have lost 7lbs (half a stone)! Amazing! Very happy. Except, it doesn't seem to be fat loss - stomach still seems as flobbly as norma, but never mind, I've done no exercise so that's why. After this I'm cycling from northern Thailand over to Laos for 11 days, so surely that'll shift the flobbles, (except I suppose I'll be eating normal food then!)
EVENING:
WHaaaaatt??? I weighed myself again and I've put on 4 lbs?? Bizarre, since I had 2 good colemas today. How very distressing. Oh well, typical of ME to be the only person on this detox to PUT ON weight!
Watched a film in the evening called the Ph Miracle - some sensible/interesting things to say. Then I watched something else - a guy doing a speech - (INSERT TITLE - what was it??)
Here's a programme to follow - see this post.
and this post for notes from the film Food Matters
Click here for Day 6
It's all about the soil. (Notes from Food Matters)
Watched on Detox in Thailand Jan '10
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Notes from Food Matters..
Reasons for growing yourself / eating only fresh picked food:- If it is 5 days old, how much nutritional value do you think really get from it?
- Soil - if it's deficient, the vegetables are too! Vicious circle of pests and more chemicals to counteract, soil gets more deficient
- Fertilisers like NPK. Soil requires 52 different minerals.
- supermarket / nutrient depleted veg makes us deficient and toxic
- There are live enzymes in raw veg - these are workers - these deplete when you cook! The body can benefit more from RAW food.
- If your diet is more than 51% cooked food, the body will react as if foreign bodies are entering. Make 51% of your meals RAW!
- If you have a bad day of eating you need to have supplements.
- Vitamins are REALLY important.
- The higher the dose the better.
- You cannot heal selectively. You nourish the body, and then the body fixes it. Vitamins don't fix it, they enable the body to fix it. So activate your body's healing system.
- Not one cell in the body is made of a drug.
- Cutting into the body does not make it better!
- We are all eating too much of the wrong thing, and not enough of the right thing.
- All diseases are reversible - people have been known to arrest cardio-vascular disease without surgery!- stick with the high fibre veggie diet, reduce stress, increase vitamins.
- Drink WATER
- The Japanese have the lowest cancer rates. Seafood, omega 3, green tea.
- nutritional therapy.
THE SOLUTIONS ALREADY EXIST WITHIN NATURE
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

