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The Master Cleanser: Day 10

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