Acai Berry - Half Month Point

This is a little late in coming, but perhaps that in indicative of how exciting the results have been! To the half month point, which was a little while ago, I can't say there were any significant change in energy, health, or body size. As I indicated before, I'm not using a weigh scale, but if I had lost any weight, I am almost certian this would be the result of the colon clensing and not any loss of fat.

I have recently performed an in depth, analytical surface review of the effects. After a lot of self therapy following that tramatic experience, I can report no significant visual changes. Also, my pants seem to fit the same as they did at the beginning of the month.

So - so far - Acai Berry - not a magic fruit so far... but we'll see after a full month before I start experimenting with other forms of Acai (like the juice).

On another note, I am enjoying the tea. It has a lovely fruity taste and is available for about $12 at Shoppers Drug Mart. One bag for a pot of tea seems to be adequate!

Acai Berry Report - Week 2

So, another week has passed on the Acai Berry crap and the Colon Cleanser. I can't say I've had any noticable increase in energy and since I stay away from scales for self-preservation reasons I can't say I've lost any weight. I don't feel any worse for wear and so I'll continue to the end of the trial.

If I was using a scale and did have a decrease, then I'm almost positive it would be from the colon cleanser... I continue to "clense" regularly and when they report on riding yourself of the build up of sludge, I can honestly say that is what it seems like... Not to be entirely gross, but the departing matter could be accurately described as sludge... Maybe this is a good thing and will have some sort of impact on my overall internal operating system! We'll see.

So far, I am personally still feeling okay. I did have a "down" day last week - when I felt kinda low - but it was a long week and I was tired. It could be nothing more then that...

So that is the end of week 2... nothing to exciting to report yet. :-)

First Few Days with Acai

So after a weak start, I remembered to take my Acai Berry stuff along with the Colon Cleanser each evening. I think I'm actually supposed to take one pill of each in the morning and one at night, but I've been doubling up when I remember at night.



So I can't report that I've gone down 2 dress sizes in 3 days. Of course I avoid wearing dresses, so maybe I have. And I haven't experienced any increase in energy, although it was the first week of school...



But I can conclusively report that my colon is getting clensed!



BTW, I'm attempting to send this from my blackberry, so if this works, perhaps it has increased my technological accumine.



Oh hey, blackberry... Acai berry... Hmmmm...

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Acai Berry Day 1

As September 1 is my articially appointed start to my Acai Berry adventure, I promptly forgot all about it until mid-morning as I was working through payroll reconciliations. Now, why payroll reconciliations would remind me of my little adventure is beyond me. Perhaps I thought it would be significantly more exciting... hmm...

Now, please understand, today was also the first day of school. So perhaps I could pleed that the additional stress involved in getting them up and out the door caused me to forget. However, as my husband actually has primary responsibility for that task, I really have no plausible excuse.

So I took them tonight and will see what happens.

I can tell you that, since I decided to take the pills, I thought I should at least check out the alternatives to the "free" sample that would cost about $150 a bottle per 1 month supply after the inital "free" one. Well, at the local health food store (and this is in Kenora, so there is only one), there is a reasonable selection of Acai Berry stuff, including pills that have the same Acai berry content. This bottle costs about $50 for a 3 month supply. Hmm.. They also have Acai Berry Tea and Acai Berry juice. I purchased all of them for further experimentation. This should be fun. I'm hoping it's not explosive though! I did have a very interesting experience with a bucket of strawberries once. Did you know that strawberries are a natural laxitive? Well, now you do!

Stay tuned. We'll see what happens tonight. If I die from Acai Berry pills, please note that my parents have a copy of my will...

The Journey of a 1000 miles begins with one really stupid step

Why Take this Journey at all?

That is a very good question. The decision to try out Acai Berry crap started scientifically enough (ha ha)... It was August the 8th. I was feeling, well, PMS-ish. In other words, achy, crampy, bloated and not in a good mood... Overall, just feeling gross and unattractive. I was on my computer and saw the add - follow one simple rule and life will be nervana... Okay, perhaps it was a little more subtle then that - but the message was there. Do this one thing and you will have more energy, feel more healthy, lose weight, and, as a result, be more confident, gain friends, influence people and have a mane of glorious hair... Okay, I may be exagerating just a bit (but really only a bit). Regardless, it was magic in a pill and, if you order in the next 2 minutes, you can try it for free - only 3.95 for shipping and handling.

Well, you can imagine my glee... and yet, even in my weakened emotional state I was skeptical. So I googled Acai Berry. There were many reports on the benefits of the Acai Berry and it was on the top ten foods just before blueberries... so this must be good. I hastily pulled out my credit card and ordered the free Acai Berry and accompanying Colon Clenser...

It took less then five minutes for buyers remorse to set in. What had I done? A seemingly intelligent person, I had just fed my credit card number into an unsecured, unknown site... Was I completely insane? Or just an idiot? Perhaps both.

Then started the daily vigil of my credit card account on line. I checked regularly for any mysterious charges... Fortunately, I just paid for two trips, so the card is, essetially maxed, but after several days there were two charges from the company... not 3.95 as they advertised, but 7.95 each. My scam detector was now in full alert. I was sure that there was no bottle of Acai Berry crap on its way and that I was heading into a long and arduous battle against fraud.

However, within a week, one of the bottles did arrive. The invoice inside the package indicated that I was charged 3.95, but not Canadian dollars - British pounds. Hmm... I went back and checked the site. Canadian flags everywhere but no mention of the currency the 3.95 was in...

As I was becoming more and more leary, I googled the company name and found several reports to consumer groups on people doing the same idiotic thing I did and then being charged hundreds of dollars after the 15 day trial period while the company sent more and more product... I immediately searched for the cancellation number.

Finding it, I dialed - it rang... and rang... and rang... crap! Next call - to my credit card company. Admiting my foolishness, I pleaded for someway to halt all further charges. Unfortunately, they informed me, unless I made an effort to contact the company, they would be unable to do anything. Apparantely calling the provided phone number isn't enough unless someone actually answers. Sigh!

As I spent the next couple days, reading various consumer complaints, a very sick feeling settling in my stomach... I finally found an email address and sent them a notice that I wished to cancel. I hope that would be sufficent effort for my credit card company to cancel any additional charges...

The email came back...

I consider registered mail...

It was then that I thought to look up the country code for the UK in the phone book. The number I had started 044, but apparantly you must dial 011 first from Canada. I hestitated. What if this is one of those things where they keep you on hold forever and a day and you get a million dollars charged to your phone bill. I decided it was worth the risk and set my timer. If I was on hold for more the thirty seconds, I was hanging up.

Fortunately, I actually spoke to someone right away. They took my order number, found the order number of the bottle that hadn't arrived and assured me that no further product or charges would be coming. That was on August 21st and, to date, there have been no further charges... though I still check daily and I'm seriously considering cancelling my card and having a new number issued.

Shortly after that, the second bottle arrived. So now, here I am, with two bottles of stuff and not sure whether I should just toss them or what...

So I do some more on-line research. I learn what to look for on the lables. There is apparantly some independent sites that do indicate some benefit, though warn of the 15 day trial period scam and recommend cancelling right away...

So, now that I have the stuff - do I try it, or chuck it out? That question weighed on my mind for the past week, when I decided, what the heck - I'll give it a shot and see what's up... I figure, maybe I can live up to my Dad's old adage that no one is completely useless, you can always serve as a bad example... perhaps that will be my purpose here. Who knows.

Acai Berry Crap

Well, I've decided to resurrect my old blog that I haven't posted on since 2007 to document my journey into the wonderful world of Acai Berry crap...

For those of you who might stumble accross this and don't know me, I'm not built like a greek godess... but I did seem to meet with the approval of the Zambian ladies I met in Africa 6 years ago. I have always been large and after years of struggle and self-doubt, I have come to the conclusion that I always will be... Some of you may have read a series of previous posts where I wrote on my struggle with self-identity, being fat. I think I've come to the conclusion that I am pretty amazing, even though I am a larger girl. I wish that I'd figured this out 20 years ago, but alas, some things just take a lot of time to learn.

So why am I taking this journey. Good question. I ask myself the same thing. If I am so self actualised, why the need to try some internet endorsed crap? Why not just live life? Well, I don't know. That is puzzling to me as well. I worry that I will resort back to the person who struggled to find value in herself because of a lack of physical beauty. I hope that doesn't happen.

I suppose the best answer is, I'm curious. And so, I'm going to check this out and blogging is my self check - to try, somehow, to keep myself from tunnelling into depression.

When do I start this journey? Well, in some respects, it began a few weeks ago. I will blog on my journey to date in the near future... It's taken several weeks to decide to do this, and now that I have, I will begin trying various Acai crap on Tuesday, Sept 1, just because!

Wow, It's been awhile

I guess the whole facebook thing has taken my attention away from blogging... but you don't really have a forum for long winded diatribes on facebook so here I am back at blogger!

This week I have one of the most enjoyable experiences of my life. I got to do some recording at an amature studio, but a studio nonetheless. It was a blast, sitting in a little room with only a voice in the head phones to talk to, running through my music for over 2 hours... I was on a high for the rest of the day. It reminded me of how much I really enjoyed being part of a musical team, learning songs, practising songs, etc. Just singing is like total fun. I am so looking forward to heaven for that. As I tell Eric, the book says we'll be singing... there is no mention of preaching...

We spent today at the hospital. Liam has been complaining of stomache pains for the past while. This morning he did and then he puked all over my bed... so he stayed in bed for the morning. Then, when he wasn't getting any better this afternoon and started moaning, I took him into emerg. After 5 hours, he had bloodwork done, completed a mean game of eye-spy and the doctor concluded there was nothing wrong with him. They gave him some gravol and after he hadn't puked for half an hour they sent us home - where he promptly started puking again! So now he is resting at home and I hope he is okay.

For Hallowe'en we decided to build an armless man on a chair on the front deck. So we filled plastic shopping bags with leaves to use as stuffing a week ago. Now the pile of bags is sitting on my doorstep since we haven't gotten back to building the man... I am wondering when the neighbours are going to ask us to get rid of the pile of garbage.

So those are the highlights of the week... except - the Riders won... okay, now those are the highlights of the week!