Support Topic: The Process and The Lemonade Diet
This page is a Support Topic Page for The Process and The Lemonade Diet for our Master Cleanse Group Cleanse. Please check that page for details on our Quarterly Cleanses and our Individual Cleanses.
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.
The Master Cleanse is a process. And it’s more than just making the lemonade diet drink each time you’re hungry. To successfully get through a protocol like this you need to consciously into a process, a routine so that you come to depend on what’s next. For example, first thing, SWF, next perhaps your normal morning routine, followed by the eliminations from the SWF. Once those start you can have your first lemonade. Maybe you want 4 lemonades by lunch, and 6 after. When is your peppermint tea break? Do you workout during the day? How do you manage work schedule? You get the point.
What is the process you go through to make your Lemonade each day? Do you have any tips? How are you changing this process, if at all, over time? Do you use 2 chugabbles or make 1 glass at a time like Stanley Burroughs suggested. What alternatives to the Lemonade Diet have you used *(Check for generally accepted practices). Do you add anything to the process like Psyllium or Bentonite? How do you manage your day? Do you do make the Lemonade in the morning? Do you sip it all day or take big gulps when your most hungry?
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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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The Master Cleanse Day 5: I’ve been doing my smooth move tea at night and that’s been working like a charm come morning time. I find that when I start waking up so doesn’t my bowels! At 2 am our dog woke us up to go the bathroom and my husband got up to let her out. I woke up too but didn’t get up, and I noticed the same pattern, my bowels thought it was time to wake up and go, but I was able to stop it by going back to bed. I felt like I was awake for the day them and felt more awake than I did to when I got out of bed at 6. Everything has been going well until I got home tonight. I took the dogs for a walk and it had been about 2 1/2 hours since my last drink, I was starving by then. I go home to a shocker, I left all my ingredients at work, a half an hour away! What to do, what to do!!! I ran to Shaws, knowing they don’t have grade B syrup, so I had to settle for a grade A organic maple syrup and some new cayenne pepper. No way was I driving back to work. I really like the syrup and feel it might be a bit darker than my grade B syrup and it tastes better to drink. So for the weekend, my grade A syrup will be my cheat! I couldn’t believe I had forgotten it! I didn’t give up and that’s all that matters,
The Master Cleanse Day 4: I tried the salt wash flush for the first time today after dragging my feet to give it a go. It wasn’t as bad as I anticipated, it was not my favorite thing to be doing, but I liked the results and I see the importance for it most definitely! I feel because of it I had less of my drinks than I’ve been doing, so I tried to pick up the pace after lunch. I felt hungrier today because of that I believe. I’ve been doing everything the same, including not measuring the juice but feel I have it right. I still enjoy drinking the lemonade like a tea, hot and sipping it throughout the day. I use to do this with coffee for a few hours in the morning and maybe even one after lunch. I’m seeing a pattern of my sipping addiction, which I laugh at but deep down I know it’s true. I never thought I needed coffee, but never gave it up because it gave me something comforting to do while I worked. I look forward to my coffees new replacement and even after the cleanse think this would be a great alternative. The highlight of every drink made is putting a tad bit extra syrup on the spoon to licking it up.
Master Cleanse Day 1 – I own a juicer machine, not a citrus juicer but a big machine for juicing anything. I have small hand citrus juicer. When I did the OJ ease-in I used both to test what put out more juice and the juicer won but it means having to prepare all my lemonade for the day at once, cause there’s a cleaning process involved in using a juicer that I only want to do once a day.
So I went by this sites recommendation to make a lemon juice-maple syrup concentrate and I’ve been adding 4 tablespoons of that to 8oz of water whenever I start feeling hungry.
Also I have to admit I’m a little bit of a cheat. When I first did the cleanse 9 years ago I hated the cayenne pepper. I even stopped putting it in my drink. So this time I’m taking encapsulated cayenne – nahnahnananahh :P Wash it down with the lemonade – same difference – right?
My other cheat is my Celestial Seasonings Fruit Sampler of herbal teas. Nutritional Facts calories 0, fat 0, sodium 0, carbs 0, proteins zero, just antioxidants and lots of berry flavor. It’s like warm jello in my mouth.
The other cheat I have on reserve is the veggie bouillon I had it for ease in day two and I will have again for ease out day 2. But that is only if I get desperate for sustenance. So I’m gonna try not to think about that.
Its day 4 wow. Yesterday after the runny nose feel a slightly down but sleep through that. Was a tad bit hungrier though no head aches which is gd. Woke up today feeling gd not in the mood to drink just feeling for water is that s gd thing anyone? 6 days to go
The Master Cleanse Day 3: Today I started out and ended the day feeling very strong. This morning I thought I would try the salt water flush but did not but I have a plan to give it a try tomorrow as I’ve been avoiding it. I’ve been enjoying the the smooth move tea and I feel that it helps a lot! Today I began to wonder if I was drinking enough lemon juice as I have not been measuring it and I just use a half a lemon each time I make my drink, averaging six drinks a day. I think it’s time for me to start measuring the lemon and water correctly, the way that I’m suppose to, to ensure I am right on track. I also feel I may be adding too much water to the lemon juice and that I should probably double the amount of lemon I use. I plan on exploring this further and getting it exact! I feel good, so I must be doing something right!
Wow its day 3. Had back pains yesterday but got up good just a runny nose.looking forward for today.
The Master Cleanse Day 2: Today I realized I was not adding enough syrup yesterday when I started, so it felt good to realize I was able to add a bit more today with my measuring spoon, which I did not have yesterday. A fantastic realization that added to my day and my feeling of fullness. Because of it I feel I have had less drinks than yesterday, but I also used more water today as I felt the syrup was a tab bit sweet for me. I am currently on my 5th glass and I have found that it’s been substantial enough to keeping me feeling full, if that’s what I have to call it. I feel satisfied, not necessarily full, but I feel good and that’s the feeling I’m going with!
Well its the second day not feeling to bad bout it. The laxative at night makes a big difference to me. Am also using warm water to through out the day
Hey its day 2 for me I only had 5 glasses and half of my lemon gave me the 2 tbsps. My period came and I is that normal. And I didn’t go to the bathroom not until late last
night and just a little bit am I doing something wrong cause I see cleansers talking about the smooth move tea I don’t have that .Do I have to take it everynight before bed. I slept after every glass I drank LOL was feeling down and had a slight headache.Looking forward for the rest of the day on my drinking cause I did a little cheating yesterday at about 8 pm not much .
Hi Claudia, you should drink the tea every night, it is what helps eliminate each day. I tried other brands than Smooth Move, but it is the only one that has worked for me.
The Master Cleanse Day 1: I started my day off having decided to start the cleanse with no ease in and no ingredients needed to start the cleanse! Before work I quickly got everything I had needed, except the syrup, which I ended up getting on my lunch break. I bought the most ripe lemons and found cutting it in half and using a knife to poke it made the lemon juice come out easy and I just squeezed it over the cup and added the rest of the ingredients. I also used hot water for all my drinks and made them into a tea which I sipped over the course of my day. I noticed my hunger more with the three glasses I had in the morning without syrup than the three glasses I had after lunch with syrup. It was so much better and more filling. I also love spicy anything, so sipping the drink with cayenne was great for me! I am drinking the smooth move tea before bed and will see if I feel I will try the salt water flush in the morning!