Group Cleanse Support Topic: Psychological and Emotional Effects (My Experience)
This page is a Support Topic Page for The Psychological and Emotional Effects for our Master Cleanse Group Cleanse. Please check that page for details on our Quarterly Cleanses and our Individual Cleanses.
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The Group Cleanse will not only give us the forum to support each other, doing The Master Cleanse together, but it also enables us to track our experiences by setting standards to the conversation. If we all just posted random thoughts we would get a lot less value from the comments. But if the comments are structured, and relevant by time and topic, we can gain even more insight, more quickly and more effectively. Therefore we ask participants to start and finish the Master Cleanse on the same dates.
This page is the place for participants in the The Master Cleanse Group Experience to post their daily entries. To post, simply leave a comment. You don’t have to be logged in to post. Please provide 100 words each day – don’t worry; that’s not that much. The paragraph below, for example, is 100 words.
What is going through your mind? We have thoughts that seem out of control when we are in our daily grind – many of these revolve around food. We may also feel stress that in turn causes us to eat, to have emotional reactions. Many people report feeling in more control while doing The Master Cleanse – alongside a sense of clarity. Do commercials about food drive you crazy? Are you more patient than ever?
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Keep it simple, just talk in your own language about your daily experience. The more you are yourself, the more others will connect with you – and the more you can connect with what they are saying – which is what we want after all, a strong support network through a group experience.
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Ease Out DAY 3 (Newbie) – We had a tragic accident while out camping (40 miles from the nearest hospital) where some other child accidentally severed my son’s finger and I drove him into town, as we were covered in blood, at 90 mph. I am very psychologically and emotionally drained, and almost didn’t finish journaling today but I just had to pull myself together…for him. He was so strong and tried to calm me down. I don’t know what makes people that strong, but it is a reason I did this challenge/diet/cleanse. I want to be a stronger-willed person. A more disciplined person. I wonder if this journey helped me. I think it did. I wanted to cry so hard, so badly, but my son looked as if he was going into shock (his face was turning pale and he was bleeding a lot) and I just couldn’t. It just wasn’t time for that, and that would have been too dangerous as I was driving so fast, giving him water, and talking to him and the 9-1-1 dispatch all at the same time. I really, really think this challenge helped me with a lot of things but what I pulled from it today was clarity of mind and strength.
oh, wow, Linda… my heart is aching for you!… my thoughts and prayers are going out to you and your son… and I have about an hour to pray while driving to work in a few minutes… please forgive me not responding last night… I just came home… blogged on MC site… then went to bed…. what a scary ordeal… and your son is very brave and strong!
Ease Out: Day 1
I was trying to go one more day on the lemonade juice cleanse, but last night it felt like time to end this. I felt very weak and light headed. Today I’m facing a physical work day and need my strength so I will start with fresh sqeezed orange juice, (had a little last night, it was delightful!) I want to stay healthy and slim, so I will be extremely careful what I eat/drink and want to make it a way of life, (only eating my favorite Mex food once in a while;). I plan to go back to being a vegetarian again, at least for a while and start it off with raw foods.
EASE OUT – DAY 2 – NEWBIE ->
Early this morning someone saw my big jug of Lemonade mixture and asked, “what’s that?”… I just said, “oh its tea from home” without even flinching… oh gosh… I still do not feel comfortable telling people what I have done, and what my body has accomplished with this Winter Cycle of Master Cleanse… I did participate in the Fall Cleanse but I was not as proactive on the blog… and I was just going thru motions, and not elevating my awareness… this cycle a LID has lifted and I feel much more successful this round… I lost weight last time, but gained it back very fast with cooked foods and continuing with caffeine.. caffeine is a big culprit for me and I can gain weight very fast just smelling caffeine… still so much work to do with my emotions, but I feel much more relaxed and much more grounded.. thank you Master Cleanse
Ease Out DAY 2 (Newbie) – I felt really anxious about the thought to eat something. It was like I was a kid in a candy store. I didn’t know where to start. But this is the old me and I had to shake it off. I won’t lie. I ate 3 chocolate-filled Oreo cookies this evening and almost immediately got a HUGE headache and a bit of a stomach ache. I…Loved…That For the first time in my life the physical effect of eating something not good for me gave an immediate negative result, whereas there has always been a long term negative result (big belly, bad cholesterol levels, etc.) and lots of psychological guilt. I hate that I did that but love what the MC has done for me.
Ease out day 2
Today was a roller coaster of feelings. After 10 days of cleaning out my body i’m now left with the decision of what to allow myself to put into my body. I’m afraid i will eventually fall back into my bad habits of just eating without thinking.
I had fresh orange juice for breakfast, a miso soup for lunch that had veggies in it but ate only 3 pieces and i just finished a lovely homemade veggie soup.
Spent an hour at the gym and am now relaxing at home.
The big question is “WHERE TO GO FROM HERE AND HOW TO STAY TRUE TO A HEALTHY EATING DIET”
The good news is my husband is impressed with how the cleanse worked for me and is now considering doing it in the near future. I look forward to going on the cleanse journey with him.
EASE OUT – DAY 1 – NEWBIE ->
gggrrrrr!!! blogging about the psychological/emotional is not fun, or easy… I’d rather just go to bed now and put today behind me… but I gotta get out the truth…. was going along just fine… but then I was tired around 2pm-3pm… when the liver is very active… so I just felt tired… then a person confronted me with a bunch of their opinions about me… well yes we all want to learn and grow… but it was not the time for “rebecca-u-need-2-coulda-woulda-shoulda” in your life…of course I cried… not feeling strong enough to fight back.. come home to make my kids dinner… and I ate tofu nuggets (tofu stir fried til brown, then nutritional yeast sprinkled on it)…and I ate few bites of potatoes… I know better.. this is NOT how to Ease Out properly.. now I feel acid reflex in my throat, and I rarely ever have heartburn… and I feel like I want to barf… i just went so far with success and a clean feeling, only to sabotage myself and put a dent in my efforts today
Yes Rebecca. Put this day behind you and don’t beat yourself up about it. You did an AMAZING thing that so few people can do, or even want to.
Thank you!!
Day 11: Lemonade
Yesterday was the easiest day yet. I am a painter and have been painting really well. I think it’s the clarity of mind I get on this MC. I want to stay on for another day. I have enough lemons to do it, so now I’m on Day 11;)
I’m sorry someone targeted you with their hostility. I don’t handle that kind of thing well and probably would have cried, too. You did great. You went the distance. Don’t feel bad about eating a little, (I went through that, too, this time;) Just start back where you were and continue with the ease-out. You will be fine. How many people have the discipline to not eat for 10 days? Or 5? You did, and you should be proud. Forget that little bite last night and think of all that you did do. I’m sure people are telling you you look great:) Enjoy your hard work!
This was for Rebecca Ease-out Day 1;)
Ease Out DAY 1 (Newbie) – I am very excited to learn more about eating and living healthier…and then putting it into practice! Still learning and still evolving —> I know this is me, and I just don’t want to give up. I feel so good and light right now that I don’t want to mess that up by going back to how I used to eat. I am proud that I completed this goal, so I have already made new ones. I am going to eat more live foods, proteins next and definitely eat less carbs. I am going to stay away from processed foods and eating out at fast food restaurants (not completely, but only eat this way “rarely” not “normally”). I am going to exercise regularly: walk the dog daily, swim classes (signed up already) and do elliptical before the swim classes. My doctor told me to start with these 3 exercises and then come back to see him in March. Thank you Master Cleanse community and friends!! I feel that I have the power to do all this now that I’ve completed this cleanse with you!
Lemonade Diet DAY 10 (Newbie) – Yippee! Day 10! I have been very excited today (about this being my last day). This was harder psychologically for me than anything else. Man, I do have some bad habits to get rid of. I do not feel I did this perfectly as I got sick from dehydrating and never stopped thinking about food, etc. But I did it. And for that I will pat myself on the back. I am already looking forward to doing it again. Doing it better. Maybe longer? If not, definitely gong to get better about it. Hopefully feel more in control.
Linda,
it was the same for me… harder psychologically than physically… all I was wondering is if I was depriving myself… yes hunger pains happened, but once I had more lemonade, I was satisfied… I never passed out… never had low blood sugar episodes… actually I had MORE ENERGY overall… but the battle with my naughty mind trying to tempt me to sabatoge myself… that was the hardest part… and only my trusty imaginary sword, and being so busy at work, really saved me…
…. me too… looking forward to trying again, and doing it longer, and doing a better job of it by including the daily SWF, and checking into the other recommendations made by Stanley Burroughs for optimal results… but now I know I can do it, and its not really that hard, now that I look back at these ten days… the hard part was myself… creating an invisible thick wall between my desire for optimal health and my dark side of believing I’m not good enough for any good results… so my HEALTHY SELF won this battle!!! and I already feel blessed and feel like a whole new me…
LEMONADE DIET – DAY 10 – NEWBIE ->
ok ok ok.. I will reveal my little secret… how I have been avoiding eating cooked foods, when I cook for my children…
dec 21st I switched to all raw vegan… I knew I was going to start the Winter Session of the Master Cleanse… I knew that THREE DAYS OF EASE IN would NOT be enough… my junk food vegetarian/vegan ways had gotten out-of-hand… so I felt I needed a minimum of two weeks of EASE IN… just to get thru some wicked detox that lasted over a week… well staying raw vegan and making cooked food for my children 3 meals a day caused me so much TEMPTATION… well I talked to a friend about it, and she said “why don’t you just be a dragon slayer”… well lol… I immediately had a vision of myself as a powerful renaissance woman… my long hair billowing in the wind… holding one giant gorgeous purpley dragonfruit in my left hand… high above my head, giving me power and authority… and having a very long sword made of white & blue light in my right hand… and I SLASH AWAY at TEMPTATIONS… so after Christmas I was waving my imaginary sword at the pantry where chips were stored… waving my sword at all the cooked food I made my kids…then waving my sword when I was a training event at work with a ton of food… I just IMAGINED I was waving my sword at that hefty buffet… lol… this mighty sword has helped me alot the past ten days, as well as my very long Ease In phase…
LEMONADE DIET – DAY 10 – NEWBIE ->
blogging early today b/c I work 8.45am – 10.15pm SOLID hours today… and the commute is 45min to 1hr to get there… and there is snow expected tonight 1″-4″ so it might take me 1.5+ hours to get home… so want to make sure my blogs entered on Day 10