the master cleanse. day 3.
Thoughts from Note
Today I woke up with a surprising amount of energy and very chipper. I didn't drink a senna tea last night because I did the salt water cleanse at about 9pm and thought it would be a bit redundant. I did, however, take a travel mug of senna tea to work and it did its thing by mid-day. While I had a good amount of energy this morning, by noon it was totally gone and I had seriously heavy eyelids. The rest of the day, I was pretty beat. But this might have been because I did practically nothing at work today. We're in between school years and classes won't kick back in until Monday.
So far, the first three days (supposedly the most difficult days of the cleanse) have been remarkably easy. No real hunger pains or strong urges to eat. I have occasionally felt a little off from time to time - lightheaded or whatever - but never anything that would stop me from living life, driving a car, operating heavy machinery (the method which we use to teach English involves a wrecking ball and a power saw in case you're curious). The occasional soreness and pin-point back pains have persisted but they don't bother me too much.
The only downer of the past day or two has been my stomach since the last salt water rinse. Despite having done its thing, my stomach has been off. All day today, it's been a bit achy so I decided not to do the rinse tonight and hope it gets better by morning. I will be drinking some senna tea tonight so if something inside me is causing the discomfort, it will most likely be gone by tomorrow morning. Here's to hoping. Might just be the constant diet of lemonade though.
Other than that, not much to report. I feel pretty good and am ready for day 4.
Thoughts from Meghan
This morning was hard. I woke up feeling like I had drunk half a bottle of Nyquil the night before. I was crazy groggy, bumping into walls and knocking things over, all the while yelling at Christophe for not having allergies- I have since apologized for the tantrum I threw this morning, after coherent thought returned to me. The mornings are always tough for me during allergy time, as phlem and such has time to build up during the night. I am doing alright by day, a constant slightly sore through, an off and on runny nose and plugged up ears. As long as I don't revert over to plugged up nose- which instantly leads to sinus infection if you are me- I will be fine. Not sure if the fasting is helping, hurting, or have zero effect. The only real effect I can cite is that I cannot take any kind of decongestant or allergy medicine. This is because even with a stomach filled with 5 loaves of bread and a three turkeys I get loopy off those meds- with zero food inside me I might jump off the roof with cat strapped to my back in the belief I will be saved by him landing on his feet.
After tophe left I did the salt water cleanse, which cleared up my head a bit, and then… WENT TO BALLET!!! This is very exciting because I haven’t been to ballet in a year. When I started the full time day job at Kaisei High School I had to give up a lot of my daytime activites, like ballet. One might in fact argue that the desicive factor in my deciding to go part time for the last four months was my desire to return to my ballet classes. It was fun and wonderful and happy and great. I love ballet. Being in a ballet class brings me great happiness, like when I first fell in love with ballet. Sadly my high school years of ballet soured me to it, as they were marked by intense competition with everyone I was dancing with, and a feeling that if I wasn't ready to commit my life to dancing I was just wasting time and money. But now that I take classes as an adult I feel no pressure to be perfect, just to have fun and enjoy dancing. Although I still have that competitive world lurking in my head- and often find myself rating myself against the other students in the class (today I was 2nd or maybe 3rd in technique, but last or next to last in flexibility) and I can always tell right off others who have danced since they were younger and were always very good by the air of superiority over the others they hold (today it was a youngish woman in a blue leotard, who was in fact better then the rest of us, but for the first half of the class was waaay to snooty about it). I know this ballet rant has nothing to do with fasting, but I love ballet and I am really happy to be taking classes again.
Back to fasting. Ballet class was broken into three sections (I swear this will pertain to fasting); the first 45 minutes were filled with yoga style streaching, the next 30 minutes were bar work (strengthening) and the last 15 minutes were floor work (aerobic). I was fine for the stretching, got some rumbles during the bar work, and felt a touch woozy with this floor work. This might have been because I haven’t eaten for three days, or it might be because I haven’t been to a ballet class in a year.
Then I biked to school (slowly) for an English department meeting (classes will start Monday) then biked home. My tummy started to get hungry grumbley when I got home, so I chugged a bit of lemonade, but the feeling of hunger stayed with me until I got to my Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement) class. Diving into something like a flower arrangement distracts you from the fact that you are not eating. The Sunday after next I will have one of my pieces in a flower exhibit, so I am very nervous and trying to up my practice time. Now I am back home, the grumble has returned and tiredness from my long day is starting to set in. I think I will finish up my lemonade (today I only made 1.5 liters, still have about .5 left at 8:24pm… I wonder if I always just conserve as the day goes so no matter how much I make there will be .5 left in the eve) and then curl up on the couch with Senna Tea and watch some enterprise with tophe.
Hoping tomorrow morning will be better then today’s!
meghan
Today I woke up with a surprising amount of energy and very chipper. I didn't drink a senna tea last night because I did the salt water cleanse at about 9pm and thought it would be a bit redundant. I did, however, take a travel mug of senna tea to work and it did its thing by mid-day. While I had a good amount of energy this morning, by noon it was totally gone and I had seriously heavy eyelids. The rest of the day, I was pretty beat. But this might have been because I did practically nothing at work today. We're in between school years and classes won't kick back in until Monday.
So far, the first three days (supposedly the most difficult days of the cleanse) have been remarkably easy. No real hunger pains or strong urges to eat. I have occasionally felt a little off from time to time - lightheaded or whatever - but never anything that would stop me from living life, driving a car, operating heavy machinery (the method which we use to teach English involves a wrecking ball and a power saw in case you're curious). The occasional soreness and pin-point back pains have persisted but they don't bother me too much.
The only downer of the past day or two has been my stomach since the last salt water rinse. Despite having done its thing, my stomach has been off. All day today, it's been a bit achy so I decided not to do the rinse tonight and hope it gets better by morning. I will be drinking some senna tea tonight so if something inside me is causing the discomfort, it will most likely be gone by tomorrow morning. Here's to hoping. Might just be the constant diet of lemonade though.
Other than that, not much to report. I feel pretty good and am ready for day 4.
Thoughts from Meghan
This morning was hard. I woke up feeling like I had drunk half a bottle of Nyquil the night before. I was crazy groggy, bumping into walls and knocking things over, all the while yelling at Christophe for not having allergies- I have since apologized for the tantrum I threw this morning, after coherent thought returned to me. The mornings are always tough for me during allergy time, as phlem and such has time to build up during the night. I am doing alright by day, a constant slightly sore through, an off and on runny nose and plugged up ears. As long as I don't revert over to plugged up nose- which instantly leads to sinus infection if you are me- I will be fine. Not sure if the fasting is helping, hurting, or have zero effect. The only real effect I can cite is that I cannot take any kind of decongestant or allergy medicine. This is because even with a stomach filled with 5 loaves of bread and a three turkeys I get loopy off those meds- with zero food inside me I might jump off the roof with cat strapped to my back in the belief I will be saved by him landing on his feet.
After tophe left I did the salt water cleanse, which cleared up my head a bit, and then… WENT TO BALLET!!! This is very exciting because I haven’t been to ballet in a year. When I started the full time day job at Kaisei High School I had to give up a lot of my daytime activites, like ballet. One might in fact argue that the desicive factor in my deciding to go part time for the last four months was my desire to return to my ballet classes. It was fun and wonderful and happy and great. I love ballet. Being in a ballet class brings me great happiness, like when I first fell in love with ballet. Sadly my high school years of ballet soured me to it, as they were marked by intense competition with everyone I was dancing with, and a feeling that if I wasn't ready to commit my life to dancing I was just wasting time and money. But now that I take classes as an adult I feel no pressure to be perfect, just to have fun and enjoy dancing. Although I still have that competitive world lurking in my head- and often find myself rating myself against the other students in the class (today I was 2nd or maybe 3rd in technique, but last or next to last in flexibility) and I can always tell right off others who have danced since they were younger and were always very good by the air of superiority over the others they hold (today it was a youngish woman in a blue leotard, who was in fact better then the rest of us, but for the first half of the class was waaay to snooty about it). I know this ballet rant has nothing to do with fasting, but I love ballet and I am really happy to be taking classes again.
Back to fasting. Ballet class was broken into three sections (I swear this will pertain to fasting); the first 45 minutes were filled with yoga style streaching, the next 30 minutes were bar work (strengthening) and the last 15 minutes were floor work (aerobic). I was fine for the stretching, got some rumbles during the bar work, and felt a touch woozy with this floor work. This might have been because I haven’t eaten for three days, or it might be because I haven’t been to a ballet class in a year.
Then I biked to school (slowly) for an English department meeting (classes will start Monday) then biked home. My tummy started to get hungry grumbley when I got home, so I chugged a bit of lemonade, but the feeling of hunger stayed with me until I got to my Ikebana (Japanese flower arrangement) class. Diving into something like a flower arrangement distracts you from the fact that you are not eating. The Sunday after next I will have one of my pieces in a flower exhibit, so I am very nervous and trying to up my practice time. Now I am back home, the grumble has returned and tiredness from my long day is starting to set in. I think I will finish up my lemonade (today I only made 1.5 liters, still have about .5 left at 8:24pm… I wonder if I always just conserve as the day goes so no matter how much I make there will be .5 left in the eve) and then curl up on the couch with Senna Tea and watch some enterprise with tophe.
Hoping tomorrow morning will be better then today’s!
meghan
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