The Master Clenser and Blogging

It makes sense that my first blog should start with something very interesting to document. The master cleanser (http://www.mastercleanser.com/) is a ten day juice fast. Although it is not literally a fast as you do consume calories by drinking a concoction of purified water, organic lemons, organic grade B maple syrup and cayenne pepper. Luckily the lemonade tastes good....of course i say that now because i'm only on day two and i'm not sick of it yet.

It is recommended that in conjunction with the juice fast one should cleanse internally, or internal salt water bathing. Which means drinking two quarts of warm sea salt water for breakfast. Something about the gravity of the salt water being the same as the blood keeps the salt from going into the bloodstream and the water not absorbing. This ends up cleansing the entire digestive tract. i just pretended that i was drinking warm soup and gulped it down...and yes, it works very well.

Yesterday there were constant hunger pangs and i was pretty miserable thinking about what i was not going to have for dinner. i was actually pretty angry about the thought of not eating, but today feels much easier. Everyone i have talked to who has tried this cleanse says that the hardest days are the second and third. We shall see. My boyfriend, John, is doing it with me and that makes it much easier. Misery loves company after all. We have been taking it easy.

There is not much to do when you are trying to avoid eating and drinking. It makes being social impossible because most everyone likes to eat and drink. When you think about it, most social interaction revolves around meals. I am realizing how much time i spend cooking, eating or thinking about cooking and eating. Hence extra time to blog. I started a new book yesterday: Ishmael. Chapter one was fantastic and that is usually the test. If someone with ADD can make it through chapter one you know it is going to be a good read. i wonder if there is a list somewhere created by and for people with ADD of books and movies that are appropriate? That is something to research.

Speaking of things to research, John and i were debating whether or not eggs cause an over production of mucus like milk does. We are trying to decide what foods we will try to eliminate when we come off this cleanse. Obviously if you torture yourself for thirteen days (you can't jump right back into eating solid foods even after the ten day part) the goal is to stay as clean and healthy as possible. My friend Laura did the fast and then went vegan. Don't know about giving up imported cheeses or Ben & Jerry's yet, but we will see how it goes.

So ends my first ever real posted blog on blogger. Thanks for reading.