Master Cleanse: Day 2

6-18-08: Day 2

8:40 am
I woke up and the Tea worked. Not as much as I was hoping for, but it still worked. The Flush was absolutely nasty as well. I made it to about the same spot yesterday when the gag reflexes kicked in. This time I caught it before my body rejected it. Man, I do not like that stuff.

One good thing about this Cleanse is that I am getting my body on a more normal schedule. I was getting out of bed at 10:30 or 11:00. I now need to not go to bed so late, and it will be much better. Once this Cleanse is over, I need to start exercising in the morning, because it is going to be extremely hot outside.

So, I have been weighing myself as I go through this thing. As you may have read, on Monday I was 249. However, my body does weird things sometimes. I know I did not eat 5 lbs worth of food on Monday, but when I woke up Tuesday I was 254. That was frustrating. So, today when I weighed myself, I saw 250. I can handle that a little better. It is still an outrageous number. If I could just see the numbers I saw last year after this cleanse, I will be ecstatic. I was 230 when I broke up with my girlfriend. I then gained nearly 40 lbs in the next 4 months. I can’t see how I did that. I don’t know what happened. I know my life was stressful, but a 40 lb weight gain that quickly? No wonder it has been so hard to get that weight off, I made some very unhealthy habits. My goal for this cleanse is actually to see that 23_ again. I am trying to get the toxins out of my body so that my diet will actually work. I want my body to tap into the fat for reserve energy, not the nasty stuff that my stomach has been holding onto.

I was not hungry at all yesterday. It will be hard, though, when it comes to snacking. I started snacking at my last job, that is why I started to gain weight. I started learning to snack on healthy foods in the last month, but it is still snacking. Yesterday, I saw my raw almonds each time I went to throw my lemon and lime peels away. I thought about snacking, but I can’t eat anything, so I won’t. I am hoping that this cleanse will help me be more disciplined in that regard.

1:00 pm
I find myself actually starting to like the crazy lemonade. I have tried both the lemons and limes mixed with the maple and agave nectar. I definitely like any combination with agave better than maple. I know I should be drinking more of the maple, mostly because it has more calories and I need to get more calories while on this cleanse. I do not want my body to start eating its muscles instead of the fat, which might happen if there are not enough calories. Also if I don’t get enough calories, I might actually get feelings of hunger.

9:15 pm
Not much hunger, yet. I have been keeping myself occupied with reading all day. Some of my reading was on this cleanse, and other people’s experiences. I read many of them before, but it is a whole new experience reading about it while you are going through the same experiences. I found myself observing some of my actions, thinking I was crazy. Then, after reading, I realized that everybody else seems to be doing the same things. I will not go into detail here, but I will say that it has to do with “eliminations.” I was really starting to like the agave mixtures, but I decided that I need to begin to focus more on strict adherence to the original cleanse, meaning using maple syrup. I drank the maple a couple times and got my body use to it. I just had the agave mixture, and it was not the same. I am starting to want to adjust my comments from yesterday. I want to say that your tastebuds become adjusted to the taste.

I have read that you start to stink after a couple days. I stunk before this started. What’s new? Hehe. I am thinking that this will start around tomorrow. I might actually already be there, I just haven’t been around anyone to know. I never smell myself anyway (unless I haven’t used deodorant in a couple days). I guess that it is a good thing that your sense of smell becomes better after about a week (long after your own supposed pungent smell).

I have read that some people have lost 20 lbs in their 10 days on this cleanse. I find that hard to believe, unless they weighed themselves the night before they started. That would account for up to 5 lbs. Or they stuffed themselves before they started, feeling that they would not be able to eat for a while. I don’t know. I know that my mom lost 10 lbs. So, that is what I am hoping for. I have been planning on being on the cleanse for possibly 20 days. Many people who are on the cleanse start thinking this after they have passed their “hump” days (hump days are the days in which they really struggle with staying on the cleanse). I just hope that I don’t give in to the pain when, inevitably, it happens.