the lemonade cleanse...
ok, so i've decided to do the lemonade cleanse... the "master cleanse" as it's known. i've tried it once before, for about 3 days. i had heard little bits and pieces about it in prior years, but paid little attention to it because i thought it was a fad, and tho i did wanted to slim down - fads just weren't for me. but... a friend of mine turned me on. i was talking with her because she was interested in having me do some business cards for her new "healthy lifestyle" business that she was starting. one day, when she finally caught me on the phone (i stay busy), i mentioned that i had been down the last day or so with a terrible headache and i thought i was catching the flu. she mentioned i should come over for a foot bath... i had heard of such before because my sister used to get them all the time. it would freak me out because from what she told me - you stick your feet in a tub of water while this metal thing pulls out toxin...the scary thing (well scary to me - i don't like seeing 'wierd' things) is that you see all this 'stuff' floating in the water... stuff that is coming out of your body thru your feet. and on top of that, the water turns any shade of color, blue, yellow, purple, black...whatever is in your body! so i was a lil skeptical and turned her down at first, but she got me to come over telling me it would make me feel better.
ok... so at her house for this foot bath, we're sitting there...my feet in this tub while this lil machine is rippling the water... and i'm trying not to look down :) she asks me about my overall health and i commence with the horror that i call health... i eat poorly. i sleep poorly. i am a full-figured model so i've actually somewhere along the way, learned to embrace my curves...but in the end, i'm still not as healthy as i should be. nowhere near it as it stands. if i were bold, i would tell my weight, but that ain't happening... at least not today. but i will say i am 26, 5'7, and according to any bmi chart i've ever seen...i am 'clinically obesse'. yay.
so i'm telling her that i suffer from headaches, always have, and that even tho i used to visit doctors in my pursuit of curedom... that stopped. fact is, i hate doctors. nothing persnal... but when i was younger, i'm thinking 10/12 (i really don't remember, come to find out i blocked this out - go figure), i had ovarian cysts and spent a lot of crying, painful days in a doctors office. since then... i've visited the white coats as little as possible and developed a non-regimented way of self-diagnosing, self-medicating, self-surfing webmd.com and other sites that scare you half to death (i've had cancer 3 times according to that site). so i'm telling her all of that, and on top of other loving *reminders* i received, she told me my headaches are from what i eat and that i should try this lemonade cleanser fast she's tried before.
skeptical? yes, i certainly was. but at the moment, my head was pounding, and my throat was closing faster and faster on its way to a full-blown flu so i said i'd try it. the results? i was only able to do it for a few days (i had a big family dinner that wknd and there was no way i was going around my family with a bottle of 'lemonade' trying to explain why i wasn't partaking of the candied yams, collard greens, and mac'n'cheese), but i felt great! the flu symptons were gone, the headaches were gone, and i was 9lbs lighter. SOLD!
soo... here it is, a few months later, and i'm ready to try it again. i had read the book 'the master cleanse' by the creator of this fast, mr. burroughs. i'd definitely recommend reading the lil 50-page booklet to understand the ins-and-outs of what this fast is all about.
but as of today, 4/28/08 - it is 5pm and i've gotten down about 35oz of this concotion. the ingredients are:
2 tbslp fresh squeezed lemon juice
2 tbslp pure grade b mapyle syrup
8-10oz spring water (no tap people)
pinch of cayenne pepper
and thats it!! so anyway... i'm leaving work, and hopefully i'll get to write about how my first day went tonite when i get home. but so far so good... the piece of chocolate (ok, 2 pieces of chocolate) in my purse are miraculously still there... but i must get rid of them before tomorrow cause who knows what my will power will be like by then...
ok... so at her house for this foot bath, we're sitting there...my feet in this tub while this lil machine is rippling the water... and i'm trying not to look down :) she asks me about my overall health and i commence with the horror that i call health... i eat poorly. i sleep poorly. i am a full-figured model so i've actually somewhere along the way, learned to embrace my curves...but in the end, i'm still not as healthy as i should be. nowhere near it as it stands. if i were bold, i would tell my weight, but that ain't happening... at least not today. but i will say i am 26, 5'7, and according to any bmi chart i've ever seen...i am 'clinically obesse'. yay.
so i'm telling her that i suffer from headaches, always have, and that even tho i used to visit doctors in my pursuit of curedom... that stopped. fact is, i hate doctors. nothing persnal... but when i was younger, i'm thinking 10/12 (i really don't remember, come to find out i blocked this out - go figure), i had ovarian cysts and spent a lot of crying, painful days in a doctors office. since then... i've visited the white coats as little as possible and developed a non-regimented way of self-diagnosing, self-medicating, self-surfing webmd.com and other sites that scare you half to death (i've had cancer 3 times according to that site). so i'm telling her all of that, and on top of other loving *reminders* i received, she told me my headaches are from what i eat and that i should try this lemonade cleanser fast she's tried before.
skeptical? yes, i certainly was. but at the moment, my head was pounding, and my throat was closing faster and faster on its way to a full-blown flu so i said i'd try it. the results? i was only able to do it for a few days (i had a big family dinner that wknd and there was no way i was going around my family with a bottle of 'lemonade' trying to explain why i wasn't partaking of the candied yams, collard greens, and mac'n'cheese), but i felt great! the flu symptons were gone, the headaches were gone, and i was 9lbs lighter. SOLD!
soo... here it is, a few months later, and i'm ready to try it again. i had read the book 'the master cleanse' by the creator of this fast, mr. burroughs. i'd definitely recommend reading the lil 50-page booklet to understand the ins-and-outs of what this fast is all about.
but as of today, 4/28/08 - it is 5pm and i've gotten down about 35oz of this concotion. the ingredients are:
2 tbslp fresh squeezed lemon juice
2 tbslp pure grade b mapyle syrup
8-10oz spring water (no tap people)
pinch of cayenne pepper
and thats it!! so anyway... i'm leaving work, and hopefully i'll get to write about how my first day went tonite when i get home. but so far so good... the piece of chocolate (ok, 2 pieces of chocolate) in my purse are miraculously still there... but i must get rid of them before tomorrow cause who knows what my will power will be like by then...
Labels: diet, helathy, lemonade cleanse
posted by miss lala at
1:47 PM
2 Comments:
Okay girl, curious minds want to know...what color was the foot wata, huh, huh?!?!?!?!
I'm with monique, what color was the water? lol. I can relate to what you said in this blog post. I am also overweight, but at least you have height to proportion you. ( i'm only 5'4''). I have done the master cleanser for the full 10 days twice in the past. During the cleanse, you will feel terrible in the first few days( i had headaches the first days of my cleanse also); it is simply your body ridding itself of toxins. I must tell you that it is hard, but after day 3, it gets easier. Also, distilled water works good with the cleanse too because the distilled water helps flush out toxins as well. I recommend doing the cleanse at least once a year, and especially before embarking on a lifestyle change in eating habits and/or exercise. Notice that i didn't say diet. That's how i'm transitioning my lifestyle change right now. A lifestyle change is necessary to reclaim health. It takes patience, even if it starts with replacing one thing at a time.
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