Goodbye Master Cleanser. It’s been interesting, but I’d like to go back to eating solid food. I’m bored with liquids, and I’d like to resume eating meals with my girlfriend. Tomorrow I will drink only orange juice. The day after, I’ll still drink orange juice, but I’ll also make vegetable soup.
Mmm…solid food… I’ll eat everything but the cat food
in the containers on the right.
I didn’t get to weigh myself today, and I don’t think it really matters. Whatever little pounds I might have shed these past ten days, I’ll gain back. I also don’t really care much about how much I spent on the cleanse. It’s comparable to my normal grocery food spending. (I definitely saved money on not eating out, though.)
I don’t know if I feel any different. I might feel it more when I start eating solid food again. Aside from the cramps that I got from waking up at 4 a.m. on days 2 to 5, I never experienced much discomfort on the cleanse. I was never starving, and mostly if I felt hungry, it was out of boredom or familiarity.
The odd thing, though, is that I expected my period to occur during the cleanse, but it didn’t. My menstrual cycle is pretty regular, so I wonder if this is indicative of something from the cleanse, or if my cycle just changed. It will be interesting if I get my period soon after I start eating again.
So, does the cleanse work? I don’t know. I was pretty healthy to begin with, so I don’t know if I needed to clear that much out of my body. I didn’t have cravings for any particular foods before the cleanse, either. I mean, there are foods I like to eat, and want to eat, but there isn’t anything that I couldn’t live without, or that my body needs to sustain itself like an addiction.
In conclusion, I’m glad that I did the cleanse. There was a welcome simplicity about being on a consistent diet, and a nice test for my discipline. In the end, though, I found that it didn’t take that much effort for me, and maybe that’s why I feel all right.
30 July 2006 – 9:00 PM
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I haven’t had much to report because the days seem to go by like clockwork. My tongue started to clear up yesterday, so I’m probably “cleansed,” but I’ll complete my 10th day tomorrow. I stopped waking up at 4 a.m. and it seemed like my “eliminations” were mostly smooth and liquid. I never passed anything really solid or mucoid plague-like. Tomorrow I’m going to stop by that thrift store again and see if the same electronic scale is still there. I doubt I’ve lost that many pounds.
29 July 2006 – 7:00 PM
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I made two separate batches today, one lemonade and one limeade. I definitely like the limeade better. It’s less sweet and has more of a “cool” taste to me. When I’m making regular run-of-the-mill lemonade, I usually like to do half lemons and half limes for the juice, so it’s no surprise that I like the limeade. For the second half of the cleanse, I may switch to just limeade, although I still have a dozen lemons lying around.
Today was another easy day on the cleanse. Easier because I didn’t wake up at 4 a.m. I woke up at 7 a.m., and I didn’t need to hop up right away to the bathroom. I finished reading Silence of the Lambs and went to the library to get Hannibal. I know Red Dragon is the first book, but it’s not at my usual libraries. So, I just got Silence of the Lambs for the instant gratification. (And it was, I read the book in less than 3 days.)
I went to the thrift store with the scales again, and to my surprise, most of the scales that I weighed myself on before I started the cleanse were still there. Unfortunately, I didn’t remember which scale weighed me in at what weight before, except for the electronic calibrated one. That one weighed me in at 135.0 lbs 5 days ago. Today, I weighed in at 134.0 lbs. Have I lost only 1.0 lb on the cleanse in 5 days? I weighed myself under similar circumstances. Same clothes, shoes, plus an empty stomach. I’ve been following the cleanse religiously, and I go to the bathroom regularly.
Anyhow, perhaps that explains why I’m handling the cleanse so well. Although, it doesn’t explain it, either.
25 July 2006 – 9:30 PM
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4 a.m. seems to be the magic hour for this cleanse. I woke up again and relieved myself. Unfortunately, I have been trying for months to teach my cat that 5 a.m. is not her feeding time, but that it’s really at 8 a.m. When I get up at 4 a.m., she’s all giddy. When I climb back into bed without feeding her, she plots her revenge. This morning, after I had fallen back asleep, she sat on my stomach, which caused me to awaken uncomfortably.
Today was like yesterday with the cleanse. It wasn’t too difficult to get through the day. I drank 9 cups of lemonade. I spent most of today reading The Silence of the Lambs, which I just really wanted to read for some reason. I went out and bought another 2 dozen lemons. I also bought some limes and will try making a limeade instead of lemonade tomorrow. I felt weak at times today, but not unusually so. It felt more like laziness. I stayed up a bit late last night reading and I had no real plans for the day. I went to my yoga class and it wasn’t tougher than usual to get through it. I usually go to class not having eaten anything within 3 hours beforehand. This time, I went in not having eaten anything within 3 days beforehand. After the class, I took one of the yogi teas that they always serve at the end. I held it up to my nose to let the aroma in, but after a few sniffs, I wasn’t interested. I drank some water instead.
24 July 2006 – 9:00 PM
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Today was just another day with the Master Cleanser. I woke up at 4 a.m. again and went to the bathroom a few times. I went to a Mexican restaurant with my girlfriend and watched her eat a cheese enchilada with chips and salsa. It looked pretty good to me, but I didn’t want to eat it. I think that as I go on with the cleanse, it won’t be the food I miss so much. I’ll miss the experience of eating the food and sharing food with someone else. But, I feel well and I’ve turned my attention to other things. I made an animation of my cat today.
Yes, I am silly. I borrowed the aquatic setting from here.
23 July 2006 – 9:00 PM
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