my cleanse , day six
Day six, the saga continues...
Day six, Saturday 9/16/07
All right so I decided to go ahead and slowly start breaking the fast today. Woke in the morning before 7(unholy hour for a Sunday), bright and chipper and awake and did the salt water flush right away. Once you stop the full-on cleanse you are also supposed to stop the laxative tea and the flush but I needed to do it this morning since I was still cleansing yesterday and took the tea last night. But that should be my last time for this cleanse.
Basically what I'll do for the next couple days is kind of a modified cleanse now. I'm still going to drink the lemonade for breakfast and lunch, tons of water and today I did just orange juice (fresh squeezed) mixed 50/50 with purified water. Still no food today, but tomorrow I'm going all crazy with a piece of actual fruit and maybe even a small salad at lunch. I am sticking to raw foods only though for a few days, which should continue the cleansing benefits for a bit longer.
So today after my salt water flush, I had 8 oz of the 50/50 orange juice and waited to see how it would sit. It was totally fine. Little bit later I had the lemonade and then got everything together to go to my in-laws' house for the day. Made up a lemonade to take with and a few more glasses of the orange juice in a jar.
The visit to the in-laws was particularly challenging as we were going for a birthday party, so there was pizza and ice cream cake...plus they watched the Food Network all day after the football game was over so I had to sit through Ace of Cakes and countless other food shows while the smell of hot pizza permeated the house. Food torture. Great.
I think it is harder to be coming off the cleanse slowly than it is to be actually cleansing while those things are around, because while I never really considered eating anything, it was harder knowing that I am shortly going to be eating food again but needed to not eat those things now. Plus the pizza smelled really fucking good.
Anyway, it was ultimately totally fine. I drank my OJ and my water nobody expressed anything other than mild curiosity at the fact that I wasn't eating. I was hungry though by the time we got home in a way I haven't been throughout this. Not terribly so, but enough that my stomach was growling.
Tired though again too, and it was difficult to stay up till 1 to finish working like I needed to. Other than that, all is well. Finished the day with lots of water (didn't keep track as I had a ton of small bottles at the ILs), two lemonades and 3 or 4 glasses of the fresh squeezed oj/water mix. I *almost* missed the process of drinking the tea at bedtime and debated on having some other kind of tea but didn't feel like deciding what kind. Hit the sack at 1 or so, thoroughly wiped out. Day six, complete.
Day six, Saturday 9/16/07
All right so I decided to go ahead and slowly start breaking the fast today. Woke in the morning before 7(unholy hour for a Sunday), bright and chipper and awake and did the salt water flush right away. Once you stop the full-on cleanse you are also supposed to stop the laxative tea and the flush but I needed to do it this morning since I was still cleansing yesterday and took the tea last night. But that should be my last time for this cleanse.
Basically what I'll do for the next couple days is kind of a modified cleanse now. I'm still going to drink the lemonade for breakfast and lunch, tons of water and today I did just orange juice (fresh squeezed) mixed 50/50 with purified water. Still no food today, but tomorrow I'm going all crazy with a piece of actual fruit and maybe even a small salad at lunch. I am sticking to raw foods only though for a few days, which should continue the cleansing benefits for a bit longer.
So today after my salt water flush, I had 8 oz of the 50/50 orange juice and waited to see how it would sit. It was totally fine. Little bit later I had the lemonade and then got everything together to go to my in-laws' house for the day. Made up a lemonade to take with and a few more glasses of the orange juice in a jar.
The visit to the in-laws was particularly challenging as we were going for a birthday party, so there was pizza and ice cream cake...plus they watched the Food Network all day after the football game was over so I had to sit through Ace of Cakes and countless other food shows while the smell of hot pizza permeated the house. Food torture. Great.
I think it is harder to be coming off the cleanse slowly than it is to be actually cleansing while those things are around, because while I never really considered eating anything, it was harder knowing that I am shortly going to be eating food again but needed to not eat those things now. Plus the pizza smelled really fucking good.
Anyway, it was ultimately totally fine. I drank my OJ and my water nobody expressed anything other than mild curiosity at the fact that I wasn't eating. I was hungry though by the time we got home in a way I haven't been throughout this. Not terribly so, but enough that my stomach was growling.
Tired though again too, and it was difficult to stay up till 1 to finish working like I needed to. Other than that, all is well. Finished the day with lots of water (didn't keep track as I had a ton of small bottles at the ILs), two lemonades and 3 or 4 glasses of the fresh squeezed oj/water mix. I *almost* missed the process of drinking the tea at bedtime and debated on having some other kind of tea but didn't feel like deciding what kind. Hit the sack at 1 or so, thoroughly wiped out. Day six, complete.