Master Cleanse/Lemonade Diet - Day 5

Okay, I've lost another couple of pounds - for a total of 7 pounds in 4 days. This is an amazing cleanse, if you can stick to it. I've developed some really NASTY side effects so unfortunately, despite my success, I'm going to have to ease off The Master Cleanse immediately.

The purpose of the master cleanse is to detoxify the body and the weight loss is merely a beneficial side effect of it. After hearing so many great success stories of 15 pounds in 10 days, and 21 pounds in 20 days... I just had to pick it up and try it. I thought I could lose a lot of weight in short order and clear my body of toxins to boot, but now I'm wondering if the people that have succeeded with the plan have an asbestos lined digestive tract or what?

There have been a lot of really great cleansing benefits for me -- even in just the four days. I developed severe irritation in an unfortunate area causing a lot of bleeding and then "the area" was being scorched to death over and over by the consistent copious passing of salt and cayenne pepper. This, coupled with nearly fainting twice last night, has me thinking it's time to hang up my maple syrup! I'm a tough broad, but I think continuing with that kind of agony for 6 more days would be reason enough for a prompt and thorough mental evaluation ...and for my husband to secretly request I be put on a 72 hour hold at the nearest mental hospital.

Another day of this and the Britney Squad would arrive at my home in the middle of the night to whisk me away in restraints and forcefeed me Taco Bell through my IV bag. Hmmmm... after the month I've had with my three boys and husband including a very serious eye injury, a few surgeries, trips to the ER for stitches, a few different illnesses including strep throat and cleaning up after puking kids, that really doesn't sound half bad. Maybe I will continue with this, after all. :-)

The great thing is I've kicked off my weight loss quest with a 7 pound reduction -- just what I needed to get seriously going with this. I'll implement the organic orange juice portion of the plan for the rest of the day and then go into the vegetable phase tomorrow, followed by the vegetable soup tomorrow night. After that I'm going to take a break from the salt water flush for a couple of days, then reimplement the laxative tea at night and the salt water flush in the morning, up the exercise and eat only fruit, veggies, whole grains and lean protein.

Woohoo... just call me The Incredible Shrinking Woman!

The Diva