day 29: c-day

c stands for colonic, candida, cut & colour and climate change

colonic

first thing today i went for a colonic, which was extremely productive. even the therapist was amazed at what came out. again, we had a really nice chat and i felt motivated by her encouragement. she said i looked radiant, which was fabulous :)

candida

i noticed late on thursday that i was cultivating a bout of thrush and have been using natural remedies i know from years ago when i suffered horrendously with it. having talked to the colon hydrotherapist about it, the nagging suspicions i'd been fermenting along with the yeast, settled into some harsh home truths. i've possibly had candida for some time and the juicefeast has uncovered it. the amount of fruit i'm juicing will have to drop considerably. no more straight pineapple juice. it explains the gurgling stomach over the past few days too. so i've got some probiotics and i'm going to use up the fruits i don't like mixed with veg (pineapple & melon mostly) and then replace my fruits with greens as much as i can. *sigh*

cut and colour

went to the hairdresser for a long-awaited spruce up of my horrendous hair. it's been annoying me for a while. it became overprocessed and far too light, thanks to a stylist who just wouldn't listen to me (don't worry, he no longer enjoys my custom) so i'm trying to get it back to something like my natural colour. we're making progress :)

climate change

we observed earth hour here in loulou towers. at ten to eight we gathered candles, turned off all lights, tv, computers etc. and proceeded to enjoy each other's company for an hour. it was amazing how quiet it was in the living room with no hard drives whirring (we have a pvr and two laptops on the go usually) and i really enjoyed having no choice but entertain ourselves. we talked of dreams and hopes for the future. it was very civilised. YummyHubby is now enamoured with the idea of earth hour once a week. i left my computer off  (which is why this post appears on sunday) and at 9pm, earth hour over, we left the lights off but turned on the dvd player and watched a fantastic robert rodriguez movie which kept us both highly amused.

today i had:

0.5l msm-lemon juice

0.5l pineapple juice

1l celery-cucumber-carrot-mint-apple-bell pepper juice

lots of herbal teas with honey

1 tbsp bee pollen

oh yes, and it's weigh-in day. lost another 2.5 pounds, that's a total of 16.5 pounds. not bad going considering the complete lack of exercise over the past two weeks. must remedy that soon.

photo credit: bushy park (our local park) taken mid-run by YummyHubby, on his cameraphone