13th
End of Day 1 of the Master Cleanse
so it’s almost been 24 hours since i’ve eaten my last solid meal (which happened to be a trader joe’s pesto tortellini dinner). maybe that doesn’t sound like a long time, but considering i started taking the first herbal laxatives last night—then again first thing in the morning—it hasn’t all been peaches and cream so far.
since 6:30AM, i have consumed 4 of the lemonade drinks. i plan on drinking another 2-3 tonight (you are supposed to drink between 6-12 a day). it’s not that i didn’t want to drink that many so far today, it was just that i was in an almost-5 hour meeting today at work. so basically, i was only able to drink one before i left for work, another in the morning, then i wasn’t able to have anything until after the meeting was over.
and that was nothing compared to what i had to endure during the meeting.
because we were scheduled for a marathon of a meeting (i was under the impression the meeting would only be 3 hours, not 300), they decided to first pass around a box of fresh donuts. now i’m not a super big donut fan, but i’ll enjoy one every once in a while and it was quite a tease to start off the day with these fattening, sugary, pastries being shoved in my face.
it takes a certain kind of will power for a hungry person to pass up free donuts
then of course, since we were working through lunch time, my managers brought in a big catered lunch service which included sandwiches and wraps, cookies, chips, basically the works. normally, i would’ve helped myself (maybe gone for the roast beef wrap and baked lays) but of course this time i had to pass on the offerings.
after some weird looks and an obligatory “aren’t you going to eat,” i simply said i wasn’t hungry (haha that was a lie! the joke’s on them…oh wait) and then proceeded to watch everybody slobber over and scarf down every crumb of every sandwich and chip. maybe because my stomach was essentially empty or perhaps this lemonade drink has provided me super-enhanced hearing powers, but it seemed like i could hear every munch of every dorito, every swallow of a bite of turkey, and every slurp of coca-cola.
none of this was helped by the fact that i inevitably had to run to the bathroom several times today. and when i say run, i mean…walk fast. at least 3 times during the meeting i had to excuse myself to go think really hard in the bathroom (and i’ve had 3 more thoughts since). and i can honestly write that it only takes about 12 hours after starting the cleanse before you go from—shall i say a snickers—to—how about a yoo-hoo drink. i’m hoping this will not last the entire cleanse but i may pack some flushable wipes just to be safe.
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm…nahhh…well…nahhh
as far as how i feel, i will say the drink is just as spicy as i remember it tasting. the cayenne pepper is pretty hot at first taste, but i’ve since taken reduced the pepper a little bit out of the drinks and it’s gotten much easier to put down. other than that, it’s not a bad tasting drink (check back on that in 5 days). i have had some hunger pangs and rumblings, but they do pass over time and i can help alleviate them with a glass of water or another lemonade drink. my legs and body do feel a little tired but some of this might still stem from the recovery process of getting over my jet lag from a cross-the-word trip to australia and new zealand last week.
day 1 is just about in the books. i’m not miserable yet, but we’ll see how i feel another day from now when eating starts to become a memory of a few days ago.
with the donuts, meeting lunch, and this google i page dictionary word of the day from my homepage; it really seems like the world is messing with me
