Healthy Food – Naturally

(For 3 weeks, I did the milk cure, drinking 3 1/2 quarts to 1 gallon of raw milk each day. Except for water, all I had was milk. This is a series of posts (25) keeping track each day. For the entire series, start out on “Trying Something Old“). All links to the series is at the bottom of each article.)

I ended getting to sleep really late for me, after midnight.  I downloaded the Hunger Games trilogy onto my iPad and I got so caught up in the books that I went way past my bedtime.  Still slept well, once I got to sleep and woke up just fine at my regular time.  (Since I have to be at work at 6am during the week, my typical wake-up time is around 4:30 am. Even on the weekends, I wake up around then and then allow myself to go back to sleep.)

Ended up doing a detox bath in the mid-morning. Since GC was over in the afternoon, I wanted to get it in. I put on some meditative music, pour in Epsom salts and baking soda and my special detox oil and just lay in there, relaxing and floating away. I’m thinking of adding some ginger to my detox bath for the rest of this week.  I really like the fact that I’m seeing some sweating (not a lot, but more than I’ve ever done in my life) and I’d like to promote that and encourage it.  It seems that adding ginger to my bath (fresh grated or powdered) might be just the trick to doing so.

One of the hardest things on this milk cure is the regimentation.  The fact that I have to drink my milk ration at specific times during the day (hourly) is both a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing since I don’t get hungry during the time I’m doing it (or even the 12 hours I’m not) and so I’m not tempted by food at all.  The curse of course is that the regimentation takes up my day. I’m planning errands around getting back to drink my milk in time (or having to carry milk with me).  I still have to be up by 7am to start which means no sleeping in for me or even real naps (I am not a cat napper). Long term activities are out right now (with the exception of work where I just take my gallon with me). Even stuff around the house needs to be worked into the milk schedule. I’ll be glad when I can return to my regularly scheduled life.

But, as I keep having to remind myself, this is a rest cure. It’s about taking myself out of that regular schedule and allowing my mind and my body to rest.  This is something that people would actually took 4-6 weeks out of their life and headed to a sanatorium to “take the cure”. Its meant to be disruptive to your daily life and force the rest your body needs to allow the healing.  I’m not sure how easy this would be for someone whose responsibilities require them to be on all the time. It’s definitely something to plan for and carve out time for.  In choosing to do this the way I have, I’m lucky in that I am single with no children and have no one else to be responsible for.

Being My Own Human Guinea Pig

My basal temperature is again slowly rising consistently. I’m hopeful that it will stay at this end, because if it does, then its a possible indicator that my metabolism is actually starting to speed up. Normal Basal Temperatures are between 97.8 and 98.2.  Mine has been mostly normal.  I’m happy in the 98.2 or 98.3 range.  I’m noticing that when my basal rate is higher the chances of my losing weight are greater. (It’s not a 1:1 ratio (there is Day 7 where I gained weight when my basal rate was 98.2), but other than that consistently when my rate has been 98.2 or higher, I’ve lost weight.

Another half pound down this morning!  Almost 6 pounds gone in 2 1/2 weeks.  That is amazing. If I don’t lose anymore weight during this time period, I’ll still be happy with the results.

Blood Glucose came up for fasting and noon-time tests.  It’s still consistently lower than it was in the first week and a half, so I’ll take it. Unfortunately, I noticed that I’m almost out of glucose strips. I ran to the drugstore yesterday, but they only had packs of 100 strips for about $60.  Sorry, not paying that, I ordered some from Amazon (50 for $17) and I’m hopeful that they will be here by tomorrow.

The white furrow is slowly fading and I’m confident that my tongue will be totally back to normal at some time this week.

Day	Weight	Basal Temp	Glucose: Fasting	Glucose: Noon	Glucose: Bed
Baseline	201.4	97.9	114	104	110
Day 1	200.2	98.2	115	120	103
Day 2	198.2	100.2/99.1	124	115	129
Day 3	197.2	97.9	150	96	119
Day 4	198.0	98.1	151	116	107
Day 5	197.4	98.1	116	105	101
Day 6	198.0	97.8	134	113	106
Day 7	198.2	98.2	134	107	85
Day 8	197.8	97.9	99	102	107
Day 9	197.8	98.1	105	95	93
Day 10	196.6	98.3	94	112	105
Day 11	196.8	97.9	142	114	92
Day 12	196.8	97.9	98	103	103
Day 13	196.8	98.0	112	100	89
Day 14	197.2	98.1	107	107	95
Day 15	197.2	98.1	91	92	81
Day 16	196.2	98.2	97	96	96
Day 17	195.6	98.3	107	110	97

Series

1. Milk Cure 2012: Trying Something Old
2. Milk Cure 2012: Preparations
3. Milk Cure 2012: The Day Before the Cure
4. Milk Cure 2012: Day 1 – And Here I Start
5. Milk Cure 2012: Day 2 – Why Am I Doing This?
6. Milk Cure 2012: Day 3 – Ups and Downs
7. Milk Cure 2012: Day 4 – Milk as a Health Food Part 1
8. Milk Cure: Day 5
9. Milk Cure 2012: Day 6 and Milk as a Health Food Part 2
10. Milk Cure 2012: Day 7
11. Milk Cure 2012: Day 8 and Milk as a Health Food Part 3
12. Milk Cure 2012: Day 9
13. Milk Cure 2012: Day 10
14. Milk Cure 2012: Day 11 – Halfway There
15. Milk Cure 2012: Day 12 – Milk as a Health Food Part 4
16. Milk Cure 2012: Day 13
17. Milk Cure 2012: Day 14 – Can Raw Milk Go Bad?
18. Milk Cure 2012: Day 15
19. Milk Cure 2012: Day 16
20. Milk Cure 2012: Day 17
21. Milk Cure 2012: Day 18 – Raw Milk is Safe
22. Milk Cure 2012: Day 19
23. Milk Cure 2012: Day 20
24. Milk Cure 2012: Day 21 – The Last Day
25. Milk Cure 2012: The Day After

 Links

• Take a Detox Bath for Body Purification (detoxbathtoday.com)
• Ginger Bath – Sweat Those Toxins Out (pureinsideandout)

Tags: milk cure, milk diet, Raw Milk, raw milk cure