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Published: June 21st 2006
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Fasting in Samui again
Thailand has some of the best food in Asia and probably the world, making it, by simple logic, one of the last places where you would fast. And yet, here I am for my fourth or fifth time on the tropical island of Koh Samui, living at a resort with, according to one survey, one of the fifty best restaurants in the world, and actually paying not to eat. Even worse, the money I’m paying would buy all 26 of the vegetarian specialties every day of my fast. Who said California was the only place where people did stupid things for their health?
Along with fasting I’m drinking disgusting detox drinks every three hours and choking down 31 capsules full of supplements every day. I swear, I’m getting more vitamins and minerals not eating than I ever did with three square meals a day. I'm also doing a twice daily coloma.
A colema, for those who don’t know, involves shoving a small plastic tube in your anus and pumping copious amounts of fluid through it to clear out your colon. Here at the Spa, there are five flavours - coffee, coffee with vinegar, lemon, garlic,
and hydrogen peroxide. I recommend the lemon. The garlic, while great for killing all the parasites in your colon, leaves you with a very distinct taste of garlic in your mouth for several hours. Coffee with vinegar is the favorite here, mainly because it’s the default mix that the staff gives you, and partly because coffee is off the menu and this is the only way to get a caffeine fix.
According to the literature lying around here, most debilitating and terminal diseases begin with a clogged colon, so it makes sense to get rid of some of the 2kg of gunk that most of us have in the colon. I got rid of some I think.
Why fast?
Apparently the enzymes that are supposed to remove toxins from the body double as digestive enzymes, so while we have food in our bodies they are busy digesting and don’t have time to get rid of the crap. I can testify to this, because I had a lot of crap coming out of my pores, lungs, and behind the last couple of days. Probably chemicals from Korean soju, Lao lao lao, Thai whiskey, Vietnamese beer, and my father’s
wine.
Fasting is also a part of most major religions (Lent, Ramadan, Passover etc), although it’s more likely a sensible thing that people did that the religion adopted rather than some teachings of some god. Except Mr Mohammad of course. Anyway, if that many god folks are doing it, it can’t be all bad.
Over the hump! If being thankful on a Wednesday afternoon that the next weekend is closer than the last, imagine how one feels here at the end of day four! Hungry, yes, but pretty elated that the end is in sight. I’m now at the end of day five and looking at the menu planning how to break my fast. At the start of my fast I saw others doing it and ridiculed them for torturing themselves, but now it seems to make some sense. It’s still torture though.
Four more colemas, ten more detox drinks, and 63 pills to go!!
Continued in
Eating in Samui
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