My 7 week Detox is OVER!!!! For the first time in said almost 2 months, I tasted my Homemade Chocolate with Dates / Raisins / Cashews / Walnuts and Hempseeds that I made for other people but couldn't taste myself.
The Detox taught me a whole lot...
1) The Gut pain I have had since at least 1999 is completely gone, was vanquished in Week 1. I don't feel my Hiatal Hernia, but that feeling has tapered off in recent years. Any bad bacteria / parasites are history.
2) I have ZERO cravings for anything outside clean eating. I am thinking about Ice Cream and Pizza now, but there's no desire to go get them.
3) I have ZERO cravings for Sugar anything, even the fruit in the Chocolate was just a few chunks. I don't have an intense desire to stuff my face.
4) I lost 3 inches from my Belly and 15 Lbs., which was not expected because I ate nothing but Basmati Rice and Lentils all 7 weeks (About 4 bowls a day) along with a Pear almost every day and various vegetables. The Detox doesn't have weight loss written on it with those massive carbs. I did work out, but no more or less than before.
5) I did SWEAT A LOT... We all detox every second of every day, but when specialized herbs are used, it kicks it into overdrive, and that could have something to do with the weight loss. I'm going to do a similar Detox with the same Herbs, but shift the focus to a Paleo / Intermittent fasting program where the carbs will be massively cut down and see what the results will be. I will also do the program when it isn't 82 degrees in the house as a confirmation that I was sweating that much from the Detox. I don't usually sweat that much, so I think I'm right, one way to find out in the Winter / Spring.
6) My Blood Pressure is the same, but I expected that because I used Himalayan salt to not only replenish the minerals I was sweating excessively, but also because Rice and lentils aren't exactly tasty. I will cut that down next time.
7) Clean eating is a forever thing for me now, Not Vegan, but I'm not going to ever have Omaha Steaks or Costco or anything else from the Supermarket. It will all be Grass Fed / Grass Finished Beef, Organic Chicken, Organic Eggs etc...
8) Eating nothing but Rice and Lentils for the most part saves a LOT of cash.
9) I will always have said Week 1 in my plans because of my gut pain being vanquished, but also because it was excellent. I was allowed to mix Butter sauteed Onions and Ginger into my Rice and Lentils, so it tasted great. I also used an Herb combo called Trikatu, which is a mix of Ginger, Black Pepper and Long Pepper.
10) Probiotic supplements do NOT work at all, at least not for me. I had questioned if they even make it past the acidity of the stomach, but even Yogurt and Kombucha were only temporary bandaids.
I'm just blown away... 22 or so years with sometimes ridiculous gut pain... Gone after the first week. I'm sold on Ayurvedic Medicine.
PERIOD.