Master Cleanse: Day #5

Wow. I was worried about being around people and food for a reason. Yesterday when i got to work there was a bag of Flaming Amy's burritos, salsa and chips on my desk. This is my favorite restaurant and it smelled really good. i looked around wondering who was playing this cruel joke and just about had an old fashioned temper tantrum. Had to exit the room until the food was gone and was consequently crabby for the rest of the work day.

A word to the wise: if you are going to do this cleanse, attempt to stay away from television, news papers, grocery stores, people eating, regular daily life, etc. Avoid anything that is going to give you a craving for food, especially in the first four days! It will only make you angry, sad or depressed. Maybe you are the type of person who doesn't eat much or are a very picky eater or maybe you are used to fasting? If that is the case for you, please disregard the last few sentences.

Stanley Borroughs said that you could go along your daily life with no interruption. Well i am guessing ol' Stanley might not have had a very rich social life or work with the public. The first four days (in my humble opinion) should be spent in seclusion or with as little contact with the outside world as possible. Getting out in nature is a good idea. Walks on the beach or in the woods, away from people who might walk by with delicious smelling street vendor foods. You get the picture.

Obviously the end of the fourth day was pretty darn rough for me. i was still VERY hungry. Around eight o'clock i started to feel like Eve trying to lure Adam (John) to eat the apple, except the apple was a Mexican restaurant.

Before bed we took the recommended dose of a helper tea for the third time in the last week. i felt the worst abdominal cramps and was generally unhappy. Now ladies, we can tolerate some cramps, right? So it wasn't all bad. Men, this will give you an excellent idea of what women go through every month. Enjoy;)

This morning like yesterday morning, drinking my luke warm sea salt water, i feel optimistic. Not as hunger crazed and praying i can make it through another day of temptation at work. Hoping i don't kill anyone. Didn't make it to yoga because we got behind late in the day and i was running late. So i did some yoga just now and the strangest thing happened. Vigorous physical activity made my head itch! My scalp! Not itch like when you have dirty hair, but deep in the skin itch. It happened after being upside down. Wonder if the blood rushing there and staying there did something different. Surely there is a scientific explanation. That has never happened before and i do a lot of yoga. Interesting.

Thanks for reading.