Dara Dietz Blog

December 31, 2011 I began what I hoped would be a sixty day juice fast. I had been inspired to do this after watching the movie, “Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead”.  The juice fast was going very well; I had made it to day 37 and had lost a total of 46 pounds.   My energy was through the roof, I felt emotionally great, everything was looking up, I was sure I could do the whole 60 days.  Day thirty seven was a Sunday, my regular massage day.  Neither Darlene nor I thought to question the wisdom of a massage while doing such an intense juice fast.  The next morning I was feeling quite sick. My kidneys were kicking me hard for way too much abuse.  The weight loss had been all they could handle now with the added toxins needing to be processed from the massage they were over whelmed and I was in a world of hurt.

Monday & Tuesday I drank the kidney flush drinks and supported my kidneys with the herbals they liked the most.  Tuesday afternoon I went to bed and was out for several hours.  I woke up around 9 pm to find my husband working on his computer in the lounge next to our bed.  I struggled to the bathroom and then back to the bed where I slept until 2 am.  I woke needing to make a fast run for the bathroom, it was all good.  My kidneys no longer hurt, I felt all better.

Wednesday and Thursday I felt great.  Friday I woke up with thick green puss coming out my eyes and nose.  My vocal cords were so coated with the stuff I could not make a sound.  My head was full of that sticky green stuff.  It took several weeks and a couple of ELF’s to clear the worst of my symptoms.  Even so I was weak as a kitten.  The day before my crash I had easily done two miles on my treadmill.  Over the next few months I continued to be very weak, I could not go more than a quarter mile on the treadmill without my knees buckling and feeling totally exhausted.

I kept expecting to begin feeling better but as the months slipped by my condition was growing worse.  I regained all the weight I’d lost plus a few pounds.  Motivation for doing a healing program with lacking, the idea of exerting myself in any direction required extreme effort.  Whatever had infected me in February still had a hold in my system.  December arrived and I was determined to do something to help myself feel better so I decided to begin by going on a raw food program.  I lasted for a couple of weeks before modifying to a low carb mostly raw food program.   Simply put I cut out all bread, pasta’s, and processed foods.  I also started doing an ELF once a week.

With only those few minor changes I started feeling a bit better.  My energy was moving up the scale.  Then in January a friend needed help with his incurables program.  We all decided it would be a great idea for him to stay here and do it with me.  I needed the support and he needed someone to show him how it was done.

Last week we did our first week of Liver Flushing and juice fasting.  We were not perfect.  I’m sure we will get a good rhythm to our day as we continue on the program.  This week it is Kidney Flushing and we are eating raw.  Finding time for all our drinks and programs is the real challenge.

The year that began with such promise floundered in the middle but ended on an upswing.  I learned a lot about myself in 2012.  Discouragement need not destroy; The Lord provides the strength I need to rise above whatever life throws my way.

I’m becoming a Raw Foodie.  Yes, I’ve been holding out on you.  Around the first of December I began a juice fast that evolved into a raw food program.  Many of you will remember the 40 day juice fast I crashed from last February.  The effects of that crash are still plaguing me.  An overall feeling of weakness has settled into my system and a stubborn cough that will not clear.

To recap, last February, on day 37 of what I had planned to be a 60 day juice fast, I received a massage.  Neither Darlene, my massage therapist nor I had any concerns.  A massage on day 37 of a juice fast, I discovered, is a really bad idea.  I had lost 47 pounds which was taxing to my kidneys.  (A weak point in my body). The massage was on Sunday afternoon, by Monday evening the pain in my back was so intense I could hardly walk.  To make a long story short, I used the herbs to support my kidneys enabling them to clear the waste and return to normal function by early Wednesday morning.  The real crash arrived on Friday when I woke up with thick green puss coming out my eyes, nose and mouth.  The stuff coated my vocal cords preventing talk for several days.  The puss seemed to fill my entire body, gumming up my liver, Kidneys and bowel function.

Since February I’ve done several liver flushes and used the herbal tonics in an effort to clear this awful mess from my body.  Some success has been achieved but it has been slow.  Starting in December I decided to do a full out battle to clear this goop from my system once and for all.

Exactly what have I been doing?  The first of December I juice fasted for a week.  After five days of nothing but juices I felt worse.  All the waste was trying to flush out all at once.  I had a headache, felt very weak and could not get enough sleep.   I did an Elf and cleared a lot of the toxic symptoms.  I should have done two or three in a row but didn’t.  Instead I decided to go raw for a while.  My body simply did not want cooked food.

I did nothing but salads for two weeks before I realized I needed a better plan.  Google provided an excellent raw cracker recipe.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups ground flax seeds
• 2/3 cup whole flax seeds
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 2 tablespoons red pepper (chopped very small)
• 2 tablespoons parsley (chopped very small)
• 2 teaspoon chili powder (or your favorite savory spice)
• 2 and 2/3 cups of water
• 1 and 1/3 cups of sunflower seeds
• 1/2 cup black sesame seeds (or regular white sesame seeds will do fine)

Directions:

• Mix everything together in a mixing bowl.
• Spread batter on parchment paper or a teflex sheet.
• Remember that the above recipe should make two dehydrator sheets worth of crackers. Spread the batter out evenly. Using the back of a spoon works well.
• Score the crackers. Use a knife to score the crackers along wherever you want the crackers to separate. This will make them easier to break later on.
• Start dehydrating the crackers. I generally dehydrate everything at 120 degrees for the first hour, and then reduce the temperature to 105 degrees for the remainder of the cooking time.
• After 8 hours remove the parchment or teflex sheets and place the crackers directly on the dehydrator tray.
• Set timer for 12 more hours and finish dehydrating. Some people like their crackers a bit moist. I like them to be very dry. If you plan on keeping them for a few weeks or more in storage, then you must ensure that there is no moisture left.

Hint: A good way to make sure that they are really dry and dehydrated is to pinch them hard. If all of the moisture is gone, you should not be able to feel any movement. If you pinch a cracker and it gives a little, it needs to be dehydrated longer.

 These crackers are great!  You can put nearly anything on them.  Tomato, Avocado, onion, ect… just build up a great cracker.

And so the story continues…. More to come…