{"id":144,"date":"2006-10-10T16:12:33","date_gmt":"2006-10-09T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-10-10T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T16:12:33","slug":"lemon_juice_fast_day_4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/2006\/10\/10\/lemon_juice_fast_day_4\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon Juice Fast: Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose, to be more accurate, this fast is a lemonade fast, rather than a lemon juice fast.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=master+cleanse\">Here&#8217;s the deal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>2 tablespoons of grade B maple syrup<\/li>\n<li>0.1 teaspoons of cayenne pepper<\/li>\n<li>8 ounces of spring water<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, a tenth of a teaspoon is, for some, a pinch and for others, a dash.  For me, I round up to about half a teaspoon. I like the spiciness (I&#8217;m Indian, after all).<\/p>\n<p>I woke up extra early (5:30) so as to do the salt water flush. In case, I haven&#8217;t mentioned this part in previous blog posts, it&#8217;s basically 2 teaspoons of uniodised sea salt in 32 ounces of lukewarm water.  And you&#8217;re supposed to chug that.  Look, the first couple of times, I nearly choked the stuff right back up.  I had to force it to stay down.  Today, I didn&#8217;t have to force so much, but it&#8217;s by no means a pleasant drinking experience.   They say it takes 20 minutes to flush, but for me it&#8217;s anywhere between 30 and 75 minutes for 3 flushes.  Sometimes longer.<\/p>\n<p>For the curious out there (I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m actually going to talk about this part), I haven&#8217;t had anything solid in the flush since day 2.  It&#8217;s all just been the left-over junk, so it doesn&#8217;t take very long.  It feels like I&#8217;m fairly flushed, but who knows?  Apparently, there are other toxins still to be released.  We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>Lunchtime at the office was <b>rough<\/b>. I could smell people&#8217;s food and it drove me bananas (which I craved in the mid-morning, incidentally).  I wanted Chinese food.  Have you ever eaten a vegetarian Chinese restaurant that serves you those fake meat dishes? Well, Aimee and I had our first experience a few weeks ago when we went down to Chinatown for Sunday lunch.  That stuff is delicious.  And I&#8217;ve been craving it for lunch. Not so much as I write this, but definitely during the lunch hour.<\/p>\n<p>So, back to the morning.  I had a glass of the lemonade for breakfast, then made up 3 glasses worth for the day to bring to work. It&#8217;s now a little before 3pm (15:00 for the non-USians amongst my readership), and I have quarter of a glass left.  I&#8217;ll have to ration this remainder till I leave for home.  At lunch time, I want a bite of whoever&#8217;s burrito was wafting over to my nostrils, and instead have to satisfy my hunger with this lemonade.  I mean the lemonade tastes good, but it&#8217;s no burrito.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s weird, because the food smells made me hungry (salivation, tummy rumbling, etc). The juice makes me feel full, but still hungry: strange.  On the subject of cravings: I&#8217;m not craving the Indian food anymore.  The funny thing is, I remember craving Punjabi food last night, but I don&#8217;t remember craving the South Indian food from Saturday. Maybe, it&#8217;s because the Punjabi was under my nose and the dosa not.<br \/>\nToday, I feel indifferent to both.  I just want that fake pork dish that we had in Chinatown.  I keep plotting, you know, what I&#8217;ll have at the end of this fast when I can eat again.  Yesterday was Punjabi Dhaba. Today, it&#8217;s Chinatown.  I don&#8217;t even know what tomorrow will be. Oh yeah, for a while yesterday, I was thinking about Ethiopian food, too.  Some injera with those veggie dishes on top of it.  That still sounds good.<\/p>\n<p>See what happened on <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.gentoo.org\/developers\/seemant\/2006\/10\/07\/lemon_juice_fast_day_3\">Day 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planet.gentoo.org\/developers\/seemant\/2006\/10\/10\/the_lemon_juice_fast_day_5\">Day 5<\/a> is the halfway point of this fast.<\/p>\n<p><i>Edit: Added navigation link<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose, to be more accurate, this fast is a lemonade fast, rather than a lemon juice fast. Here&#8217;s the deal: 2 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice 2 tablespoons of grade B maple syrup 0.1 teaspoons of cayenne pepper 8 ounces of spring water Now, a tenth of a teaspoon is, for some, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/2006\/10\/10\/lemon_juice_fast_day_4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lemon Juice Fast: Day 4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}