Kidney Detox Day 1 Rant

Say hello to my new friend, Dr. Schulze's 5 Day Kidney Detox!

After my emergency room visit and my strong desire NEVER to experience the several kidney stones I have in my right kidney (I have passed stones 3 times before...NOT my most favorite thing to do!) my hubby and I decided I should give this a shot. 

Frankly, I have also been very frustrated with my weight. While my husband went through his life threatening cardiac arrhythmia, I went through gaining back almost 50 lbs. Comfort food is a misnomer, because I...AM...NOT...COMFORTABLE!

And so, I had been working out sporadically at the Core Fitness gym throughout his illness. But once I reached my peak, I decided I needed to get more serious about my eating. Then...my trainer closed his gym! Ugh!

Thankfully, my old box, Level 10 Crossfit had started "Soft Start" classes for people who have injuries, are just starting out, are inactive, etc. So I jumped right in almost a month ago. And lost 5 lbs during the first 2 weeks.

Then a GI virus and the kidney stones. A week of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and extreme fatigue. I could hardly eat, and was drinking mostly fresh-made (at home) fruit & veggie smoothies with things like carrots, kale, superfood greens, beets, apples, pineapple, berries, bananas, etc. Can you believe I gained 5 lbs!? WTH?

We use Dr. Schulze's Superfood for our fruit smoothies every day. And we knew he had other products. So we shopped his website and found this box. It came yesterday, and I started this morning. It isn't easy, folks. In fact, it's kind of complicated, as well as DIFFICULT to accomplish!

The day starts with 16-32 oz. of his Kidney/Bladder Flush Drink:

Listen, that Cayenne Tincture is no flippin joke. I used 20. And it was some kinda spicy! E flavor was NOT BAD AT ALL. I can do this every morning for 5 days. 

This is followed immediately by his K-B Tea, which must be prepared the night before. I put 6 Tablespoons of this K-B Tea Mixture

into 60 ounces of purified water every night (because distiller is just nasty!). Mind you I must drink this three times today. As I write this, I am only on my second cup before lunch. It doesn't taste bad, but there is this funky little vial of Kidney/Bladder formula, which doesn't taste terrible,

and which I must add to every cup of tea. 2 cups of tea, 3 times a day. 

After the tea comes the Devil. I mean it. This part is awful. This cute little unassuming vial

isfull of some gnarly, strong, funky crap! 3 droppers full in a little shot of grape juice or other strong fruit juice (it tastes like jet fuel, really) right after the tea. And the real Devil is I have to do this 5 times today. Three of those are right after a giant cup of tea. Ugh!

Today and the last day I can eat raw fruits and vegetables at selected times of the day, but days 2 through 4 are all fruit and/or veggie juice, broth, and herbal tea at selected times of the day, all day. I must also drink at least 1 gallon of water or other liquid (Does wine count? No? Fine.) every day. 

If you are not thoroughly confused yet, then you aren't doing it right. 

So it's about 1:00 p.m. I am trudging through my large hot cup of tea, mostly because I am not looking forward to that darn devil Detox shot. And I have to eat too. Which I really don't have room for. But I will. Because I am OCD, and the direction say to eat. 

I have peed more in the last 5 hours than I think I normally do in a week. At least every 10-15 minutes. I am getting very tired (I did workout at Crossfit this morning before all this started) and my kidneys are a little throbby. But they have been like that for over a week. Blah blah blah....

Anyway, I feel the need to post this now because 5 days from now, when this little joyride is over, I want to see the difference between how I feel now and how I feel at the end. And let's...just...be...honest..... I do not ever again want to experience the pain of passing a kidney stone. Knowing they are in there is not comforting. Hopefully this will get 'em! 

And at is all I have to say about that.

The return of Crossfit part 2 and more illness

My return to Crossfit was a success! I went for 2 sessions per week for 2 weeks, plus homework workouts for the weekend. Completed it all with flying colors. Then, on the Monday night before my Tuesday a.m. workout, I threw up at dinner, out of the blue. I had been having a pain in my lower right quadrant for a couple of days, but I passed it off as gas (no pun intended!). I began to feel really horrible. 

I don't know what the deal is. I am starting to think I am either a hypochondriac or an actually sickly person. Hubby and I thought I had appendicitis. I ended up in the ER where I got a CT scan. No appendicitis but they did find several kidney stones and a defect on my other kidney, and I was diagnosed with a GI virus. 

Since this little illness started, I have gained back the 5 pounds I lost during the first two weeks at Crossfit, which seems really impossible considering the number of fresh fruit and veggie & superfood juices and smoothies I have consumed due to my lack of appetite and nausea. I am starting to feel better, but the nausea is lingering. Still, I am eating as well as I can and although I missed all of last week in the gym, I am back on track with my workouts too. I feel like I am just on a treadmill (actually, it's an elliptical...but I digress) and going nowhere, putting on and taking off the same few pounds. My whole goal is to lose weight and feel better. I feel BETTER....but I want to LOSE WEIGHT AND FEEL BETTER!

This little illness has really reinforced the fact that I need to get my crap together once and for all with my eating. I can workout 4+ days a week and never lose a pound. But I want to do everything I can on my own end, eat the right foods and exercise as much as I can, within healthy limits. So I am done. Really and finally. I've been juicing for the past week and my body is resisting every moment of it. But I know a breakthrough is on the way. How are YOU doing and where do you struggle?