Day 15 – A Chat with Dr. Rogers about Coffee Enemas

Mary Here… Today we had a phone conversation about coffee enemas with Dr. Dan Rogers of the Baja Health and Wellness Center in Mexico. He has been curing deadly diseases for over 35 years, using his Gerson PLus Therapy and protocols. The basis of Gerson is juicing, and returning the body’s internal biochemistry to normal function. It involves a major lifestyle change for most of us, and eating a whole-food, plant-based diet, which we finally are hearing more and more about. I have such respect for docs like Dr. Rogers, who were operating for so many years isolated from the medical system, a system that has so often felt threatened by information such as this. You see, if we can get healthy and remain disease-free on our own, through nutrition and lifestyle, we would not need all the drugs now would we? Food for thought??

Day 15 – One Quarter of the Way There!

Christine here…It’s almost midnight and the days have been flying by. Feels like I can’t get everything done, even this blog. We’re one quarter of the way through our 60 day juice fast! Yippee!!! I’ve lost 9 pounds so far and looking forward to what’s next. I’m going to try to get to bed before 1AM tonight. Wish me luck…

Mary here…  I’m exxxxhausted! It’s midnight and Christine & I just completed a 3-hour work phone call re a potential project…very interesting and paradigm-shifting information that will rock our world! Since we’ve been fasting and getting healthy at lightening speed, the doors of opportunity have been swinging open for us. Christine has been booking voice-over commercials, and my agent reconnected with me (after 6 years!) re potential directing work at NBC here in LA. Juicing does so much more than slim you down. It creates a positive energy field around everything you do. It’s so amazing. So, as you nourish your cells, you emit positive vibes, and thus attract like-minded positive people and situations. This is what is referred to as the Law of Attraction..not a new concept at all, but truly a wonderful one to live by. I look forward to what lies ahead for both of us! This is why we are referred to as 2 On the Shift….

FYI, here’s the video I was referring to in our previous videoblog.This is exactly why we are juicing..so that exercise like this is within the realm of possibilities! This is amazing! Enjoy!

Day 14 Two Weeks In

Christine here…Well we’ve made it through the first 2 weeks! I’ve had an extremely busy 2 days and we’ve had so little time to post videos. I had a recording session both yesterday and today and also a bunch of errands to run, so it threw me off a little as far as getting my juices in and getting my exercise done. I did get through it all pretty calmly I must say. I had a great recording session yesterday that went really smoothly and the client is going to be hiring me for more. Yay! I have to say that as soon as I started doing this fast I started booking more voice over jobs. Hmmm…who knows why but I am really appreciating the opportunities that are coming my way. As of today I am down 8.5 pounds and still feeling very energized. I’m even beginning to feel different in my body, I feel slimmer and I’m beginning to like how I look. My clothes are even getting looser. I am also feeling completely satisfied with the juices, although I have the occasional daydream about sushi or a salad, or other food I’m going to make when this is over. Tomorrow is day 15, which means we are one quarter of the way through our 60 day fast! I’m looking forward to hitting that milestone…

Mary here…Again, last night I could not sleep. I was up until 3am, and finally went to sleep. When I’m awake like this, I’m not feeling nervous or tense. It’s a peaceful calm feeling of simply not needing to go to sleep. I worked out again this morning…did 30 minutes on the elliptical machine and was so surprised that  I had the stamina to do it after  sleeping  for only 4 hours! Today was a good day. I’m so amazed at the amount of energy I have. I feel like I did when I was in my twenties! I actually took the dogs for a one-mine walk tonight! It’s now a little after midnight and I can barely write this blog. So I’m going to  cut this one short and head to bed..’Night ‘blogland’…..zzzzzzzzzzz

Juicing and the Law of Attraction

Christine here…Very busy day today. I had a recording session for a radio commercial for a new hotel and casino in Arizona, and found out that client wants to hire me as the voice of their resort…with more T.V. and radio commercials, and web VO to come. I seem to be working more since we began this juice fast…hmmm…I would say there’s definitely a link between the calm, happy, energetic emotional state I’ve been in and the positive manifestations…Life is good today!

60 Day Juice Fast and Coffee Enema Day 12

Mary here…Very interesting day for me. Again, for the second time since beginning this juice fast I could not sleep last night. Maybe it was the grapefruit juice? I laid in bed, not sleeping, until about 4am! But what was interesting was that I was not nervous. I calmly, could not sleep! I was relaxed but awake. Christine suggested that we drink the fruitier drinks earlier in the day, and end our days with the green drinks, this way we are taking in the natural sugars from the fruits earlier….Sounds like a plan to me.

I had an appointment today with my chiropractor, Dr. Stan Henderson. Dr. Stan is a third-generation chiropractor and licensed Pettibon System practitioner. The Pettibon System, www.pettibonsystem.com,  is a comprehensive rehabilitation program for the spine’s hard and soft tissues. It uses x-rays for diagnosis, assessing progress, and proof of treatment effectiveness. It tests each patient’s ability to respond to care, and trains patients in home-care for faster correction. This is not about ‘snap, crackle and pop’, as the traditional chiropractic systems have been working. This is a way to restore your spine to its normal state, the one you came into this world with! And Dr. Stan is a wonderful doctor and friend. I have been feeling much more solid and powerful since integrating this system into my life. It’s also another way to become involved in my healing, since part of Pettibon involves home exercises for the spine. Whenever I have back issues, resulting from sitting at the computer too long, I do my exercises, and the discomfort or pain immediately subsides.

I’m off to bed now..after I upload Christine’s video blog of the day..I so hope I can get a good solid night’s rest!

Christine here…Well it’s 12:15AM and I’m still up so I decided to write a little something. I was having the strangest realization today that, while I want to eat, I don’t really need to eat because I’m getting super nutrition from the juices and I’m drinking lots of water, yet I still want to eat. It’s like a reflex…I have an emotion, I put something in my mouth. I’m feeling kind of lost not being able to just eat something yummy and feel that satisfied feeling in my stomach and the emotional comfort of having a full belly. Instead, I’ve been very calm and peaceful and my stomach feels light and I feel light. I’m beginning to see how it’s possible to move through my emotions instead of “stuffing” them. To explore what I’m feeling and move my thoughts to something positive and uplifting. It’s actually quite easy. Yesterday I felt some sadness when I woke up, not sure why, and there was no bowl of oatmeal with walnuts and maple syrup to soothe the feeling. There was just me, and guess what? I felt the feeling and stayed calm, directed my thoughts and the feeling dissipated. It’s the Law of Attraction in action. Amazing! No wonder all the spiritual gurus and enlightened masters fast. There’s a very subtle energy building…becoming familiar with just being, and I’m here to tell you it’s quite nice. Now it’s time for sleep…good night!

Day 11 – Another Good Day!

Mary here…This has been a good day. I lost another pound! I’m now 164..started at 171.5, so I’m pleased with my progress. Last night I walked our dogs for about a mile..felt so good. Tonight I’m going on the elliptical machine for 20 minutes. I’m so appreciative to Christine who’s been making our juices today, as I’ve been editing…It really helps when you are doing a fast with another person.

I’ve been thinking lately about how many people in the US are overweight or obese. I noticed yesterday at the farmers’ market that there were probably over 80% obese people. It’s a real problem and I’m so hoping that by our taking care of ourselves through this juice fast, we can inspire others to try it too. It’s not about losing weight folks. It’s about loving yourself enough to get healthy. Most of us have had a crappy childhood, which is why most of us don’t really treat ourselves well. But here’s the good news…We do not have to hold on to the past anymore! We are living in the now..and now is a terrific place to begin. So think about what a wonderful person you are, and take care of healing yourself. You can do it. If I can, you can too. I let myself become overweight because I lost my (high-paying) job several years ago, and sank into a fear-based place. This stems from my childhood, coming from a family with an alcoholic father, and three brothers. I was lost in that household..never got normal attention from my parents because the focus was always either on my father’s drinking, or my brothers who were constantly in trouble. I am only now beginning to tap into my Divine being…(lots to share about this in future blogs..stay tuned!). Now is the perfect time for me to love my body, mind and spirit. For anyone out there thinking about trying this, feel free to contact me or Christine, as we are here for YOU!

Christine here…well it’s rather late and I’m not feeling tired. This juice is just giving me crazy amounts of energy, although I am feeling very calm. I upped my elliptical training to 30 minutes today and walked about a mile with the dogs. So far I’ve lost 7 pounds, down from 164 to 157, and almost 2 inches in my waist. As Mary said, now that we have a keen awareness of what it means to be obese, having a body mass index greater than 30, we have really been noticing just how many people easily fall into that category and way beyond. One in three people in the United States is obese. Obesity is the number one cause of most of our health problems, or “diseases of affluence” as they are called in the book “The China Study”. The culprit…the Standard American Diet (SAD). I read in “The China Study” that in the countries with the poorest people who live mostly on a vegetarian diet diseases of affluence such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes are practically non-existent. These diseases of affluence are all related to the consumption of animal products. I’m feeling more and more as I’m doing this juice fast that we need a lot less food that we consume and we don’t need to eat animal products at all. In fact, animal products are making us sick! The evidence is in black and white and it’s all around us! A plant-based diet heals, more on that in the coming blogs…

Farmers’ Market – juicing is not too expensive after all! Day 10

We were up and out early to get a jump on the best produce at the local farmers’ market and farm stands, stocking up for the next 7 days…

Mary here..We got home, unpacked and I was bushed..very tired today. Passed out and took a nap, which is very unusual for me. Now we are off to Franciscos Farm stand to complete what we need for the upcoming week.

Christine here…feeling fabulous today! Felt good to get up early and get shopping. We did really well at the farmers’ market and got almost everything we needed. Some items we got at a local farm stand because they were cheaper like strawberries and oranges, and then we went to Whole Foods for organic carrots. The farmers’ market does have lots of carrots, but Whole Foods has a 5lb bag of large (best for juicing) organic carrots for just $3.99. So we basically are stocked up for the week for the two of us and spent only $154 total. We’re actually spending a lot less money on this juice fast than we expected, because we’re lucky enough to have access to the locally grown produce. It’s definitely the way to go. After our plunder we decided to take the rest of the day off and just watch some old movies and chill, let our bodies suck up all the nutrients and continue to detox and get healthy. Felt really sleepy in the late afternoon and just went with it. So far 7 pounds lost!

DAY 8

Mary here..I was up late last night editing a testimonial for our dear friend and past life coach, Karen Sands. Karen’s work is amazing. She is a certified master coach & futurist, and offers tools and guides for people in their midlife years and older who are ready to embrace their greatness and ride it into their own futures. Karen’s company is called The Future Works Institute, and her link is on the right here…definitely worth checking her out…

I have felt absolutely exhausted today. This is the first day that I feel really hungry and a bit out of it. I went out to do a few minor errands and had the strangest feeling of ‘not fitting in’. Also, last night when I finally got to sleep, I had a terrifying experience..of what seemed alien forces coming towards me. I was resisting the energetic force of them by screaming a prayer, and woke myself yelling out loud. I was pretty shaken when I awoke..then (I guess) fell back to sleep.

There are so many other aspects to this juice fast experience, other than simply losing weight.  It is said that our DNA & our cells begin to transform back to their healthiest, original state. I can definitely feel something changing in me..I’m having strong sensations from when I was younger, as far back as when I was a kid.

Christine here…Mary and I are really in synch. I felt really hungry today too, and have been fantasizing about food all day, deviled eggs, sushi, bagels and lox, my mother’s pot roast with the wide egg noodles, oy!!! Since I haven’t eaten any of these foods in years, except for the sushi, I am wondering if my cells are beginning to dig deeper to release stored up toxins from those foods. I read online today that the cells do get cleaned out and even the DNA is affected by the juice fast. I am really not feeling sure today that I’m going to make 60 days. The thought of drinking another juice is turning me off at the moment. The only thing that keeps me going is knowing that at the end my body and my life will be brand new! I can’t think about that now. I’m off to bed, oy!!!

 

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