Ease-In: Starting The Master Cleanse

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Ease-In: Starting The Master Cleanse

Posted on 13. Dec, 2008 by Mike in The Master Cleanse

The Ease-in portion of The Master Cleanse is important to me for several reasons. First, it helps me develop the habit of a more natural diet. I don’t want to adopt a rule-filled lifestyle such as vegan or vegetarian, but I do want to limit processed foods, dairy products and red meats. I know that juicing is a great way to get vital veggies. It follows, therefore, that if I choose to eat this way strictly before I begin my cleanse, I am a little more likely to continue the habit in my Post-Cleanse Lifestyle.

The Ease-in can be eliminated, as it is not suggested in the original text. It can also be reduced. This is just my version, take it or leave it.

Ease-In Day 1 – Living Food Diet

To do the Living Food Diet, you need only to eat live foods. Simply remove processed foods, meat and dairy from your diet. Enjoy shopping for, and eating interesting fruits and vegetables. Savor the rich flavor and textures. Be sure that you don’t go to heavy on fruits as they are high in sugar. A 60/40 balance of vegetables to fruits is a good guideline.

Ease-In Day 2 – Juicing, Blending, Soups and Broths

This step preps your body for a liquid diet and delivers macro nutrients more quickly to your bloodstream. By breaking down the foods to liquids we can more readily take in the nutrients from the food. Fruit and Vegetable Juicing is very enjoyable. There are endless combination’s of tasty juicing recipes. Blending is equally enjoyable. Green smoothies are like drinking a glass of healing. If you do not have a juicer, you can make soup or broths.

Ease-In Day 3 – Orange Juice

Manually or electrically juice enough oranges to make 2 liters of Orange Juice, mixed with water (to taste). Sometimes I find it hard to get the calories I need through the day and so I add some Maple Syrup to increase my caloric intake.
Again, this is just the reverse process of the Ease-out or “Breaking the Master Cleanse.”

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41 Responses to “Ease-In: Starting The Master Cleanse”

iris

28. Feb, 2010

i just want to know if when i start the lemon cayeene pepper and maple syrup ,do i just drink this all day long and dont eat nothing for 10 days ,or do i take in fresh vegetables and fruits i just would like to just do the liquid ,, if i am doing wrong please help to do it the right way…

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Tamala

26. Feb, 2010

If you have to take a laxative twice a day, how do you work or go about your daily activities.

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Chris

14. Feb, 2010

Notes: In the master cleanse web page they say to do juices on the ease in and ease out phases, but I find that most of the things that juice well are things that are too high in sugar. So I have modified it to accommodate a healthier alternative. I find that I like to do two things, juice and a shake. Here’s the recipe (you don’t have to use ALL things listed but variety is the spice of life! And all things have different nutrient properties. I have a castiron stomach so I can handel it, but some of you might not):

1st: JUICE: Carrots, beats, purple cabbage, ginger, celery, apples, oranges (Juicy things). Pour a little water in the juicer to wash out the last of the nutrients in the juicer. When the water runs clear, stop.

Then pour mix into the blender and puré: Kale, garlic, parsley, celery leafs, Swiss chard, cilantro (Other leafy greens w/ little water and more fiber)

If you do it this way you are getting more nutrients into your body while still remaining on a somewhat liquid diet. Its more effective than juicing all together because you loose too much nutrients (AND $) in the roughage that gets expelled out the back of the juicer

Taste? Probably awful. Texture? Also awful ……but common, its not any worse than the SWF right?.

However, when you do the juices, save the tossed fiber and save it in a bag in the freezer for soup stock. Once you hit your last juicy day on the ease out phase of the diet you can take your stock bag and toss it in a BIG pot. Fill to the top with water and add sea salt (Maybe 2 Table spoons). Bring it to a boil, then to a simmer for about a day. You can leave the top on or off, I don’t think that it matters. Add more water when it boils off. Once you have your “Yoda Degoba Slop” get a LARGE pot and put it into the sink. If you have more than one colander it helps but I think that you might be able to get away with only 1 and a large strainer. Place the slop in the colander over the pot. Then take another bowl that is a little bit smaller than the colander and press down. This will force all the broth out of the fiber. Keep doing that and youll get your stock. If you want to you can strain it again and get all the fine particles out. Once you have your stock place it in small containers in the freezer and you can pull it out as you need for soups, grains and other times when you want stock. Its really good to drink coming off the diet when you want nutrient food that’s still liquid.

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Joni

24. Jan, 2010

I am starting Ease-In Day 1 and are we allowed to use dressing for vegetables? Like italian at least?

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Sonia

15. Jan, 2010

I’m starting the Ease In tomorrow and this is my first time doing the mastercleanse. For day 1 do I eat raw vegetable (carrots, celery, spinach, tomatoes) or do I have to cook them?
Thanks for your reply.

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Natasha

12. Jan, 2010

Ease-in day 2
yesterday wasnt too bad but because today i am only on liquid, it is sure hard on me…i feed my little one and im seriously drooling over her food.

i really hope i can make it the whole way but the past two days i have had the worst headache, is that part of toxins being eliminated from my body or is it just my body getting mad because i am not having soda chocolate and chips lol

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- Jennifer
  
  23. Jan, 2010
  
  I hope you managed to go past 3 days. As you guessed the headaches were the body cleansing. It is generally believed that day 1 of a fast gives the body a rest.
  
  Day 2 begins housekeeping and is often very unpleasant- this is when you are tempted to break the fast, but elimination has really just gotten started. By day 3 a drop in appetite is likely, and as toxins have been moving out of tissues and into the colon- where hopefully you have been evacuating them, you now are beginning to feel better.
  
  Anything past end of day three is extra helpful to the body cleansing itself. My teacher, William Le-Sassier taught that fasts should never be broken on the 2nd day. If you cannot go at least 3 days (or longer- like master cleanse 10 days) then it is better to just take a single 1 day fast.
  
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Mary

10. Jan, 2010

I am beginning the ease in tomorrow morning (11th). this is my thrid time attempting the cleanse. I hope with the encouragement of this website. I can complete the total days.

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