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Good post.
You're right about the machines. The more expensive, better quality machines are the way to go, hands down. They are just better at processing then their cheaper counterparts.
The plus to a high tech blender like the one I have, the K-tech, is that by using that and a nut milk bag, clean up is ridiculously quick. You wash out the pitcher of the blender and rinse out the nut milk bag.....done.
These are funny videos used to get the point across at how powerful these things are: Will It Blend? - iPad - YouTube :Will It Blend? - Crowbar - YouTube
Amazon.com: Blendtec Signature Series Blender With Wildside+Jar (90 oz)- Professional-Grade-Self-Cleaning- Black
With the feast, there is no limit to what you can have. If you are still hungry after five quarts have six or seven. You can't over do it. As long as you sure you're getting the bare minimum of minerals listed on TMO for the feast, you're good to go. Also, make sure to drink plenty of water.
The difference between cleansing with a juice feast and cleansing with a water fast is energy. With the feast, you're going to have it. Not so much with the fast. This is why the feast cleanses a little slower and easier then the fast because you are still creating cellular waste in the form of digestion. Simple sugar is clean burning, but when you compare it to burning no fuel, you can see how it would slow the cleansing process down.
A side note....you're not typically going to have any type of libido surge or libido at all for that matter while cleansing. It's the last thing on the bodies mind as it's under going it's "house cleaning." This is normal, so don't be alarmed. Some people will feel great during the fast and others after. You just have to wait and see.
Thanks!
Wow, it sounds like the K-tech is more hardcore than my Vitamix (which does just fine with frozen fruit for smoothies, but I’m sure it couldn’t handle crowbars, lol.) The blender technique has the fastest cleanup, for sure. I do have to remove some pieces of my blender and clean the screen with a brush, clean the pulp out of the insides that didn’t make it into the bag, etc.
I’m not sure if what happened during my juice feast is normal or not.
So, during my juice feast, on Day 2 I had a bunch of dirrhea, which was to be expected. I figured that that was me getting rid of everything that was left in my colon. On day 3, nothing. However, now on Day 4, for some reason tonight I had a full bowel movement. I haven’t been eating anything, just the juice plus some water. It’s possible that a tiny amount of pulp winds up in the juice and is accidentally consumed, but not a significant amount and definitely not enough to create this full, regular-sized bowel movement.
Maybe I still had undigested food in my colon from 4+ days ago, but that thought kind of floors me because I normally have about 2 bowel movements every day. It seemed inconcievable that I could still have stuff from 4+ days working its way through my colon when I’m so regular. Maybe getting all of that out part of the whole cleansing/feasting thing, but I’m very surprised that it was there.
Side note: my libido is trending back upwards, though I don’t have morning wood right now. I feel like this is a “soft” downswing, up from the “hard” downswing that I had been going through. During PFS, I had a harsher decline several years post-PFS. At that point, I’d easily go 6 - 9 days until I felt any libido, and this lasted for roughly 5 years until I started the program. My friend who used fin at the same time as me, and quit when I quit, claims to have no PFS but says that for him, having sex twice per month is normal and ideal for him. So he was telling me that the 6 - 9 days was actually quite strong libido. I guess that’s how he was before finasteride and that’s just how some guys are, and his wife also has a low libido, so honestly, it doesn’t seem to be a problem. But my libido (pre-pfs) was always far higher than that, and during upswings I can feel that coming back. I can feel like getting all the way back is not only possible, it’s going to happen for me.
I’m doing video chats with my therapist and he is very supportive of the program, which is different than my last therapist who was like: “So let me get this straight. You’re not going to go to an endocrinologist or a urologist for this? You’re just going to listen to some guy on the internet instead? That doesn’t seem very bright.” And then he dropped me as a patient when I refused to go on SSRIs; he brushed aside concerns about sexual side effects in someone who already had unresolved sexual side effects. He thought SSRIs would improve my mood and therefore eliminate my symptoms, which is completely wrong. SSRIs cause more sexual side effects, not less. However, I learned a lot of helpful things from him that made me permanently less anxious and more confident, so I’m still very glad I went to him.
During hard downswings it may take me 2 or 3 days to feel some libido. My hard downswings are roughly like my initial time after quitting finasteride - no pleasure, but still okayish libido. This is an improvement from how they were earlier in the protocol, where I went back to feeling like a 90 year old man during downswings. During my soft downswings I want to fap every day, though I don’t. If I do slip up and fap during one of these softer downswings, I actually feel a weak orgasm, instead of nothing.
During my most recent upswing in December and January, I believe I had morning wood most days (but not rock hard), had almost pre-PFS libido, 100% pre-PFS ejaculatory force, and semi-pleasurable orgasms. I didn’t have full/normal sensitivity and pleasure, but it was more than normal (which is zero.)
Anyway, I have no doubt that I will beat this thing and get back to 100%.
Juicin’: Day 9
I’m planning to wrap up the juice feast after day 10. Right now I’d say that I don’t feel like I’m in high libido mode or anything, I don’t feel great or bad. I haven’t seen signs so far that this is causing a big upswing, and if it doesn’t seem to do anything significant in the weeks ahead then I’ll probably do a water fast. Maybe the juice feast is meant to make you more receptive to the herbs and everything, and it would be normal not to feel an upswing during the juice feast. So we’ll see how this goes for me. If it works, I’ll be very happy.
I can’t wait to eat real food again; I’m not overwhelmed with hunger or anything, because I drink juice when I’m hungry, but I just miss eating food.
I’ve lost about 10 to 15 lbs in the last month or so, dropping to 143 lbs. I’m not sure if, in theory, it would be best to drop down to like 125 lbs in some type of a crash diet, so that I could gain more muscle on the way back up. (Basically, regaining lost muscle, on the theory that gaining muscle / regaining muscle helps permanently, while losing muscle does not undo those PFS gains.)
I’m planning to use the prohormones again, but I need to work out the optimal timing. I don’t know that I felt anything special after the first cycle, though. But it’s hard to say.
I slept 8 hours on Friday into Saturday, and 7.5 hours last night, but I still feel exhausted. I have gotten such poor sleep lately that I desperately need to catch up. I’m sure that that is not positive for my progress; it’s best to be getting good sleep each night.
So after 1 day post juice feast, I haven’t noticed anything different.
My libido is basically nonexistent and overall I feel as bad as I ever have in terms of PFS symptoms. It really bothers me when I don’t have any morning wood for weeks and weeks and weeks.