Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Food intake:
5 x lemonade total
General feeling:
I couldn't have felt better this morning. Knowing I was finally about to try the infamous ‘lemonade’ and lick a spoon covered in maple syrup was sending my tastes buds into overdrive. At 8.00 am I sank my first glass and it was sharp….really sharp!
I was very cautious on the cayenne (despite having a dangerously high tolerance to spice) but I didn't want to shock my system on day one. Slow and steady wins the race and all that…
But the lemons, wow! Better add a touch more water next time…
As I scheduled to visit my brother straight after work I made sure I’d packed enough lemons, cayenne, maple syrup and bottled water to see me through to the evening, so off I went to work looking like a complete nutter – the weirdest packed lunch I’d ever had! Hello 16 lemons!
I made up the concoction in my trusty Bobble, a cute and extremely versatile drink/soup/smoothie container that managed to measure the perfect amount for one glass. Plus it’s microwavable and I’d read that sometimes heating up the lemonade makes for a nice change.
I’d managed to stay full with no inclination or want to think about food until 11.30 am which is the time I tend to start getting hungry anyway. When I returned from the kitchen with my second Bobble of lemonade my colleagues starting asking questions…which delivered quite a few stunned responses when I told them I was nearly half way through my master cleanse.
I went out on my lunch hour to pass the time and returned to my desk, still not hungry. So far, so good…
A realisation hit me today though that despite being completely obvious, I never really stopped and thought about it for too long before. I’m not going to eat real, actual, textured, crunchy, fluffy, chewy food for SIX more days! And I’m going have to deal with it through a course of extremely zingy and sweet lemonade (and I’m much more of a savoury person in general) and a series of brutal salt water flushes! Alarm bells. Late afternoon I felt my emotions were a bit all over the place. Was I going to DIE?! Well obviously not, but I did feel overwhelmingly daunted. I made an organic strawberry tea to calm down…
In total I managed to sink four lemonades during work which is a lot less than I anticipated. I didn't fall over myself to make it as this cleanse certainly isn’t a sprint to the finish line but despite having mixed reviews about the lemony rocket fuel (I think I’ll grow to like it) my energy levels have been through the roof.
I feel like I could run a marathon in fact, and as the days go on I can see myself beginning to write more and more about this experience and my highs, lows, weird changes in psychological shifts…the works. It certainly helps to unload my thoughts, otherwise if left to swim around in my head I think I would actually go crazy and throw my desk out the window.
Work finished so I scooped up my ingredients and took them to my brothers and we decided to go to the cinema which provided a further distraction to help pass the time. Anything to stop me thinking about the nice dinners I couldn't eat...
I only managed to squeeze in one more lemonade before we went so I notched up five in total on my first day, as we left the cinema I noticed my tummy was rumbling, hard.
I've also realised that late nights aren't the best thing on the Master Cleanse, and as I was driving through the fog at 11.20 pm all I could think about was curling up into bed and shutting my eyes. I got home and went straight to bed, so swerved the laxative tea I had actually been looking forward to drinking all day.
My head hit the pillow and I was out like a light...next stop, the salt water flush.
Overall mood: 8.5/10 (afternoon) | 7/10 (evening)
Food intake:
5 x lemonade total
General feeling:
I couldn't have felt better this morning. Knowing I was finally about to try the infamous ‘lemonade’ and lick a spoon covered in maple syrup was sending my tastes buds into overdrive. At 8.00 am I sank my first glass and it was sharp….really sharp!
I was very cautious on the cayenne (despite having a dangerously high tolerance to spice) but I didn't want to shock my system on day one. Slow and steady wins the race and all that…
But the lemons, wow! Better add a touch more water next time…
As I scheduled to visit my brother straight after work I made sure I’d packed enough lemons, cayenne, maple syrup and bottled water to see me through to the evening, so off I went to work looking like a complete nutter – the weirdest packed lunch I’d ever had! Hello 16 lemons!
I made up the concoction in my trusty Bobble, a cute and extremely versatile drink/soup/smoothie container that managed to measure the perfect amount for one glass. Plus it’s microwavable and I’d read that sometimes heating up the lemonade makes for a nice change.
I’d managed to stay full with no inclination or want to think about food until 11.30 am which is the time I tend to start getting hungry anyway. When I returned from the kitchen with my second Bobble of lemonade my colleagues starting asking questions…which delivered quite a few stunned responses when I told them I was nearly half way through my master cleanse.
I went out on my lunch hour to pass the time and returned to my desk, still not hungry. So far, so good…
A realisation hit me today though that despite being completely obvious, I never really stopped and thought about it for too long before. I’m not going to eat real, actual, textured, crunchy, fluffy, chewy food for SIX more days! And I’m going have to deal with it through a course of extremely zingy and sweet lemonade (and I’m much more of a savoury person in general) and a series of brutal salt water flushes! Alarm bells. Late afternoon I felt my emotions were a bit all over the place. Was I going to DIE?! Well obviously not, but I did feel overwhelmingly daunted. I made an organic strawberry tea to calm down…
In total I managed to sink four lemonades during work which is a lot less than I anticipated. I didn't fall over myself to make it as this cleanse certainly isn’t a sprint to the finish line but despite having mixed reviews about the lemony rocket fuel (I think I’ll grow to like it) my energy levels have been through the roof.
I feel like I could run a marathon in fact, and as the days go on I can see myself beginning to write more and more about this experience and my highs, lows, weird changes in psychological shifts…the works. It certainly helps to unload my thoughts, otherwise if left to swim around in my head I think I would actually go crazy and throw my desk out the window.
Work finished so I scooped up my ingredients and took them to my brothers and we decided to go to the cinema which provided a further distraction to help pass the time. Anything to stop me thinking about the nice dinners I couldn't eat...
I only managed to squeeze in one more lemonade before we went so I notched up five in total on my first day, as we left the cinema I noticed my tummy was rumbling, hard.
I've also realised that late nights aren't the best thing on the Master Cleanse, and as I was driving through the fog at 11.20 pm all I could think about was curling up into bed and shutting my eyes. I got home and went straight to bed, so swerved the laxative tea I had actually been looking forward to drinking all day.
My head hit the pillow and I was out like a light...next stop, the salt water flush.
Overall mood: 8.5/10 (afternoon) | 7/10 (evening)