Eternal Cheesecake

Just finished a 3 1/2 day fast to let my body accelerate some deep healing that needed to happen in my gut. The duration was pretty easy as I’m used to fasting by now and I wasn’t hungry. However, this was one of the rare fasts where due to its length, I had juiced carrots and beets to get nutrients and sugars into my blood stream. Normally, I fast for one day a week, but this time I noticed this wound needed some extra time. Actually, the hardest part was a newfound awareness of my addiction to eating!

So all the torn stuff in my belly is feeling about 95% better, my skin is soft, the tension around my eyes is relaxed, my back muscles feel calm and limber, and my head is clear.

I’m continually awed by how quickly my body will heal itself now that I’m smart enough to get out of the way. It works so effectively because eating takes about 35% of the body’s energy to digest, process, assimilate and then eliminate the constant barrage of food. Removing the burden of all that kicks the body’s natural healing machine into super duper high gear. The trick is to understand all of the little feelings and thoughts that are unfamiliar when fasting so as not to freak out. That wouldn’t help at all. No…

When I tell friends about fasting, their fears kick in and I get a lot of “well-meaning concern.” I wouldn’t do this if I didn’t have some grounding.

What convinced me was this e-book I read on-line that was the life’s work of Dr. Isabelle A. Moser & Steve Solomon. It’s called “How and When to Be Your Own Doctor“.

I loved it because it chronicled her journey through the almighty medical profession, how she questioned the rigid, insane beliefs of the system, and how she came to find the simplest solutions–fasting and cleansing–could cure anyone that came to her, including cancer. I loved her candor, her willing to disclose her pitfalls, and her self-honesty. Such self-aware people are rare to find, and I enjoyed every word of the book.

Do yourself a favor and read the first chapter and see if it resonates with you. If it does, it’ll give you the self-reliance and understanding to know how to heal yourself. If it wasn’t for her… man… I don’t like to think how I’d be in the hands of the medical profession, my gut cut open and mutilated, no better for it in the long run.

Do you associate that really full, bloated feeling after a meal with having gotten your money’s worth at a restaurant? Or at dinner? The stomach is actually at a point of dysfunction and cannot do its job when it’s that way. So as super-tasty as my food has become, and as excited I am to explore new tastes & textures, I am learning–no, forced–to think differently. I realized why I have been gorging myself since I have become a vegan. Because prior to the switch, I wasn’t able to eat that much; my belly couldn’t digest so well. It was frustrating when well-meaning women would say, "You’re skinny–you need to eat more!" Well, duh. I’d like to eat more too. It’s just that I couldn’t. Now I can, thanks to all the cleansing and the cleaner burning fuel I’m running on. However, it feels like I’ve been waiting to be ultimately satisfied with food now that I can eat again… and then I’ll slow down. But I see the foolishness of that. There is no slowing down. Just more, a sure sign of unconsciousness. If I had seen it before, I would’ve averted the personal disaster this past summer where I:

1. over-ate
2. under hydrated
3. was in the midst of a Blessed Herbs cleanse
4. and went for a sub-jog (a sprog?)

My belly went into a pain spasm that took two excruciating weeks to heal, and left me foggy for another two weeks. And I’m still recovering from the cascade of repercussions to my personal life three months later. Now I continuously remember the Karyn Cabrese‘s comment that the stomach is the size of a fist, which reminds me to stop and pay attention to the quantity that I think I can stuff into my belly.

Update: I found a blog post called Full Belly Syndrome that better articulates what I was trying to convey.

I get requests for this recipe all the time, and with good reason: it’s so creamy, so chocolatety, so comforting, so easy to make, and from plants to boot!

People have come to associate this recipe with me, as if I invented it… no… I’m just the messenger. It’s from the book, “Health By Chocolate“.

Even though after yesterday’s discovery about chocolate not being the “super food” as it was touted to be by marketers, I still have a soft spot for it. I’m even thinking of making a surprise batch for a friend’s birthday present.

What is it? It’s called “Quick Creamy Chocolate Avocado Custard”, or as I’ve been referring to it as my “Chocolate Avocado Mousse”. (Click for the full size view)

My heart sunk…

I started to read that chocolate isn’t a superfood as was claimed to be, by marketers, of course. That it wasn’t healthy. That it is actually a toxin for the liver, a stimulant for the heart.

Bleah.

But I read it all, and took it in, starting with Paul Nison’s post, “Raw Chocolate–Harmful for Your Health“, that goes into details.

Bleah.

Well, I have been going at the chocolate powder added to my daily plant-protein puddings pretty hard lately. Like 3 Tbsp a day. Plus some unsweetened callebaut chocolate that I like to transmute into my own nightly treats, as I’ve blogged previously.

It’s said that chocolate makes it harder for the body to detox, and so what I’m going to do is kick the chocolate, substituting carob instead, and see how I feel, and if my head gets sharper in the meantime.

I also discovered that agave nectar, one of my favorite sweeteners, isn’t what I had thought it to be due to its high fructose content. So I’m going to drop that too. See if I can find some good stevia, not the white stuff which I had been taking before, and also some honey, and play with sweet fruits more.

Maybe this will help me to get “The Thrilling” feeling back…. but damn… chocolate… wonder if I’m addicted to it…

I’ve started my experiment with MMS, or activated chlorine dioxide, which works in the exact opposite way of Vitamin C: it’s a super duper oxidant, rather than anti-oxidant. MMS has so many free electrons, that it literally rips apart viruses, bacteria, fungus, molds, yeast, and parasites. It also oxidizes the heavy metals within the body.

Check this out:

The American Chemical Society, Analytical Chemistry Division stated in 1999 that chlorine dioxide is the most powerful killer of pathogens known to man. Chlorine dioxide is used in many industrial processes. It has been used to sterilize food products such as red meat and poultry for over 50 years. It is used in hospitals and clinics as a sterilizing agent.

So how’d it go? Well, I took only 2 drops of the stuff before I went to bed. It has a highly specific procedure to activate it (don’t take it without knowing what the heck you’re doing!) and its smell reminds me of the hydrogen peroxide drops that I experimented with last year. Bleah! Fortunately, I can use apple juice to cover it up.

So I took then and when I woke up, my body felt like I was in the last stages of throwing off a flu. Something’s definitely going on. My head felt a bit foggy and bloaty, with my eyes a little red. But my gut felt great, and my digestion was tip top. The main thing I wanted to see was how it affects the tightness of my jaw, and so far it feels light and clear. The lymph nodes in that area feel smaller and softer.

I jogged for about 20 minutes to see if the increased oxygen and blood-flow would help, but only marginally. At this point, about 3 hours later, I’m starting to feel clear in my head.

All this achyness is expected, as the die-off from the pathogens causes a “cleansing reaction.” I think I’ll stay at the 2 drops level for the next several days until my big work project is done.

So far so good, and I’m excited to see how it’ll progress.