Well, I have decided I'm going to do this master cleanse -- or the Lemonade diet. For a number of reasons -- weight issues - and all the issues that go with that! :) But I am very interested in the whole detox and am considering using this cleanse as a way to plow into a vegan or vegetarian diet.
ALso - ever since I was little I have always associated food with comfort, I used to have huge problems with Binge-eating when I was a teen-college. I don't do it so much anymore, right now I have a problem of starving myself during the day (not intentially, but more because I am...um...to lazy to fix breakfast and lunch...) and then when I get home at night I will have a big supper - sometimes as late as 9pm--which is also not good for me. I am rather fond of pizza and I have no reservations of eating a whole pizza by myself.... Another habit I probably should NOT have!
The year that I gave up sweets and sugars and traded them for dark chocolate -- i think that I lost 30 pounds during that year of my life. I have let myself slide since then - and although I no longer really 'like' milk chocolate candies of any kind (and they now make me sick) I still eat them anyway... Because I also associate eating with what I do when I am bored!!! Terrible habit.
The months that I spent in London ENgland were probably the most amazing thing that opened my eyes to what I put into my body. While i was there I rather noticed that any kind of meet in england tastes like they scraped it out of a garbage can! I was having major withdrawl and wanted a big juicey serloin steak or something!! Instaed - for three months I became a vegetarian (mostly against my will!) I ate a lot of pasta and bread. I also was more active then I had ever been, so I was feeling pretty good while I was there. When I got back home I demanded my parents (who picked me up at the airport) take me to a steakhouse so I could have that big juicey surloin steak that I had been fantazising about for three months. Within 20 minutes of eating it -- man oh man was I sick. IBS symptoms flaired up really bad -- which i had not had for a year. I realized it was because of the meat. ANd i began to wonder - if it was healthy to eat meat - and I also was wondering why US steak tastes so much better than England steaks!! Probably -- I concluded -- because of all the hormones we put into our livestock to fatten them up for slaughter.
So since 2003 I have not been able to eat red meat, aside from ground beef, it just makes me too sick and makes me feel sloggish and -- well, like I'm going to puke. So I eat a lot of chicken and occasionally some ground beef when I can handle it. Since then I have come to realize why my body reacted in such a way - and what the consequences of our 'American Diet' have on our bodies.
And starving yourself for half the day and eating a big dinner just puts your body into starvation mode -- if you eat too late into the night your body doesn't digest it as well, it's not converted to energy-- it is stored as fat. Of which I have an abundance.
So that brings me to the master cleanse diet -- using natural things to help your body correct itself. I have been doing a lot of research over the past week as well and I'm very impressed with all the people who have stuck with it and who post their results for people like me -- so I know that it really is beneficial. I hope to do 10 days at least. Perhaps -- 40 days would be best for a deep cleansing -- but I don't know about that right now! I think i will take it one step at a time. THe book I am reading suggested to go on and off -- 10 days on, 3 days off eating fruits/veggies-then 10 days on. He did this for a whole year for a total of 100 days on the cleanse. It cleared up his major problems. I can see that this will help me. I do not think it is a coincedence that -- when I was NOT looking for anything like this -- it is suddenly dropped into my lap for some reason. I figure by now that it is God pushing me to look into this - for over the past year he has been slowly teaching me about the benefits of a better diet - the poor side effects of our current diets --- as well as teaching me about juice fasting. Finally I found the MC and know that this is something I can try. When I first read about it I thought it kind of sounded like these people are starving themselves! Then I realized that - in fact- they were not! They are just making it as easy as possible to digest- by using the lemonaide - so that their body can shut that function down and focus on repairs. I'm glad I found out about all the 'cleansing effects' ahead of time so that I can know what to expect and not give up on it. I think the biggest problem i will probably have is the urge to eat for comfort.-- well ok, I haven't really done that for years -- but maybe the urge to eat out of boredom. I am bad -- really bad at that!
SO -- I have decided I will just do a juice fast of orange juice all day tomorrow.
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