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?
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.
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After my experience from tasting the food I cooked the other day I know that I am feeling a little apprehension about eating. I am enjoying the way my body feels without having to digest food and the gas & bloating I feel after eating. I want to eat vegan & also try the Raw Foods. I am happy that I only have 3 days left to go and I am now feeling the energy I cleaned up a lot over the weekend and I was not tired this morning or Monday. Looking forward to eating a nice salad after my ease out and do more menu planning to have more control over my meal choices.
Lemonade Diet DAY 9 (Newbie) – I rarely got that sense of complete control (mentioned on this page in our instructions) during this whole time. I had fleeting thoughts of self-control during the day but lost it by the time evening hit. I only had 2 complete days where I felt more in control and those were the days that I dedicated my fasting to someone’s else needs. The evenings were (and still are, always have been) the worst. I need to make a plan for my evening’s activities and evening’s thoughts. Lord knows I have a lot I should be doing rather than eating. Don’t get me wrong. I want to do this again. I want to keep trying until I get his right.
dedicating the cleanse!!!… I like that idea!!!!
LEMONADE DIET – DAY 9 – NEWBIE ->
Unwavering Commitment to myself…. this is what I am doing…. when I was in college, I went to a retreat where there were many topics… the topic of the final day was COMMITMENT… well I repeated that retreat several times in college, and I could not successfully complete the commitment topic… I can be committed to my children, I can be committed to work, I can be committed to being a vegetarian, but I have not been committed to my OWN HEALTH… self sabotage has been my modus operandi … then I had my EXCUSE … or I had my MASK to hid behind… but in my case the MASK was my weight… I recently read that self-sabotage is a “pathway to destruction”… well as St. Augustine says.. “if you can name it, you can tame it” … so I am on the road of recovery and healing by keeping unwavering commitments to my self care… thank you Master Cleanse for these new revelations
inspirational
Lemonade diet DAY 10
I’m so proud of myself for making it to day 10. I came close to stopping a few times but stayed strong. I bought my oranges for tomorrow and look forward to buying fresh veggies for my soup broth.
This has been a great experience and I will definitely be doing it again. It’s a great way to start a new year. Feeling good in and out.
Congratulations everyone. WE DID IT
Good job!
Congratulation for completing a goal you set out to do for yourself.
Day 8: Lemonade
I am drinking lots of lemonade and water, too. Lusting after food has not gone away…I have to admit I gave in last night, my husband just opened a bag of my favorite smoked almonds as I was waking up from a nap…I reached in and ate a handful. Disaster. I felt horrible. I gave up for a fleeting second then came back to my senses. I started again today and plan to finish. Anyways… This time it’s been really hard for me. Maybe it’s the stress of the holidays hanging around like a ghost. I’m still in! One minor setback, but I’m back.
Julia, great attitude! This has really been hard for me too and I have never stopped thinking about food.
Lemonade Diet DAY 8 (Newbie) – The thing that bothers me the most is not the food commercials, not the smell of food, not going out to eat with other people even when I can’t eat…it’s that I have let food have such a grip on me for so long. Sometimes it doesn’t even have to be a certain kind of food. I have just put crap in my mouth forever, even when I was not hungry. Being this hungry makes me wish I had not taken myself for granted, and given my body the best. I’m craving a beautifully colored salad with oil more than anything. I’m still daydreaming about clothes that I want to wear for motivation. I don’t wear them now because I don’t like the way I look in them.
LEMONADE DIET – DAY 8 – NEWBIE ->
well… i was not really sure what to say until this very minute… usually I brew a little bit on my thoughts… then flesh them out…. I am feeling unusually sensitive… i’m always sensitive… but I mean “soft to the touch” as if I had a fresh 1st degree burn… i feel like I am transparent… one of the main bosses was UPSET… he even said we need to put so-and-so “on a leash”… well my energy is so sensitive that I was taking that upset of his into my inner being… after 3pm I walked into a large health food store and there are water fountains flowing… and I felt peaceful… then I am on the highway for an hour and there was that driving fast energy… so being “cleaner” on the inside, leaves me feeling the energies in my environment much more… so i need to protect myself more when I’m out and about
Day 8 lemonade diet
last night i think i hit a physiological wall. so… many cravings for food!
I just went to bed and tried to sleep it off! This morning seemed better I stayed in bed until 10am, so glad these last three days are a non work day
I having lots of energy and doing a lot of house cleaning, my eyes seemed a bit more blurry this morning but are better now.
My body feels amazingly quiet, so peaceful when not digesting, its
airy and light. a metaphor to life, stress less…
On the home stretch….
Lemonade Diet DAY 7 (Newbie) – Man o man, o man. The email we got today hit the nail of the head. I really wanted to quit today. Especially during the time I was cooking Sunday lunch for my family. I got really grouchy and yelled at everyone to help me because “why am I doing all the cooking when I’m the only one who can’t eat!” Ugh. That was too ugly and selfish. It is my choice to do this, not theirs. I reminded myself that Wednesday I get to ease out. I still want to do this again sometime later this year. I’ll get better. I hope.
Linda… cooking for others when we are cleansing is tough… its double tough!!!… you are so generous and loving to do it when its such a big TEMPTATION
Linda, which email are you referring too? was it a Master Cleanse email?
Thank you Rebecca for your compliment. Yes, the master cleanse email titled “You might be tempted by this thought…”
LEMONADE DIET – DAY 7 – NEWBIE ->
Evening thoughts:
ooohhh… the deep seeded idea that FOOD IS A REWARD is what I am wrestling with… today I have a very bad start of the day with a big argument with my mom where she say’s its unfortunate my children and I do not believe in God… well that’s a very bad start b/c we do believe in God, we just don’t go to the church she does, or worship as she does… it was painful to hear, esp when my daughter shared very deep spiritual reflections and insights with wisdom the night before… then at work, my immediate supervisor decided to keep my resignation quiet til the last day.. then another higher mgt supervisor showed up, it scared me, I thought I was in the “hot house”, but he notified me the company is giving me a 27% pay increase, and he said “we want our employees to be happy”… but he does not know about my resignation on the table… then, without thinking, being on auto-pilot, I bought my children Mexican cuisine of their choice as a “reward” about my pay increase… I did not order for myself, just for them… as they ate, I realized I’m feeding my children cheese… and cheese is a culprit, not a reward… so much going on with me…
I’m sorry to hear that Rebecca. That is a lot of added stress to what we are already putting our bodies through. I said a prayer for you, for peace. Read what scripture says about fasting. esp. Psalm 69:10