We’re back!

It took about a week after we got home to fully recover from the utter and complete madness that was Dragon*Con, but your staff here at ShrinkGeek has finally caught up on their sleep and gotten over whatever strain of Con Crud that was running around this year. Unfortunately, for me, there’s still a bit of lingering ick simply due to the fact that, despite my intention to do otherwise, I made some very poor dining choices while we were at the convention. In my defense I really didn’t have a heck of a lot of time to make sure the food I was eating was healthy, though. I was one of the Assistant Directors for the Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Game track and I actually worked 55 hours over the course of the convention. It was fun, but hectic, and when I did have time to grab food I was more concerned with how quickly I could get it than how many calories I was consuming.

The upshot of all this is that I ate a lot of food over Labor Day weekend that I don’t normally eat and I ate way too much of it. I can definitely feel the impact of all that grease, salt, and fat. I’m sluggish, kinda bloated, and my mana bar is almost completely depleted. Now that my schedule is more or less normal again, I really need to buckle down and re-focus on taking care of my body.

Amusingly enough, I got an offer right before we left for the convention that may help me do just that.

On August 31st email hit my inbox from Diane Myer, a representative of a company called DrNatura. She wanted to know if I would be interested in testing out their colon cleansing product, Colonix.

Contrary to what you all may think about my rock star life, I don’t get offers from strange women to help me clean out my colon very often. As a matter of fact, the email I got on the 31st was her second attempt to get in touch with me. I can only assume that I saw the first one and deleted it as spam. I replied back to Diane and told her I’d be happy to give Colonix a review, and when I got back from Dragon*Con I had two boxes of the product waiting for me (retail value about $120).

I’d be lying to you if I told you that I wasn’t approaching this experiment with a little bit of trepidation. I’ve heard people crow about the benefits of colon cleansing for years, and I’m aware that there are a number of people who take it so seriously that they regularly post pictures of the…results…of their cleansing. You’re not going to find any of that here, my friends. I’m pretty sure you all aren’t the least bit interested to see what kind of gunk may have been attached to my insides, and even if you were there are just some things about my life I’m not the least bit interested in sharing on the internet. That being said, I am curious to find out whether or not I’ll see some of the other results that proponents of colon cleansing claim to have seen in the past. According to the paperwork that came with the program, many users experience weight loss and have a noticeably flatter belly after completing the program. I’ve been on a plateau for about a year now, so if this can help jump start me again I’m willing to give it a shot.

I’m going to start the program tomorrow, and I’ll be posting weekly updates here as to my progress.

But no…No pictures.

Just…eww.