detox

I am normally quite a healthy person but I have been busy and eaten and drank crap all week. I feel plastic.

It was choking on a caramel two minutes ago that was the final straw. I don't even like sweets!

you're in the downward spiral.

bo. No, I'm too clever.

ignore "bo"

unless that is your name

Denial! You're in deeper than I first thought. Bo knows.

I will defy you with my weekend plans.

In fact, I'm drinking water now so take that.

Yeah how does one detox off a bad diet?

Fruits and veg and H20, or something weird?

That's what I eat in my normal life. My co-worker comes by and picks up my salad off my desk and fakes a dropkick with it. He watches the Military Channel.

He also makes poo jokes when I eat fruit. There's more to fruit than pooing.

This guy will outlive you by 25 years, that's just how life is.

He calls 5pm on Friday "Beer O'Clock"

Bo, it's not the lentgh of the life but the quality of the life lived.

Just soak yr feets: http://www.detox-your-body.com/

I have a foot spa! It's packed up though.

this is about veronica mars, right? i'm so not ready. (read: i'm bittorrenting the third season.)

???

SUCH a weird thread

every day is beer o'clock

I'm sure it's a metaphor for how my veins feel right now.

xp

acupuncture and herbs and colonics

I am afraid of herbs

(j/k)

i was kidding, adam. i don't really believe in detox.

i think i'm afraid of all that

Do you have a magic footspa that pulls toxins out of yr blood through yr feet pores???? I want to try one of these (w/o having to buy it).

Just a side note - I've had my whole body encased in saran wrap at a spa in Belize. I was in there for about 30 mins and I am super claustrophobic. While this was happening I had cold tea fed to me through a straw and my brow mopped by two Texan ladies. I felt vulnerable.

and yet, I could do with that now.

Were your arms wrapped separately, or strapped down tight to your sides? The latter would freak me right out.

they were down at my sides. I'm not sure how I managed not to freak out. I think it took a few mins of deep breathing. I get claustrophobia, vertigo, fear of pitch darkness, everything you can imagine.

I'd had a massage right before this, which probably helped.

and that's when I began to notice the autonomic dilation of arteries supplying blood to my penis xp

Master Cleanse For Bloated Addicts

Do you have a magic footspa that pulls toxins out of yr blood through yr feet pores???? I want to try one of these (w/o having to buy it).

There was an item about them on Watchdog (British TV show which investigate consumer rip-off type things) which concluded big old scam and waste of money. Though that might just have been the places that charge you squillions of ££££ to use theirs, rather than the actual things themselves.

Just a side note - I've had my whole body encased in saran wrap at a spa in Belize. I was in there for about 30 mins and I am super claustrophobic. While this was happening I had cold tea fed to me through a straw and my brow mopped by two Texan ladies. I felt vulnerable.

-- admrl, Friday, July 20, 2007 10:29 PM

o_O

bleurgh

it never, ever ends

the Big E

i have been super busy all week & kind of want to order pizza tonight but that'll make me feel horrible, i know

as far as detox, what about just having lots of water, green tea, salad, and fruit? that should do it.

that is my basic detox recipe. easier said than done sometimes.

daria otm, I just eat stuff that's good for me, replace coffee and soda with green tea and lots of water, cut out most alcohol, and eat a lot of non-greasy foods when I feel gross. 99.9% of all "toxin removal" stuff is utter bullshit, if not outright scams.

And beer o'clock comes earlier than 5pm on friday, trust me.

the only time i've done a real detox was when i lived in the virgin islands for a month, in a remote camp with no access to chemical vices of any kind. it was awesome.

I just eat stuff that's good for me, replace coffee and soda with green tea and lots of water, cut out most alcohol, and eat a lot of non-greasy foods when I feel gross.

Why is coffee supposedly toxic? Green tea has caffeine, too, and is just as diuretic. Is it some other alkaloid that's supposed to be bad for you?

With coffee, there is a bunch more shit that boils off the bean. I don't kow for sure, but I'm just making it up. I do know that coffee gives me the shits and green tea does not. However, coffee wakes me up and green tea does not. Better than either is good outdoor-grown wheat grass. Wakes you up and cleans you out! It opens up your butthole but doesn't make you shit like coffee can. Nice conversation, wot?

is wheatgrass not expensive? where can I buy a wheatgrass on my local shopping street

The amount of caffeine in green tea is way less - something like 30 mg vs. something like 100+ in coffee.

I think coffee in moderation is probably good for you, as long as it isn't filled with various sweeteners/ fatty dairy products. Seems like I remember hearing recently a half cup of black coffee every so often is good for your liver. or something.

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but doesn't make you shit like coffee can

Hmmm. I've never seen a coffee can shit.

it's horrific

re: wheatgrass
It's pretty expensive and the crap on your local street is probably grown indoors, which is not good. Indoor stuff usually has mold which makes people sick AND because it is grown under fake lighting, does not actually have the same amount of wheatgrassy goodness. :-( You can buy Amazing Greens powder, which is pretty good or buy it in bulk ice cube trays for freezing. It averages to like $1 per cube or something.

I haven't had any coffee since Friday, but usually, my entire daily caffeine intake is one double espresso.

but where?

xp

Coffee has about infinitely more caffeine than green tea and is pitch black the way I drink it. I don't care if it has anything weird in it, but the fact that I rely on a couple cups a day to fiend off caffeine deprivation headaches means that if I want to be independent of it, I have to drop it occasionally.

Also it fucks up my digestive system eventually, in the coffee shits way.

Yeah, I am trying to quit the coffee. I have done this successfully about three times.

Well, admrl, you can usually get the powder at any health store for $20 / month supply (Amazing Grass or Greens is a good one - forgot the name)

and here's the cube bulk order store:http://www.dynamicgreens.com/using_the_juice.html

Just drink plenty of water. This is the only medical advice I am licensed to give, incidentally. You may notice this seal of approval on some water bottles:

"Drink Plenty of Water."
---Rev. Doctor Kaiser A. McCracken, Esq.

get some psyllium husk, either in capsule or loose form, take a whole bunch, and drink lots and lots and lots of water. your stool will be abundant and satisfying and you'll clean lots of nasty stuff out of your colon (so you won't be like our president).

yoga, , meditation and now toxins ... adam you sure are on one quack-happy run. What will your next thread be about? dream healing? :)

http://curriculum.new-albany.k12.oh.us/mlivesay/images/dreamcatcher.gif

Don't worry, I have something in the works.

All this "toxins" business is nonsense.

you sound like Tom Cruise! (as usual)

i hear scientos have a good detox program... nah i shouldN't joke like that

"The detox idea is seemingly the perfect scam -- it sets up a problem that doesn't exist, then provides a solution."

Scient0l0gee is the ultimate "detox" nonsense.

Let's distnguish between detox "regimes" and the process of eating bland-ish/unsalted/unsweetened whole foods and drinking water for a period of time in order to feel less like crap. I know the latter works for me.

lol mr. beer o clock just gave me a beer as a leaving present!

He just pulled it from his desk drawer.

mmmmmm WARM anchor steam

You are so LA now.

xpost

Where should I get my hair cut?

I'll do it for 50 bucks and a cold beer.

i recommend fasting (and then breaking it at Tu Lan).