Good luck Charlie! I brought up the Master Cleanse diet. My wife and I did it over the holidays and it worked well for us.
On the liquids issue, if you do all of the optional things, it can be a little icky. The things that are tough: - 32 oz hot salt water drink in the morning - Tastes almost like chicken broth from a can - all sodium. - Tough to drink that much hot water first thing. - Helps keep things moving when you are not eating solid food - very effective. - The fiber drink - Psyllium husks in water - This stuff is optional but recommended for the first week to help clean out your insides. - Totally, totally gross, but also very effective. Recommended for best colon cleansing effect. The tea and the actual lemonade drinks are yummy- especially after a few days with no solid food. On the issue of feeling dizzy, etc., the only issue I had was my hamstrings feeling very tight and sore on the second night. After that I was fine. Never felt hungry, never felt tired. On the food thing after the diet is over, it actually takes a couple of weeks for you to get your full appetite back- at least that was my experience. Not having food makes you not need it, and not needing it makes you not really want it. If you go right back to eating your old diet, even without being hungry, then yes, you will gain weight back right away. On Feb 11, 2008 12:00 PM, Charlie wrote: > On Feb 11, 2008 11:49 AM, William B wrote: > > > it supposedly removes built up toxins and cleanses out the system. > > > the main purpose of the cayenne pepper is that it scrapes the > > > intestinal walls removing built up mucus and other... um... crap. > > > > I was meaning more the effect on you, any dizziness, lightheaded-ness, > > crankiness, or any other "nesses" that sort of thing? > > ah, sorry. no "nesses" of which to speak. that's one of the things > that i find amazing about this. i'm not hungry. mentally i want > food... but it's an "i want" so much more than an "i need". > > yesterday i didn't drink as much of the lemonade as i should have, and > we took the kids to the zoo. i did feel a but run down and cranky. > but that's entirely my fault. when i do drink the lemonade regularly > (i mix up a big batch in the morning and take it with me), i feel > fine. > > some people, from what i've read, report that they do feel dizzy or > sick on days 2 and/or 3, but then by day 4 they feel great. so many > attribute it to the detox process. stirring up all the toxins and > whatnot. personally, except for the emotional withdrawal symptoms of > wanting to eat food, i've felt fine. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:253941 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
