The night before I decided to officially start my master cleanse, I went on a hoorah and ate all kinds of junk. Ice cream, onion rings, deep fried mozzarella sticks.... buffalo tenders.....at midnight.... Uh so yeah, if that doesn't give you an idea of how bad my eating habits are, I might have to throw french fries at you. Anywaysss, feeling guilty after inhaling all that crap within an hour I decided to quickly drink my herbal laxative tea before I would find another excuse to eat something I did NOT need. And this leads me to-

Day One: (warning I will be talking about poop...A LOT)

I woke up around 4am with stomach cramps. Tired and wanting more sleep, I tried to ignore it and just rolled to the side to sleep. BAD IDEA. The cramps started rumbling and I shot out of bed to run to the bathroom. After taking an incredibly exhausting crap, I went back to bed for a couple of hours and woke up again. This time it was voluntary. I headed towards the kitchen and got the Salt Water Flush ready. Uhmmm so yeah, THE SALT WATER FLUSH IS DISGUSTING. It took every will power within my body to not hurl the nasty drink back out. I gagged and everything. After the mental and physical fight with the SWF I took a sip of the lemonade expecting the absolute worse and boy was I surprised. I actually really liked it and thought it tasted pretty good. Then about 30 minutes later I was running to the bathroom. But this time around, my poop was different. It's almost like you're peeing from your butthole. Gross I know. But also very refreshing in a sense. So yeah. Going to the bathroom pretty much sums up my day.

Day Two: 

Once again I woke up at 4am to go poop from the laxative tea. Pretty much repeat everything from day 1 (no the SWF did not get better, still gagged) except not as many trips to the bathroom. Oh and I was really surprised at how well the drink kept me full and kicked my cravings for food. Not much more to say

Day Three:

Repeat from above but this time I developed a new habit of going on pinterest to look at food recipes. It adds to the cravings but not in a bad way. I tell myself to pin the recipe so I can make it after I'm done with the master cleanse. It also helps that most of the things posted on pinterest look much more appealing than the usual fast food. I realized that I'm beginning to think more about the things I WANT to eat. Like, am I putting my body through this cleanse, just so I can go back to clogging my arteries and feeling like crap? Because even though the amount of calories I now intake are few in comparison to my old diet, I feel way more energy and I don't have the sluggish feel. But yeah end of day 3.

Day Four:

Same 4am routine but this time I woke up hungry. Could not stand the thought of the Salt Water Flush so I decided to skip it (shame). I realized that as much as I hate the SWF, it really does make a difference. I didn't get to poop the refreshing pee/poop and instead had a stomach ache the whole morning. Finished my day and went to sleep telling myself I would do the SWF everyday from now on, while staring at the pictures of food I can't eat. 

Day Five (today):

Woke up at 2am (surprise) and quickly did my thing so I could go back to bed. When I woke up again I decided to do the SWF a different way. Instead of putting the 2tsp into a 32 oz and chugging it, I put 1 tsp in a 16oz and another tsp in the rest. I don't know if it's because I divided it but boy was I surprised. It really wasn't as bad as the previous SWF. I usually gag and think about quitting after the first gulp but I could handle it 'till about 3/4 of the first cup was gone. I mean it was still terrible, but this time much more bearable. Also realized that my teeth were a bit sore. Beginning to regret not using a straw because my teeth were already sensitive to begin with. It's night now and I've already had my herbal tea and before I started blogging I was pretty set on making day 6 (tomorrow) my last day of master cleanse. But then I started looking up other peoples post on ending the master cleanse early (minimum of 10 days for the master cleanse). When I read the posts of those discouraging the early termination of the cleanse I found a new motivation to stick with cleansing my body. Apparently there's stages to detoxifying and from the sound of it, I really didn't want to cheat my body from actually going through the process when I already made it out to day 5. But I also didn't like the idea of continuing to damage the enamel on my teeth so I decided to do something else. I will end my master cleanse on day 6 and starting day 7 I will start the water fast (drinking lots of water for 7 more days, nothing else). I'm not sure how this will go and I'm praying it won't end up as a disaster. But from the looks of it, the water fast also cleanses the body so I'm hoping it'll work out. Oh tip btw, gargling with baking soda and water helps a bit with the sensitive teeth issue, but not a whole lot. End of day 5.

Oh and my weight/height

I'm 5ft 5inches 

First started off at 130 lbs

Currently 125 lbs

I guess I need to remind myself sometimes. I am doing the master cleanse because I realized the total lack of self control when it comes to eating. So while it is summer break and I have no job tying me down, I decided to take the opportunity to really test my self control/discipline. This means

Drinking an herbal laxative tea every night

Waking up and drinking the Salt Water Flush first thing in the morning

(2 teaspoons of uniodized sea salt in 32 fl oz of water)

And drinking 6 (at least for me) glasses of the special lemonade

(2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice and grade b maple syrup along with 1/10th of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper all mixed in 8oz of water)

And why am I writing this out? Because I tend to chicken out on things....AND this blog will be serve purpose as my personal/much more accessible journal so I can track my attempts to live a more healthy lifestyle.