Yes, yes, yes!!! I have completed 2 full weeks and 1 day of the Master Cleanser! I have 3 more weeks and 6 days left to go. Thus far, this is the longest I’ve ever lasted on the cleanse. I’m looking forward to when it’s over. Do not think for one second I plan on living on this! The lemonade taste good but it’s not that damn good. After the come off stage I will be starting “The Fat Burning Diet”by Jay Robb, Clinical Nutritionist and Certified Fitness Trainer with over 20 years experience. The program is very good and balanced and I can’t wait to start it. I haven’t been hungry but I have an urge just to chew something. A friend said that I had an oral fixation which could be very true. This has been extremely hard to do and all I can say is I just have to take it has the days go by. Some days are smooth and others are really hard to get through, like today and I can’t turn to what I normall turn too for comfort because I can’t. So trying to deal with days like this have been difficult, but so far so good and I’m still on track. just 1 short month and I will have completed the detox portion of my journey successfully. I start swimming again on Monday when the pool re-opens and I’m excited about that. My weight has been going back and forth the same pound so that’s been annoying me the past few days. I need to increase my water intake because I feel a bit dry if that makes any sense. My tongue looks a hot mess and my sense of smell is too much to handle right now. I will say this, my skin feels and looks so good. Completely soft and smooth and no more dry scalp issues. So, I’m 1/3 through the process and all is good. Take care and happy cleansing. 
Fitness, Food, MC Daily Log, My thoughts
Soooo I’m surfing the net today to find healthy recipes for when I do start eating again and I came across this really cool website Good Earth Natural Foods (<- click). First and foremost I’m loving their Calorie Burner Calculator (<- click) better than Calories Per Hour because their results say that I burned 1,504.5 calories from my 75 min. moderate 26 freestlye laps. But besides that, they have a great Reference Library (<- click) where you can:
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Research a health concern that is of interest to you.
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Find information on herbs.
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Find information on supplements.
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Search an index of remedies (drugs) by brand and product names.
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Research drug depletions.
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Read descriptions of alternative modalities, (treatment options).
You should definitely check out the Delicious Living (<- click) section, the have a lot of recipes, most with pictures ( I love pictures) and some very good articles about common health problems like allergies and solutions for them. Just check out the site and go through the different departments listed. Thought I’d share, enjoy!!
Fitness, Food, My thoughts
It’s midnight and I just ended Day 10 of the MC. I’m 1 lb. down from yesterday, so I’m pleased. Day 10 was a good day. My eliminations are still frequent even though I have not had any solid subtances in my system. I feel really good. I notice a huge difference in my skin, the texture feels much more smoother. I never really had a blemish or acne problem, but I had a few blackheads and a lot of dry spots and they are completely gone. The coating on my tongue is still a whitish/yellowish color. I got only 3 glasses of the lemonade in today because I started real late. I had my HL tea this morning around like 8 a.m., I think and my SWF around 3ish. I’m about to drink my tea for tonight once I’m done with this entry.
MC Daily Log
Recap of Day 9; well it was a little rough yesterday!! Still not on schedule and unable to get all 6 glasses in. I have yet to go swimming this week because I think at this time it would be safer for me to stay home to avoid any form of embarrassment. I’m 1.2 down from Monday and during the eliminations I had a lot of discomfort. The day went well, really didn’t do much of anything. Last night was very interesting. I really had the desire to eat something. I don’t know if it’s because I haven’t chewed for the past nine days. I have no clue why I needed to eat. I wasn’t hungry and I wasn’t going through anything emotional. I called one of my BFs and we talked about it, then I started getting emotional for no reason. She made me promise that I wouldn’t give in to the urge, which I knew I wouldn’t because I would have to write about it here and feel real stupid. So I went to make my HL tea and as I waited for it to cool I fell asleep. So, I took it this morning and I’m about to do my SWF after I finish writing this entry. As you can see I’m behind on schedule today. I’ll recap today’s event this evening.
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Yay!!!!!!!! Day 7 is done, I completed my 1st week on the cleanse. I lost another 1.6 lbs. since yesterday and I’m 10.8 lbs. lighter than I was 7 days ago. My visitor is gone and I feel great! I was out and about today. I had to run some errands and get some lemons. So I did not get a lot of the lemonade in today. I drank 1 and 1/2 glasses. I am definitely going to start drinking it on a schedule; 2 glasses in the morning, afternoon, and evening. I’ve also been taking my herbal lax. (HL) teas too late at night. So, I’ll probably set out to have my evening batch of the lemonade no later than 7:30 pm and then have my HL tea at 9 pm. I will begin my daily exercise routine on Monday. I will swim at least 5 hrs. a week (Mon. – Fri.) as well as do my Turbo Jam and The FIRM workout DVDs. I took my measurements today as well. I’ve been keeping a detail log of my weight loss and will create a page for that. Can’t wait to see what the 2nd week will bring. Happy cleaning!! 
MC Daily Log
One full week almost completed. I’m down 1.4 lbs. today. I felt tired today, I had no energy. Also, first time I actually felt hunger, even after having 3 glasses. I think it’s because I didn’t drink any of the lemonade yesterday. The eliminations are going well and often, so that’s suppose to be a good thing. I got all 6 glasses in today as well.
I’ve also notice that the sinus problems that I’ve had for a few years now is getting better. My nasal passage feels much more clearer than it did a week ago. I really think it’s a combination of the cayenne pepper and the fact that I drink the lemonade hot like you would tea. I’m basing all of this on what I physically feel going on in my body as I drink the hot lemonade. I feel the heat clear up the mucus in the back of my throat, but as soon as I taste the cayenne pepper I instantly feel the clarity up my nasal passage. I can feel the breakdown of the mucus and now my mornings are not spent trying to clear all of that mess for 20 mins. Another day complete thank goodness!!
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Here’s a recap of yesterday (Day 5) on the MC. Everything is still going smoothly, thank goodness. I did the SWF in the morning and this time I did feel some discomfort during the elimination. I’m also having them more frequently through out the day. I was also having cramps as well yesterday, but very mildly not as painful as Wednesday. Yesterday was pretty much a lazy day for me, doing things here and there. for some reason I never drank the lemonade. I wasn’t hungry and it wasn’t until around 10pm that I realized that I didn’t have any for the day. I think that’s why I felt a bit weak this morning. I won’t let that happen again. I’ll make sure that I get my 6 glasses in each day regardless.
I think I’m going approach how I drink the lemonade differently. Currently I make it three glasses at a time and drink it through out the day. I drink it with medium/hot water mainly because the book says to do it so, although it also states that you may use cold water. I also do the salt water flush (SWF) using lukewarm water as instructed. I really think that’s why I’ve felt absolutely fine so far. I’m happy that I’ve made it this far, my first week is almost complete and I’m 1.o lb. less than Thursday.
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Today was a very good day! First of all I’m 3.2 lbs. lighter than I was yesterday. No discomfort at all during my elimination and through out the day. My cramps are completely gone even though my guest is still visiting! I do notice the white coating on my tongue, which will worsen as I continue to detox. Mr. Burroughs, states in his book:
“One of the best signals of the completed diet is when the formerly coated and fuzzy tongue is clear pink and clean looking. During the diet it becomes very badly coated.“
That’s why I kind of nicknamed this process “My Journey to Pink“. I’m not sure how long it will take for me to get that clear indication that my body is toxic free. I’ve initially set out to do this cleanse for 100 days. If my tongue becomes clear pink and clean before that, then I will begin the “come off” process. However, If it’s still coated after 100 days I’ll continue until it becomes clear pink.
Today I was pissed about a situation at work that made me automatically think about food. I wasn’t hungry, but I wanted it because I knew it would have calm me down. I can honestly say that if I wasn’t blogging this, I would have messed up. I had to find another way to calm my nerves. So I watched a movie (Water) that I just got in the mail from Netflix. After the movie I thought about the situation and wrote down my thoughts on how this situation was handled unprofessionally. I called my supervisor and shared my feelings with her and we talked about it. She advised me to e-mail her my concerns so that she could address those involved. I felt much better after talking to her, as always, and even better knowing that I didn’t allow this issue to negatively affect my progress. One day at a time, that all you can do, right?
MC Daily Log
Yay for my 3rd Day!! As far as the cleanse goes, it was a great day and quite interesting. I did the SWF using spring water and it wasn’t as salty as yesterday’s batch (w/tap water). Also, I did not experience the terrible headache I had during yesterday’s elimination. The only discomfort I felt through out the day came from my cramps. :( I’m down 2.6 lbs from yesterday! That’s great considering that I usually gain weight during my monthly cycle.
I’ve been doing everything as instructed with the exception of getting 6 glasses of the lemonade in. I got 3 glasses in today and about 5 the first two days. Today I slept alot to make the pain go away since I can’t take any medication for it.
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Today is definitely going to be a long, sleepy day!! My tummy hurts sooooooooo bad right now and it has nothing to do with the cleanse. I haven’t even done my SWF yet. My monthly visitor showed up this morning and has already overstayed her welcome!! Don’t get me wrong, I’m very grateful that I do have a monthly visitor! I will admit there were a couple of months when I was begging for her to pay me a visit. Jumped up and sang, “Glory, Hallelujah!” when she finally did! But geez, does it have to be so painful?
Ever since I was 10 I’ve been suffering the consequences of Eve’s infamous act. I mean, come on!! All of this suffering for an apple! I don’t even like apples that much. I’d probably go through this for two juicy, sweet, succulent mangoes, but not for no measly apple!! My visits have always been long, painful, heavy and extremely irregular. My doctor put me on birth control a couple of years ago to regulate my cycle and I stopped taking it after a year because it was doing nothing for me. I also think it was the cause of an auto immune disease I ended up getting. Thankfully that’s gone now, but it wasn’t until last summer when I found relief for my menstrual woes. I was looking for a colon cleanser that was easy to take because trying to down a glass of psyllum husk before it foams up your throat was not cute at all!! So I went to my local health food store and came across an internal cleanse especially for women. It’s called Women’s Renew Internal Cleansing System made by Yerba Prima. It’s a blend of 35 herbs and fiber and it was amazing. I was just looking to cleanse my colon, but it was so much more than that. I noticed that after I did the cleanse my monthly visits were 3 days long instead of 7, painless and light. More importantly it comes at the exact same time every month. I’ve recommended it to several friends and they all came back completely ecstatic. I would take it again, now that the cramping is back, but I can’t while I’m on the MC. I just hope that I have to suffer for 2 more days instead of 6.
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