Saturday, December 30, 2006

DAY ONE -- the beginning

For anyone just tuning in, I'm starting a two or three month parasite/colon cleanse today.

First thing this morning I ook 2 "paranil" (anti-parasite) capsules this morning. Felt a little queasy but didn't know if it was in my head or real queasiness. Fifteen minutes later I did 1/2 scoop of fiber in 4 oz of v-8 followed by 8 oz of water. You start out gradually. On day five I'll up it to 4 parnils and a whole scoop of fiber. Tonight I take 2 probiotic capsules and then right before bed drink "kleritea".

About a half hour after taking the fiber I had to go (it's very filling) and went a LOT. I'm usually "regular" in the morning but this was more volume than normal. I examined it to see if anything was crawling around or for evidence of something that could have crawled. LOL. Yeah, kind of early for that. But what I did see was odd. When I wiped I looked really closely and distinctly saw two flecks of something silvery/shiny, like pieces of aluminum foil. EW. Now I know I have not eating anything like that that I can ever remember. Nor have I applied it externally anywhere on my body (especially there). So how did that come out????

Then I went again, about a normal sized amount for my morning "business". That, combined with the first round is a whole lotta crap!

Now I've just eaten breakfast. A large yummy granny smith apple with raw almond butter. For lunch I'll have a big salad with hummos. Tonight I'm making a pot of dahl while the family has steaks on the bbq.

And, it's middle child's 10th birthday!!! (10 years???) So I will have a sliver of chocolate cake with peach ice cream. But since I'm still on my period, I figure the chocolate is medicinal. ;-)

Feeling a little rumbling in the gut right now. Might be time for another trip to the toody-wah. I'll update each day's post with any newness rather than making a new post.

UPDATE: Those rumblings led to another trip to the bathroom. this time softer, almost runny but not huge in volume. That's been it so far today. I did have a slight urge before dinner but nothing came of it.

For lunch I cheated and had the last piece of lefter over vegetable pizza, and some carrots and hummos with artichoke hearts and kalamata olives chopped up in it. YUM. I forgot I'm supposed to be cutting out vinegar. I have to make lemon vinagrette for my salads w/flax seed oil.

This evening I felt really really REALLY tired. That's common the first week or two, apparently as the parasites die off. I took a nap while my WONDERFUL partner marinated and then cooked steaks on the grill and baked potatoes for Child #2's birthday feast. Instead of that I had a sweet potato and a mess of asparagus made w/olive oil. I also made a cup of chai tea so I wouldn't fall asleep during the birthday celebration.

The cake and ice cream were DELICIOUS. The gifts were well appreciated. I love watching kids open up presents!

I have a little headache, again, common, but I'm not sure if it's from the cleanse or just a continuation of the headaches I've been having off andon all week.

Anyway, here's a pic of the product I'm using. Currently I'm doing Colonix (on the right), and after two or three months I will switch to Toxinout (on the left) for one more month.

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