ymee's Journal

So it is now the end of Day 1 of me being on the Master Cleanse/ Lemonade Diet.

I have to say that it wasn't too bad at all.

I started out by drinking the herbal laxative tea last night as directed.

This morning I did my uniodized sea salt flush (like drinking the beach for real). I then mixed my lemonade ingredients after having refridgerated my water all night and when I tasted it it was like tasting sweet fire. Literally!! But......it was really good to me.

The ingredients are:

fresh squeezed lemons (I bought a citrus juicer) got 12 for $2.00

cayenne pepper $6.79 lb

grade b maple syrup (I substituted with agave nectar $6.49) awesomely sweet and makes it bareable

and water(distilled) .99 but only because I bought Henry's brand.....it's cheaper elswhere.

I bought everything at Henry's right down the street from me which is like Whole Foods but I didn't feel like going there(too far) and they had everything I needed. Also, everything I bought is organic.

I weighed myself last night and was 142.4 lbs. So since I weighed myself at night I did it again tonight and I am at 142.2.

That is really weird because when I weighed myself this afternoon to put a weight in my goal on this site I was at 141.6. Hmmm......I'll be keeping an eye on that. I guess I can't put a new weight in my goal until tomorrow because then that would be going backwards and not make any sense at all.

I spent quite a bit of time in the bathroom which should be obvious since I did the salt water flush. I have to say that as the saying goes........people are full of isht.......it is quite true, we really are. Just when you think there is no more.....yep there's plenty more. There was even a point where there was a lot of stomach rumbling(no cramping for me) which turned out to just be lots of flatulence. So not only was I full of isht but I was also full of hot air. I wonder if when this is all over and and I'm no longer full of it will that make me anal retentive....hmmm(yeah.....I got jokes). Seriously though, the relief is great and I actually did start to feel lighter.

Anyway, I thought the lemonade was going to taste really nasty(per other people's experiences) but it didn't. I guess I have either a really strong palate or a really weird one. 

I am finding that because of the amount of lemonade that you have to consume in one day I have to already go back and purchase more water and more agave nectar as it comes in a 23 oz bottle and in one day you consume 10 of those oz and I can't allow myself to run out. Forbid that happen....I may get lazy and not continue. The recipe that I have calls for 100 oz of lemonade per day.

I was supposed to cook dinner for my kids but my daughter offered so there was no problem there. The only thing that kept happening was that I kept saying to myself "ok I'm gonna go eat in a few minutes". I do this all the time so for me it is normal to say that to myself. I kept temporarily forgetting because it smelled really good in here but I never made it from the initial spot I was in so that in itself is a good thing.

I do have a headache but it is moreso because I never went to sleep last night and have been awake all day. I have felt a few pangs here and there through out the day but it is nothing that I'm not already used to as I don't eat that much anyway.

I guess tomorrow will be the real kicker and I'm probably gonna feel like I'm starving to death. Since I have the will power, I know that I'll be able to do it. The liquid takes the place of any food so whenever those pangs want to make an appearance I just sip and they go away.

Oh yeah.....before I did this last night I went to McDonalds and had a mcdouble, a small fry and the largest dr. pepper with light ice(total sugar rush) and that is not normal for me to do. I did it because I was told not to. I knew that if I didn't get it then I would crave it the whole way through and it would be stupid of me to do this to myself and then turn around and go there to eat. However you can't do this anyway unless you want to be stupidly sick, but yeah I did it and I'm not craving it anymore and trust and believe after today I highly doubt that there are any traces of McAnything in my body.

I have found many master cleanse groups on facebook but there is one in particular that gives a daily breakdown of what is going on with your body while you are on this cleanser. I will either copy and paste or I will just post the link. I am drinking my herbal laxative tea and will be going to bed and I will be back on here tomorrow.