I fear these entires will cease to be useful, seeing as how easy I’ve taken to this cleanse. But I put this here anyway, as a sort of famous last words placeholder.

So, drank the laxative tea again last night and slept right through the night without incident. Salt water cleanse, and then started up with the lemonade. Went for a longer visit than I expected at Macworld, which kept me from the gym (I really need to get over my hangup of not going to the gym after 4:30, because the frenzied people with jobs arrive; but seriously, the collective attitude does take a downturn with their arrival. Are you almost done? How long have you been on that machine?)

Sadly, I have still not weighed in, so any weight loss will not really be given a proper measure at this point. Probably won’t bother. Besides, I’ve already lost this weight many times over, so it’s sort of boring. I’ll just go by the true measure: clothes.

Once again, I am surprised by how little I am taking in and how well my body is adapting to it. Today, I will be having 7 glasses of the lemonade, so still on the low end of things. I did check my tongue and it is sort of white and coated, which in the psuedoscience of things is supposed to mean the cleanse is working. I’m basing everything on visual cues, though: toilet bowls, skin clearing up (or breaking out), clothes, etc. I actually don’t bother reading the Master Cleanse bulletin boards much, because it seems daft to need support doing something so banal, and there is so much wisdom floating around them that seems completely fabricated.

Let’s face it. Most of the people doing this cleanse on the boards are trying to lose weight, but they like romanticizing that they are not only losing weight but doing it by healing their bodies from the inside out. I do think there is something valid in letting the body detoxify, etc., but I think it might seem too desperate to otherwise say they are just trying to lose weight to the point where they are drinking a weird lemonade mixture and no food. So, there is a fixation on the science: I only had 2 eliminations, do I need more lemons? More tea? More cayenne? It seems that if you believe in the cleanse… just do it.

Eriq started today, so he’s a day behind me. We both went to Macworld together without incident. Well, aside from the fact that I could easily toss down $5K to get the iMac I want AND the new MacBook Air now,  but that’s always what happens at Macworlds.

The only downside was that I underestimated how long we’d be at Macworld, since I’m used to shredding through them quickly from years of covering them as a tech journalist, so I didn’t bring a lemonade with me. So, I was sort of hungry by the time I got home. I was worried that hunger was a bad thing, that satisfying early indications of hunger when you first sensed them was sort of the proper state of things, and that an actual hunger might be all ‘Lemonade? Are you kidding me?!” But, again, I drank one glass and it was fine.

Still no mint tea. It is mainly offered as something to drink that isn’t Lemonade or water, but the redundancy has yet to be an issue.

I do notice that my teeth seem sort of filmy by late evening, which is not usual. No big concern, though. I just brush them?

In many of the books I read, they said Day One, Three, and Seven are often the harder days for people. One was sort of easy for me, so maybe I’ll have more to report tomorrow?

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