Master Cleanse Fast Day 3
Posted by Jack Deus on June 16, 2009
General
I went to work yesterday and drank the full 32 ounces of lemonade I brought with me. I also drank 30-40 ounces of water while I was there. Felt good, wasn’t tired, knew I was well on my way to cleansing myself.
After work I went to my golf league and, as those of you who follow me on Twitter found out yesterday, did not shoot well. I’m not sure if it was because I hadn’t eaten for almost 2 full days and didn’t have my usual energy or because I was trying out new golf shoes (or a combination of the two), but I shot my worst round of the year. I did make sure to drink lots of water so I wouldn’t get dehydrated, and I felt physically fine afterwards, except for being a little tired.
Cravings
I haven’t had any cravings for any particular types of foods, which is good. I have, however, felt the need to eat, which isn’t good. I have myself in such a routine at work to be constantly snacking that I had 5 or 6 different times throughout the day that I subconsciously looked around for something to eat. Hopefully the longer I’m on the fast the lesser these urges just to eat will become. Only time will tell.
Weight and Waist
191.0 pounds: down 2.6 pounds. 37 3/4 inches: down 1/2 inches.
I kept my weigh-ins consistent and did it after I drank the salt water this morning to make sure there wasn’t any weight loss due to the difference in water weight.
BM (for those of you who are grossed out by poop talk, you probably want to skip this part)
I drank the recommended 32 ounces of salt water for breakfast this morning at 5:45 and, just like clockwork, when I got to work at 6:50 my stomach had the distinctive rumble foreshadowing diarrhea. 10 minutes later I was finally clear of all the junk in my system and felt so much better because of it.
For those of you wondering if the Master Cleanse actually works for cleaning out your system, all you have to do it look at the results of the BM. Every morning (assuming you are drinking the salt water) you expel a lot of medium- to dark-colored liquid from your body, but you are only ingesting light-colored and clear liquids. It seems pretty obvious to me that the coloring comes from the muck that used to be stuck to your digestive tract.
Bryan said
Correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t the medium to dark colored liquid be caused by your bile?
Jack Deus said
You may be right about that, but the way I read the first paragraph of this article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile), I’m not sure.
“In many species, bile is stored in the gallbladder between meals and upon eating is discharged into the duodenum where the bile aids the process of digestion of lipids by emulsification.”
Since I’m not eating, I don’t know if my body is still secreting bile or not. Maybe I am, but the only lipids I would have in my system for it to help digest are my fat cells most prevalent in my stomach.
It seems to me that either I am cleaning gunk out of my digestive tract or I am getting rid of the fat cells in my stomach or both. I’m not an expert in the matter by any means, but my money would be on it is a little bit of both.
Bryan said
Interesting. How long are you supposed to fast for? Is this safe? In a way, this cleansing sounds like something I need. If it does in fact clean you out then that would be awesome.
Has the color of your BMs gotten lighter as the days go on?
Jack Deus said
According to the original information I read (unfortunately the site has been taken down) the fast is supposed to last 10 days, but if you read through all of my fasting posts, I’ve never had 10 days in a row where I can go without doing something that requires energy, so my fast lengths have been 7, 7, and 4 days.
I think you can have the fast last as short or as long as you need it to, because I only had this fast last four days and I feel like I cleaned out most or all of my system, but that may be because it is my 3rd fast in 3 years, so I haven’t had a lot of time to build up gunk, either.
As far as I can tell, fasting is safe, as long as you take it easy when you are doing it. The only negative side effects (burning poo from too much cayenne, dehydration from helping someone move) I’ve ever had from it were short term and I learned from them and haven’t repeated them in subsequent fasts.
My BMs have not gotten any lighter. They’ve stayed between dark yellow and light brown the whole fast.