Day 11

Well I had some bad days after I last posted. Day 7 was a hard one. It was the first time I wanted food. Not really hungry, I just wanted to eat different foods. I was getting a bit tired and perhaps a bit cranky with the restriction of not eating. Everything else seemed the same and I worked the day and had a normal evening. My tongue had a thick white coating. Really thick.

Day 8 went along better and seemed like I was back on track. Except I may have made a mistake going to Whole foods to get some fresh veggies for next week. I bought kale and swiss chard for smoothies and this got me looking forward to finishing up again. I think I need to think of it as a 15 day cleanse so I add in the first few prep days and 3 to finish. I was saying I can eat on Sunday, but I can't really. It is all what you are set up for.

Day 9 I was really tired for the first time and  I had things to do, but not working with the crew. I picked up a little, but basically should have spent the day on the couch with a book and a video. That evening the food around me was very apparent. I was wavering.I was making doubles of my lemonade to be a bigger hit.  I started to tell myself that it would be a better transition to  have the first day coming off on a Saturday so I could have a general easy diet for Monday work. That night we had friends over and I was very interested in the snacks they were eating. I sort of decided to come off the next day then. The Mrs. Vickies salt and vinegar were tough to watch. The tongue was showing spots that look like crop circles

Day  10. Coming off early. My tongue was tough with bad spots that I took pictures of. I can't find a map to the tongue online, but I will take pictures to a naturopath or chinese dr when I find someone. I was so tired I thought I should finish up. I had a few glasses of fresh oj and was not getting any energy. I didn't really notice anything different than drinking the lemonade. I had some of Nathan's smoothie which was a mistake. I knew better, but could rationalize it somehow to myself.  I wanted toast and peanut butter, trail mix etc. I have been doing alot of research into super foods while on the cleanse and am keen to get started with some new ones I have picked up. Like the tree mushroom capsules. I already had some in a raw trail mix and I am really looking forward to getting that going again too. I need to live in the moment, not a few days ahead! I made a veg broth in the morning and had a bit. It tasted good, but I feel my tastebuds were coated and I wasn't really tasting. I was having a bit of a frustrating morning getting Nathan going and by 10:30 I was getting mad and loosing it. I was crying and sad. I went for a nap and told Nathan he would have to entertain himself for a bit. 1?2 hour later he woke me up to play lego, but Ithink it was enough to get me a bit more normal. I started texting friends for support. I needed to hear how it worked for them to come off. I felt so tired I didn't know what to do. I made myself a double lemonade and we finally made it out of the house about noon. I felt much better fairly soon and knew I needed to stay on the cleanse. My tongue was showing me to be in full on detox and time was needed. When I talked to a friend who has done many I felt better and decided to for sure take advantage of the fact I am 9 days in and do a few more days. I was still fairly tired and went for a nap around 5. I basically dozed and read for the rest of the night, barely getting out of bed. I did do an oil pull to help the detox. This was described to my by a gal who works at Whole Foods this week and it worked to clear my tongue a bit. I used 1 tbls coconut oil and swished it in my mouth for 15 min. It sounds discusting, but it is not once I got the oil in my mouth. It comes out white from all the toxins it takes out of your tongue.

Day 11 I woke up a bit unsure of my energy and took it easy for the morning. Another oil pull and my tongue looked better today. The crop circles are starting to join together giving more pink area. I had 4 lemonades by 10:30 and was feeling better and ready to go for a small hike with a friend. We went for a good one in the forest for a couple of hours. I was finding mushrooms everywhere! I am intuned now I guess. I felt really good. I did take a double lemonade with me and made one as soon as I got back, but I felt good. Not long later I was overtaken with tired and went for a nap! I woke up feeling good and went on with  my day. I had the day to myself because Tom and Nathabn went to the city. I really needed a day to myself! Tonight I feel revitalized and back on track. My tongue is looking so much better and I think tomorrow will be my last day. I will assess in the morning.

127 lbs
9 hrs sleep
12 lemonades
1 bm
1 enzyme
1 probiotic
0 benonite clay and psyilluim
0 doses of 3 parisite cleanse
1/2 hr  nap
fairly good energy all day

Day 7

It was sooo hard to get up today! I could barely lift my head from the pillow. I wanted to get up at 5:30 to do some yoga and I struggled through a 1/2 hr of Maya Fiennes video that I love. It got some blood flowing.

I did the salt water flush in the 10 min, but it didn't work through very fast today. I realy am not going to miss this aspect of the cleanse. I usually wake up feeling good and then I choke back 1 liter of salt water and it makes me feel nauseas. Then it makes me have the runs. Which is the whole point I guess, still not that fun. Today I only had one trip to the bathroom after the flush and it was some time later. I was glad for a porta potty at the job site today, because I wasn't done when I had to leave for work. Instead of all of it over in the morning this went on for a couple of hours. Still less than once an hour, but 5 times during the day.

Day 6

Today was a good day also. It is really hard to believe how normal I feel. I worked and did my regular stuff for the day. I forgot to take my parasite pills this morning, so I took them about 5 pm. It is hard to fit everything in in the morning. I take the salt water flush, then the clay and psyillium seed, and I don't want to take the parasite cleanse before that and have it pushed through with the bulk, but I need to take it on an empty stomach. So I was going to take it with me this morning and forgot it.

132 lbs
7.5 hrs sleep
7 lemonades
1 bm
2 enzyme
2 probiotic
2 benonite clay and psyilluim
2 doses of 3 parisite cleanse
1/2 hr  nap
headache
low grade ear ache in the morning
good energy all day

Day 5

Day 5 was a good day. High energy and no nap today. I went to work this morning and a delivery was changed so I ended up having to go to Vancouver shopping for plants. It made for a hectic day that I wasn't quite prepared for, but once I figured out my plant list and got some shorts for the hot day I had a good day. I could have used a nap on the 2 hour drive home as there was alot of traffic and it was slow from the valley.

I had headaches and earaches today. I feel like the earaches are just there most of the time. I felt nauseous this morning with the salt flush and a few times today when I had a lemonade. My eyes seem like they are healing. They feel the best that they have for a long long time.

132 lbs
7.5 hrs sleep
9 lemonades
1 bm
1 enzyme
1 probiotic
2 benonite clay and psyilluim
2 doses of 3 parisite cleanse
no  nap
headache at 11 oclock area on my forehead there is a bump there too.
low grade ear ache most of the day
good energy all day

Day 3

? lbs 7 hrs sleep
8.5 lemonades
1 bm
1 enzyme
1 probiotic
2 benonite clay and psyilluim
2 doses of 3 parisite cleanse
1.25hr  nap
teeth not as sensative
some ear aches
fairly tired mid day

Day 4

I went to a potluck hockey party last night. It seemed a bit strange to go to a potluck when not eating, but it worked out no problem. Mostly the fact that hockey was the focus and no one could notice I wasn't eating I suppose. But that was something I would have avoided.

Nathan and I spent the day planting our pumpkin patch in the back yeard. He is really liking planting the veggie garden and I am loving that he wants to know about this stuff. He especially got into it when I told him that plants grow much beter when you talk to them and give them extra attetion. He has a pumpkin that he started from seed and wanted to give it extra attention.I did the usual running around and had some other gardening to do at my Mom's. I felt really normal. It is so strange how normal I have felt. Until this afternoon, I hadn't really felt hungry. I all of a sudden felt beyond hugry. I may have been dehydrated as it is all of a sudden a beautiful day and I took Nathan to yoga at the spit. I couldn't miss it, it was such a beautiful place to be early in the morning and I did only get a bit of yoga in as I had to play trains to entertain Nathan. I felt tired after getting home. Nathan was more demanding and I needed a mellow out. I got a 1/2 hr or so with him playing sesame street games on the computer. Then is was back to gardening. He wanted to get planting again. I didn't have the full energy and he is still alot of work to get him set up and able to do anything. Dad took him out for a bit and I went to sleep with a headache.

I started the parisite cleanse yesterday and benonite clay with psyillium husks. That may have changed things up a bit too. I had origingally skimmed the master cleanse book and it said no suppliments, so I stopped there and thought the rest of the book was testimonials etc. Then I read about parisites, I called the naturopath to get some herbal pills! I have had parisites before and how do you know you have gotten rid of them? Really gotten rid of them. Nevermind you can get more. If I am going to do this cleanse I want to do it fully and take advantage of the situation.

135 lbs
8 hrs sleep
8 lemonades
3 bm
1 enzyme
1 probiotic
2 benonite clay and psyilluim
2 doses of 3 parisite cleanse
1.25hr  nap
headache
very hungry in afternoon
slight  ear ache
fairly tired mid day and low energy day

Day 2 continued

Day 2 went well. I did feel hunger today. I was definatly aware of food around. I had to go to the gas station for the washroom and everything looked good. In some ways it actually seemed weird to me that everyone is filling themselves with all this junk. Not that I was that different, I did feel like I ate as a habit alot more than because I was hungry. I really notice how many times I think oh I should go for a coffee, or I wonder what kind of gluten free baked good I can find there? Or I should see if so and so wants to get a coffee, no wait is my life really just based around eating, snacking and munching? I have always thought a cleanse would free up so much extra time. No shopping, planning, prepping, making, eating and cleaning up from food. But my ife still revolves around food based on Nathan and Tom. Well Tom is away for the weekend, but I still have to feed Nathan with all the steps that go with it. And did that pizza ever look and smell good tonight! I feel like I have lost a sence and my others are heightened.

I have had earaches today. They have been a problem for a few months now and often I have low grade ear aches that signal a start of getting sick if I don't change something to fend it off.

138 lbs
8 hrs sleep
9 lemonades
1 bm
1 enzyme
45 min nap
sensative teeth still
some ear aches

Day 2

Day one went fine. I thought I felt hungry about 9:30am and then I realized it just felt like a void, an empty space that I wasn't used to. I didn't have a break until after 11 and I didn't feel particularly fussed to have a lemon drink or not, but once I did it really felt warming and like strength that I hadn't missed yet was coming back. It was a cold day for landscaping and it poured rain all day. I was able to finish up by 2:00 and come home to chill out which was much needed. I ended up having a nap by about 5 for 45 min and that felt good! I had my hair done at 7:30 and took a double drink with me. My drink schedule was 6am, 7, 11:15, 2, 3:30, 6, 7, 8 for 8 cups total yesterday.

Forgot to weigh myself to begin with, but I came up in weight recently because last night I weighed 138lbs. I thought I was about 135, but I must have been more the 140.

I really felt fairly normal yesterday considering I had no food. The smell of food was much stronger to me in the evening. Walking by the Nest it smelled like steak and smelled fantastic. It is going to be hard to cook for Nathan and not lick my finger or eat that litle scrap from his food.  Tom is going away to the cabin today for 3 days and it will be just Nathan and I. I think it will be much easier to just make Nathan some things and get n with our day. How much time we spend buying, planning, prepping, cooking and cleaning up from food. Our whole life revolves around it. There are times when it really seems like a hassle to eat. Mostly when we are travelling and need to grab something quick. I don't like the stuff you can grab quick, and can't eat most of it.

I was cold yesterday after I came home from Van and it was hard to warm up. I was feeling the cool a bit more last night and ended up at 11 getting up to put an afgan over my covers and I think just getting out of bed got the blood flowing as I was asleep again right away. If I am a little cold, I can't sleep.

I did have a couple of moments with the crew yesterday morning that I handled poorly more than anything. Which made it go even worse from there. I think things were recouped by the time we got to Vancouver for work, but I need to be able to deal with situations rationally as it all gets me mad and then I get more resistance because I am being a bitch. I have been having alot of trouble dealing with them in general. Mostly because they are not landscapers and I need experienced people. Also I don't see them putting in any extra effort to work hard. I have to work harder to make up for what they can't do and it would go along ways for them to even walk fast instead they look like they are wandering around

This morning I woke up very tired and had some cramps and rumbling in my bowels. Salt water flush will sort that out I hope. As I wait for that I will make Nathan's lunch.? Is this a good idea?

I have a easy day today, just set up the crew and I can come home. I have a meeting at noon and can work my day as it falls into place.

Day 1

Day 1 of my first master cleanse. Up at 5am to drink a warm salt flush. 2 tsps of fine sea salt in1liter of purified warm water. This is supposed to take 1/2hr to 11/2 hrs to move things through the system and then I will still have time to be ready to go to work at 10 to 7.

Drinking salt water can be hard to choke back, but I did read it is easier to swallowif you imagine it is a salty broth and that seemed yummy to me.

I have been wanting to do this for a couple of months. I have been feeling sluggish and like I have a few heath issues. All relatively minor, but a good time to cleanse and see if I can get things more on track. So my mind is in a good place to do this.

To prepare I have been doing a few things. I did a candida cleanse for a week and a half in May and felt that was not a help, but that put me on lower sugar. I have been eating mostly raw for a few days and  I reduced my meal sizes. Yesterday I did indulge and had a few squares of dark almond chocolate with some fruit. Mostly because I thought 'what will I miss?

I feel I have already started detoxing. I have been stinky, when I mostly don't have a strong smell and my mouth tasted metalic, just from a few days of high percentage raw.

My last full on cooked meal was all you can eat Thai in Vancouver on Sunday. Of course we ate too much and with my diet already it felt like a bad idea, but it was good.

I am doing this with my friend Josee. It is great to have someone to do it with, especially since Josee has done so many. She lent me the books and filled me in on the details.

140ish lbs
7.5 hrs sleep
8 lemonades
1 bm
slightly shaky in morning after elimination for an hour or so
teeth really sensative with brushing in spots of low enamal by gum line never happened before