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DIARY of my first week of the 11 day Colorado cleanse designed by Dr. John Douillard. I worked and lived my regular life.
Below are the details, day by day for those interested.
Wednesday, 4/6 Day 1 of Cleanse, Pre-cleanse
Hour of Power – Followed DVD: yoga, breathing and meditation
Shower and oil
Short walk.
Reading in CO Cleanse book
DIET – water, and ayurvedic herbs before and after every meal.
Breakfast – ½ avocado on rice cake. Whole grapefruit, apple juice, apple
Pumpkin and sunflower seeds
Lunch – sliced beet w lemon – good. Made smoothie w green beans, celery, zucchini and parsley – added cumin, extra garlic, ginger and it was a pretty good soup.
Dinner – cooked the bean patties. Great ingredients: black beans, celery, Portobello mushrooms, red onion, garlic, ground flax, rolled oats (for body), season to taste. Kind of like the beans in a Mexican dish. OK. Tasty, not delicious. Texture a little loose, and can’t have oil so the patties stuck to the pan.
Short nap. Felt tired, maybe beginning to release toxins?
LISTENED TO DOUILLARD’S CALL # 2
Thursday, 4/7 Day 2 of Cleanse. Pre-cleanse
Hour of Power – yoga, breathing and meditation; shower and oil
Breakfast: whole grapefruit, rice cake w avocado, apple, warm apple juice
Lunch: bean patties w tamari sauce, green smoothie w green beans, zucchini, celery, and avocado instead of parsley (delicious & smooth). Apple
Short walk
Nap and white tea
Dinner: beets and apple. A little salad. Seeds. Tea – Egyptian licorice
Friday, 4/8 Day 3 of CO Cleanse. Pre-cleanse
Hour of Power – yoga, breathing and meditation; shower and oil
Breakfast: ½ grapefruit, apple, berry smoothie w apple juice, seeds, warm applejuice
Lunch: at the Stand – organic - green smoothie w avocado, tuna melt (w.o bread)
Collard wrapped almond pate, ginger tea
Nap, Walked
Dinner: cauliflour kale soup, apples and beets, bean dish w tomato sauce
Saturday, 4/9 Day 4 of CO Cleanse. Pre-cleanse
Breakfast: ½ grapefruit, apples and seeds – pumpkin and sunflower. 2 rice cakes w a little strawberry jam.
COOKED a huge pot of Curried MUNG BEANS and BASMATI RICE for Sunday, the beginning of the Main Cleanse.
Sunday, 4/10 Day 5 of the CO cleanse – MAIN CLEANSE begins
The day starts with melting 2 tsp of clarified butter or ghee and mixing with soy milk. It was not bad, but I love the affects: The ghee starts to chelate the toxins in the fat as the body starts to burn it off and the body moves into fat burning mode. I love this part! I need to release toxins (heavy metals along with the garden variety of everyday poisons), as well as what is called “emotional molecules “ stored in the fatty tissues. So we have Self Inquiry Exercises to do as well. On this day, the question is, “What Expands You?” I wrote down all the things I love and brings me joy, and reflect on if I am doing them, and what might be keeping me from doing them more. Next was to write 3 qualities I love about my loved on, and to express appreciation to him.
The diet on the Main Cleanse - mostly khichadi – mung beans and basmati rice w curried spices – turmeric, cumin, mustard seed – 3 TIMES A DAY! This mono-diet of babyfood like consistency is easy for the body to digest. It tastes really good actually. Ideally it’s best to have alone, but Dr. Douiillard said we could add in some seasonal cooked fruit, and some vegetables soups or steamed vegetables, or different kinds of spices. So I did that. I warmed strawberries and pears and had before the khichadi with added cinnamon and rice milk to make it more like a breakfast cereal.
At lunch I was at my sister’s house so I brought my khichadi and heated it up and ate a few leaves, undressed, of the lettuce from her salad. For dinner I had a small bowl of kale soup. Jim had the same dinner – even enjoying the mung beans and rice with me – he likes it!
Monday, 4/11
Hour of Power – yoga, breathing and meditation; shower and oil
Day 6 of cleanse - Day 2 of Main Cleanse.
Diet – same khichadi w warmed fruit, tried khichadi with tomato sauce and Italian spices and it was really good. Dinner too late - 9 pm same Italian khichadi and some kale/cauliflour soup.
Self inquiry – wrote a love letter to an important person in my life.
WALKED
T 4/12 Hour of Power – yoga, breathing and meditation; shower and oil
Day 7 of cleanse - Day 3 of Main Cleanse.
Diet – breakfast - same khichadi w warmed fruit
Self-Inquiry – Continue “acting with Love”
Moved on to “Drop Childhood Personality Traits”
As instructed, I listed traits I created as a young child to be safe. I can now let go of those that that no longer serve me.
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