Days 3 and 4
By the time I woke up on Day 3 I had lost another pound and DID NOT want to drink anymore of this lemonade. I am totally over the taste. I drank some lax tea in the morning and maybe 16 or 24 ounces of lemonade throughout the day. Then I just poured the rest out. I was definitely hungry while at the theater, but it didn't matter. I wonder what this might do to my detox efforts. And my metabolism.
I weighed in on Day 4 at 118.8 pounds. It's funny because I wake up every morning dreading another sip of lemonade, but once I get on that scale, I am ready to go. I intended to buy some oranges last night for my transition day back into normalcy, but bought grapefruits instead. Oops. So this morning I juiced a grapefruit and diluted it with water (to cut the acid-- not good for you, says my Juiceman book) and drank that instead of tea or lemonade. Fast forward to 2pm today and I am barely halfway through my first mug of lemonade. I haven't had any water either. I'm surprisingly full of energy and not hungry-- I wonder if this is what anorexia feels like? It's like my body just accepted that I'm not going to feed it and is happy to go about its business. Weird.
I think today is my last full day on Master Cleanse. Sorry to disappoint any readers who care. That means that tomorrow I will drink regular juice all day (and maybe some soup?) so that I can be back on solid foods by the time my dad and brother get into town on Saturday morning. I will try to stay on track as far as raw/unprocessed foods while they are here, though. I hope to keep that up through Passover (even though there will be matzoh and K for P muffins to tempt me!) and perhaps beyond. I read recently that you should aim for 90% healthy, 10% crap. In a perfect world, I would eat like 80% raw, 10% low processed/low ingredients, 10% crap. And if everything really goes to hell by mid-April, then I can give Master Cleanse another shot.
I weighed in on Day 4 at 118.8 pounds. It's funny because I wake up every morning dreading another sip of lemonade, but once I get on that scale, I am ready to go. I intended to buy some oranges last night for my transition day back into normalcy, but bought grapefruits instead. Oops. So this morning I juiced a grapefruit and diluted it with water (to cut the acid-- not good for you, says my Juiceman book) and drank that instead of tea or lemonade. Fast forward to 2pm today and I am barely halfway through my first mug of lemonade. I haven't had any water either. I'm surprisingly full of energy and not hungry-- I wonder if this is what anorexia feels like? It's like my body just accepted that I'm not going to feed it and is happy to go about its business. Weird.
I think today is my last full day on Master Cleanse. Sorry to disappoint any readers who care. That means that tomorrow I will drink regular juice all day (and maybe some soup?) so that I can be back on solid foods by the time my dad and brother get into town on Saturday morning. I will try to stay on track as far as raw/unprocessed foods while they are here, though. I hope to keep that up through Passover (even though there will be matzoh and K for P muffins to tempt me!) and perhaps beyond. I read recently that you should aim for 90% healthy, 10% crap. In a perfect world, I would eat like 80% raw, 10% low processed/low ingredients, 10% crap. And if everything really goes to hell by mid-April, then I can give Master Cleanse another shot.