I neglected to get a pic of what I looked like back in October. I was in so much pain from being impacted to the point I could not even expand my torso to breathe. The red line is where it was. This is my 6th impaction in 2 years as well as chronic constipation. Once my fiance moved in he insisted on more American style food plus multiple meals a day; so I had pasta, rice, pizza, etc without paleo alterations cause of 1. money and 2. I didn't want to fight about food. Mean while all my work to heal went out the window and I couldn't keep up with ridding the food from my system.
I got into my new DO and I gained so much weight just in undigested food in my system. I was above 350! They guessed it was 365 or more, so at least 30 lbs of impaction in my gut!!!
Since he had to move across LA for various reasons I went to a detox protocol. I went liquid only for Oct through Nov, bone broth, juice, and soups. By Nov I was feeling the malnutrition so I started eating 3x a week, and it's like one small thing a day that's easy to process followed by a detox juice to pass it fast. I juice things like watermelon with pineapple juice, juice of 1 lemon with a lil rind, and purgative herbs like fenugreek and triphala. Works pretty quickly. Now I've added in a multivitamin, NAC, and Tryptophan due to blood labs.
This is how much my stomach has gone down since the beginning of Oct. I am considering a more severe cleanse or including something like slippery elm or chinese rhubarb to ramp up the purging. This is taking forever...
