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.
To learn more about the value of Group Cleansing, check out this report.
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?
If you are not participating, you can follow the post to get inspiration to try the cleanse or answer the most basic question: Is The Master Cleanse right for me?
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.
If you haven’t yet, go ahead and register for the Group Cleanse to get our “Guided Cleanse Experience” email sequence timed to correspond with your registration and the important days as the come up during our scheduled group cleanses.
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Master Cleanse Day 2: I woke up this morning feeling hot and clammy and my body heavy. I mentally felt awake and ready to get out of bed but my body was telling me something else, to call out of work, stay home and rest. Which really I would have been very happy doing considering the physical feelings I was having but I am not one to call out unless absolutely necessary. I felt very weak and to the point where I felt I couldn’t stand up, especially when I was in the shower. At one point I sat down to wash my face, which I’ve never done and found it strange. I also sat down to blow dry my hair, also strange, it made me wonder if I could make it to work and sustain a full day? I tried and I succeeded! I found myself a little more on the quiet side when normally I am very outgoing, but was okay with this feeling. I feel I was not as hungry as I was yesterday but still long for all kinds of food, anything really. Come late afternoon I started to feel more like myself, which just felt great and it took me by surprise. I’m very proud of my two day accomplishment on this cleanse and as always, looking forward to what tomorrow will bring!
Ease-in Day 1 – Well I feel like a little bit of a dunce because I didn’t realize the ease in was supposed to start Friday. But starting Monday works better for me anyways since I had social event Friday.
Stuck to all fresh fruits and veg today. Not going to talk too much about food since you guys are on the fast now.
The hardest thing to give up was my morning cup of tea. I subbed a decaffeinated herbal tea but it wasn’t the same. That’s my morning pick me up and I am not a morning person. The #1 reason I am doing TMC though is to curb my caffeine and refined sugar addictions and I know it’s going to be tough but I’m 41 and tired of feeling weak sick and sore all the time. I just feel a good detox is in order.
Master Cleanse Day 1: I decided to not do the master cleanse when I did not start the ease in process and figured I would do it on my own on a different day and time and start the cleanse right. However, I woke up this morning, told myself that today was going to be the day and that regardless of what I had prepared or not, I was going to make it happen and be part of the group challenge. I felt DETERMINED and I knew I could make it happen! So before work I ran to the store and got my lemons, cayenne pepper and oh no they didn’t have grade B syrup, I told myself I can wait until lunch and buy the syrup then, and I did. Actually it was the highlight of my day getting my hands on that syrup, it definitely is the key to feeling fuller I found out after having it. I felt so appreciate for it, like I was getting to have something I wasn’t suppose to, adding it halfway through my day. It’s so good! Since it was lunch time and I was at the grocery store and only having lemon and cayenne so far, I was hungry!!! I walked the isles of the store and found myself eyeballing things I haven’t eaten in years! I starting longing for food from childhood, like kids cereal, Oreos and milk, why? I haven’t eaten that kind of stuff in over a decade, so I was surprised by that desire. I look forward to understanding my thought process with food as the process of the master cleanse unfolds and my detoxing begins! So here I am, completing my first day and feeling great with my decision to stick with what my mind originally set out to do! I feel excited…what is tomorrow going to feel like I cannot wait to discover,
Well, I’m on Day Three and have noticed a couple of things. I did the ease in and the saltwater flush and by the end of Day One I had a RAGING headache and chills…general onset of flu feeling. Took a hot bath and headed to bed. I don’t think I drank enough lemonade on this day to sustain myself. Maybe 7 glasses. Day Two, I drank 16 or 17 glasses. I found that making a triple batch in a sports bottle made it easier to get in within 10 minutes or so. Have still been able to meet with my Trainer twice this week and squeeze in 45 min of cardio. Since Monday, when I started the Ease in, I am down 9 lbs. I have definitely noticed the “white tongue” and yesterday my skin around my neck and face seemed quite flushed, presumably from the vitamin C and/or from the release of toxins. All in all, I feel good. A little tired, but will assume that is normal. :)
Ease in Day 1 – Okay so prior to today I have found myself purposefully choosing unhealthy foods and bingeing on them. I think this has a lot to do with the fact that I know it may be my last ‘engagement’ so to speak, with these foods – for a loooong time! This is because I not only plan to fast for 10 days minimum but I plan to go on to eat healthy vegan food when fast is completed. So far today I have eaten well but my mind is telling me to have something unhealthy as it is my last opportunity and i love sugary stuff so much at the moment!!
Master Cleanse end of day 10…Yay!! is all I can say. I can’t believe that I made it through day 10. I mean I knew I could do it I just can’t believe that it’s finally here. I must say that when I got my email this morning I felt very good but I also felt very motivated. Motivated to keep going I feel very good but I also don’t feel good enough. I know that if i have experienced all these benefits with ten days I can imagine how good I feel after just a few more days. I want to chew some food but when I open my fridge something in my mind says, “that food will be there at the end of your cleanse.” I think I might go for a few more days, I don’t know yet.
made it thru day 9, happy to be easing out soon
I feel fantastic! but I am really going to enjoy food
One more day
Master Cleanse end of day 9…I’m doing okay emotionally, I’m elated because I know that the end is near and I’m ready to stop but also I feel great because of the cleanse and I feel as though I should continue, in fact I know I should continue I know that I would feel a thousand times better than I do now. Psychologically I’m doing okay as well except for the fact I had the most vivid dream about eating. It was so real that I could actually taste and smell the food. It was so real that I woke up scared and guilty that I had actually broken my cleanse. Imagine how relieved I was when I realized it was just a dream.
Master Cleanse end of day 8… Today has been a challenge for me I have had to keep reminding myself that I have two more days. I have had to remain strong I haven’t been feeling like giving I just been thinking about how good it would feel to stop right now, There’s a difference right? I had to go grocery shopping today because my refrigerator was looking like a person was on a fast, buuuut I have children and they have to eat and not lemonade and maple syrup lol. Anyway while I was in the store it was a challenge within itself but on a positive note I was wanting to eat healthy stuff and my grocery bill was a lot smaller than it usually is. 2 more days to go.
I hit the wall yesterday on Day 7 and had to go to bed. Today was a better day. My body feels amazing and also my skin. The rewards big for hanging in
Glad you’re back and hanging in there…2 more days!