Two things I did to make this MUCH more tolerable

[Guest]

I've been mostly reading posts on here and this will be my first post to the board, but I hope it helps others who are finding their first MC to be difficult (this is my first and I'm on day 3).

I found the "spicy lemonade" and the cold sea salt drink to be pretty gross and I don't know if I could last 10 days with those. The two things I did to make those experiences much more pleasant:

1) Shotglass the cayenne pepper when you have a serving of lemonade.
I literally keep a little shotglass at my desk and when I'm going to drink a serving of lemonade, I put the cayenne pepper in a shotglass with some purified water and just slam it down. I immediately drink some of the lemonade (with no pepper in it!) and that neutralizes your mouth right away. Sometimes I have to take two shots if the pepper gets stuck to the side of the glass, but this makes drinking the lemonades MUCH more enjoyable!

2) Heat the water that you mix the sea salt into a little above room temperature.
For whatever reason, warm salty water goes down much easier than cold salty water. I've been making two separate glasses of 16 oz. with 1 tbsp. and do one after the other.

Two small changes that don't violate the diet but make improve on it greatly for those that hate the spice and the salt!

[Guest]

Oh - and we got a Kitchen Aid lemon squeezer from Target for $10... very well worth it! We can get more than 2 tbsp. per lemon and can fully juice all the lemons in a matter of minutes without stinging any cuts or straining yourself.

[Swappie]

Congrats on day 3!! Those first 3 days are pretty tough.

I'm going to Target tomorrow -- that juicer sounds ideal

Good luck on your cleanse!

[Guest]

I tried to find what you were talking about at Target.com and Walmart.com Can you send us a URL pointing us in the right direction? Thanks, Jody

[Guest]

I can't find it on Target.com, but this is it right here. You will get every last bit of juice out of a lemon with this, works great:

http://www.kohls.com/products/produc...=1143174495977

[ribbit]

I just started the cleanse, and vomited 3x in the evening, went to bed with a pounding headache. Has anyone else vomited? I wasn't able to continue today; will try again this weekend - a fresh start.

Does this mean that I'm "toxic"?

Is this 'normal"?

Thanks!

[peanutterb]

About the juicer - I got a no name brand one from my local supermarket for like three bucks. looks the same and works the same.

About the vomitting - i was nauseous my first three days too. I think it's the toxicity. Try again and see what happens.

[silverfish]

hey ribbit -
i was so naseous the first night i finally decided to vomit - i felt a lot better, but then had to do it again a while later. some say that means extreme toxicity. i think for me, it was the caffeine withdrawal (even though i had weened down to only 5mg - coffee is 150-300mg). withdrawal is NASTY, with headache and vomiting and all.

well, you're probably well on your way by now....
blessings

[Guest]

Couldn't you do that with the maple surup as well? Shot glass the Cayenne... take two spoons of the maple surup? and Then just drink lemon water? i'm having a hard time drinking the lemonade myself.

[aurora]

I make sure that I always drink with a straw, and keep it in the back of my mouth for a more pleasant experience. That way my teeth aren't too affected by the acidity and sugar, as well. It may not be much, but it works for me.