Chirky

Colon cleansing, while totally disgusting, is really helpful to alot of people.

I just think it is hilarious that you have an entire post about it...with a link!

Funny girl :)

Yep, do it every year in January. Hate it hate it hate it. I fast for 5 days and have 3 colonics in a week. Did I say I HATE them? I live on Martha's Vineyard and there is only one doctor that does them. She makes a whole study out of your feces, which she can see pass by to a clear tube. She'll tell me I am deficient in this or that, she'll tell me I eat too much sugar and worst of all: she will tell me that I don't chew good. Which is true, I inhale my food. The good part is... a lot of OLD stuff comes out, that indeed stays behind in the cracks of your colon track. So after 40 to 50 minutes on her table in a very uncomfortable position (and with a tube up your butt!) you really DO feel much lighter, cleaner and healthier. But after those 3 (sometimes she'll tell me I NEED more) I won't come back for a whole year. Elvis has left the building. Good luck!

Oh my gosh, you weren't kidding when you said don't click... I wish I hadn't clicked! yuck! yuck! yuck!

I read this woman's blog who has talked about her enemas before.

http://openingalldoors.typepad.com/the_infertile_gourmet/

Anyways, I've never done one myself, but I've been considering it. I've heard Janet Jackson does coffee enemas. Oh and Hilary Swank too.

I guess I'm just afraid of what's going to come out.

Well, I LOVE talking about poop! I think it's funny. But I think maybe I find interest in it only because I am CONSTIPATED 99.9% of the time. So...I could probably use a good colon cleaning.

P.S. I really like that silverware in that pic.

Brian always threatens that he is going to take a picture of his poop and post it on his blog. Whenever he is EXTRA proud of it.

NAS-TY.

I've done cleansings a few times. It's a lemonade fast, so you don't eat anything (except the lemon pulp) for 10 days. Meanwhile you drink the Smooth Move tea, and drink two quarts of water with ALOT of sea salt in it. NAS-TY!!!!!

The salt water basically scrapes junk that has been sitting in your colon out. So 9 -10 days since your last meal, you are still "going". Nice, eh?

I can't make myself drink the salt water anytime soon. It's so horrid, but it works. This whole program is called the Master Cleanse. It's been around for a long time.

Gross pics. I have not tried it. But 10 - 15 POUNDS?! It might be worth the try!!

John Wayne never had an autopsy according to this:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/fecalcolon.asp

I have always been curious about colon cleansing... but I don't think I could ever CHOOSE to have that done unless it was life-threatening or medically necessary.
What was that show... Dave Navarro or someone let the cameras roll when they had it done on MTV years ago. EWWWWW!

Wait a sec, JCol: BRIAN HAS A BLOG?

Why did I not know about this before?

I stand corrected! No feces for John or Elvis. Still, doesn't that just SOUND gross?

Good grief- well it would be a fast way to lose some weight before the wedding....nah

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I, um, uh, wow. I got nothing.

I think I just barfed a little in my mouth.

What a post! :)

I heard of such things before, but ...

I was kind of trying to ignore the whole healthy colon thing, but 15 pounds you say??

Suck it up!

This accumulation can have the consistency of truck tire rubber. It's that hard and black.

I could have gone all week/month/year without knowing this....

The competetive nature of me thinks I can get more than 15 lbs out of me... Wholly molly I am just wrong

Did anyone actually read all the way to the bottom and see that there is an ergonomically correct way to have a bowel movement? And for just $69 you too can sit on the pot correctly.

And Steve, I so double dog dare you to do this.

oops. No, the horror is that he wants to post it on MY blog. No, Brian has no blog. I think he's anti-blog.

HMPH!

I HAVE heard of celebrities doing this, but WHY would I want to know?

I am extra-proud of myself for managing to resist clicking the link. Yippeee. Because the last time someone told me not to click a link and I did, it was of a weigh-lifter who supposedly blew his anal muscles out during competition and it showed EVERYTHING. ICK! Reminded me when I was a kid and we watched our cows give birth.

I don't particularly like to discuss poop (let alone spell the word out or say it), but I will say that when I was anorexic I tried laxatives as a method of losing weight. Doesn't work. Will allow you to maintain your weight (much the same with vomiting), but not so much lose a ton of weight. Additionally, eventually you will lose all bowel control (I didn't do it for longer than two weeks before going in for treatment). Eww. I wonder how the regular colonics impact one's bowell control and bowel health, really.

I could stand to have an easy way of losing weight though... I sure as heck haven't been walking enough or doing those pushups or watching what I eat like I need to be! :P

I tried to comment, but it didn't go through. Oh well.

No colon-cleansing here, but I've had a colonoscopy (father had colon cancer) and I have IBS and hemmerhoids, and a husband with ulcerative colitis (I KNOW, TMI) and I can say with TOTAL TRUTH that I have no desire for any more action in my colon area. Zero. Because GAWD, it's misree when it goes awry. And even HAVING ANYTHING down there is just.....GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

I wonder if this sort of weight loss actually helps change your figure. I mean, will it actually replace crash dieting, or is it *just* to be healthy and cleansed?

Wow. What an... interesting concept. I'd like to lose 15 lbs and feel all cleaned out and all, but it seems like it would be SO painful.

And really, who ARE these people who do these for a living? Seriously!!

Jes, I think I need to psych myself up to click on that link, and I'm just not ready yet.

AND I DID NOT JUST READ THAT STEVE IS ACTUALLY THINKING OF TOPING 15 LBS.

Jes,
If I'm not mistaken, and I very well may be because I heard this from the 3rd cousin of a girl who's brother is in alternative school and was told IT IS TRUE by Johnathan who dislocated a math teachers patella.

Johnny Knoxville immortalized THE COLONIC, THE WHOLE COLONIC, and all 45 MINUTES of FECES FLUSHING FUN in either Jackass The Movie or one of the 1/2 hour episodes of Jackass. It's also rumored that he clenched while full up and crawled out into the waiting room bare-assed and let it spray dousing a geriatric patient.

In other nac news, Jitterbugs burned to the ground last week throwing off the whole bar karma of the town. Luckily the students at School For Alcoholics have departed to rehab for the summer.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

I clicked the link.

Oh, come on, people, like you can resist?

NB: the HealthStep. When I traveled in Southeast Asia, where the squat toilet is ubiquitous, I was told that squatting is better for your system than sitting on the commode in our prim and proper Euro-American way. I can't say that I found it any more, um, effective; but in part that may have been due to the constant worry that I experienced when trying not to lose my balance while squatting over a hole in the floor. Not sure.

Disgusted with the whoile presentation.