2012: What Day Are You On and How Are You Doing?

[sybest]

Day 5

Going ok today. Nothing new really to report. Just moving right along. I did have a slight sore throat when I woke up this morning but it is gone now. Really thought I was coming down with something this morning. But feel fine right now. Still smell garlic everywhere but not as bad as other days. By day 5 everything is routine and you are well into the swing of things. Food no longer bothers me. At least when I smell it or am around it, it is not noticeable immediately. If I do get a craving I just gulp down some juice and it goes away. So should make it to day 14!

[BaileysMama]

Day 9!!!

Hi people! SO I'm having an internal debate. This has been my easiest cleanse by far, I think because this is the first cleanse that I've been ridiculously busy with work and school the time has passed much more quickly. Anyway, I feel so great that I would like to go longer BUT my schedule is ridiculously busy well into next week, so if I did that I might have to go until Thursday. That's 16 days. In the past when I've gone to 14 days things have gotten a little hairy and I am NOT a fun person to be around, I get a lil' bit cranky What to do...what to do... Still considering though. It would be pretty dang cool to go that long since I've never done it before...but I don't know that I have another week in me. At this point I'm going to go through the weekend, that'll be 12 days. I'll reconsider all this on Sunday night. If I didn't have to deal with getting up at 3:40 on weekdays to do the SWF it would be a no brainer. But going to bed at 10, getting up at 3:40 to SWF, not really falling back asleep for the next hour, working 9 hours, then going to school afterwards is taking it's toll. My face has that MC glow - all my coworkers are commenting - but the bags under my eyes are ridiculous

Ok, internal debate over. Looks like everyone is doing pretty well. And all you garlic-smellers, that is interesting! I don't notice that people smell like garlic, but I can smell food and guess what it is from across my office. Gotta love that MC sense of smell

Have a FANTASTIC day everyone!

[sybest]

Day 6!!!

Things are still going well. And Baileysmama, I agree that this has been one of the easiest MC by far. I think after doing a few you know what to expect so it isn't a surprise. And being busy at work and keeping busy at home helps. I wanted to do 14 days but think I will start weening off on Tuesday which will be day 11. I know that I have dinner plans next weekend and a friends birthday is on the 30th. So I want to make sure I give my stomach enough time to adjust back to solid foods. But I will definitely do it again at the end of the summer. Which after all the drinking and eating over the summer a good MC afterwards would be much needed!
The garlic smell is still there but it is not as bad today. Don't smell it much in the house anymore. I am going to start looking up soup recipes so I can have the ingredients in the house for next week. I just feel so good this time around and really hate to stop but the MC does make you a bit of a recluse. I haven't seen any friends since I started and I really want to get out of the house and go somewhere other than work!! But I will completely change my diet afterwards. Always do after the cleanse. It really gets you motivated to eat better.
So good luck everyone. Will check in again tomorrow.

[johnlennonslemons]

Day 4.

baileysmama - do 16! heck, go 15. I always try to "beat" my last number. I think as we go on we start to feel satisfied with our progress, which we should, but boy does it feel even better to go ever further than we did before. (i say that now, i'll probably jump ship much too early!)
i did slip up a little by taking half a sleeping pill, it was the best night's sleep i've had since i started.
i just had to sleep. i also think because i'm not exercising i'm not as tired, but i'll start back running tonight or tomorrow. my legs have been aching like crazy so i've been holding off on that.
besides being tired - which i think has a lot to do with this "gilbert's syndrome" i have, and a few cravings when i smell food, i'd say i'm pretty much cruising right along.
sybest - i'd pass along a soup recipe (i usually go with a couple i found on here somewhere), but for some reason my soups always come out pretty tasteless. maybe i just need to add more….garlic!
well, i'm gonna to try and be a little more active today and keep on truckin'.

[yendorcram]

Hi All!!! I'm on day 2 and so far so good. I'm planning on going 10 days

[BaileysMama]

DAAAAAAAAAAY 10!

After thinking about it yesterday I've decided to do 13 for sure then make my final decision Monday. Or, I guess, Tuesday morning when I choose to either make a batch of lemonade or grab some OJ. Anywho, feeling good today. Little bit tired from getting up so early, but otherwise it's good!!

Have a fabulous day everyone!!

[BaileysMama]

OK, so it turns out I'm pretty crabby today! I didn't realize that until my coworkers started showing up...and normal morning chit chat was extremely irritating. Guess it's gonna be a detox day!!

[sybest]

Day 7!!

I feel really good today!! Weather is beautiful here in NJ and it is Friday, TGIF!! I think I will take it day by day once I get to day 10. Based on the way I feel today I think I can go on for a lot longer. But I know that could go downhill at any time.

johnlennonslemons - I would love a soup recipe. I was just online looking some up and putting my grocery list together. I was on foodnetwork.com looking at a bunch of pictures of food and felt just fine. Didn't have any bad cravings. I guess that is a good sign. My body knows I can't have it so why crave it!! Garlic smell definitely not as bad. I guess you couldn't stand garlic so much you didn't want to add too much to your soup! I love spicy food so I will have plenty of cayenne in mine.

yendorcram- Hang in there!! We will be here to cheer you on. After a few days it will be a piece of cake.

BaileysMama - I finally stopped being grouchy. But it was bad!! My husband barely talks to me because he has no idea what personality he is going to get! I yelled at him because I smelled garlic on his breath. Like it was his fault!! LOL Lucky for me he has been through this with me and knows what to expect. At least I am in a much better mood. Hope it lasts through the weekend. See how you feel day to day since you have reached day 10. Just keep OJ around and break in case of emergency! LOL

Good luck everyone. Will check in again tomorrow.

[BaileysMama]

BaileysMama - I finally stopped being grouchy. But it was bad!! My husband barely talks to me because he has no idea what personality he is going to get! I yelled at him because I smelled garlic on his breath. Like it was his fault!! LOL Lucky for me he has been through this with me and knows what to expect. At least I am in a much better mood. Hope it lasts through the weekend. See how you feel day to day since you have reached day 10. Just keep OJ around and break in case of emergency! LOL

Good luck everyone. Will check in again tomorrow.

Hi Sybest! This is actually my first day of really crabby detox on this cleanse, and it's starting to go away which is good! I used to feel bad for my former boyfriend, he never knew which personality he was gonna get either!! A little bit of crankiness is a small price to pay for eating food around a person on the Master Cleanse!

[johnlennonslemons]

DAY 5. Ready for the weekend.

The soup recipe I use is Binary Blonde's recipe - http://binaryblonde.com/2006/07/my-veggie-soup-recipe

I use all the ingredients listed but I also add mushrooms, cabbage, parsley, bell pepper and whatever other veggies and spices
i feel like throwing in there. Like she says - it makes a TON of soup...it could use a little more flavor, sort of bland, so
i'm going to try and figure out what i can do to it to give it more flavor. It's the 10 cups of water part that makes it bland so i think
i'm going to modify the recipe to 5 cups of organic veggie stock and 5 cups of water instead of 10 cups of water.

gotta run for now - good luck everyone!