I JUST HAD BREAKFAST!!!!!! Now i know why breakfast is called break-fast. It was the best breakfast i ever had, with the explosion of taste. I had 2 plates of fruits with watermelon, pineapple and honeydew, the sweet, juicy, tangy flavours were all dancing on my desensitized tongue. I couldn't resist and stole a few bites of toast and scrambled eggs from my sister. I snacked on Coco Crunch too! DELICIOUS! My teeth can finally exercise again.
Finally the last of my coffee colemas are done! I spent 90% of the time, peeing Kopi-O from my backside (I sure hope you are not having your morning coffee while reading this). There were still some residue gunk that came out, but nothing too grotesque. I feel clean, light and ready to eat again! I'm sure I wouldn't be pissing through my ass for a long long time now....
Now that my suitcase is near its brink of explosion and my wallet's almost empty. We are all packed up and ready to go home. But not before i spend the day shopping (and eating) in Ubud. My week in Bali has been most memorable, in an alternative kind of way. Now that I've gone through the whole programme, I do feel thoroughly cleansed, lighter and with better skin! It has been a self-discovery journcy to know how far I can stretch myself, with that brings lessons of humility and discipline. I'm sure many people also want to know how much weight i've lost, I'm pretty excited myself. But I'm too ecstatical now, knowing that I have a day of eating ahead of me....so i'll leave the reflections, afterthoughts and results when i get back home, as a post-detox blog entry.
For now, it's good bye Bali, I'll be back to eat all that you can offer! See ya all back home!
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
MY DETOX BLOG: Day 7 - The end of all Psyllium shakes
That's it! I'm done with all the damn psyllium bentonite shakes. I'm never ever ever going to taste the indigestible solution ever again!
I've also just finished my last water colema (just one more coffee colema to go in the morning).
Having a colema is like farting, peeing and shitting through the same hole. Most of the time, you are pissing out water, but occasionally you do feel a tightness in your lower abdomen, then it slowly starts to fill with water and bloat, that's when the cramping comes in. By now, i know the pattern and what that means. Your body is basically telling you that there is a blockage in your tummy, that's why the cramping happens and water is not able to pass. This also usually means that the cramping will be followed by a deluge of globbish feaces. Perhaps the best imagery of the excrement would be like how sausages are made through the machine - minced pork on one end, and stringy globs of compacted meat on the other. (Hot dogs anyone?)
My feet are now happily soaking in the magnesium footbath at the moment (this is suppose to enliven the tired dehydrated cells of my body who have been so busy purging the toxins). After that i'm left with one more course of supplements, my floral growth drink, then it's off to bed to wait for morning to come! I am so excited, i have butterflies in my stomach (or maybe it's just the hunger)
We are checking out tmr morning so we gotta pack everything tonight. We have a driver coming at 11am tmr to chauffer us around Bali on our last day before the final airport transfer. The plan is for me to visit Ubud tmr with the last batch of shopping to be done.
I'm really happy to go home now...i miss my bed, i miss my work, i miss my parents & friends, i miss the parties and i miss the food!!!
The clock is ticking.....HURRAY!!!
I've also just finished my last water colema (just one more coffee colema to go in the morning).
Having a colema is like farting, peeing and shitting through the same hole. Most of the time, you are pissing out water, but occasionally you do feel a tightness in your lower abdomen, then it slowly starts to fill with water and bloat, that's when the cramping comes in. By now, i know the pattern and what that means. Your body is basically telling you that there is a blockage in your tummy, that's why the cramping happens and water is not able to pass. This also usually means that the cramping will be followed by a deluge of globbish feaces. Perhaps the best imagery of the excrement would be like how sausages are made through the machine - minced pork on one end, and stringy globs of compacted meat on the other. (Hot dogs anyone?)
My feet are now happily soaking in the magnesium footbath at the moment (this is suppose to enliven the tired dehydrated cells of my body who have been so busy purging the toxins). After that i'm left with one more course of supplements, my floral growth drink, then it's off to bed to wait for morning to come! I am so excited, i have butterflies in my stomach (or maybe it's just the hunger)
We are checking out tmr morning so we gotta pack everything tonight. We have a driver coming at 11am tmr to chauffer us around Bali on our last day before the final airport transfer. The plan is for me to visit Ubud tmr with the last batch of shopping to be done.
I'm really happy to go home now...i miss my bed, i miss my work, i miss my parents & friends, i miss the parties and i miss the food!!!
The clock is ticking.....HURRAY!!!
MY DETOX BLOG: Day 7 - Water Parade
I'm off to get another 2 bottles of Aqua from the mama shop opposite my hotel. My sister jokingly claims that I have a water parade everyday since i'm chugging down at least 3 big 1.5l bottles of water everyday. Yes and the toilet bowl is my best friend here in Bali....
MY DETOX BLOG: Day 7 - The Degustation Menu...
I'm just left with half a day to go! woo hoo! I've just read through the detox booklet again just to make sure that i haven't left out anything before i end the whole programme. To my disappointment, i realise that i'm allowed to eat only raw food and juices (like fruits & vege) on the first day after the detox. The days after that, i can start introducing cooked greens. Carbos and meat should only be consumed at least 3 days thereafter. It all sounds like a tragedy to me at this point in time, although i don't think a teensy weensy bite of bakso or chocolate is going to kill me tmr.
The coffee colema this morning was quite shit-less, whatever that came out were basically 'floaties' that were a greenish seaweed colour. That probably came from all the supplments that i've been swallowing. I realise i haven't been describing the stuff that i've been ingesting all this time, let me shed some light on that now.
As part of the programme, 5 times a day, I'm supposed to be taking 12 multicoloured pills a day, washed down with either coconut water or vegetable broth. The coconut water is probably the ONLY thing i look forward to in the day. My degustation menu consists of
1) 6 x Greenlife Nutrients tablets -
This dark green tablet tastes (and smells) like dead fish. It's the nastiest of the lot to swallow. And since it takes up 50% of the diet, I reckon this is the stuff that makes the output of my colemas greenish and sea-weed looking. It supposedly contains 92% of organic young cereal grass, barley, oat, rye and wheat. It also contains sea kelp and chlorophyll, which is what gives it the green fishy taste. This little tablet is considered a raw 'superfood' and can provide all the essential minerals, vitamins and enzymes needed to support the body without requiring any digestive activity because it is directly assimilated into the bloodstream.
2) 3 x Wheat Germ/Flaxseed Oil capsules -
This is the easiest of the lot to swallow because it is tasteless. It basically looks like the yellow cod-liver oil capsules that we eat as kids. The oils in the capsule contain a high content of Vitamin E and essential fatty acids which will protect the body tissues and red blood cells.
3) 2 x Whole Beet Plan Juice tablets -
These 2 tiny purple tablets makes your tongue a gross reddish-purple. Beets contain potassium, magnesium, calcium, iodine, vitamins and a high content of iron needed for critical body support.
4) 2 x Natural Source Vitamin C tablets -
I call this 'my dessert' because it is the only stimulant for my severely handicapped tastebuds. I suck it like a sweet right at the end. It tastes sour, tangy and slightly sweet because it consists of the dehydrated juice of cherries and wild spanish oranges, balanced with molasses honey. It doesn't taste as good as the chewable orange Vitamin C tablets from the pharmacy but it's my cafe au lait in the last 7 days (i rather have this than the nasty greenlife nutrient tablets).
Then once a day, I also include 'snack food' that doesn't taste a bit like potato chips
1) 2 x Herbal Supplements
Taken at 7pm with my last psyllium shake of the day. The combination of those 2 are the most disgusting, nausesating thing in the world. The shake with it's bland gooey texture and the herbal supplement that is powdery and taste like charcoal pills. Leaves a horrible bitter after taste. I'm glad I only need to have this once a day
2) 1 x Floral Growth capsule.
Easy to swallow and tasteless. The capsule basically contains probotics (healthy bacteria) which helps to re-colonize and maintain healthy levels of friendly bacteria throughout the gut. On the last night and morning of the last day, the 2 tablets need to be emptied into a glass of water and made into a drink. It needs to ferment for 8 hours before drinking. I'm going to make my first glass in about an hour and I suspect it's gonna taste a bit like Yakult (i hope).
So this is all the gastronomical gourmet food that I get to enjoy in the last 7 days. Sounds really palatable eh? Well I'm due for my lunch with vegetable broth now, before i head off to Jalan Legian for more shopping. Still counting down!
The coffee colema this morning was quite shit-less, whatever that came out were basically 'floaties' that were a greenish seaweed colour. That probably came from all the supplments that i've been swallowing. I realise i haven't been describing the stuff that i've been ingesting all this time, let me shed some light on that now.
As part of the programme, 5 times a day, I'm supposed to be taking 12 multicoloured pills a day, washed down with either coconut water or vegetable broth. The coconut water is probably the ONLY thing i look forward to in the day. My degustation menu consists of
1) 6 x Greenlife Nutrients tablets -
This dark green tablet tastes (and smells) like dead fish. It's the nastiest of the lot to swallow. And since it takes up 50% of the diet, I reckon this is the stuff that makes the output of my colemas greenish and sea-weed looking. It supposedly contains 92% of organic young cereal grass, barley, oat, rye and wheat. It also contains sea kelp and chlorophyll, which is what gives it the green fishy taste. This little tablet is considered a raw 'superfood' and can provide all the essential minerals, vitamins and enzymes needed to support the body without requiring any digestive activity because it is directly assimilated into the bloodstream.
2) 3 x Wheat Germ/Flaxseed Oil capsules -
This is the easiest of the lot to swallow because it is tasteless. It basically looks like the yellow cod-liver oil capsules that we eat as kids. The oils in the capsule contain a high content of Vitamin E and essential fatty acids which will protect the body tissues and red blood cells.
3) 2 x Whole Beet Plan Juice tablets -
These 2 tiny purple tablets makes your tongue a gross reddish-purple. Beets contain potassium, magnesium, calcium, iodine, vitamins and a high content of iron needed for critical body support.
4) 2 x Natural Source Vitamin C tablets -
I call this 'my dessert' because it is the only stimulant for my severely handicapped tastebuds. I suck it like a sweet right at the end. It tastes sour, tangy and slightly sweet because it consists of the dehydrated juice of cherries and wild spanish oranges, balanced with molasses honey. It doesn't taste as good as the chewable orange Vitamin C tablets from the pharmacy but it's my cafe au lait in the last 7 days (i rather have this than the nasty greenlife nutrient tablets).
Then once a day, I also include 'snack food' that doesn't taste a bit like potato chips
1) 2 x Herbal Supplements
Taken at 7pm with my last psyllium shake of the day. The combination of those 2 are the most disgusting, nausesating thing in the world. The shake with it's bland gooey texture and the herbal supplement that is powdery and taste like charcoal pills. Leaves a horrible bitter after taste. I'm glad I only need to have this once a day
2) 1 x Floral Growth capsule.
Easy to swallow and tasteless. The capsule basically contains probotics (healthy bacteria) which helps to re-colonize and maintain healthy levels of friendly bacteria throughout the gut. On the last night and morning of the last day, the 2 tablets need to be emptied into a glass of water and made into a drink. It needs to ferment for 8 hours before drinking. I'm going to make my first glass in about an hour and I suspect it's gonna taste a bit like Yakult (i hope).
So this is all the gastronomical gourmet food that I get to enjoy in the last 7 days. Sounds really palatable eh? Well I'm due for my lunch with vegetable broth now, before i head off to Jalan Legian for more shopping. Still counting down!
Thursday, August 21, 2008
MY DETOX BLOG: Day 6 - My Idea of Heaven
ICE CREAM CHOCOLATE PRAWN MEE TAHU GORENG AVOCADO MILKSHAKE KRISPY KREME TURKISH BREAD PASTA AGLIO OLIO FOIE GRAS PRIME RIB CREME BRULEE WHISKEY ON THE ROCKS PANCAKES CHAR KWAY TEOW BBQ STINGRAY TEQUILA SHOTS CHICKEN RICE ICE COLD BEER CAJUN FRIES MACDONALDS CHEESEBURGER MEE BAKSO WONTON MEE PANNA COTTA STEAMBOAT PEANUT BUTTER COKE MALBARO MENTHOL LIGHTS FRENCH TOAST TOFU SUSHI CURRY PUFF HOT CHOCOLATE BUTTER CROISSANT CHEESE OMELETTE NASI LEMAK GIN TONIC GORENG PISANG BEEF NOODLE SOUP MUSSELS LOBSTER THERMIDOR NASI BRYANI PORK CHOP ICE KACHANG SAMBAL SOTONG CEMPEDAK ICE CREAM ROTI PRATA NUTELLA CHOCOLATE FONDANT PROSCUITTO HAM WITH ROCK MELON PIZZA MASHED POTATO INSTANT NOODLES WITH LUNCHEON MEE AND EGG SOFT SHELL CRAB YANG ROU CHUAN CHICKEN WINGS MACADEMIA NUT VANILLA MILKSHAKE TEH HALIA CODFISH WITH CREAM SAUCE SATAY FISHBALL SORBET WINE TANDOORI CHICKEN BAK KUT TEH
MY DETOX BLOG: Day 6 - Beach Bum
It's almost the end of Day 6!!!! which means there is only 1 more day of starvation to go!
My sister and I spent the ENTIRE day just grilling by the beach. I'm nicely sunkissed a golden brown now :)
The food cravings today were more bearable because it was much easier to lie by the beach and not be faced with the constant temptation of food from the numerous restaurants in Bali. Although I do have a confession to make: I missed a 'meal' of the nauseating psyllium shake. Alice, my consultant did say that with my body weight, 4 shakes a day were sufficient to purge the toxins out. Hence missing one shake today shouldn't be a cardinal sin. The truth is that I just couldn't stomach another one of those digusting mixture, especially not when i have to make it on the beach.....I wonder if that would affect my colema later.
The weather was lovely today, the sky was fairly cloudy so the sun wasn't scorchingly painful but just enough to bake us to a nice crisp tan. I love it when i get a tan without burn. The beaches of Bali are also filled with white bodies, namely topless french chicks and hairy italian men. Not much eye candy though, since most of the better looking men we saw were usually walking around in twos.
It's been a long long time since I could lie by the beach and do nothing but read. But the truth is, I can't wait to get back. Seriously....because getting back = food!!!!
haha yes, i'm going a bit over my toppers now. Think i better go hit the shower, before my colema for the night, then it's out for dinner! (i usually just have a camomile tea while my travel partners feast on local delicacies before my very eyes, and nose. Just like dinner last night at Bale Bali with Ming, Devy and Danny....an inexorable act indeed....Poor Lin)
ONE MORE DAY ONE MORE DAY ONE MORE DAY ONE MORE DAY
My sister and I spent the ENTIRE day just grilling by the beach. I'm nicely sunkissed a golden brown now :)
The food cravings today were more bearable because it was much easier to lie by the beach and not be faced with the constant temptation of food from the numerous restaurants in Bali. Although I do have a confession to make: I missed a 'meal' of the nauseating psyllium shake. Alice, my consultant did say that with my body weight, 4 shakes a day were sufficient to purge the toxins out. Hence missing one shake today shouldn't be a cardinal sin. The truth is that I just couldn't stomach another one of those digusting mixture, especially not when i have to make it on the beach.....I wonder if that would affect my colema later.
The weather was lovely today, the sky was fairly cloudy so the sun wasn't scorchingly painful but just enough to bake us to a nice crisp tan. I love it when i get a tan without burn. The beaches of Bali are also filled with white bodies, namely topless french chicks and hairy italian men. Not much eye candy though, since most of the better looking men we saw were usually walking around in twos.
It's been a long long time since I could lie by the beach and do nothing but read. But the truth is, I can't wait to get back. Seriously....because getting back = food!!!!
haha yes, i'm going a bit over my toppers now. Think i better go hit the shower, before my colema for the night, then it's out for dinner! (i usually just have a camomile tea while my travel partners feast on local delicacies before my very eyes, and nose. Just like dinner last night at Bale Bali with Ming, Devy and Danny....an inexorable act indeed....Poor Lin)
ONE MORE DAY ONE MORE DAY ONE MORE DAY ONE MORE DAY
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
MY DETOX BLOG: Day 5 - The Day of Relaxation
Ahhh just came back from a facial and a massage, royal shiok-ness. We're halfway through Day 5. Very slow, chill-lax day today, especially since Hazel's gone, we are starting to see the noise decibel go down but the boredom scale go up. We miss you Hazel!
I went about my usual activities of colema, psyllium shakes and rainbow supplements. The output from the colemas are starting to become more or less the same. I spit more water than gunk and the gunk basically look (and feel) like globs of greenish grey. It's all the psyllium husk and supplements mixed together, and being pulled from my intestinal walls. Not a pretty sight indeed and still can't bring myself to examine it from a nose's distance. I'm not that gross.
As for the rest of my daily diet, i'm getting really really REALLY sick of washing down all that psyllium shake. It looks (and probably tastes) like paper-maché (a construction material that consists of pieces of paper, stuck together using a wet paste like glue, starch, or wallpaper adhesive - sounds delicious?). I swear to God, that I will never have another sip of psyllium shake in my life when i'm through with this programme. I'll be happy to empty the remaining psyllium and betonite water directly into the toilet bowl when i'm done, but it's probably going to choke up the poor pipes - well that's how gross and thick the whole mixture can become. Then again, it doesn't seem to make any difference now, since the psyllium and betonite water are going directly into the bowl anyway, except it has to pass through my rectum first.
I do get increasingly happy when i see the number of supplements slowly reducing in numbers, it can only mean that i'm near the end of my self-inflicted torture. Although I must admit that going though this detox voluntarily is truely a once-in-a-lifetime experience, it makes me very aware of what my mind can accomplish in the face of temptation. And temptation is certainly flirting with me in the form of Anthony Bourdain on Discovery Travel and Living.
(at this point, I am dreaming of wanton mee, turkish bread, pancakes with maple syrup and Oreo cookies - don't ask me why I came up with this odd combination).
I can't tell you how much i'm looking forward to Saturday. I'm left with 2.5 days to go, waiting for food has never felt so agonizing. Nevertheless, this is all very humbling and it makes me look at food from another perspective. Also having gone through this whole experience, I'm confident that I will have the determination and resolution to go through more difficult choices in life. OM SHANTI SHANTI....
*To show your support for Lin in her quest to battle intestinal toxins, please donate generously to lin@colemas-rock.com. Alternatively, she also accepts all form of moral support.
I went about my usual activities of colema, psyllium shakes and rainbow supplements. The output from the colemas are starting to become more or less the same. I spit more water than gunk and the gunk basically look (and feel) like globs of greenish grey. It's all the psyllium husk and supplements mixed together, and being pulled from my intestinal walls. Not a pretty sight indeed and still can't bring myself to examine it from a nose's distance. I'm not that gross.
As for the rest of my daily diet, i'm getting really really REALLY sick of washing down all that psyllium shake. It looks (and probably tastes) like paper-maché (a construction material that consists of pieces of paper, stuck together using a wet paste like glue, starch, or wallpaper adhesive - sounds delicious?). I swear to God, that I will never have another sip of psyllium shake in my life when i'm through with this programme. I'll be happy to empty the remaining psyllium and betonite water directly into the toilet bowl when i'm done, but it's probably going to choke up the poor pipes - well that's how gross and thick the whole mixture can become. Then again, it doesn't seem to make any difference now, since the psyllium and betonite water are going directly into the bowl anyway, except it has to pass through my rectum first.
I do get increasingly happy when i see the number of supplements slowly reducing in numbers, it can only mean that i'm near the end of my self-inflicted torture. Although I must admit that going though this detox voluntarily is truely a once-in-a-lifetime experience, it makes me very aware of what my mind can accomplish in the face of temptation. And temptation is certainly flirting with me in the form of Anthony Bourdain on Discovery Travel and Living.
(at this point, I am dreaming of wanton mee, turkish bread, pancakes with maple syrup and Oreo cookies - don't ask me why I came up with this odd combination).
I can't tell you how much i'm looking forward to Saturday. I'm left with 2.5 days to go, waiting for food has never felt so agonizing. Nevertheless, this is all very humbling and it makes me look at food from another perspective. Also having gone through this whole experience, I'm confident that I will have the determination and resolution to go through more difficult choices in life. OM SHANTI SHANTI....
*To show your support for Lin in her quest to battle intestinal toxins, please donate generously to lin@colemas-rock.com. Alternatively, she also accepts all form of moral support.
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