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Cleansing and such

About 5 weeks ago I got an awful stomach bug.  Add that to being pretty lax with my diet and I had been thinking about doing a cleanse.  Then I visit NM and halfway through my visit, everything starts to make me sick.  I’ve actually had my share fair of stomach troubles from ulcers and stomach bugs carried back from studying in Mexico.  A lot of it solved itself by cleaning up my diet.  But my diet hasn’t been the greatest lately.  In scope of the rest of America, its great but I try to compare myself only to the standard I set for myself.  And in that scope it was awful. 

So I decided to do a cleanse. I actually did a colonic first to jump start everything.  It was a first and an interesting first at that.  I would actually recommend it to anyone but it’s an experience.  I would not recommend training after wards where we worked body shots.  Admittedly I know very little about cleansing.  I asked a friend about it and he had several 2-3 week programs he wanted me to do.  I wasn’t in for that.  I was looking for something quick and simple, to make me feel better.  I wasn’t trying to detoxify my body of every chemical and metal it may have absorbed.  So after a fairly rudimentary Google search, I decided on the Dr Oz weekend cleanse.  It fit my time frame and my goal of restoring the stomach to normal. 

Day 1 wasn’t so bad.  It was kind of fun, blending all the stuff, chopping the veggies for my soup.  But by about 4pm on Day 2 I gave up.  I felt weak and thirsty, despite drinking several quarts of water that morning.  I actually sat on the couch from about 10 am until almost 4 when I gave in and had no desire to leave.  I met some friends for dinner and afterwards, felt super energized. And then when I got home I crashed, probably from my body being so happy to be fed again it just wanted to nap!

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