Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead Page #9

we should do it.

He got me to try and do it,

and I did it for three days.

And I rang him and I said mate,

I had headaches, I was cross,

I couldn't sleep,

I couldn't concentrate at work,

I said "I don't know

how you do it,

but I can't do this any more,

"I need a meat pie."

Are you ready for this?

Well hang on to your pineapples!

Because Phil fasted for

another 30 days.

That's right,

a total of 60 days

on nothing but fresh fruit

and vegetable juice.

As the weeks passed,

he had more and more energy

and his face began to glow and

in this community he has

inspired so many people.

He felt so good,

he wanted to spread the word.

So...

he started

a community juice fast.

Kale.

Here's how it worked.

The store got a hold

of 10 juice machines,

which they would lend out to

those willing to give it a go.

What did they have to do?

Six days, on nothing but juice,

as long as they consulted

their family doctor.

- I think it's good.

- I like it too.

The response was off the charts.

And people were already

signing up for the next one.

Well, the first day

I wondered why I did it,

'cuz you know I wanted to eat,

and the third night,

I got home from a 14-hour day,

where I usually would have

went to bed,

I went outside and I worked

for an hour and a half,

come in and I got on

the computer for an hour,

then I watched TV for

an hour and finally went to bed

at 10:
30 and had

to get up at 4:
00, so...

I know I had a lot more energy.

At Day 4, I felt amazing.

I sleep really well.

I lost eight pounds.

I'm down 15 pounds.

Got on the scale this morning

and I've lost 22 lbs,

so I'm tickled.

Today I just weighed myself

and I'm down 91 lbs, which is

six bowling balls,

ladies and gentlemen.

So that is what I used to carry

all over my body.

Good morning,

how are you doing today?

- I'm doing wonderful.

- Good.

How about the decrease

in the methotrexate?

That's going wonderful.

I was wondering if I could get it dropped some more sometime.

You can probably drop some,

some more,

you've been five weeks

without flares?

Without any flares.

Not even so much as pain

or an itch.

Once we get you off

the methotrexate,

then we can get you off

the hydroxychloroquine.

OK.

Eventually we'll have you

off of all of them.

When are you going to go

back to work and do all?

I intend to, hopefully,

I'm not going back

to driving trucks.

That darn near killed me.

I've got a few

applications up at the lake

for, you know, active jobs.

You know,

physically moving around.

So what's your family think?

They're all proud of me,

they're all happy.

My brother's a little jealous

'cause I'm catching up to him.

He's going up

and I'm coming down.

You know what I like,

I like Spam.

I know I shouldn't like Spam,

but I do.

It's nothing but ham with...

I eat Spam.

I love Spam too.

I used to have it in the truck.

Oh yeah.

I mean probably on the weekends

I could juice a little.

And I planned on doing some

walking and

a little exercise

here and there.

With me, it's the...

social, job, family limitations.

Yeah.

You know, if I did it, then...

Well, you know,

I'd be tempted by what

they have over here.

Then I'd probably fall

off the wagon.

You don't have to do it

as long as I have.

I mean you can do it

so that you can detox

and rebalance your body

like for a week.

It'd take longer than a week

to detox this truck.

I get that question a lot.

Do I have to do it

as long as you?

No.

You can do it for ten days,

I'd recommend at least a week

because, you know,

the first few days

you're gonna feel kind of leh,

you're gonna feel kind of

nauseous 'cause you're detoxing.

And then after a while,

you get energetic

and everything, and then,

you give it awhile.

Yeah, that's my problem,

trying to put

That would make a mess.

And it should be a

very good proving point

to a lot of people that

you can make

very radical lifestyle changes

without having to have surgery

or medicine or a quick fix.

This is gonna be longer lasting

cause you've completely changed

how you eat and

everything about the way

you live your life.

When I go off this,

I already got my mind made up,

I'm gonna just eat soup

and salad for a while.

I have no desire to eat any of

that fast food right now.

It's gone.

This is something

I've always wanted to do,

is to help people,

in some way or another,

knowing that

I helped Eugene out,

it made my life so much better.

- Hi, come on in.

- Hey Bear.

- Hi, come on in.

- Hey Bear.

Come on in the kitchen,

I'm gonna go sit down,

if you don't mind.

What happened?

I went up to Sioux Falls

and I had my knee scoped,

and it was right about two hours

after we got home,

and I had this pain

right across my chest,

I was hurtin'.

I thought it was gas...

And then it just kind of

creeped up into my jaw.

Its like I had lockjaw.

Oh, it just hurt so bad.

And then I got light-headed,

short of breath,

hot sweats just came through.

I was leaning on

my dresser going,

"Oh whatever this is,

make it stop,

"this is not right."

I told Claudia,

You better take me to the

hospital, somethings wrong.

And they hauled me up

to the hospital,

laid me on the table,

stripped me, wired me up,

they said I was having

a heart attack.

Scared the tar out of me.

Scared the tar

out of me too, bro.

I don't wanna lose

my big brother, you know.

What kind of medication

did they put you on?

What do you have in there?

Got a little bit of everything.

Some aspirin.

OK.

A blood thinner.

Metformin, that's for

my Type 2 diabetes

That's Mavic for my heart.

Lipitor, I think that's

that cholesterol pill,

I'm not sure.

A couple other..

The heart attack kind of

opened my eyes.

The way I was living was

not right.

And I'd like to get off

these pills.

Yeah.

Cause a lot of pills,

that's not right.

I'll end up growing a third eye

or something.

All right,

what are we startin' with?

It's usually

best to start with the kale

because the rest

of the vegetables wash it in

and mix it up.

Then just shove it down.

I got it, go ahead.

- Like that?

- Yep.

I think we can live

with this for a while.

Not full bore.

No, I'm not asking you to go

full bore because

in your condition right now,

it's not recommended.

I mean use it as

a supplement to your diet.

Something like,

you wake up in the morning and

you grab a glass of juice,

Mean Green, and

you can go on about your day.

I've always looked up

to my brother

He knows this is serious,

he knows this has helped me,

so he's starting to listen now,

he's starting to realize that

he can't be real selfish.

Hes gotta think of Claudia

and Vanessa and his son, Barry,

and the rest of us.

Little brother leads the way

kind of a thing.

Hello Dennis!

How are ya mate?

God, you look different.

- Oh thanks mate.

- You look great.

- How ya been, alright?

- Great, terrific.

- Doing good?

- Yea, very good.

- You're a new person

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