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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I woke up this morning at 4:30 a.m. with a stomach ache. I guess the laxative tea was working. After I relieved myself, I figured that since I was up I should just drink the saline wash. I drank all of it this time before I had to go to the bathroom again. Then, I went back to sleep.
I woke up at 11:00 a.m. with a headache. I wasn’t sure if it was a dehydration headache, or a I haven’t eaten headache, or my apartment is too humid headache. I drank a couple of glasses of lemonade and the headache slowly started to fade away.
I don’t feel weak, nor do I feel like I have more energy than usual. I need to go to the grocery store to buy more lemons.
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So, I drank more lemonade today, probably 10 cups, because I felt hungrier. I didn’t necessarily feel hungry for food, though. I would look at food and people eating and I wouldn’t feel interested. Maybe that’s how my personality is already. So far, I’m not feeling a big shock to my system.
22 July 2006 – 10:00 PM
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My first day of the Master Cleanser went pretty well. I woke up this morning wondering if the laxative tea I drank the night before would have an effect on me. Nothing was different, except that I woke up about two hours earlier than I have been for the last two weeks. (Hey, I’m unemployed.) I poured 4 cups of water and 2 teaspoons of sea salt into my Nalgene bottle and shook it up. I drank about 2/3 of this saline solution in 15 minutes. Then I went to the bathroom… Once I was finished, I went back and drank up the rest of the saline wash.
I planned to spend the day cleaning my apartment, so I cleaned the kitchen and bathroom for about an hour. Then, I made my first batch of lemonade.
I ended up making 80 oz (10 cups) of the lemonade with the following recipe:
10 oz (1.25 cups) lemon juice (12 lemons)
10 oz (1.25 cups) cups organic Grade B maple syrup
1 teaspoon organic cayenne pepper
60 oz (7.5 cups) cups spring water
I found that the lemonade was too sweet for my taste, so I added a couple more cups of water. So far, I have drunken 5 cups of the lemonade. The night is still young, so I will probably drink another cup, then drink the laxative tea before I go to bed.
I don’t know how this diet is really going to affect me as I wasn’t very active today. I cleaned my bathroom, bedroom, walk-in closet, and kitchen. I still have my living room and dining area, which is more about sorting papers and tidying than cleaning. I definitely feel like I haven’t eaten anything, but I don’t feel hungry. I could probably eat something, though, just because I haven’t eaten anything.
21 July 2006 – 8:30 PM
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I’ve decided to do the Master Cleanser. I’d only heard of this diet a few months ago, and I found it fascinating. I’m not a health nut, nor do I really believe the body has “impurities,” but I’m interested in finding out just what my body is holding on to that is just weighing it down. Also, I’m not ashamed to admit, since I’m unemployed, I wouldn’t mind saving some money by not feeding myself as normal (although the supplies for the Master Cleanser are still costly, but not near my normal spending rates of late). Plus, this is the time of my life where I can do something like this and not worry about doing much else. To quote my friend Bettina: “It sounds like you’re making a fresh start.”
Well, maybe… We’ll see.
Before I go to bed tonight, I’m going to have a cup of Chocolate Smooth Move® herbal Stimulant Laxative* Tea. In the morning, I’m going to do the saline wash and make my first batch of Master Cleanser lemonade.
If life gives you lemons, make Master Cleanser lemonade.
I went to a thrift store today to weigh myself on different scales, because I don’t have one and can’t bring myself to buy one. One said I was 130 lbs. Another said I was 140 lbs. Another said 138 lbs. Then, a special “calibration guaranteed” (within .5 lb) electronic scale made in 1986 said I was 135 lbs. So, somewhere in there lies the truth. I know this is a cleanse and not a diet, but I like data, and when I’m done with this cleanse, I’ll have some data, calculations, and conclusions.
20 July 2006 – 11:00 PM
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