- This was rougher than I thought it was. I was starving. But all those that have done the program before says the first day is the hardest. Lordy, I hope they are right.
- I had to go buy the ingredients of sea salt, natural maple syrup, and cayenne pepper, but I got lucky when I ducked into Central Market off of Hulen in Fort Worth and found them all.
- That's the first time I had ever been in that grocery store. High tone. Lots of hot mommas with very well behaved kids.
- And that place is expensive.
- My daily drink of two quarts of water flavored with 14 tablespoons of maple syrup, 14 tablespoons of pure lemon juice, and a one tablespoon of cayenne pepper is pretty good.
- I refuse to talk much about the "cleansing" aspect of the program, but I did drink one quart of water combined with one tablespoon of natural sea salt. It was awful. And the results were mild. All I'm saying.
- I don't know if had anything to do with the program, but I became exhausted last night at 8:30. At least I got a long night's sleep.
- I'm not doing this as a diet, I'm using for cleaning purposes. I know at least three people personally that have done it and loved it.
- Yeah, I know diet and exercise are the way to maintain weight. I've done that for 13 years.
- And, yeah, I've received a ton of emails telling me I am out of my mind.
Mood: Apprehensive.
Feeling: A little tired.
Weight Loss: 0 pounds.
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25 comments:
I work with a guy from Arkansas that did this and he lost a lot of weight in about a month. Good luck with the "cleanse part."
There is a natural way to cleanse your body and that is to eat right and get lots of natural fiber. Check with a doctor before you try anything like this because you are placing your body and your heart under too much stress!
Fox news, which I'm sure you never watch, had this diet on a program and warned everyone not to go on any fad diet before doctor approval.
For me, fiber and drinking water keeps everything moving and cleansed!
Barry,
I've actually heard that day 3 is the worst...so I wish you luck.
There is NO way I could do it...to addicted to Coffee.
Barry, If you're doing this JUST for cleansing (and not to test your discipline level) you should simply walk into Walmart with about $5 bucks and buy 2 small bottles of Fleet Phospho Soda. This is what doctors use to CLEAN you out prior to a colonoscopy. Just fast for ONE day prior (clear soups and black coffee allowed) and mix the solution with a quart of water for each bottle. Take 2 doses. You could do this on a weekend.......just need to make sure you have some good reading material in the bathroom! I know, I know....I've heard all about the length of the intestines, etc. but this will make your abs feel (and look) TIGHT! And if the medical community uses it, well, it will save you 8 days of misery.
Why does your body need cleansed?
ALL RIGHT BARRON...I have tried this and heres the deal...if you are a healthy person who has a somewhat heathy diet and gets moderate activity you should not need this, when i tried it i didnt produce any animals in the toilet or little ET's..the reason, I didnt need it all it did was drain me..if you were overweight impacted or had a problem w/ BM's thats different, thats why it works so well w/ the ladies (they can never go and when they do they just shoot out some little rabbit pellets) my advice...bad move..nothing will take the place of the diet and excercise..
You should try a laxative tea instead of the salt water mixture. It didn't work for me as well as advertised and it was a beating getting it all down. The right tea can be found at Target with the coffee and such. It will say Senna tea and it works like a charm. Hold on to your britches!
I am a guy who is in relatively good shape and I did this about a year ago. I only lasted 6 days as I was leaving to go on a trip on day 7 and wanted to work my way back to real food before I left. From what I can remember Day 1 was not that bad, but Day 4 was terrible. The hardest part for me was just not eating when my body knew it was time to eat. I wasn't that hungry, I just know that at noon I usually eat. I lost about 10 lbs, but as soon I started back to my regular routine, I think I gained most of that back. The cleanse made me feel better, so I think it is a good program. Good Luck and I hope you make it however long you are going for.
Central market = Hot girls.....At least at the one in Plano...
But then again, if you go to the Wal-Marts in Decatur....very nice!!!
Barry, using the "before colonoscopy" cleanse will allow you experience simulated labor pains--trust me.
You might also want to try Black Drought liquid in lieu of your fad cleanse.
Not good to do things like that at your age WITHOUT a doctor's OK.
why don't you try some Drain-O??
I lasted 14 days last year. The first two days are the worst and the last two days when you know you can eat but can only eat some awful soup, that is like torture.
I don't know what all you are taking but when you start getting nocturnal cramps I would suggest that you be careful. The big muscle in your chest can also cramp as it all too frequently does in August football two-a-days causing the death of teenage boys. Frequent trips to the bathroom or excessive sweating can deplete your body of electrolytes that are required for signals from the brain to the muscles. First warning might be night time cramps. Be careful. All kinds of strange things happen to people when their electrolytes get out of balance.
Barry, you need to watch out for all those "organic" products as they can be absolutely chalked full of harmful bacteria that will definitely clean your system out. It is best to only consume those organic products which are produced locally and not exposed to lengthy storage and shipping. This renders your choices of truly healthy organic products somewhat limited.
barry , you should get some of those ear wax candles also. hahahahaha. stupid person.
Interesting thing for you to do. So you believe consuming that stuff in the picture, in those amounts you listed yesterday, will help you or clean out your body?
Judgment, or the lack of it, is crucial in one's life. You should hit the quote books and refresh yourself on how one's "reputation" is acquired. Yours is certainly changing.
Add the term "goofball" to your bio.
Just a thought.... not the best time of year to be killing all of your helpful bacteria.
"The Dangers of the Master Cleanse
Not only is this program hard to follow, and the drink hard to swallow, it is potentially dangerous as well. You are inhibiting your immune system, as well as your ability to process food.
Purposefully irritating your gastro-intestinal tract is never a good idea, but salt water flushing actually removes healthy, helpful bacteria from the lining of your colon. By engaging in this practice for an extended period of time, you are effectively wiping out one of your first lines of defense against infection and sickness.
In addition, prolonged fasting has many negative side effects, including all the symptoms that go along with malnutrition: insomnia, cravings, nausea, depressed mood, hair loss... the list goes on. Proponants of the Master Cleanse will tell you that these are signs that the toxins in your body are being eliminated, but you would experience the same symptoms on a water-only fast.
Once you start eating again, you may suffer bloating, constipation, and/or acid reflux, as your body is unused to processing food and has to re-learn how to digest it.
Like modern-day diet scammer Kevin Trudeau, creator of the Master Cleanse Stanley Burroughs was plagued by accusations and lawsuits for his entire career. One patient, whom he convinced to ignore his doctor's advice for 30 days, actually died under his care. Burroughs was convicted of second-degree felony murder and felony practicing medicine without a license."
- http://hubpages.com/hub/Master-Cleanse-Lemonade-Diet
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From the office of public works:
To all citizens of Decatur and nearby communities, a water emergency has been declared by the the dept. of public works. It seems the use of water has doubled today over yesterday. Early analysis indicates a possible water main break and/or excessive usage somewhere on W. Main in Decatur. Crews have been dispatched to find and correct the problem. Please refrain from bathing, watering foliage, washing cars and FLUSHING THE TOILET until further notice.
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Double Fake Rusty Pipes
Go catch the everyday garden variety 24 hour stomach flu. Now that's a cleansing. Nothing like spewing from both ends. And your through in 24 hours.
Barry,
As a three-time veteran of the cleanse, tell these morons to eff themselves. They want you to sit on the couch and drink gravy, all under the guise of "it's dangerous!" Their motivation? Jealousy. They're too lazy and lack the will power to push themselves out of their comfort zones mentally or physically, and they don't want anyone else too either. Trust me, you'll lose 10+ pounds, you'll sleep great, you'll have tons of energy, you'll clean years of gunk out of your system and you'll earn control over your cravings. It's empowering. If nothing else, do it just to spite these naysayers.
5:48 pm...
"years of gunk"? Really? Years of waste just happens to collect in my colon?
Wrong.
Please post a credible source for these claims... other than people trying to sell stuff.
Finding debunking sources is easy. Here is one from the Boston Globe...
http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/05/12/time_to_cleanse_think_again/
"I've heard my kids say that there's stuff in the GI [gastrointestinal] tract for seven years," said Dr. Douglas Pleskow, a gastroenterologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. "That is the urban legend. In reality, most people clear their GI tract within three days."
The ads for colon cleansing are also remarkably vague about what toxins would be purged with enemas, laxatives, or special diets. Asked what toxins his colon cleansing dietary regimen called "Master Cleanse" gets rid of, author Peter Glick man, an advocate of a raw food diet, spoke of "metabolic toxins," parasites, and "environmental toxins . . . whatever kinds of stuff we're breathing in air."
Wrong, said Dr. Bennett Roth, a gastroenterologist at UCLA: "There is absolutely no science to this whatsoever. There is no such thing as getting rid of 'toxins.' The colon was made to carry stool. This is total baloney."
Read the rest of the article... or any of the other numerous, credible sources on the subject that a google search turns up.
I will drop the subject, but it cracks me up that people will avoid scientific facts and instead buy into hype. I wish snopes.com could replace the IRS as a gov agency. At least that would be useful.
*sigh*
@Honcho:
How 'bout this for a credible source: Someone who's actually done the Cleanse. On the Cleanse you don't eat solid food for 10 days, yet you're constantly in the bathroom evacuating amounts of a color, smell, texture, etc. you've never experienced. Okay, Dr. who says you clear your GI tract in three days, what's coming out your system the last seven days?
Look, I don't give a damn if Barry does the Cleanse or not. I just know I look better, feel better, am better after doing it. And I have contempt for narrow-minded people who summarily debunk it in an attempt to blow out his candle to make theirs appear brighter.
And the bit about "people trying to sell the stuff": The Cleanse's recipe is on the Internet for free. What, you think this is all one giant conspiracy perpetrated by lemon farmers?
8:29 it's the sheep like you that scares me- not Al Quaeda.
Where were you when I owned my used car lot?
@9:18: Let me get this straight, trying a Cleanse that everyone else tells me not to try somehow makes me "sheep." Um, I'm pretty sure you got that bass-ackward. Aren't the sheep the big group telling me uniformly that the Cleanse is baaaaaaaaaad for me?
P.S. When you owned your used car lot, I was across town leasing a new one.
Lease? Ha, suspicion confirmed.
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