do the master cleanse

so here I am doing it again. the last time I ate was Thursday at 4 pm.
I experineced something strange on day 1 this time. I found myself with a nagging headache around 2 pm. By 7 pm it was more than nagging. by 9 pm I was walking out of a movie because the headache had given way to nausea and I wasn’t sure that I wasn’t going to be sick. I ended up throwing up. violently. like out my nose, violently. after that my migraine was downgraded to annoying headache again and it was almost gone by the time I went to bed at 11:30. now, did this have anything to do with the detox? I have no idea. maybe it was just an unfortunate coincedence that I got a migraine the first day I started the fast (this would be my third migraine ever). either way, I felt I needed to report it here.

Day 2: I felt great when I woke up this morning. just peachy. I did get hungry, and when I did I just drank my lemonade. when my roommate was cooking, the smell was quite tempting, so I went in the other room. no other problems. :-)

Drank the tea last night and did the SWF this morning. There was not a lot of elimination to report if you get my drift. which I suppose is good because I guess my pipes were empty.
The day went well, I walked for about 45 minutes (over an hour total tho).

I feel like I’ve let myself down, though. I have a big event tomorrow and I’m very stressed out about it for various reasons and as rough as my (similar) event the other night was, I decided to go as prepared as I can be. So I broke my fast tonight. I was very sad to do it, but I did. I just can’t risk not being 100% tomorrow. I ate brown rice and steamed vegetables (didn’t do the oj/soup as I’m a vegetarian normally). About an hour or so later my stomach was a little crampy, but I feel fine. (I probably should’ve done the soup!) A little later I had a pear and pnut butter on rice cake.

Final report:
pounds lost – approx 5
inches lost – not sure ‘cause I didn’t measure, but there’s a definite change in how everything fits!
other benefits – for the first time in MONTHS my skin is back to being smooth and pretty. And (despite being worried about work tomorrow) I found myself to be very calm and serene overall.

all in all, I’m kind of sad to let it go. But I’m glad I did it even if it was a day short.

thanks for reading.

June 16, 2006
I cannot believe it’s day 8! And the end of day 8 at that! I worked all day long today. When I went from my one job to my other, I thought I’d left my container of lemonade on my desk. I wanted to cry. I didn’t know how I was going to get thru the evening. But luckily I didn’t leave it because I did get kind of low energy and a little hungry at one point in the evening. (and I was catering a graduation dinner, so i was around food ALL night!)

Oh I think (only THINK mind you), that my tongue might, maybe getting a little clearer. If, over the next two days I see that my tongue is indeed getting clearer, then I may go longer than 10 days until it clears up. Other than that, I really have nothing to report as I haven’t been drinking the tea or doing the SWF. But I will tomorrow.

I’ve had people ask me if I was going to get a colonic after this is over. Any of you have an opinion on this subject?

Thanks.

It wasn’t difficult at all! I thought about eating (maybe one or twice), but only because eating is fun. Not because I was hungry or wanted any of it. It was not difficult one bit. Yay lemonade! I was, however, grumpy as hell at the beginning of the shift, but I’m not sure if that was because of the fast, or some of the moronic staff I had to contend with.

BUT- one note for you people who are reading this for insight on the cleanse and not because you want to hear about me (ha!) is that several people commented on how great I looked. Without know about the fast, they said I looked rested, someone said I looked rosy. Another: relaxed. The rest were generic, “hey, you look really good tonight” things. All unsolicited comments. again: yay lemonade!

Another long day tomorrow, so I’m not going to drink the tea tonight. :-( I think it’s really important to drink the tea every night and do the SWF every morning. I’m sad I won’t be able to.

Didn’t drink the tea last night. I forgot! So I’m not going to do the SWF today. But I’m kind of glad that I didn’t because I’d rather not deal with all the trips to the bathroom today. This afternoon I’m captaining a reception for 3000 ppl at MoMA. It will be a true test of how much I want to detoxify. I’m sure there will be times I will be stressed (I’m a stress eater). And after a long (10 hour?) day of running around making sure everything is done, (chasing after the few servers that hide out in the bathrooms rather than working – there are always at least one!), am I really not going to eat anything? Plus this company makes amazing food. We’ll see!

For those of you who might read this looking for insight on the cleanse, unfortunately today isn’t about the cleanse, but just getting thru the day without eating!

you know, I feel like I could never eat again. the hardest part would be that I would just miss it. eating is fun! But I feel great. energy is great. everything is great..!

so I did do my SWF today (lunch meeting was cancelled). then I went to go for my hour walk, but had to keep coming back in to the apartment once I was halfway down the stairs so I could make another trip to the bathroom. it was kind of funny.

My skin is kind of blotchy looking, but feels pretty great (but the feel great part may be because I started using Burt’s Bees’ products about the same time I started the fast…) My knees aren’t completely silent, but they feel so much better. My tongue, however, could not BE more white! So much so, that I have a hard time believing that it will ever clear up.

I’d love to hear from others doing this cleanse. NO one in this group is doing anything… :-(

-morning June 13, 2006
I was concerned because last night I got distracted and steeped my tea for WAY too long. I even figured stomach cramps would wake me up; why bother setting the alarm? But I feel fine. I even slept in late. Of course now, because of that, I can’t do the SWF. That’s two days in a row. Not good. But again: I feel great. Not hungry.

I have a “lunch meeting” today. I’m not looking forward to that. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s difficult for me, not because I get hungry, but it’s the social pressure I can’t handle. Not pressure. I don’t know how to explain it. But I told them I won’t be eating, so maybe it’ll just turn into a meeting in the conference room.

end of day:
today was like a regular ol’ day. felt great. I know this cleanse is not about losing weight, but I could hardly contain my excitement when I tried on my clothes today. and where did my little tummy pooch go? (ok, not so ‘little’) But seriously, I’m not going to get too excited, because I know that a lot will come back once i start eating again. BUT, as long as I keep eating healthfully (portioned whole grains, tons of fresh fruits and veggies/legumes) I’ll be fine.

I’ve kind of been sleeping a lot. But because of the fast, I’m allowing myself. Humph. I’m not going to do the SWF today. No reason except that I’m feeling ornery.

Not a bad day! walked for an hour. I did get hungry, but a glass of lemonade always takes care of that. I did dream that I ate and in the middle of eating I stopped and said, “wait, I’m on the fast, I forgot I’m not supposed to be eating!”
ha ha

so the SWF wasn’t a great success because I don’t think I steeped the tea long enough last night. I was afraid of stomach cramps in the morning. But here’s the deal: stomach cramps are gone in three minuntes and are much better than being “blocked” after drinking a quart of warm salt water!

lesson learned, thank you.