Day Four: Adventures in Colonics

 Wow, what a difficult day.

 I woke up at 6:30 am feeling great, which is amazing because I spent half the night trying to sleep with little princess on the couch. Her schedule is all thrown off with Grandma here. I will be paying more attention to her bedtimes and naptimes from this point forward. I weighed in 2.6 pounds lighter! For a grand total of . . . -2.6 lbs.  Yeah! The coffee enema last night made me feel so much better. I can't say it enough. There was also a little caffiene rush that helped my mood :)

 Grandma and I left around 7:15 am, teas, powders and water in hand, for the colon hydrotherapy clinic. I was pretty excited and a little nervous. The technician, Kris, was great very friendly and great at explaining the procedure. Basically, about 18 to 20 gallons of body temperature water is continuously run through your colon. It takes about 45 minutes for the procedure, plus time for the explanation, undressing, cleaning up, re-dressing. It was all very private, the "chair" was comfortable, relaxing music in the background and for the most part you are alone in the room. Kris periodically came in to check on me and my progress and the water temp and level. As for the colonic . . . I wouldn't say it was the worst feeling ever, but it was far from pleasant. I felt crampy and nauseous for most of the 45 minutes and about 30 minutes into it I was looking at the clock thinking "Thanks be to God, this is almost over." Afterwards my nausea went away pretty quickly, then I just felt wiped out and cold.

For the rest of the morning I kept up with my supplement schedule and about 2 hours after the colonic I was really, really hungry.  Made some V8 style vegetable juice and Grandma made the italian green bean soup. Word of warning: leave out the cayenne altogether. It totally overpowered the italian seasonings and made the soup and broth inedible. You know Grandma loves spicy and even she could only eat half a bowl of it. And we were both really hungry. What a waste of perfectly good green beans :(  So I made us green smoothies instead (spinach 1 banana 4 oz yogurt vanilla and dash of stevia) yummy. That helped take the edge off. I am planning to make tomato dill soup from the Nourishing Traditions cookbook for dinner, minus the butter, salt and pepper. And minus the cream. Looks like I'll be making the soup again after the detox.  Right now I'm sipping on mint tea with carob powder. Almost like mint hot chocolate, would be great with a little milk  :)

Grandma's back with more veggies from the grocery store and I'm off to make some tomato dill soup, and hope this batch is better than the last!

Peace!

ps I am feeling less hungry after the green smoothie and countless cups of tea. Which reminds me, had to replenish the basket of tea already. AND Stevia is cheaper in the big bag, rather than individual packets. Though the packets are handy for travelling . . . My favorite tea to buy is the Bigelow Herbal Variety Pack. Also, the indian tea mix in bulk at the co-op is pretty tasty! Again, variety is the spice of this detoxer's life.