Master Cleanse Day 7

Day 7

Well yesterday and today were the worst days for me so far. I wanted to give up..but I didn't. I’ve been lying around all day trying to let the day go pass while I drink. No exercising today and I got on the scale ( my scale is really old and small and you can hardly see the numbers...lol) and either I didn't lose any weight or I just lost a half of a pound, which is pretty discouraging. I am suppose to be going out with a friend a little later on so we will see how I feel. … so fast FW to the end of the night and I feel amazing. At first i felt horrid but then I noticed that my body was trying to have a menstrual cycle ( sorry tmi). I know I should know when my cycles are going to occur but my body is really sensitive and because I have been dieting and eating differently my cycle changes. So that is part of the reason why I felt horrible yesterday and earlier today. I had about 4 ½ to 5 drinks today and I feel great. You definitely have your up’s and down’s.

Master Cleanse Day 5

Day 5

Today I am feeling bad. Hungry. I have been feeling pretty hungry since I woke up and the taste of the lemonade is no longer enjoyable. I know that most of this journey is a mental journey. I am trying to make it. I am trying to make myself drink more, but I just don't want to. I walked today for 15 min and drank about 4 ½ cups of lemonade. So make a long story short my little sister did the cleanse last year without telling anyone and she used sugar and lemons. She did it for abut 20 days and she lost 45 pounds and has kept it off. So because I hate the maple syrup in the cleanse I may try to switch it up a bit an add sugar.. I know that this is not the protocol for the cleanse but may do it for one or 2 drinks just to help myself continue, because without it I may be done.

Master Cleanse Day 6

Day 6

Today I have a lack of energy also. Like I started to have yesterday evening. I just drank a half of cup of lemonade and I'm going to go and make more.

Master Cleanse Day 4

Day 4

Sienna tea in the morning which worked well think I had about 4 ½ drinks today if not more. I just kept drinking today so I lost count. I notice that when I keep busy I am not hungry and I’m fine and I was very busy today, mainly with shopping..lol but when I went to watch TV later I started to get hungry, probably because of all of the commercials, then I just took another sip.

Master Cleanse Day 3

Day 3

Ok Today is day 3 and I am still feeling pretty great. I lost 4 pounds as of this am and I am not hungry at all and I still have energy. So I had the most vivid dreams mainly about a buffet of food and I was tasting everything mainly shrimp fried rice, that's crazy I know. I also kind of in the same dream I was dating/talking to/fooling around with 2 friends and one of the friends confronted me. Hummm. So far I had 3 of my oxy flush pills. I have to get to the store to get more sienna tea, which is why I didn't just do sienna tea, The salt water flush is almost intolerable after more than one teaspoon so I don't think I will be doing that anymore. I may try though. I went out dancing last night with my sister and I wasn't hungry and I felt great. My sleep is also very good and deep.  I got a late start to the day. I drank about 3 cups yesterday and I’m going to aim for 4 today. For some reason it’s just hard for me to get through so many cups but I’m trying.

As the night comes around and my family prepares dinner day three is becoming a challenge for me mentally. My mom is preparing pork chops, which I don't eat, but I want to take a bite into one (smh). I think I may just be feeling like this because its day 3 which is a hard day for most. But I also didn't do the SWF this morning, so that may be making it a little harder. I may try to d it again tomorrow

Master Cleanse Day 2

Day 2

So I did the SWF today and I honestly don't think I'm going to keep doing it
because I can only tolerate one teaspoon of salt and I don't think that's doing
the job, so tomorrow I will do tea twice. I had 2 ½ glasses of lemonade so far
today. I had a lot of running around to do so I didn't get to exercise which is
ok. I'm still feeling pretty great. I'm just used to eating. I am definitely
noticing that food fills a void in my life, satisfies my boredom and is one of
my best friends...lol. I'm just so used to eating just because I want to and not
necessarily because I'm hungry. I am going to make a conscious effort to change
this once I am done with my cleanse. Although this is like my 4th liquid fast,
2nd master cleanse, I just wanna eat something. But I know I'm not because I
really want the results at the end and my sinuses are feeling a lot better
already!

Master Cleanse Day 1

So I started my cleanse yesterday and wanted to give a quick update. Although I
have done the Master Cleanse before I never wrote and recorded my experience.

Thursday February 17th

So today is the first day on my cleanse. I feel great I did the salt water
cleanse this am with only a teaspoon of salt and I took one of my oxyflush
capsules. My reason for doing this cleanse is to clean myself out so that my
migraine headaches will end. I will do this for 25 -30 days.

I had a slight headache that I thought was going to turn into a migraine and
then it went away after I drank my second 10oz of lemonade

Worked out on the treadmill for 30 min burned 110cal at 2.0 speed nothing
serious just a light walk I usually workout everyday so it didn't even feel like
I was doing anything. I had a slight pain in my side that went away quickly. The
Saltwater flush didn't work today but ppl say that it sometimes doesn't work on
the first day I honestly feel great today!!! Laid down most of the day though.

I drank 2 10oz of lemonade, I have to make myself drink more tomorrow

The Master Cleanse

Well thank goodness for me I have already started recording the results from my master cleanse because today I am on day 7. I just wanna give everyone a brief breakdown of what The Master Cleanser is and resources and then I will start my posts.

This is straight from the Master Cleanse Yahoo Group. Which I encourage everyone to join. They are very supportive and have a lot of information about the cleanse.

This should be a link to the Master Cleanse Yahoo Group

but I digress....

This information was obtained from the website: http://www.therawfoodsite.com/mastercleanse.htm (by Peter Glickman)

[I have added clarifications, and modified the information to fit a Canadian context (i.e., grades of maple syrup) — Mimsie ]

Master Cleanse 10-Day Organic Kit with Free MC book (Peter Glickman)

I have personally done this cleanse for 20 days and then six months later for 10 days. I have counseled my wife and twenty-seven year old son through it twice each as well as many other people. Please believe me when I say that the Master Cleanse by Stanley Burroughs is, in my opinion, the fastest and most effective way to regain your vitality.

Never mind that it will help you lose weight and give you astounding energy. Although I have included my own summary of points for the Master Cleanse, I recommend you buy the book (available through Amazon.ca).

For a minimum of 10 days, drink a mixture of:

· 2 Tablespoons lemon or lime juice (approx. ½ lemon) — Use fresh (organic) lemons or limes only, never canned lemon or lime juice nor frozen lemonade or frozen juice.

· 2 Tablespoons organic [Grade C-Amber (Canadian)] maple syrup — [Available at health food store]. (Not maple-flavored sugar syrup or syrup from companies that use formaldehyde to process the syrup),

· 1/10 Teaspoon cayenne pepper (red pepper) or to taste, and

· Water, medium hot or cold as preferred — distilled, reverse osmosis, or spring fed, but not tap water.

Combine the juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper in a 10 oz glass and fill with water

Drink six to twelve glasses of this lemonade mixture daily. No food is eaten nor any vitamin supplements taken during the cleanse. If you get hungry, have another glass of lemonade. After all, this is also called the "lemonade diet."

If you are overweight, you may use less maple syrup. If you are underweight, use more maple syrup if you wish. If you are worried about losing weight, "... The only things you can possible lose are mucus; waste, and disease. Healthy tissue will not be eliminated."

Do not vary the amount of lemon juice per glass and be sure to drink at least six glasses of “lemonade” a day. You can drink more water, if you want.

Enhance Your Elimination

This is a cleanse as opposed to a weight loss diet. So, you need to ensure you are eliminating the toxins that are being loosened in your system. Cravings, aches, pains, mental irritability and tiredness will turn on as your toxins are mobilized. To eliminate these unpleasant sensations, you need to be sure you have two, three, or more bowel movements a day.

Drink a laxative herb tea each evening. You can find it in your local health food store. I recommend senna tea or a blend with senna in it. (Senna is an herb that promotes bowel movement.) The kind I've bought warn you not to drink more than two cups per day.

Each morning on an empty stomach, add two teaspoons of sea salt to a full quart (4 cups) of luke-warm water. Do not use ordinary iodized salt as it will not work properly. Drink the entire quart of salt water first thing in the morning. "Chug" this — drink it as fast as possible. Within an hour several bowel movements will likely occur. (You'll need to be by a toilet for half an hour to an hour.) If you do not have several bowel movements, try a little more salt in the water until it works.

Drink the herb laxative tea at night to loosen and the salt water each morning to wash it out. If you can't drink the salt water in the morning, drink the herb laxative tea at night and in the morning.

Breaking Your Fast

Breaking a long fast is very, very important. You should ease your way back to solid food after one or two additional days of juices, orange or grapefruit. If you are going back to raw fruits and vegetables, you may do so on the afternoon of the second day.

If you have been a meat eater and/or milk products consumer, shift to cooked vegetable soup on the afternoon of the second day and a salad for dinner. Keep the lemonade drink as your breakfast drink after that. Of course, you would do better with the least amount of meat and no milk products as they are very productive of mucus and hinder digestion and absorption of nutrients.

Detox Symptoms

Detoxifying literally means removing poisons from your body. Once these poisons are gone, you will feel energetic, vital, happy and healthy. It is the poisons that make us feel tired, mentally confused, irritable, unhappy, depressed and ill. Consequently you should look forward to detoxification.

Unfortunately, when the toxins are mobilized, they will bring about those unpleasant feelings and tempt you to quit the cleanse before you are through. So, you need to understand the symptoms of detoxification and ensure that you drink your laxative tea and salt water to stimulate elimination of those toxins.

My experience with the cleanse and with various people doing it has taught me that whatever symptom I experienced one day, it would be gone the next morning with my bowel movements. It is nevertheless helpful to know when you are detoxifying because it helps you to get through that symptom to know it will be gone tomorrow.

I have grouped the detox symptoms I and others have had into three groups:

· Cravings — I have never known anyone to be hungry on this cleanse. Drinking more lemonade or water handles that. I have, however, observed that people on the cleanse crave what they are detoxifying. If this were not true, the craving would not go away the next morning with bowel movements. You can crave anything when detoxifying, but most likely you will experience cravings for the most toxic foods, such as pizza, hamburgers, bar-b-que ribs, etc.

· Mental unpleasantness — (such as tiredness, irritability, wanting to quit, or being upset) On my first 20 day cleanse, I was not tired except on the fifteenth day. The next morning, I experienced heat in my bowel movements, an indication that acidic toxins were being eliminated. I also lost all sense of tiredness.

· Aches or pains — I have not experienced any myself, but my son's girlfriend did have a headache her first or second night. Again, these aches and pains leave after the bowel movements the next morning.

I hope you will have the same wonderful increase in mental clarity, health, energy and positive mental attitude that I and others have found. If I can be of any additional help, please email me.

Yours in Health,

Peter Glickman

Additional Notes: (by Mimsie)

Keep a journal during the fast, dedicated to the fast. Make sure the daily experience is logged into the journal each day. Each person’s body is unique, and this log will help you on future fasts — to know how your body handles it, what you are likely to experience, etc. so that you can be prepared.

Keep focused. Have some anchors in place to hold on to when your mind goes wonky because of detox. Anchors could be teaching tapes, books, scriptures to memorize. Write down the purpose of your fast in your journal and flag the page so you can find it easily. During severe detox, you will not be thinking straight. Have a mechanism in place to handle this – be prepared.

Do this fast with someone else who will encourage you.

My First Blog Here

Well this site may be lost in the sea of sites on the internet especially the ones devoted to health and wellness. But I wanted to start posting about my journey back to health. So a little about my background. I was an overweight child who then started to want to eat healthy while in high school. I cut our red meat and pork and lost a few pounds. then I went to college and because a vegan. I was a vegan for about 8 years cheating with macaroni and cheese every once in a while during the holiday. During the 8 years I lost a lot of weight and was the smallest and healthiest I has ever been. I did a 6 month whole foods and nutrition program and became a certified coach and I started a website on health and nutrition. Then I started working in corporate America and the food choices I made were not the best for me. I was a consultant doing 100% travel with on the road food choices and no real time to exercise. Now me 3 years later ready to regain my health and lose the pounds that I have accumulated. I just started the master cleanse and I will have a series about that. But I know that their are so many people like me out there and hopefully my story will help someone. I will try to post new recipes, diets and Ideas that I have. I like everyone else am human and I am not perfect but I will try my very best!