50 lbs in 5 mo, Intro

I intend to get skinny. I'm approaching the age where one either gets old or dies and most of the old people I've observed have been skinny. In addition, most of those I know who make it with their original hips, knees, and teeth are skinny. I therefore will not only lose 50 pounds in the next 5 months, I will lose it through a lifestyle change such that it stays gone.

That is the what and why. the when and where are easy. When is now and where is irrelevant.

The how is simple to explain but it may become complex in the execution: I will fast 2 to 3 days each week until I reach my target. I want the process to take 5 months and will adjust my efforts to keep that (relatively slow) pace. In other words, I believe I could lose 50 pounds in 2 months but not with a sustainable lifestyle. by taking 5 months, I hope to make my lifestyle "normal"--a style of life I can continue for the rest of my life.

A secondary goal is to come up with a detailed Introduction to DetoX. Our current manual is basically the same one that was passed on to us. A straight forward procedure with little theoretical information. We need a philosophy of DetoX. We need to experiment with alternative suggestions for using the product as well as alternative methods of cleansing.

This blog will for the basis for an Introduction to DetoX. Each week I will perform a cleansing experiment using myself as the guinea pig. Each week I will attempt to come closer to an easy to understand explanation of cleansing and its benefits. I hope some of you will follow along and contribute.

Buddy

understanding cleansing, part 1

Cleansing cannot be defined because it cannot be isolated. It includes (and is a by-product of) what appears to be its polar opposite (nutrition). Cleansing can only be understood in a spiritual or whole-body sense.

Take any organism and you find two primary, and supposedly independent, functions:

1. absorption of nutrients (nourish)
   
2. elimination of waste (cleanse)

They are thought of as independent because separated in time and space. We eat in the kitchen and sh_t sometime later in the bathroom. Many of us never make the connection and yet:

1. the better you nourish, the better you cleanse,
   
2. the less you nourish, the better you cleanse,
   
3. the better you cleanse, the better you nourish
4. the less you cleanse, the sicker you get.

We shall discuss each of the above statements in coming days.