the master cleanse. day 2.
Thoughts from Note
Today was not so bad. Similar to yesterday with the only exception being that I was a little hungrier in the afternoon and actually had my stomach gurgle a couple times. I had opening ceremony for the school year today and I was a bit worried that it would be so long that I would get hungry but, no trouble. Hunger was not had.
This morning however, I was woken up by seriously lame stomach pains at 5am. Quick run to the bathroom and all was well and asleep minutes later.
Other than that, I've been experiencing odd back pains but they don't last very long. I think it's because I'm not drinking enough water.
The salt rinse went down a lot easier this time. Couple tricks: Warm is good. If the salt rinse is warm, I just keep telling myself it's chicken stock or consomme or something and it goes down much easier. Still, 32oz of consomme in 5 minutes would still be a task. The other trick I've found, is to rub a lemon rind on the mouth of the container you are drinking out of between every "gulping session". It helps to cut the salty/lame taste on your lips which reminds you that you are drinking salt water.
I only drank about 45oz. of lemon drink today. Should drink more but we had tea ceremony class. That was tough. Sitting there with only your thoughts is a dangerous thing. I haven't often daydreamed about food these past two days but sitting there silently today, I had a major daydream session. All I could think about were Reuben sandwiches - which is strange because I haven't had a Reuben in about 2 years. Oh, and beer. God I can't wait to drink a beer.
Stop.
Ok. Verdict: Day 2 goes fine. Hoping Day 3 goes just as well. I'm told it's mostly down hill from Day 4. The cleanse continues.
By the way, Meghan bought cat a bow tie. He looks ridiculous.
Thoughts from Meghan
Today was not so bad. This morning I did the salt water rinse with the correct amount of salt and I managed to chug the thing in 5 minutes or so. Christophe figured out a little trick, which is to keep a wedge of lemon handy while you chug. He rubbed it on the lip of the Nalgene, but I did this plus rubbed it on my tongue when I felt like I might lose it. That plus giving myself time to burp got me through. I chugged salt water from 8:10 to 8:15, and was not done with my toilet time until 10:15- they say its only supposed to take an hour to go through you, but my body was expelling all liquids for a solid two hours!
My one weak moment today was at school when everyone started eating lunch. This was a bad decision on my part to stay in the room, because I was kind of starting to go nuts from the scent. Then a teacher who just got back from his honeymoon in Guam set out two huge buckets of caramel corn for everyone. CARAMEL POPCORN!! I managed to look away from all these distractions and focus on my work when the sound of the teacher next to me crunching away on sembei began to dominate my mind. I no longer saw the computer screen, completely forgot about the letter I was writing. All I could hear was the crunch crunch crunch, all I could see was sembei. It was at this point that I thrust headphones in, blasted NPR into my ears, and started writing up some worksheets for the new students.
This evening we had tea ceremony class, but without the tea. It was really sad to do without the warm powdered green tea reward, and I found it hard to focus. I think I am not ready to be alone with my thoughts in the meditative way tea ceremony encourages- my thoughts are still to focused around food. The onigiri image keeps coming back to me, and that of the teacher crunching on sembei. These are the two big ones from today.
Post tea ceremony we have just been home relaxing. I have been reading and am feeling pretty tired. It is a little early for me (just 10pm) but I think I will give in to my desire for sleep. Again I have only drunk about 1.5 liters of the drink- I hope this alright and wont prevent the cleanse from working well. I am unsure as to if the drink is to keep you active (ie give you the calories and vitamins you need) or to actually help cleansing- probably both. So I am hoping drinking less wont mean a less effective cleanse. I might be tired from the lack of food, or I am thinking it might be because of my spring-time allergies, which kicked in about 3 days before we started. I am hoping that not eating will somehow magically cure me of allergies, but this is probably nothing more then a pipedream.
Going to ballet tomorrow morning- my first time back in a year (I had to quit when I started working at the high school, but now that I am part time I can have that part of the day free!). Hopefully I will be able to make it through the class on lemon and maple energy alone. Ill let you know how it goes tomorrow night,
-meghan
Today was not so bad. Similar to yesterday with the only exception being that I was a little hungrier in the afternoon and actually had my stomach gurgle a couple times. I had opening ceremony for the school year today and I was a bit worried that it would be so long that I would get hungry but, no trouble. Hunger was not had.
This morning however, I was woken up by seriously lame stomach pains at 5am. Quick run to the bathroom and all was well and asleep minutes later.
Other than that, I've been experiencing odd back pains but they don't last very long. I think it's because I'm not drinking enough water.
The salt rinse went down a lot easier this time. Couple tricks: Warm is good. If the salt rinse is warm, I just keep telling myself it's chicken stock or consomme or something and it goes down much easier. Still, 32oz of consomme in 5 minutes would still be a task. The other trick I've found, is to rub a lemon rind on the mouth of the container you are drinking out of between every "gulping session". It helps to cut the salty/lame taste on your lips which reminds you that you are drinking salt water.
I only drank about 45oz. of lemon drink today. Should drink more but we had tea ceremony class. That was tough. Sitting there with only your thoughts is a dangerous thing. I haven't often daydreamed about food these past two days but sitting there silently today, I had a major daydream session. All I could think about were Reuben sandwiches - which is strange because I haven't had a Reuben in about 2 years. Oh, and beer. God I can't wait to drink a beer.
Stop.
Ok. Verdict: Day 2 goes fine. Hoping Day 3 goes just as well. I'm told it's mostly down hill from Day 4. The cleanse continues.
By the way, Meghan bought cat a bow tie. He looks ridiculous.
Thoughts from Meghan
Today was not so bad. This morning I did the salt water rinse with the correct amount of salt and I managed to chug the thing in 5 minutes or so. Christophe figured out a little trick, which is to keep a wedge of lemon handy while you chug. He rubbed it on the lip of the Nalgene, but I did this plus rubbed it on my tongue when I felt like I might lose it. That plus giving myself time to burp got me through. I chugged salt water from 8:10 to 8:15, and was not done with my toilet time until 10:15- they say its only supposed to take an hour to go through you, but my body was expelling all liquids for a solid two hours!
My one weak moment today was at school when everyone started eating lunch. This was a bad decision on my part to stay in the room, because I was kind of starting to go nuts from the scent. Then a teacher who just got back from his honeymoon in Guam set out two huge buckets of caramel corn for everyone. CARAMEL POPCORN!! I managed to look away from all these distractions and focus on my work when the sound of the teacher next to me crunching away on sembei began to dominate my mind. I no longer saw the computer screen, completely forgot about the letter I was writing. All I could hear was the crunch crunch crunch, all I could see was sembei. It was at this point that I thrust headphones in, blasted NPR into my ears, and started writing up some worksheets for the new students.
This evening we had tea ceremony class, but without the tea. It was really sad to do without the warm powdered green tea reward, and I found it hard to focus. I think I am not ready to be alone with my thoughts in the meditative way tea ceremony encourages- my thoughts are still to focused around food. The onigiri image keeps coming back to me, and that of the teacher crunching on sembei. These are the two big ones from today.
Post tea ceremony we have just been home relaxing. I have been reading and am feeling pretty tired. It is a little early for me (just 10pm) but I think I will give in to my desire for sleep. Again I have only drunk about 1.5 liters of the drink- I hope this alright and wont prevent the cleanse from working well. I am unsure as to if the drink is to keep you active (ie give you the calories and vitamins you need) or to actually help cleansing- probably both. So I am hoping drinking less wont mean a less effective cleanse. I might be tired from the lack of food, or I am thinking it might be because of my spring-time allergies, which kicked in about 3 days before we started. I am hoping that not eating will somehow magically cure me of allergies, but this is probably nothing more then a pipedream.
Going to ballet tomorrow morning- my first time back in a year (I had to quit when I started working at the high school, but now that I am part time I can have that part of the day free!). Hopefully I will be able to make it through the class on lemon and maple energy alone. Ill let you know how it goes tomorrow night,
-meghan
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