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| pholiday | Posted – 5/7/2008 1:32:58 PM | show profile I am on day two of a seven day rapid colon cleanse. So far it has been nothing like I expected. I thought I would be on the can at least three times a day, reenacting the Colon Blow scene from Dumb and Dumber. Thus far I have ingested fiber in water twice per day and sets of herbal pills in the morning and evening. I am still waiting and hoping to see all that nastiness come out of my body. I am hopeful that I will see one of the famous colon parasites before my seven days are up. All I have had is some normal and lackluster deuces in the morning. Maybe a coffee cleanse in the form of an enema is a better way to go .... |
| HisGirlFriday | Posted – 5/7/2008 1:53:50 PM | show profile Now THIS is what OT should be about .... |
| wineaux | Posted – 5/7/2008 2:16:31 PM | show profile Live on OT, in colonic splendor...................... |
| Astera | Posted – 5/7/2008 2:37:05 PM | show profile Do you just want to get everything out of your colon? If so, you can try the treatment that doctors order for patients about to undergo a colonoscopy. I've had two colonoscopies, and the regime isn't pleasant, but it's thorough. The doctors want everything out of the colon so that the camera has a clear view. [WARNING: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. THIS PROGRAM CAN INCLUDE RISKS. I MAY NOT HAVE REMEMBERED ALL OF THE STEPS. TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK!] I don't remember the exact program, but you start with a day of eating nothing but clear liquids. Chicken broth, filtered apple juice, Jello (not red) and Gatorade (not red). Although if you're not actually having a colonoscopy, you could have red. Colonoscopy patients have to avoid it because the red food coloring can look like blood in the colon. After you've had nothing but liquids, you take this gross stuff you can find in the drugstore with the suppositories and products for constipation. It's a really concentrated saline solution, and the instructions say to use 1 Tbsp. of it, but when you have a colonoscopy, you mix the whole bottle with 8 oz. clear liquids and drink it down. You should start to see results in about a half hour. You will have very bad stomach cramps and liquid will come shooting out of you. After four or six hours, you do the same thing with another bottle of the saline solution. There you go. You will have a clean colon. I laugh at these attempts to "cleanse the colon," because I don't think there's any real benefit and you can actually hurt yourself by throwing off you electrolyte balance and so on. Also, when you've had to cleanse your colon for a colonoscopy like I have, you realize how unpleasant it really is. Why do people want to put themselves through such agony? ------ www.adventuresofastera.blogspot.com |
| Janetblueyes | Posted – 5/7/2008 3:59:35 PM | show profile Good God I love this topic. Wish I had something insightful to add, but I can't wait to hear of your results pholiday. Long live OT!!!! |
| ferdinand | Posted – 5/7/2008 4:10:44 PM | show profile You can get your poop on with a week long course of the Master Cleanse, which I've done a couple times. Basically, in addition to the maple syrup-lemon juice-cayenne mixture, you're also supposed to have lots of laxative tea, and... here's the clincher (or should i say, unclincher), a big jug of warm salt water in the morning. combined with all the rest of the liquid activity, the salt water functions as something of a tsunami, if you get my, uh, drift. try to do this at least an hour before you have to leave your house for the day. |
| hawkmail | Posted – 5/7/2008 4:32:17 PM | show profile master cleanse Ferdinand - I've been contemplating doing this for a while now to jump start a weight loss/healthy eating plan. May I ask how much weight you lost? I only have about ten pounds that I want to lose and keep off but I can't seem to get started and stay motivated, so I thought this might be a good way. Any advice? Also, I detest maple syrup and wonder if it will work the same if I just do the lemon juice and cayenne? Thanks. |
| Nikongirl | Posted – 5/7/2008 4:43:46 PM | show profile One of my fav topics!!! I just last week had a flexible sigmoidoscopy...it is like the half version of the colonoscopy, the lower half. Here is an easy peasy sure fire way to clean that sicker out - no pun... Drink two small bottles of Citromag. for me, Ilike to add ice and vodka - kidding about hte vodka... drink one bottle around 2 p.m. after 14 hours of clear liquids. Drink another bottle of Citromag around 4 p.m. Your entire colon will be completely and utterly cleansed. Citromag does not produce cramps and while it IS a small bottle about the size of a can of coke, it is still hard to drink but the better bet of all your choices. One bottle clears out the lower colin, two bottles clears out everthing. Then get back to snuff with lighter fare for food. Keep it light for a few days and you will glow, head to toe, front to back, top to bottom. Good luck. FYI p.s. I apologise to anyone who was offended by my recent troll post. It had been bubbling under for a couple of weeks, I thought surely I cannot be the only one. I could not hold it in another minute. It had to be said. |
| Rulebook2 | Posted – 5/7/2008 4:47:21 PM | show profile I did the 10 day and was dissapointed in the lack of physical evidence. I never saw a thing, actually. I've heard that if you maintain a relatively healthy diet, then you get nuthin' satisfying in the bowl. It's only if you eat red meat and Twinkies twice a day that you accumulate any gunk to blast out, so to speak. |
| Janetblueyes | Posted – 5/7/2008 4:49:01 PM | show profile I'm doing the Isagenix body clense, which is a shake/clense/healthy eating plan. This is my second month, and I've lost 17 pounds so far. I have to say that it really works and I'm not hungry in the slightest. |
| wineaux | Posted – 5/7/2008 4:55:16 PM | show profile I did a two week cleanse, but didn't see a big difference. Maybe you're right, Rulebook. I eat pretty healthy the majority of the time. The husband insists I just need to exercise more and leave my diet alone, save for the carbs I can't seem to live without. I have lowered the carbs, (no rice, high fiber-based breads, a little potatoes and occasional pasta) but can't eliminate them entirely without turning into a demon More cardio, I imagine. |
| foto | Posted – 5/7/2008 5:01:12 PM | show profile Janet, I'm coming over tonight for my weekly. Have your garden hose ready! |
| Janetblueyes | Posted – 5/7/2008 5:13:27 PM | show profile Foto- It, and I, am ready and waiting. Gonna be a fun night! |
| ferdinand | Posted – 5/7/2008 5:14:12 PM | show profile master cleanse hey hawkmail- i didn't really lose any weight on the MC; maybe a couple pounds at the most. as for the maple syrup, there's no way you can skip it because it's your only source of calories. lemon juice alone - not so filling. in fact, if you're doing it by the book, your calorie intake doesn't really drop much (which is why you don't really lose weight) - you're just getting it through maple syrup rather than your usual solids. personally i don't think it's a great way to jump start a weight loss program because it's so extreme. i guess it could work in the sense of working up some hard-core aestheticism, but that can backfire. the hardest thing about it for me was coming off it, because you're ravenous for the texture of real food. for me it's really just an experiment in a totally different way of fueling yourself. i could just feel, really suddenly, when i'd "run out of gas" and needed to top up. And it is really interesting to just have ONE kind of input. I think we get used to stimulating ourselves with coffee, chocolate, protein, and all those factors sort of blend together, so you don't know which one you're feeling the effects of. So having a week with just this for food really accentuated the sense of my body as a machine and made me think differently about what i put into my body and the effects it has on me. ohh and a week of liquids only, plus all that pooping, and your skin feels like butter. swear to god, i could not stop stroking myself. |
| JackieRo | Posted – 5/7/2008 5:21:42 PM | show profile Not to change the topic, but has anyone tried those ridiculous Kinoki detox foot pads? My mom is swearing by them because she said it made her "smell less" without changing her diet (I checked with the fam...she hasn't changed her diet). She consumes a large amount of garlic and curry and I do have to admit that she isn't smelling as...um...strong as she once had. |
| wineaux | Posted – 5/7/2008 5:51:40 PM | show profile I saw the ads for those, Ro, and wondered if they work. |
| worldofnatasha | Posted – 5/7/2008 6:36:35 PM | show profile my ex-boyfriend used to have a "col-ema board" -- which was a little contraption that let him give himself at-home high-colonics. he bought it at Whole Foods back in the days before WF became a corpoate giant & was just a little health food shop in Houston. I tried to avoid the whole scenario, but I know he swore by it (and was, admittedly very thin.) maybe you could find one on ebay? |
| foto | Posted – 5/7/2008 10:12:32 PM | show profile Thanks Janet. Feeling a bit sore but I'm sure it'll be better tomorrow. Ummm, Sorry about the mess in the bathroom. Maybe we should try it out in the backyard next time. |
| pholiday | Posted – 5/11/2008 12:20:52 PM | show profile The Cleanse ... Day 7 Reflections from a seven day rapid cleanse It was successful. On day three a tar-like substance spewed from me and I was pretty sure that's what I had been waiting for. Otherwise, apart from extremely loose stools the first few days, I had really nice flowing ones after the tar. Overall, I am glad I did one--mostly because I was insatiably curious. I wanted to cleanse out the 27 years of built up gook. Now that I have done that once, I don't believe I will do it again. On day seven I am sick and my immune system is down (something that very rarely happens to me.) After all, it cleans out all of the good vitamins in the body, too. But it was all worth it to see the pooh-tar so stuck to toilet bowl that I nearly had to chisel it off. Creepy to think it used to line my colon, grabbing bits of my nutrients and trapping food as it grew. |
| Printingman | Posted – 5/11/2008 2:48:43 PM | show profile | email poster phoholiday......nice subject. You must be the one wearing the lampshade at parties. Hey........ keep us posted would ya?? |
| astrahook | Posted – 5/11/2008 4:11:30 PM | show profile much of what i've read on the subject puts the medical community at odds with colon therapy. Most will say that not only does it not work, but can cause damage to healthy bacteria that lives in those deep dark places. The point Ive heard over and over again is that the same reason why food doesn't get stuck in your mouth is the same reason that there is really nothing stuck inside your intestines. The colonics md's do prior to exams is totally different and used to flush out whatever is immeadietly in there. |
| veraworld | Posted – 5/11/2008 5:09:22 PM | show profile EEEWWWW What a nasty topic!!! |
| hawkmail | Posted – 5/11/2008 5:21:45 PM | show profile Thanks for the info, Ferdinand. I think I'll try a three day juice fast and see how that goes. Yeah, right after I finish this giant piece of Entenmann's raspberry danish. |
| Katie | Posted – 5/13/2008 11:43:37 AM | show profile Colonics FYI...interesting article in today's Dallas Morning News Healthy Living section by Judy Foreman. |
| foto | Posted – 5/13/2008 8:47:25 PM | show profile Janet, I think pholiday is definitely one of us. We should teach her the colonic handshake. |
