The Master Cleanse

If Wednesday is humpday of the work week, Day 3 is the humpday of the Lemonade Diet. Most people say day 2 and day 3 are the very worst for cravings. By day 4 your body has adapted to it’s new routine and is no longer expecting meals at the usual times and stuffed bellies of processed foods.

While this may be humpday for cravings, I don’t believe it is the same for the detox. Many people describe getting headaches, rashes, slight colds and runny noses starting day 4 and I believe this to be due to the expulsion of toxins in our bodies as they leave our system. Sick-In, Sick-Out. When we ingest toxins, we often have similar reactions - like a sneeze, or the stuffed nose, or even a temperature. All of those things are reactions to contaminants detected by our immune system.

The false bravado of day 1 often comes crashing down on day 2.

Well we are past the Ease-In (if you did one at all), and we are onto the main event - The Lemonade Diet. Whether you are a master cleanser in the true sense doing your 5th or even tenth master cleanse, or you are a rookie going at it for the first time, the first day of the Lemonade Diet is a mixed bag.

Usually you have a sense of excitement and adventure that gets you sufficiently motivated to make it through day 1 without too much trouble. On the other hand, many people hit feel the full impact of the desire to eat if not at breakfast, and still not at lunch - many of us get so busy that we often don’t eat until late in the day - then at dinner time the cravings hit hard. This is usually the time when we would gorge ourselves to make up for the whole day of no food. But this time you can’t do it.

Preparation is also key for the first day, especially if it is your first time. Some people prepare their juice the day before. I like my lemonade as fresh as possible. I prepare half of mine in the morning and the other half in the afternoon. The process of preparing and drinking the lemonade is always causing confusion, even though it is quite simple.

Congratulations on starting a wonderful experience. I am sure your first day will go well and get you psyched up for the hardest part of the cleanse - day 2 and day 3 (or so they say).

• 1 - Psychological Emotional
• 2- The Process and The Lemonade
• 3 - Weight Loss and Physical
• 4 - Detox and Salt Water Flush
• 5 - Support - Social, Friends and Family
• *** - General Comments

Coming down off of solid foods we move into the orange juice portion of the Ease-In/Ease-Out process. In the Ease-In, this stage is not as important as during the Ease-Out. During the Ease-Out, the first day after the Lemonade, your stomach is used to the citrus juice every day. The orange juice, stripped still of most of the pulp is a nice transition into more complex juices and soups. The Ease-In however doesn’t have that issue, but I like the reverse process of the Ease-In because it helps train you to a new lifestyle. Even though it takes several days to establish a habit, the more you can try a lifestyle the more open you will be to it. You may not go to a Vegetarian diet, Vegan, Live food diet or even a prolonged or intermittent juice cleanse diet, but you will have experience with how your body feels when you are only feeding it live foods, or only drinking juices. You can understand you don’t need a steak to live, or have a full stomach to have abundant energy.

Ease-In Complete, The Lemonade Diet Begins.

So we are at the last day planned for the Group Master Cleanse Experience. While this stage of The Master Cleanse was optional, tomorrow is not.

Everyone who is still committed to the process and the group should be getting ready to start the Lemonade tomorrow. You should be posting every day at the 5 topic pages to be eligible for the gift certificates and the juicers.

I am still having trouble with some peoples passwords on the site, and with the numbers it has been hard to get everything done. Never fear though, you don’t need to log into to post your experiences. Just go to the pages listed at http://themastercleanse.org/my-experience - you can post your comments about your master cleanse experience at the bottom of the page.

Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed to get updates (http://feeds.feedburner.com/CommentsForTheMasterCleanse)

You can track updates at Twitter as well (http://twitter.com/master_cleanse)

I have added a new feature to view comments by user. In the sidebar look top commenters towards the bottom. Right now I have it set to show the top 10, but I will change that to show the top 25. Out of the 174 people participating I am hoping to have 25 complete the process AND submit their experiences everyday. By clicking the name of the user, you will see a page that shows each of the uses comments. This is a great way to keep track of users you particularly like to read from. For example, here is all the post from LuckyGirl (http://themastercleanse.org/members/?stats_author=LuckyGirl)

Congrats to everyone again, and keep the posts coming. We have had nearly 200 comments posted helping people understand their experiences in the last 3 days.

• 1 - Psychological Emotional
• 2- The Process and The Lemonade
• 3 - Weight Loss and Physical
• 4 - Detox and Salt Water Flush
• 5 - Support - Social, Friends and Family
• *** - General Comments

Day 2 of the optional Ease-In starts removing solid foods from our diet. Again, the Ease-In is just are reversal of the Ease-Out which follows the Lemonade in the whole process of The Master Cleanse. Juicing fruits and vegetables is such a great way to get the value of food directly and easily. Since we there is no chewing, the food is almost already to be digested directly into the blood.

Soups are obviously cooked and therefore could be stripped of many of the nutrients but the same principal holds true. The liquid broth makes it quick to digest. There are many vegetable only soup recipes available. Look for the page coming soon with recipes for soups and juices.

• 1 - Psychological Emotional
• 2- The Process and The Lemonade
• 3 - Weight Loss and Physical
• 4 - Detox and Salt Water Flush
• 5 - Support - Social, Friends and Family
• *** - General Comments

So we have begun this journey together on this new day of this new year. Let’s take the opportunity to share our experiences in a way that encourages not only ourselves through the support of others, but as important to encourage others with our own support. Look to give just a little more than you take from this experience. Let’s take the opportunity in what seems like a self-centered experience and tanscend into a social benefit.

The process of the Ease-In is one that I have come to rely on. It is simply a mirror of the process of breaking the cleanse, or what I call the Ease-out. By slowly approaching the Lemonade diet (the main event of The Master Cleanse - the fasting days consuming only the lemonade), you can not only prepare psychologically and physically for the upcoming challenge, but you can also begin to train yourself for what should be a life-long change in your diet - whole grains, no processed foods, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.

Head over to the topic pages to post your experience today by midnight (12:00/24:00 EST). If you are not participating, or doing the cleanse but not registered, you call also post your comments and questions.

If you are registered, remember to post at least 100 words on each topic. Please begin each post with a Title including the day. For example:

<!– Day 1 –>

<!– Day 1 - Starting to Ease-In –>

<!– Day 1 - Here we go and I am so excited –>

Good luck everyone! Have fun and happy New Year.

• 0 - Registration
• 1 - Psychological Emotional
• 2- The Process and The Lemonade
• 3 - Weight Loss and Physical
• 4 - Detox and Salt Water Flush
• 5 - Support - Social, Friends and Family
• *** - General Comments

There are now 135 registered participants for the first Group Master Cleanse Experience.

I had tried to cap registrations to 50, then 75, then 100 because it was going to cost me so much money to provide 10$ gift certificates from Amazon.com or The Master Cleanse Book. But since there has been so much enthusiasm, I couldn’t resist letting people register until the last minute. The more the merrier. This is becoming such a force. I am so excited to ready everyone’s comments each day.

If you are not sure the process to post your comments, please post your question here:

http://themastercleanse.org/my-experience/general/

This is also the place to post any other general questions, comments or answers to questions as well.

This will truly be a unique event. Not only will everyone who is participating get the results from the cleans, and support from everyone else who are daily posting their results, concerns, questions and comments from 5 topics of discussion:

Psychological and Emotional
The Process and The Lemonade Diet
Weight Loss and Physical Results
Detoxing and The Salt Water Flush
Social Support from Family and Friends.

Simply go to the each page each day and post your comments about your experience. Please begin each post with a title with what day you are on. For example: Day 1: Ease In.

The Master Cleanse Experience Challenge will begin on January 1, 2009. This is a Thursday. Since some of us might be hung over, this is when the Ease in will begin. There will be a 4 day Ease in. The Ease in can be slow over the 4 days, or you can start the Lemonade Diet on Sunday January 4, 2009 by just beginning to take the Lemonade with no Ease in.

1. The Master Cleanse New Years Resolution Experience Challenge will begin on Friday January 1, 2009.
2. The Ease In (Optional) Will begin on Sunday January 4, 2009
3. It will last 10 Days with the last full day of the Lemonade Diet coming on Tuesday January 13th.
4. A 3 Day Ease out will follow.
5. Eat Freely / Eat Wisely will begin on Saturday January 17th.
6. To be considered for the prizes you must contribute the minimum as follows:

Even if you are not participating you can witness the results and form your own opinions from the testimonials (good and bad) of a large sample of people doing the cleanse. Cleansing and fasting isn’t for everyone. Those who choose to do it enjoy the support of those around them. Hopefully this experiment will result in an organize forum for collaborative experience.

More Information here:

http://themastercleanse.org/my-experience/

Each participant who completes the entire experience and submits each day is eligible for the category select prices. Each winner will receive an Power Juicer from a $100 value. Voting will be held after the challenge is complete and all submissions are made. You can vote by going to themastercleanse.org/my-experience-winners.

• 1 - Most Sensible - Who was the calm headed, common sense leader
• 2 - Most Helpful - Who went the extra mile to comment on others posts
• 3- Most Humorous - Who kept it light and entertaining
• 4 - Most Eloquent - Who had a way with the words, or provide unique insight.
• 5 - Most Prolific - Who simply wrote the most

• 0 - Registration
• 1 - Psychological Emotional
• 2- The Process and The Lemonade
• 3 - Weight Loss and Physical
• 4 - Detox and Salt Water Flush
• 5 - Support - Social, Friends and Family
• *** - General Comments

There are now 99 registered participants for the first Group Master Cleanse Experience. This will truly be a unique event. Not only will everyone who is participating get the results from the cleans, and support from everyone else who are daily posting their results, concerns, questions and comments from 5 topics of discussion:

Psychological and Emotional
The Process and The Lemonade Diet
Weight Loss and Physical Results
Detoxing and The Salt Water Flush
Social Support from Family and Friends.

Even if you are not participating you can witness the results and form your own opinions from the testimonials (good and bad) of a large sample of people doing the cleanse. Cleansing and fasting isn’t for everyone. Those who choose to do it enjoy the support of those around them. Hopefully this experiment will result in an organize forum for collaborative experience.

More Information here:

http://themastercleanse.org/my-experience/

• 1 - Psychological Emotional
• 2 - Physical
• 3 - Weight Loss
• 4 - Detox Elimination
• 5 - Support - Social

Hey everyone,

Just a quick update.

We currently have 36 Registrations. That’s Awesome. This could be largest group chronicling of the Master Cleanse ever.

I thought there would be a lot of interest but I am thrilled how much there is so far.

Site and Experience Updates

I have added the sub-pages that you see in the menu to the right of this page. These are the areas that we are going to write about. Simply view the page and post your comment. Remember, to be eligible for the Grand Prizes you need to complete these each day by 7:00 PM EST. 100 words please. I am trying to collect our experiences in an standard way to that it makes for easy orginization and reading.

Things that I am working on

I will make the USERS for each person registerd by Saturday December 27th. You will be emailed a password and registration details.

There is a Twitter Group that can be followed here. I am working on a script that will publish Facebook users Status to the Twitter account. Anyone who follows the Twitter account will be able to get live updates of the people who are doing the cleanse. More on this later.

Hey everyone.

Over at http://themastercleanse.org/my-experience there is a Group cleanse starting January 4th.

Many people are talking about doing the cleanse in the new year, and many more want to do it with the support of others at the same time.

If you register, and provide comments on your experience everyday you will receive a $10 value - a book from amazon about fasts, cleanses and the master cleanse (your choice).

There are also 6 power juicers available for those voted by the community as the most “Helpful”, “Prolific Poster” and other interesting categories.

The goal is to create community as well as collect the experiences of Master Cleansers in an organized way so new cleansers can better understand the experience.

You can register here:

http://themastercleanse.org/my-experience-registration/

This should be a fun way to connect with others starting the new year off with the master cleanse.