Adventure Cleanse!

Hi spark,

As many of you know I’m working on Crazy Sexy You: A Gutsy Game Plan for Health, Happiness and a Great Ass! (working title). Well, it’s going SLOW. I’ve been clockin’ the miles with my speaking gigs and haven’t been able to consistently clack out the writing. I finished the first draft of my pH chapter but that’s it! One more gig tomorrow and Friday (at Urban Zen in NYC) and then I’m home for 4 weeks! YAHOOO, lock and load, sweat pant/laptop city.

Wanna help? Part of my book is a 28 day cleanse – The Adventure Cleanse to be exact. Once you learn all the juicy reasons for adopting an alkaline plant-based diet with a high concentration of raw foods, you’ll have the opportunity to put your knowledge into practice Crazy Sexy style. I like to think of the cleanse as a jumper cables. For 28 days you’ll clean out with class and sass. You’ll move your God pod with joy and a new found anchor reminding you of the real reason to take care of yourself – your Divinity! That’s right, you’re a gorgeous angel so why would you put crap in your yap? Once the cleanse is complete, you can choose what level you want to stay at OR move towards.

I’ve been a healing guinea pig for the past 6 years and I know what works and what doesn’t (for me). If I dive into a detox that’s too advanced I usually fall off the wagon, rob a CVS (yummy prescription drugs) and run to a bar to wash them down. Not good. Plus, I’m an addict. Addicted to FUN and rebel fire. Each of us is at a different level for a different reason. Therefore, it would be impossible for me to build a one-size-fits-all program.

Adventure Level one – 50/50 – raw to cooked ratio
Adventure Level two – 70/30 – raw to cooked ratio
Adventure Level three – raw till dinner, then 80/20
Adventure Level four – 100% raw with a mini juice fast

* Every Wednesday (or whatever day works for you) – you get the chance to try a spiritual fast. The same as we do here at CSL. 3-4 quarts of green drink but with intention and purpose!

* When I say raw I don’t just mean raw snacks that are mostly nuts and mostly acidic – I mean mostly veggies and sprouts! Some nuts, pates, etc are fine – but not the entire raw ratio. The cooked portion is filled with yummies like slightly steamed veggies, gentle sautes, sweet potatoes, winter squashes, soups, gluten-free grains and pastas, tempeh, veggie burgers cooked beans etc. Soy products in moderation if at all. If you have an estrogen sensitive issue then I would stay away from soy. The problem I see with many of the vegan diets out there is that they rely on vegan fast food – fake soy nuggets etc. I’ll be honest, I like that stuff from time to time. On nights I work late I’ll chow a spelt pizza with soy cheese or make soy meatballs. But I keep that stuff in my “occasional”, I’m too lazy tonight column.

Now to the NO section…

* No gluten, wheat, animal products, processed sugar, refined carbs, alcohol, coffee, cigs. If you have cancer then only low glycemic fruits – if you do NOT have cancer then all fruit are fine but in moderation. Too much sugar in ANY form suppresses your immune system.

It’s a cleanse after all, it won’t be couch potato comfortable. But when it’s over you’ll be able to add things back in moderation (like sprouted grains bread/tortillas). I’m vegan, I would LOVE for the world to be vegan but I’m also realistic. If after the 28 days you decide to go back to meat then at least you will know the best quantities and quality. You will hopefully stick with it as an occasional item and choose raw dairy over cooked, pasteurize, homogenized puss. But WOW are there so many alternatives these days! I promise to include a phat list for ya in the book.

If while on the cleanse you learn that you feel so much better without gluten, then breads might not be your thing. There are gluten-free options but so far I haven’t found any that taste very good and aren’t full of chemicals. Anyone find one they’d like to share?

As I said earlier, if you choose to stick with the program then you can stay at your level, move down, move up etc. It’s flexible.

Plus, I’m super excited about the modifications section. I think this might be the first “diet” book written for a larger demographic that includes modifications for cancer patients or folks with immune issues. My peeps!

So, YOU are an Adventurer! Are you ready to take the challenge? I would LOVE to try my cleanse with my beautiful readers, get feedback, give support and see if this thing really works! We’ll be doing most of the nitty gritty on the forum but I’ll certainly blog about it on Wednesdays.

Any one interested and if so what month is best for you to start May or June? Please specify in your comments.

Speaking of Wednesdays, it’s that time again. Goddess Fast! For me, it’s 3-4 quarts of green drink and an end of day green smoothie with avocado and cacao. Yes! Is it end of the day yet?

Peace and Adventures,
Kris

All About FASTING! (Part II)

And now more on fasting from Natalia Rose!

3. The difference between a cleanse and a potential cleanse?

All fasts and anything that is billed as a “cleanse” or “detox” product is only a POTENTIAL CLEANSE. The cleansing part only occurs when the dredged up waste matter LEAVES the body. Fasting is not synonymous with cleansing unless waste leaves the body. Do you see the critical difference?

In my extensive experience with detoxification, even people with the strongest bowels cannot eliminate the quantities of waste a fast dredges up without the help of colonics, enemas, saunas, sunbaths and body brushing. The newer waste may leave but the denser older waste that may be loosened and stirred up cannot exit easily without the help of good colonics.

For a listing of colon therapists in your area, I’ve developed a directory on my website.

4. So what is the best way to fast? If you have decided to fast, the best approach is a predominantly vegetable juice fast. You can mix any veggie juice combinations you enjoy but I recommend making at least half of the juices green-based such as the Green Lemonade or a simple carrot-romaine combo. The other juices could be citrus or fresh pressed fruits (in small quantities best diluted with water or green juices like romaine lettuce or spinach). You may also enjoy herbal tea with stevia or fresh vegetable broth (very useful when fasting in colder months or for a fasting “dinner”). I also love pure carrot juice with pumpkin pie spice which I like to drink from a mug! Somehow this gives me the satisfaction of soup without the fiber. Just be sure all your juices are well strained as we are trying to avoid all fiber so that digestion is never stimulated during the fast.

When you fast on vegetable juices you feed your cells enzymes, chlorophyll (sunlight), life force, vitamins and trace minerals ensuring that you are feeding the cells all they need and more so they can powerfully go about the business of awakening and releasing as much accumulated waste as possible (again with the help of gravity method colonics). The ideal fasting approach is to eat clean, Quick Exit foods as a daily experience and then juice fast a few times a year to go a bit deeper. This is the way to make real headway on the accumulated waste in the system and prevent your body’s “assembly line” from ever running amok again!

5. Will I lose weight on a fast and will it stay off? Will my metabolism slow down if I stop eating breakfast? Does fasting slow the metabolism like people say?

Yes, you will lose weight on a fast – usually around 1 lb. a day. The weight that you lose during a fast can easily be kept off by eating Quick Exit foods when you return to eating and juicing until lunch (as I noted above, this is a general prerequisite for long term health and weight management to begin with). Of course, if you return to eating less ideally, you probably will not keep the weight off. Weight is accumulation of waste matter in the body. When we remove the accumulation through cleansing, we remove the weight. In order to keep it off, we simply must prevent against re-accumulation of waste. We do this by ensuring the food we eat leaves our body as completely as possible. This is the point and effect of Quick Exit foods and eating no more than two meals a day (once one has transitioned at their level).

6. How much juice is recommended and how long should I fast?

You can enjoy as much liquid as you need. As with eating though, it’s never a good idea to over-consume. A good gauge would be 8-16 8-ounce juices (including broths/teas) each day. Some pure water should always be taken when juice fasting.

If it’s your first fast and you have already practiced “juicing ’til dinner” several times or have made that a daily or weekly habit, you could try a 2-4 day juice fast. If you would like to do a longer fast (only recommended if you have access to well administered gravity method colon hydro-therapy), you could go as long as 8-10 days. But only continue a fast if you are releasing copious quantities of waste matter (either on your own or with colonics). If you are not releasing and you keep on awakening matter you will not progress and you could get sick (as I mentioned above; remember un-passed matter gets reabsorbed into the tissues and blood stream re-poisoning the body with the awakened waste matter). The body was not designed to pass 1984′s Taco Bell meal back when you ate it and you cannot expect your body to pass it today in its post-putrefactive form. (This is why good gravity method colon hydrotherapy is so essential when fasting – your body needs help passing this old waste)!

There’s a reason that so many of our great teachers throughout history fasted. Now, I leave it in your hands to explore this ancient method of healing your body and connecting with your divinity at the level that is right for you.

Goddess Group – The Word for the Day is “Protection”

Peaches!

February is turning out to be fasting month!  Hey, wasn’t that a great post by Natalia yesterday?  I can’t wait for part 2!  Today is day 10 of my fast.  No more hunger pains, no more tears, no more fights with my mind.  I’m learning tons about myself, and my body.  Check this cool ditty out.  Our God pod comes with drains. When we eat the SAD diet, breathe in the earth dump or mainline stress and God dammit!, they get clogged.  If we keep on truckin’ we back up.  Like a stuffy septic tank, the toxins spill out onto our physical and psychological lawns.  They have no other place to go.  Pee-u!

Speaking of Pee-u, our biggest pathway of elimination is our colon.  By removing old waste through colonics, enemas, even the temporary use of certain natural laxatives, we allow our lovely livers to dump (gosh does that phenomenal organ need a break).  Here come the dominos!  Once our livers dump, our lymph system has a go at it.  After the lymph system says AMEN, then our cells receive the invitation.  It’s all so magically organized.  Virgos love that!

Our body, being the wizard chamber that it is, does everything possible to protect itself from the onslaught of acids and poisons.  It continually tosses the toxins away from vital organs and into the tissue and streams.  What happens next?  Sick, fat, pimply, tired and glass half-empty mentality settles in.  Then?  Dis-ease.  Remember, we are what we eat, drink, think and don’t poop.  Genetics plays a role in this for sure.  But current research suggests that the role is much smaller than we previously thought – about 5-10%.  Now that’s food for thought!

Imagine eating meal after stuffing/puffing meal (and snackies), and never properly eliminating.  Clearly, we back up and shut down.  We bloat and float.  The mind gets mad, the moods flip-flop, our sex drive withers, our jeans look lumpy.  Enter the self-esteem prison wardens.  They SUCK!  Never a nice word passes from their chapped lips.  No matter what you do, you are never enough.

Have you been taught that abuse is love?

Whether we do it to ourselves or give others permission to flog, this learned behavior is a byproduct of our twisted domestication.  If we are pure sunshine and God breeze then why on earth would we allow anyone (including ourselves) to trample the glow?

Perhaps the road back to the house of health is long.  Big whoop!  You can do it.  But as I have learned, and you have witnessed in my rants, it takes a willingness to be exposed.  Shedding hurts.  Shedding makes you shiver.  Shedding sloughs the barnacles and reveals the cherry red vintage mustang.

Are we really protecting ourselves by staying same ole same ole?

Drink your green juice ladies and gents!  If you’re feasting today remember to stay on schedule.  Check the previous “Goddess” posts for more details.  4-5 quarts of greens with a little lemon, apple or pear (if you need it for taste).  Keep it light and bright but nourish yourself.  Drink lots!

Peace and nudity,

Kris

Ps.  If the delicate butterfly always worried about protection it would never travel thousands of miles home.

Detox-a Go Go & Scan results!

Bonjour Butterfly Wing!

First and foremost, I’d like to thank my wonderful Blog Posse member Kathy Freston, and our super special guest Donna Perrone, for their terrific posts!

It’s day FIVE of my 21 day juice feast and I’ve made it through the dark side. But before I get into the nitty gritty, I must share a valuable tip I learned for long-term fasting. SALT! When fasting for more than a few days it’s important to add a ½ tsp of sea salt (Celtic or Himalayan) to a large glass of water 2-3 times per day. Otherwise you may find yourself with an extreme electrolyte imbalance. I learned this the hard way when my blood pressure started to tank. Lots of folks think it’s important to add fat during a fast. Not sure I agree, at least in the beginning. Yes, our bodies need fats, especially our brains, but oils clog the liver and fasting is the time to flushy flushy. Marine Phytoplankton and E-3 Live are great substitutes with loads of other benefits. Check them out!

Ok, onto the journal portion on this post. Tuesday was an embarrassing tear-fest. I could barely keep it together – major detoxing. Wednesday wasn’t much better. Yesterday I received my third colonic of the week and wowza did the stuffies keep on truckin’. I thought I was empty! Nope, as my colon hydrotherapist said, “here come the mummies”. By abstaining from solid food and living on 5 quarts of green drink per day, I’m allowing the old debris to finally release. Too many colonics in a row may not be right for the average person (your therapist would be the best judge) but at my intensely rapid level of detox it is essential. Probiotics are the key!

Here’s some other big news…

I got my annual scans back (GULP) and I’m happy to report that the tumors in my lungs continue to SHRINK. YES! My liver, the little rock star, is looking pretty darn good too. Its function is perfect and all is stable. DEEP SIGH! If you could see me right now you would notice my inner rainbow. ? These results motivate me to stay committed to my alkaline-loving, oxygen-thriving, juice-drinking, magical, raw diet. They also help me deal with the needles that are driving me crazy.

As I mentioned in my last blog, I’m in Arizona doing a medically supervised juice feast and receiving IV ozone, hydrogen peroxide, vitamin C, chelation and other nutritional therapies. Though the fasting kicks up a lot of physical and emotional stuff, overall I’m feeling really fantastic. My body loves the rebuilding and I thrive on the investigation! Three weeks seems like a long time but in reality I wonder if it’s really enough. I have a ways to go before I can totally say that I am in optimum health. But dang am I committed to the journey/adventure!

Next week we’ll be testing my hormone levels. After watching lady Oprah’s show on hormones I got really curious about my own levels. I’m only in my mid 30’s but I totally relate to the symptoms the women on the show were describing. Did any of you catch those episodes? Interesting stuff! The little “c” does prohibit me from experimenting with bioidenticals. And yet I wonder if better supplementation (and DIET!) holds another key. More on that soon…

I’ll also be testing my hydrochloric acid levels and (yuck) a stool sample. When hydrochloric acid is low in the stomach folks have a difficult time digesting and utilizing food. This can contribute to multiple problems, including candida. The test for it is wicked WILD. They connect a pH testing capsule to a string, drop it down your throat, and yank it back out. This gives the doctor an accurate read on your levels. If low, then a hydrochloric acid supplement is needed. I pray I don’t puke on the poor technician. Stool samples can also tell you a lot about your terrain. What I’m primarily interested in is the balance between good vs. bad bacteria. Gotta get the good guys growing and the nasties in check.

The other big decision I have to make is whether or not to get a port. Since it looks like I will be continuing these non-toxic healing therapies for about 3 (ish) months, there’s no way my veins can handle the daily sticks. One of them blew out yesterday when my favorite nurse poked clear through it by accident. I SWORE LIKE A TRUCKER AND CURSED MOTHER MARY. Sorry Mary.

Gotta be honest, the port freaks me out! So many of my readers have been there, done that. In fact, if you dear ones have any advise for this newbie I’m all ears. Haven’t totally decided yet but time is ticking.

Balancing all of these treatments in my life is another challenge. I guess where there’s a will there’s a way. Will my port go off in the metal detector? Hmmm…. So many questions…

Blessings to you today gorgeous bright one!

Peace and re-generation,

Kris

PS. I hope you all checked out the welcome video Brian and I created for you. Don’t forget to cruise around the site. There’s much information salad for your hungry mind.