I decided to try Adina Niemerow’s Super Cleanse again.
The last time I tried it for a few days I felt fantastic and stopped drinking coffee completely. I weaned myself onto it by cutting out dairy first, which cut out the coffee since I was drinking about 1/3 a cup of pure cream or Half & Half (whichever was available) every day with my 2/3 pot of very strong coffee. Then I cut out wine and started cooking dinner earlier which made my family much happier. I wrote the goal of 6PM on my refrigerator blackboard for dinner and it’s moved dinner from 7:30PM to between 6 and 6:30PM. This was also a move from summer late sunsets and later eating in general.
This time with the cleanse, I did the One-Day Wonder Cleanse. It involves the least amount of work in my opinion. I did not feel as good this time and had a headache most of the day. I had green juice for breakfast, the Blissful Blend Broth for lunch and the Satisfy-Me Broth for Dinner. I also had a salad as a snack. I felt myself detoxing when went to bed by sweating a lot and woke up very early. The next day (yesterday), I continued with other cleanse menu items. I had the Rush Hour Coconut shake for breakfast, then a Beauty smoothie as a snack. I still had a headache though. For lunch I had some butternut squash soup I bought at the market. By dinner my headache had not subsided, so I decided to eat some of the brown rice and eggplant I was serving everyone else. After that my headache went away.
I realized when I did this last time I was doing cleanse foods all day, and then eating a conservative, limited meal with dinner. I felt great, so I will try that for the next few days.
Today, I again woke up early and I have to say, my skin looks fantastic. And I do not have a headache! There really is something to the skin and body revitalizing through simple foods. We are healthy eaters in my family, but I have a tendency to cook a lot of grilled proteins whether they are chicken, red meats, fish or shellfish. I feel much better with lighter fare.
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Congrats on taking charge of your health! I LOVE green juice! Going to make some for myself now (I affectionately call it Plant Blood – haha)
Good luck with your family experiment.
Thanks for your support Kristen. I like your site and just had to bookmark it! Great recipes.
Thanks Lisa, although I would only call raising a family an experiment in the sense that you can never completely control the outcome. Other than that, I think doing the best you can and applying techniques that build family unity work best.
I can’t really say techniques that people have used over the years because many practices that were acceptable in the past (punishing children, etc.) are not acceptable now.
Punishment is not acceptable? That all depends on whether that is what you call it. I do reinforcements, cause and effect, base on a steady linear scale.
Depends on the age of your child in question, with younger children as the easiest and teenagers as the most difficults, early intervention works best. If you let you child run wild and let them swing your vote early in their life, you might as well quiet right now without privacy invasion, all thanks to the help of myspace, facebook, u-tube and chat rooms. It takes the whole town to raise a child, and this town just got bigger with parental idiots.
With the help of myspace, facebook, u-tube and chat rooms, or the simple access to your computer without any proper boundary, that’s when your left hand doesn’t know what your right hand is doing. Do you have children that could access your computer? Do you know what they do while you are enjoying your “ME” time?
I used the work punish because of it’s connotation, and was referring to beating children, locking them in closets, hitting them with belts and switches which used to be acceptable and is now called child abuse.
Yes, I don’t know what town you live in, but most (at least the affluent ones) are full of parental idiots who are so busy trying to be friends with their kids they forget the part where they are the leader.
I’d still like to hear an example, a simple of one, of how you handled a problem with your child and how it worked out as an educational experience. I think other people if they read this or go to my website would find it helpful.
I do know what my children are doing while I’m having personal time. They older ones are at school and the little ones are at school or with their Nanna.
And my older children have their own computers, which they use for communicating on Facebook and doing their homework. Oh my God!!! Face Book!?! Yes, Facebook, they left My Space. And yes, they got in trouble for using it several years ago when they were younger, and could not use it again until recently. Since it is an understanding we have, I can walk in on their computer use, look over their should or ask to see their communications or site and they are not offended or upset. It’s all in the open and an ongoing conversation about internet safety.
How do you walk into their communication if they could now have multiple accounts? You have spyware on them? Here we go again, if you do, you are invading the child’s privacy, and if you don’t might as well kiss them goodbye for the one last time. Predators out there are for real, and they are looking for anyone who is raging with hormone.
As for getting my kids to walk straight (that’s how I call it), start early is the key. Next, show them there are other better ways to conduct themselves than their own conduct. The parents should be the advisor of all things, allow them to experiment early so that they would find out by themselves that you are always correct on the earlier issues, hence establishing mutual trust. Such trust, is expected to continue on as a trend, and children just love to be right on their own, and they are welcome to show off their correct opinions. It is all about logical thinking, investigating and reasoning, and the rest is very much peace in one’s mind.
Parents around my circle of friends are doing fine, what about yours?
Dow hit 7800 as I expected, and since it is near the year end, we could see it lower next year also. I can’t wait until I hear about the outcome of the G7 meeting in the next few days, but once again, lets be honest, if the business deserve a dead end, it should be just that.
Yes, it’s a double edged sword, damned if you do, damned if you don’t. I know I’ve raised my kids well, and I don’t feel that I’m kissing them off if I don’t know every last detail to the minute in their lives. The expectation has been very clear from the get-go that I am raising them to be adults with good judgment and sound reasoning. Responsibility Equals Freedom is the motto in our family. There is a book I found very helpful called Teen Proofing, by John Rosemond. I followed a lot of his advice based on his own experience, and thankfully have so far run into fewer situations than he. He’s got some great points and tactics.
When you are actually living with kids who are transitioning from pre-teen through their teenage years, your opinions will evolve as you adjust to your own child’s experience. We can lay all the ground work, but we can only hope it’s enough when it comes down to it. Wonderful children with good grades and friends have been known to change dramatically during high school. I’m on the third and fourth kid out of the six total (the older two are now college graduated), and feel fortunate when I see what some other people are going through.
My closest friends are doing great. They have a very tight, close family structure with lots of extended family involvement. Since there is a significant age gap between my two in high school and the four and two year-old, there are parents experiencing different things. It’s definitely most difficult with more pits in the road for the parents of high school kids. This is true of what I see.
Yes, the DOW hit a new low, and I was thinking about 7000….I hope not. The reason for the big opening drop was the margin calls of the night before. Some businesses may be poorly run (these banks), but many more are victims of this computerized irrationality. More companies are undervalued (their assets, and cash reserves are higher than their share price x outstanding shares) and there is not reason for them to be pushed down this far. I think we’re close. Obama’s tax plans will not help the market recover if he gains office, so I’d agree we could be looking at further market weakness.
What does DOW measure exactly to your opinion?
It was in the 7800’s the lowest just as I was expecting. Now after the G7, we will see lower.
The worst is not anywhere near, and Obama did not cause any of these. There is a momentum carry over to the next president no doubt, but it is not about who will, but who was.
The DOW simply measures a price-weighted average of 30 of the largest most widely held companies in the United States. It’s been criticized as not being a very good representation of what is actually going on in the market because of the weighting system.
No one said Obama has caused anything….he’s barely had an opportunity, but believe me he will. He’ll spend the first half of his presidency enacting restrictive legislation and trying to crawl out the mess made by the Bush crew. We will quickly go from recession to depression and rampant unemployment while he taxes those who employee people. Meanwhile sucking up all the money from the people and REDISTRIBUTING it! Which, btw, sounds good to people who don’t make any money and have no designs to do so, while it restricts the growth and development of new businesses. There are other ways to deal with the issues and the government collects plenty from the people–more than it should, and still can’t figure out how to manage effectively.
Bad economy means less taxes for the government, so they want to raise them further to keep up….it’s a bad cycle and one that will have only bad results.