Tim & Julia - Day 3 : We're Going... We're Going... We're done.

Okay okay... so Dot spilled our beans. :)
On Thursday, after work/school, Tim and I finished up. We were actually still gonna keep going, but Tim wasn't feeling too well (and so he couldn't concentrate at school). Plus, when Tim got home from school, he noticed that our Lemonade (which we forgot to refridgerate) had started fermenting. Uck! In fact... we might have been drinking fermented lemonade for a little bit.

So the whole time up until we stopped, I kept thinking of all the great food I could eat. Potato Salad... Big Macs... Burritos... Pizza... French Fries... Salad. Well, to finish our diet, we ate some vegetable soup that Tim's parents made. It was good...but not as good as I had expected. Then we went and got me a small taco from Taco Time, and then over to Beto's to get Tim a breakfast burrito. It wasn't as good as I remembered. After that... I really didn't crave much. I felt kinda sad that we couldn't go longer. Now, I feel like I'm pretty picky about my food. I don't snack too much at work anymore... I feel like eating less meat, and more fruit. Hmmm... interesting. Anyway. Tim would like to do it again sometime... As long as the lemonade is refridgerated, I think I could do it. It's definately easier to do it TOGETHER. :)

yummy OJ!!

So, my first day "off" the cleanse...I still have a sore throat, but it's tolerable. I drank a YUMMY glass of OJ this morning, then for lunch the same...plus a few wheat crackers and 2 fish sticks...my stomache was feeling ok...found some hidden swedish fish, yum!...made some oatmeal cookies with the girls--had 2 of those...mmmm...for dinner I made Chicken Noodle soup...again, yummy...off to a birthday celebration where I downed a chocolate cupcake...then I snacked on carrots and ranch for the rest of the night...oh, and here and there a tall glass of water!!! I thought I was doing great, my stomache was fine and etc...until 10:30pm...oops!

Today...my sore throat is gone, but I still sound croakie...I'm taking it a bit easier...OJ and toast, salad for lunch--with lots of goodies (peas, mandarine oranges, a bit of chicken, carrots) --and I just had a few grahams...we'll see what my stomache does tonight...

My First Day!!

So...today is my first day...I don't think it's too bad...I was able to drink down 1/2 quart of salt water really quick. It wasn't too bad...didn't really have to poo till about 2 hours after I got to work...that's about it.

Right now the only hard thing is thinking about food....I'm not sure how long i'll last..but we'll see.

pulp or no pulp???

Well, I've decided that-although juicing with my vitamix was a lot easier than by hand and VERY convienient to juice several lemons at once-I really don't like ALL of the pulp in there. So, today I've gone back to juicing by hand thus, a little bit of pulp with more juice--much better!!

Woke up with a bit of a headache, not too bad...exercised...blah blah blah...

Am still peeing a bunch, that's all...maybe I need to be a bit more diligent like Julia and get better? results...my tongue doesn't seem to be as white, nor is my mouth "fuzzy"...but I still have my sore throat...trying to decide if I'm closer to being detoxed or not...and...I don't have so many cravings to snack. Don't know if it's more "habit breaking" or detoxing...o-well...

Still hate how my teeth feel...

UPDATE
so, julia called me and said they were done...so, about 10 min ago, I decided I was done too...7:50pm...I ate some green beans from last night...YUMMMMMMM!!! and now I'm munching on a piece of whole wheat toast...MMMMMMMM!!!!!

what made me decide to stop...well, my tongue was still pink and my hunger pangs were killing me! I'd go from, "oh, I'm a bit hungry" to "I'm starving and I'm going to die from it" in less than 5 minutes, then it would take 1/2 hour to recover after drinking the lemonade (meaning I'd have a major tummy ache). This was the last 5 hours...so, I'M DONE!!

Tim & Julia - Day 3: Easier and Harder at the Same Time

1. I woke up at 6:00a this morning with the cramping/gassy stomach. Sat on the toilet for about 45 minutes. It hurt. My first poo's were gooey! Oozing out! They almost looked black... then I turned on the bathroom light and saw that it was a dark dark brown. Finished up, and crawled back into bed.
2. Tim and I were both exhausted, and slept till about 8am. We made our drinks: Tim had a quart of salt water, and I made 1/2 quart salt water. Weird Thing--It wasn't too salty for me today! Good thing? Bad thing?? I really had no problem drinking it. I'm sure I put in the correct amount of salt.
3. Tim had some good bowel movements this morning. I tried looking in while he went to see how his stool was, but he wouldn't let me and flushed while still sitting there.
4. Today we're actually feeling a little... ugh. Yesterday, we were just saying how GREAT we felt. Not tired, not sluggish... just normal. And so I think we slacked off on drinking or lemonade. (Plus, we ran out of Cayanne pepper, and so he used some of my Cayanne capsules and put it in his drink. I think it was too strong, and so he only drank about 1/3 c of his drink). Today, we were both feeling a little weak. So we'll see if drinking ALL of our drink today helps.
5. FYI: Pooping now is kinda like blowing your nose--you gotta push and push until it suddenly blows out. :)
6. We're thinking of going the full 10 days. But like Dot... we'll take it one day at a time. Do you think we should do a real fast on Sunday? Healthy or no? Or should we keep with the diet?
7. BTW: I think my normally-high Blood Pressure is dropping to a more normal level. We're using Tim's parents blood pressure monitor to measure.

1:30pm

1. Tim called earlier. He says he's not feeling well, and once he finishes his homework will go home to sleep. He feels fatigued, and can't think.
2. I've had to pee all morning. Just a few minutes, I ran to the potty for a poo. It oozed. It sat like a hershey's kiss at the bottom of the bowl until it spreaad into an algae looking puddle. My stomach hurts a little... I think I need to go again. Ugh.

Day 2 & 3...

well, yesterday was...ICK!! I started with a slight headache monday evening...and it didn't go away when I woke up this morning...in fact it got progressively worse...but I didn't give up...kept the lemonade chugging...but I was definitely irritable and major temple pounding...Michael looked it up (and so did I this morning) irritability and headaches can be a result of the toxins being "stirred up."

Summary of day 2: I was a grump...no one was happy in our home...did some pooping & lots of peeing...I went to bed early

Today...day 3: Much better, Headache gone...decided to use my vitamix to "juice" up my lemons...took 5 lemons, cut off the yellow part of the skin (thus leaving some pulp) and then threw them into the vitamix with a bit of water and blended away...much easier than juicing one at a time...earlier in the pm, my throat started hurting...now the entire top of my throat is scratchy and my tongue and mouth feel "fuzzy"...another sign of detoxing....i pooped 3 times today and still pee-ed a ton!!

Like Julia...I still want to SNACK...not because I'm hungry...just want a little bite of something here and there...how long will I continue??? I'm taking one day at a time...so we'll see...

oh, and forgot to mention that I was liking the drink cold, until about mid-afternoon yesterday, and now I prefer it warm/hot.

Tim & Julia - Day 2 : We Survived!

So last night, we both drank our tea. Tim ended up getting a major headache (perhaps migraine?) and had to take some medicine. It hurt so bad, we just went to bed so he could sleep.

This morning, I woke up at 5:00a with major stomach pains. Well... not "MAJOR", just stomach cramping/hurting. Dorth had just told me yesterday how it had happened to her. So I got up and sat on the pot. Was there for about 30mins. Had to massage my stomach to help get things moving. Got a good orange-brown bowel movement. It seemed to float on top of the water like a lily-pad.

When I finished up, I decided to drink my half-quart of salt water. This time, I decided to try it with less salt. I was able to drink it w/o any problems. Went back to bed until 7:30a. Snooze. 7:40a. Snooze. 7:50a I got up. Got ready. Woke up Tim. I noticed he was about to try and fart.

"Don't fart!" I said quickly.
He jumps up. "Oh yeah! Good call!" he exclaims as he rushes to the bathroom. A few minutes later, he says good thing I told him to stop, or he would have exploded in bed. :) haha! He actually had to go a couple of times this morning before we left (which is good, since he said he only had 1 explosion at school yesterday).

We actually both woke up feeling pretty good. Work was a still a little hard since I see all the snacks around. I think I may have gone to the bathroom more today than yesterday. Today my poo's were a little more "oozy".

Didn't have the major food cravings that I had yesterday. Occasionally, I think, "Oh how good it would be to eat some sushi, or a burger, or even a piece of chocolate." And that's the hardest part. It's not that you're feeling HUNGRY... it's just that you want to EAT SOMETHING! A snack! ANYTHING! I'm thinking of freezing some of the lemonade mix to eat as a popsicle.

Oh yeah... today I tried using Cayanne capsals instead of adding it to the lemonade. The 'nade tasted LOTS better... but the Cayanne burns even MORE in the stomach! It made it hard because it feels like I just took some herbal medicine, and usually when I do that I eat something to ease the burn. Wheat Thins! Chips! :(

I ended up only taking one Cayanne capsal.

At around 2p, Tim called me. He said he had just gotten out of class. How HORRIBLE it was because during class, a kid came in, sat down next to him, pulled out his Wendy's hamburger, drink, fries, AND chicken nuggets. :( Poor Tim!! He said it smelled SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!
He's still on campus doing lab work, so I'll have to see how he did today.

In the future, do I think I'd do this again? Only if I feel INCREDIBLE TIMES 1000 at the end of this cleanse! Otherwise, I don't know if it's worth it... (though it really wasn't too bad today!)