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[Pinkmug]

Yeah, people say everything happens for a reason, maybe your Mom is meant to teach something about yourself that you didn't know yet...

But if you go on feeling unusually tired, pay attention if you have any other symptom. Tiredness may be a sign of lots of conditions. Not trying to worry you, probably it's just accumulated stress, though! 

[mpq]

I was just browsing through the posts and noticed many people have "cleansed" one or other parts of the body. The only cleanse I have done is with soap and water, externally. What do you think I should try? :?

[Pinkmug]

My only inner cleanse was a bottle of milk thistle caps, good for the liver, but I hear dendelion is also good, as well as lemon juice in water first thing in the morning for the gallbladder! 

[jelly jessica]

When i started taking a multivitamin a few months ago, i had to stop within two weeks because i got such 'orrible gas/bloating and problems on the toilet. really! my sister wouldn't ride in the car with me, poor little sister..


the kind i took was a gift from my mom's friend, don't know what kind but i remember taking two or three different colored/shaped pills at once.
anyone know why?

[Vronnie]

Hi everyone

I've done some serious cleansing & I reckon that it's the best thing you can do for your overall well being. I spent time at a Hippocrates Health retreat where you do juice fasting & eat raw vegetables supplemented with wheatgrass & a few soaked nuts. Also part of the cleansing experience are 2 x steam baths and enemas or colonics.

Now people might think this is a little extreme but I went there to give up smoking (28yrs) & that was nearly 1 yr ago now...It was so easy...No cravings because all the toxins were swept away daily, from my bowel, from my skin etc....

My skin has never been better, I lost weight, gained energy etc...I felt pretty cruddy before I went there & much much better when I left (2 weeks).

So I followed this raw vegen diet for 12 weeks when I returned home & continued to feel pretty good but not great...I returned to the Hippocrates centre where the naturopath suggested that I might have some food allergies, I had some blood tests & voila!...Allergic to 13 different things....lots of the things I'd been eating on my raw vegan diet like sprouted wheat, wheatgrass, almonds, cahews, pineapple etc...

Now I don't eat raw vegan anymore because I find with the number of allergies present its just a little too restrictive & I like meat. I do , however eat at least 70% raw food on most days (unless there's a little emotional  eating going on...when I gravitate to foods I know I'm allergic to...probably why I am!).

Lots of raving on I know but the point I'm trying to make is that if you cleanse your body of toxins & feed it lots of raw food, elimate anything to which you might be intolerant than you will reap heaps of benefits in terms of your general health.

My weight gain over the last 4 years (from size 10 to bursting out of size 14..Ausssie sizes) has largely been to do with unsuccessful attempts to give up smoking compromised by consoling myself with food to which I've been allergic which has then set up a craving for more of the same poison & the onset of perimenopause.

I'm optimistic that with SLD, the knowledge I've gained about my allergies that I'll not only be a non-smoker but a thin one eventually!!

looks like a chapter...sorry guys

Vronnie

[Vronnie]

 correction...2 steam baths each day and either 2 enemas a day or a daily colonic

Vronnie

[losing-it]

Thanks for sharing your interesting experience at the health retreat, and with cleanses, raw foods, smoking cessation, allergies. That is most enlightening. I've wanted to attend a health retreat for a week or two, in which one is put into the routine and practices, the foods and all without having to figure out how to do it alone. Seeing what you did to quit smoking and feel better, you definitely have the drive and forward-thinking to get to your thin weight, Vronnie.

[Vronnie]

Thanks Losing it.....I turn 47 later on this year & I'm just thinking that I want to be a fabulous 50....got a couple of years up my sleeve....maybe I'll even be a fabulous 48..I'll wait & see.

If you're in the States? & your thinking about a health retreat then check out the Hippocrates Centres since it origninated there. It's based on the philosophy of Anne Wigmore...google her. It's quite inexpensive for that type of experience, no frills (at least here in Oz) & they deliver 5 full days of lectures as well as classes in raw vegan food preparation. Very educational & lifechanging ...Oh & I also forgot to mention the 2 x daily skin brushing before the steams...well worth checking out!

cheers

Vronnie

[losing-it]

Thanks Losing it.....I turn 47 later on this year & I'm just thinking that I want to be a fabulous 50....got a couple of years up my sleeve....maybe I'll even be a fabulous 48..I'll wait & see.

If you're in the States? & your thinking about a health retreat then check out the Hippocrates Centres since it origninated there. It's based on the philosophy of Anne Wigmore...google her. It's quite inexpensive for that type of experience, no frills (at least here in Oz) & they deliver 5 full days of lectures as well as classes in raw vegan food preparation. Very educational & lifechanging ...Oh & I also forgot to mention the 2 x daily skin brushing before the steams...well worth checking out!

cheers

Vronnie

I'll Google the center and Wigmore, thanks. Yes, I'm in the States. I do some skin brushing with a dry brush (I've read it stimulates the lymph system). How well I'm doing it is questionable. I use a nice, natural bristled backbrush, and the brush can be detached from the wand. Feels great, tho.

[Vronnie]

And it makes your skin really soft!

[mpq]

vronnie, what did they tell you to cleanse with at home? I also wonder what I need to take to keep my skin looking younger now that I'm through menopause. That sounds like a wonderful experience.

[Vronnie]

Hi mpq...it's all about eating raw food....vegetables, sprouts, seaweeds,fruit and soaked nuts & fermented food for digestive enzymes. If you drink wheatgrass juice daily or barley greens or failing that make yourself a green smoothie & drink daily (2 cups parsley or spinach blended ups with a banana, a few grapes & a little bit of water...tastes better than you'd expect) If you have access to a steam room or a sauna all you need to do is buy a long handled natural bristle brush & dry brush your skin starting from your extremitites & working towards your heart...jump in the sauna or shower after you've done your daily brushing. If you have access to a place where they do colonic irrigation its not abad idea to do a series of irrigations once or twice a year. You must drink lots & lots of water  each day...at least 2 litres daily...its very hydrating for the skin. You probably know all this. You should google Hippocrates Health Centres & Anne Wigmore for the underlying philosophy.
cheers
Vronnie

[karky]

I bought a natural bristle bath brush at Walmart for $0.97 after reading about it in a different thread.  I like the way it feels to dry brush, kind of like scratching an itch you didn't know you had.

[fitnessfreak]

SUPPLEMENT                           

Vit C - 1,000 pure mgs per day   
Absorption of all supplements taken, antioxidants, health, weight loss

Calcium / Magnesium / Zinc 4,000 mgs per day
Mood balancer, weight loss, better sleep

B-Complex
Mood, increased energy

Vit E
Heart

Olive Leaf Extract
Immune booster, natural antibiotic / virus killer I take it for health. My whole family takes it

Probiotics
For digestion to improve everything and have good flora in my body

Omega 3
Mood balancer, energy, sleep, etc. etc. hormone regulator

[Augustus]

Beer, Bacon, and mangos  :lol: