Now this is interesting. For most of the morning, I have not had any cravings for anything. For a few minutes, I fancied having some chocolate. Specifically, I was craving cold chocolate: like ice-cream or mouse or something. Cake, even. When I went to the cooler to get a refill of water, I passed by a veritable cornucopia of chocolate in candy form. None of it appealed even slightly (despite the presence of plain old milk chocolate, my favourite).
Did the usual salt water flush this morning with the expected/intended results. Followed it up with a glass of the lemon juice. Brought 3 to work, and I’m done with about 6 ounces (it’s 11:30am at the moment) out of 32. I’ve actually been more thirsty than hungry this morning. I drank a glass of water right after my morning juice.
Aimee was so nice yesterday. She went out to the store yesterday afternoon and bought me a whole batch of organic lemons. I’d run out of them on Saturday, so I was stuck with conventional ones yesterday and part of Sunday. The organics are half the size of the conventionals with the same amount of juice. Maybe slightly less, but it’s convenient: one lemon = one glass of juice. Makes the maths easy.
Today’s lunch is not as hard as yesterday. A big part of the reason is that all the devs have a lunch meeting so they’ve gone off to a big room, leaving me alone in the bull-pen for an hour or so. No smell of food == no cravings, I suppose.
Now, I’ve been sort of planning to end this fast with a liver flush. So the new plan is that I’ll finish this fast on Sunday or Monday and segue right into the liver flush regimen, which is basically 5 days of apple juice. The nice thing is that I can actually eat light meals during that, so salads are definitely in, as are fresh apples and stuff. From what I can tell, the liver flush is a combo liver/gall-bladder flush, so that should be good. There’s going to be an unfortunate bit with olive oil, but I’ll report on that when I get to it. So it seems, then, that my fasting period officially ends not this weekend, but next weekend.
The good news is that today marks the halfway point of this master cleanse fast.
Oh, and by the way, Scott Adams has some great advice.
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Heh – I’ve done the olive oil thing before. I found it most unpleasant, but an excellent way to flush the gall bladder.
I did that three years ago, and I still can’t cope with olive oil on salads and so forth 🙁
Best regards,
Stu
Stuart,
Was it as bad as advertised? Did you drink it with grapefruit juice? More importantly, did it work?