To catch up if you haven’t already read it check out part one of my 2011 detoxing saga. It was very oniony with a little bit of bacon. I’m not kidding.

For part two I want to focus a bit more on the excretory system. It’s the waste system. Your body has a few ways at its disposal to get rid of waste. (No pun intended, well not exactly.) To put it not-so-delicately, you poop it out, pee it out, or sweat it out. All that yucky stuff must come out!

Well, the former I have had some trouble with. You see my colon is very emotional. Stress me out and she freezes up which makes me kind ill. Miss Colon was in need of some help.

I chose to juice for lunch – no solids. Beets were the main ingredients. My dad knows them as a blood cleanser. Amongst my hippie friends they are known to be detoxing. And after doing a bit of online research after I started juice it appeared as if they are also laxatives as well. Had no idea, but it made sense when one afternoon I had to rush a bit to the baño.

The beets and her buddies in juicing, sometimes apples, carrots, lettuce, oranges and always ginger, cleaned me out well. Each morning. In fact, I had no choice in the matter. Usually, if I get distracted I can put off el baño time*. As I said in part one, I was feeling un-full, or empty. It was the strangest feeling ever. I couldn’t remember how long it had been since I hadn’t felt like stones lived in my abdomen.

Aside from stuff coming out of the regular places crazy things most definitely came out of strange places. Stuff came out of my skin. I tried really had to avoid wearing clothes that would soak up too much crazy sweat. Thank goodness it was summer so sleeves weren’t needed all day long.

The strangest thing was I would shower whenever I felt like it then I was fine until the my body started to sweat a bit or just create it’s own oils again. As soon as that happened I became the worst walking potpourri human combo. Near the end I did feel like what was coming out was staining my skin a bit. While there was no crazy blue color it became harder to wash away the crazy smells. In fact, it took a month or so for the bacon or onion fragrance to stop happening on a daily basis. Pretty gross and frustrating. But that’s okay, it was doing something which is better than nothing.

Anywho, while I was having only juice for lunch – about a quart daily – I never felt hungry. True I ate two regular meals a day. A fluid lunch didn’t leave me hungrier around dinner time really. Thank goodness because I was working quite a lot and hunger pangs or sugar crashes were unacceptable to me.

In part one I explained that after a bit over a week I started to feel overly emotional and actually felt like I had to stop. Certainly I’m not a doctor, so do take what I say next as experience not fact… I didn’t feel like I was dying and not getting enough nutrients. I did however feel like the detoxing effects were too much to handle while working. Perhaps if I had a couple weeks off work I could handle it fairly well, as I could rest and not worry about taking care of other people. Unfortunately, in that respect it will probably be awhile before that’s possible. The only down side to self-employment is no vacation or sick pay.

As far as whether or not I’ll be doing this again in the future, I’d say yes, but the timing needs to be right and I need to be highly organized to cut down on any unnecessary stressors while detoxing. I’m excited and nervous for my next detox and I’m sure I’ll make some alterations to improve my experience. I hope that was interesting and even helpful for those of you reading!

*Note: For me that was part of the problem. I’d get distracted and then it would be too late, the waste would be stuck. Yuck.

After note: I’m finishing this post several months after I stopped my juicing. It was a highly emotional experience for me and I needed recovery time before looking back on it. Add that with a couple of huge crazy things last September and I’m finishing it in 2012 instead of 2011. But life happens and goes on.