Shelly's cleanse day 1 of 10

Hello fellow detoxers. Today started my 10 day Master Cleanse and I almost hate to jinx myself, but it's been fairly easy so far. I quit coffee yesterday and my head hurt all day, but fortunately I had no headache today. My morning started off with the only hard part of the cleanse, the saltwater flush (SWF) and it was pretty brutal. You have to drink 32 oz. of water with 2 tsp of sea salt in minutes. I finally ended up standing in front of the bathroom mirror and chugging it as best I could and then switched to a fat straw in the back of my mouth so I didn't have to taste the salt. It took a good 2 hours to get the pipes flowing, but the flush does what it implies and I've felt great ever since. So far I've had four 10 oz. glasses of lemonade today with a pint of water after each. I will probably drink six of these per day but the diet allows up to twelve.

I've been a little slower paced, sort of mellow feeling all day, but definitely with no pain or hunger. I think the hardest part will be the SWF each morning and cooking dinner for my son. My husband was doing the cleanse all day with me, but he just broke at dinner. I guess I'll have him make our son's meals for the next week to ease the temptation. I'm looking forward to tomorrow and journaling my process.

xoxo Shelly

The Master Cleanse a/k/a The Lemonade Diet

Hello 2010! (pronouced twenty ten)

First off let me say how grateful I am to be included in this terrific blog idea to help us support one another and achieve our goals throughout the year; some goals we may not even know we had and others we can create as the year goes along. In the past, I've been pretty good about making my resolutions, but this year I was sort of feeling like I didn't have anything I needed to change, but I kept going back to "yeah right" and thinking harder and longer. When the theme of Detox was named for January, I immediately thought I'd cut out alcohol for the month (mama loves her Mama Juice when the kid goes to bed), but I decided to take it a step further. I'm going to attempt the Master Cleanse, also known as the Lemonade Diet (made popular by Beyonce before dropping a stone for Dream Girls). This is done primarily to rid the body of toxins, but of course can be a reduction diet as well. In most overweight people a significant amount can be lost, but in people such as myself, a vegetarian with regulated body weight, the weight loss should be minimal and only the bad stuff goes, not the good (although I do hope to lose the post-holiday bloat). This is my first ever cleanse and this particular one lasts 10 days, not including the ease-in phase and most important easing out. I plan to begin on January 8th after two days of "easing in" beginning tomorrow by eating only raw fruits and vegetables, salad and nuts and the next day only fruit and vegetable juices. I have purchased the Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs and am going "by the book" and have been reading from the official online site where much discussion and support is available. I will check in as the week progresses and let you know how I'm feeling, or who i've flipped out on and maybe even snap a few pics of my waisteline ;-) Wish me luck!

xo Shelly