Intro / Day 1
So, after doing my research and reading The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs, i have decided to do a detox program that requires me to not eat for 10 days, and instead sustain my body with a special lemonade recipe that cleans out my entire system. Its totally legit and its not gonna put me in the hospital, but it will rid my body of any and all toxins from drinking, smoking, eating like shit, etc. And it completely cleans your organs, cleans out your bloodstream and after 19 years of not really taking care of my body, i think its time. Think of it as pushing a restart button on your body and having everything be clean and new. Motivated by my house mate Alyson, who has done this 4 times, we are doing this together and i prepared myself mentally for about a week and im writing a journal for myself to keep track of my progress and maybe have a reference for anyone else who would like to try this. You can Google the program, Wikapedia has it, but before you do it, read the book, its really good and only like 50 pages.
Heres the basic outline of what im doing:
The night before you are supposed to drink your choice of any laxative tea
(which is necessary because although the lemonade concoction does have enough calories and nutrients to sustain your body and give you energy throughout the day, there isnt any fiber in it and you need it to um "assist" you in getting all that bad stuff out of your body)
Every morning, first thing, drink your laxative tea. I bought the senna leaf chocolate tea and its yummy.
Then after, i usually make enough lemonade to last me the whole day. This is the recipe for 1 serving of lemonade (which can all be found at Trader Joes, although i went to Costco for the lemons for me and Alyson):
2 tablespoons of organic lemon juice
2 tablespoons of grade b organic maple syrup (GRADE B)
and you add cayenne pepper to that, as much or as little as you can tolerate (the cayenne speeds up your metabolism and heats up your body since youre not digesting any food)
youre supposed to drink 6-12 servings of this diluted with 10 oz of water.
And have another cup of tea at night before bed.
and you CANNOT eat anything or drink anything other than the above. You cant even chew gum cause that has sugar and calories and other stuff that you will swallow and get into your system. Im looking into sugarless gum or wax to chew, but i dont know yet. No smoking of ANY kind and obviously no drinking. Another important part of making this work is breaking your diet and what you do after the 10 days, cause you cant just eat everything, but ill get into that later.
Day 1: I had my tea the night before, and so did jesse, since he was interested in doing it with me, although he quit after like 5 hours yesterday because he couldnt resist a burrito and cigarettes. I had class all day today and work right after, and i had so much energy and focus, more than usual. And the lemonade is reallly yummy. I wasnt hungry at ALL which really surprised me, and i was pretty much full all day. I think its the maple syrup that keeps you full. I had like 7 servings of the stuff and had my tea, and went to bed feeling good. My only complaint is i guess youre supposed to get a weird white coating on your tounge from toxins and Alyson says she usually doesnt get it till like 3rd or 4th day but I already have it and its gross. No kisses for me.
Day 2: Going well so far, had my tea in the AM, went to class and im just now having my first water bottle of lemonade. Ill probably update in another entry tonight.
Heres the basic outline of what im doing:
The night before you are supposed to drink your choice of any laxative tea
(which is necessary because although the lemonade concoction does have enough calories and nutrients to sustain your body and give you energy throughout the day, there isnt any fiber in it and you need it to um "assist" you in getting all that bad stuff out of your body)
Every morning, first thing, drink your laxative tea. I bought the senna leaf chocolate tea and its yummy.
Then after, i usually make enough lemonade to last me the whole day. This is the recipe for 1 serving of lemonade (which can all be found at Trader Joes, although i went to Costco for the lemons for me and Alyson):
2 tablespoons of organic lemon juice
2 tablespoons of grade b organic maple syrup (GRADE B)
and you add cayenne pepper to that, as much or as little as you can tolerate (the cayenne speeds up your metabolism and heats up your body since youre not digesting any food)
youre supposed to drink 6-12 servings of this diluted with 10 oz of water.
And have another cup of tea at night before bed.
and you CANNOT eat anything or drink anything other than the above. You cant even chew gum cause that has sugar and calories and other stuff that you will swallow and get into your system. Im looking into sugarless gum or wax to chew, but i dont know yet. No smoking of ANY kind and obviously no drinking. Another important part of making this work is breaking your diet and what you do after the 10 days, cause you cant just eat everything, but ill get into that later.
Day 1: I had my tea the night before, and so did jesse, since he was interested in doing it with me, although he quit after like 5 hours yesterday because he couldnt resist a burrito and cigarettes. I had class all day today and work right after, and i had so much energy and focus, more than usual. And the lemonade is reallly yummy. I wasnt hungry at ALL which really surprised me, and i was pretty much full all day. I think its the maple syrup that keeps you full. I had like 7 servings of the stuff and had my tea, and went to bed feeling good. My only complaint is i guess youre supposed to get a weird white coating on your tounge from toxins and Alyson says she usually doesnt get it till like 3rd or 4th day but I already have it and its gross. No kisses for me.
Day 2: Going well so far, had my tea in the AM, went to class and im just now having my first water bottle of lemonade. Ill probably update in another entry tonight.