Matthew_K
05-12-2005, 11:18 AM
Hi y'all!!
It's been a year now since my Level 1. Looking back, on average I actually experienced a slight decline in health after that first cleanse, but Level 2 seemed to get things going again. I have very vivid memories of feeling this tremendous sense of body heat during the last few days of Level 2 -- which was WONDERFUL because after my own water fast and Lvl1 I had very serious problems with body heat. I'm a pretty trim guy with a fast metabolism, so a lot of activity combined with few/no calories made me lose weight *extremely* quickly. I started looking like a heroin addict.
There's three big issues I'm looking forward to seeing improvement on.
1) Venous issues. I still have a (much-slowed) problem with developing spider veins and the like.
2) Constipation. I eat a fiber-heavy diet, but even with that sometimes nothing happens for days.
3) Sex drive. When I'm really healthy it's on in force but too often it just diappears. And so does a lot of motivation.
This is something of a transitional period for me, even outside of HPS. A few weeks back I stopped working with the company I've been at for the past year and a half. At this point I'm waiting for a few final offers from other companies but at the same time not being caught up in "career" has given me some perspective. All of a sudden I feel much more like an adult, and I'm realizing that I have only a limited amount of time to do what I want to do, it could be decades, years, even days (heaven forbid). Not so much that "I want to go scuba diving, I want to travel to the Mediterranean" kind of goals, more like thinking about the person I want to be, the lifestyle I want to live, day to day.
I've learned a lot about the "causes and conditions" for myself through HPS and reading and experimentation. I find I do best going to bed early and getting up very early. (Now that career is temporarily not an issue, I commute up to Maryland to play Ultimate Frisbee at 6 in the morning -- not good for my car but I love it.) I've developed a habit of not eating solid food after 7PM -- that way I can go to bed between 9-10 and have my dinner meal fully digested. On the food front, I've started making my own butter, and I've become a big fan of coleslaw -- shredded raw cabbage with olive oil and a bit of apple cider vinegar. Cabbage keeps well so I find this is something I eat every day, sometimes multiple times.
I'm really looking forward to this cleanse, even if it is intimidating. I think the long pre-cleanse and experience from the last two will make this more "productive" than either of the ones before.
It's been a year now since my Level 1. Looking back, on average I actually experienced a slight decline in health after that first cleanse, but Level 2 seemed to get things going again. I have very vivid memories of feeling this tremendous sense of body heat during the last few days of Level 2 -- which was WONDERFUL because after my own water fast and Lvl1 I had very serious problems with body heat. I'm a pretty trim guy with a fast metabolism, so a lot of activity combined with few/no calories made me lose weight *extremely* quickly. I started looking like a heroin addict.
There's three big issues I'm looking forward to seeing improvement on.
1) Venous issues. I still have a (much-slowed) problem with developing spider veins and the like.
2) Constipation. I eat a fiber-heavy diet, but even with that sometimes nothing happens for days.
3) Sex drive. When I'm really healthy it's on in force but too often it just diappears. And so does a lot of motivation.
This is something of a transitional period for me, even outside of HPS. A few weeks back I stopped working with the company I've been at for the past year and a half. At this point I'm waiting for a few final offers from other companies but at the same time not being caught up in "career" has given me some perspective. All of a sudden I feel much more like an adult, and I'm realizing that I have only a limited amount of time to do what I want to do, it could be decades, years, even days (heaven forbid). Not so much that "I want to go scuba diving, I want to travel to the Mediterranean" kind of goals, more like thinking about the person I want to be, the lifestyle I want to live, day to day.
I've learned a lot about the "causes and conditions" for myself through HPS and reading and experimentation. I find I do best going to bed early and getting up very early. (Now that career is temporarily not an issue, I commute up to Maryland to play Ultimate Frisbee at 6 in the morning -- not good for my car but I love it.) I've developed a habit of not eating solid food after 7PM -- that way I can go to bed between 9-10 and have my dinner meal fully digested. On the food front, I've started making my own butter, and I've become a big fan of coleslaw -- shredded raw cabbage with olive oil and a bit of apple cider vinegar. Cabbage keeps well so I find this is something I eat every day, sometimes multiple times.
I'm really looking forward to this cleanse, even if it is intimidating. I think the long pre-cleanse and experience from the last two will make this more "productive" than either of the ones before.