The Process and The Lemonade Diet

Lemonade Diet – Day 3. Last night I ordered supplies from Tescos and had it delivered at lunch time this morning. It was great to be able to get everything I needed without having to go out to the shops and be confronted with food. I’m still really struggling with the Cayenne and I’m not too keen on the really sweet taste I have in my mouth all the time even though I’m drinking loads of water to try to get rid of the taste. It is not that I don’t like the actual lemonade (as long as the Cayenne isn’t added to it) it’s just the sweet after taste.

Detox and the Salt Water Flush

Lemonade Diet  – Day 3. Hmm will I realized what id done wrong – id mistaken a half teaspoon measure for the one teaspoon measure. I wrongly thought that the 4 spoons were ½ teaspoon, full teaspoon, ½ desert spoon, full desert spoon. So Yesterday I only used half the amount of salt that I should have so today I did it perfectly – apart from forgetting to drink the last glass of it because I got distracted and then thought it was water. I did wonder why I didn’t feel as uncomfortable as I remembered and just thought id got used to the feeling – oh dear. I also messed up the laxative tea last night because nothing happened the first night I took it I decided to double the pods I was using – with the result that an hour later I was on and off the loo for about 2 hours and exhausted this morning. I am going to make an extra special effort to get my laxative and SWF completely right tonight and tomorrow morning!! Have spent all day resting today, well working from bed to be exact as I’ve been feeling really cold and messed up my sleep last night (see day 2).  When I say resting I’ve probably done more exercise running for the loo all day (urine and stools – although I should  think  stools doesn’t really describe what is coming out of any of us by now)than I normally do all week .

Psychological and Emotional

Lemonade Diet – Day 3. Having spent all day in bed – I took all my drinks up with me (pre made and added water when needed) I feel a lot happier. I just needed to pamper myself a bit I think. It’s not as if I’m being forced into doing this so it’s a bit odd that I felt the need to reward myself but I also realise that if I’d felt like this and I wasn’t on the Master Cleanse I would have eaten something to make myself feel better. I somehow need to get over using food as a reward – I’m not a dog for goodness sake – I don’t need a doggy chocolate every time I roll over and die! I must remember that food is there to fuel my body and not cover up or compensate. I have ME I have spent a lot of time in bed over the past couple of years and it wasn’t really something I thought id want to do again soon. I’ve taken myself to my safe place …. I wonder why I felt the need to do that.

Weight Loss and Physical Results

Lemonade Diet – Day 3. Yay!! 169lbs. A loss of 1lb which I’m really happy about. I’m thinking it may be because I’m so empty (empty bowels, stomach etc) so may not be a physical loss as yet.  I didn’t smoke all day and didn’t want to. No head ache today and I’ve been in bed all day resting . I don’t feel like I have as much energy as I did yesterday and yesterday I had a lot more energy than normal for me. I’ve just had a big shot of cayenne and water before my last lemonade for the day and feel really sick! I’m wondering if I went too long between drinks and my stomach was too empty.

Support from Family and Friends

Lemonade Diet – Day 3. Only hubby and one friend knows I’m doing this but tonight I’m going to put up on my profile that I’m on day 3 of a Master Cleanse with  7 days to go and I will get loads of support from friends and family on there.  If I wobble at all I know I could put up a message saying I want to eat and id have full support from a lot of people. I am liking writing the diary each day – shame I felt too ill to do yesterdays yesterday and had to do it this morning. Id been writing it in my head all day so it was all there. I kind of make notes all day then put them all down at the end of the day. That part has been much easier than I thought it would be. I’m enjoying reading everyone’s comments and it does help to make me feel more part of something and that I will be letting down more than just myself if I don’t make it to the end.

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The Process and The Lemonade Diet

Lemonade Diet – Day 2. I’ve been really struggling with the cayenne and have had to resort to putting it in a shot glass and taking it straight down. Then kind of rinsing my mouth around with the Lemonade and then drinking it straight down until the burn stops. The Lemonade with Cayenne in it tastes like burned rubber to me (not that I have ever eaten burned rubber but I’m sure you know what I mean.) I ordered an electric Lemon juicer from Amazon and was a bit nervous about it as it was only £12 including postage but it’s the best thing about my Master Cleanse this time. I could juice those lemons all day – in fact, I wouldn’t mind doing it for a job, it’s really satisfying. It has a big jug over which the ‘juicer’ is seated. All you do is press a lemon half gently down and it turns on the motor. The next time you press it turns the opposite way. So fast and easy!!

Detox and the Salt Water Flush

Lemonade diet – Day 2. I’ve really messed up this process today. I don’t know what I’ve done wrong but it hasn’t worked. I remember last time that I used to send me running about 20 minutes after I drank it and that my stomach would be loudly gurgling long before the dash. This is very graphic so I apologise but  I know I’ve done something wrong because previously it would come out of me with a ferocious force this time its been a sad dribble (sorry!!) Maybe I need to use more salt but I measured it using measuring spoons which I didn’t have last time and so it should have been the perfect measure. Maybe I try using more salt tomorrow as I feel that this is the cause of my non-action today.

I also have 4 spots/pimples/blemishes on my face and i NEVER have spots. I feel very slightly blocked up nose wise as if I have a cold starting although I feel it’s more a detox symptom than a cold starting. I normally use a nasal spray to stop Post Nasal Drip /Rhinitus and have not been taking it since I started the Master Cleanse. There is still a small amount of phlegm but better than normal.

Had a really bad headache all day today (which is why day 2 has arrived along with Day 3) but I have a feeling this is due to me trying to smoke whilst doing this as I don’t drink ever drink caffeine so it’s not withdrawal of that.

Psychological and Emotional

Lemonade Diet – Day 2. I had a bad headache all day which is why Day 2 is so late (more to do with my trying to smoke whilst doing the Master Cleanse I feel than the detoxing) and I’ve had a really stressful day working. I work from home and normally if there’s a problem it wouldn’t really be a problem it would be a challenge that made me feel great when solved. Today I just didn’t want to do it and had to force myself to start, stay and to finish. The result wasn’t particularly lifting either all I felt was really glad to stop. I also had a moan at my husband about nothing at all and only stopped when he asked what the real problem was – I couldn’t think of one it was just my mood. I’ve found the hunger really annoying and realised that last time I had my husband doing the first 2 ½ days with me and that we got through them together – this time I’m on my own.

Weight Loss and Physical Results

Lemonade Diet  -Day 2. Grrrr ……. Still weigh 170 but its only day 2!! My stomach doesn’t feel so bloated and I’m sure its flatter but I guess that’s because I have empty bowels? No sick feeling today but I’ve had a really bad headache which is why this is being written on Day 3. I had to concentrate on work feeling really ill but I’m pretty sure the headache was because I smoked 4 cigarettes. I only started smoking again 6 weeks ago, after 7 years of not smoking apart from the odd one or two a year when I had a drink. One of the reasons for doing the Master Cleanse was to knock the smoking on the head before it got out of hand again. It could also have been down to not putting enough salt into my SWF and it not washing through as it should do? I’ve been rushing to the loo because of all the liquid I’ve been drinking. I have a lactose and gluten intolerance (among other food intolerances – ME kind of makes you hyper sensitive to many  many things), which is another reason for doing this cleanse and one of the symptoms of the lactose intolerance is my body holding water so I feel like all that’s gone today which is great!! My hands don’t feel tight and my wedding ring is quite lose.

Support from Family and Friends

Lemonade Diet – Day 2. Not really getting any support from anyone. I’ve added the first days Master Cleanse comments to my blog and I usually put a note on Facebook when I do that but didn’t as it’s not really ME related. My husband thinks he is being supportive but he’s away at the moment looking after his poorly mum and although he’s rung about 3 times today and asked how it’s going every time he’s been eating. Not talking about it  – just eating. When asked if he was eating (the third time) with his mouth full he replied that he wouldn’t be as thoughtless as to ring up someone who was fasting with food in his mouth! His heart is in the right place and I do miss him!

Master Cleanse Diet Day 3

The Process and The Lemonade Diet

I have had 5 glasses of Lemonade so far and at 5pm today i suddenly felt really hungry for the first time today so I’m guessing I went too long without a drink. I was on the phone talking (for an hour and forty-five minutes) and hunger suddenly hit me so I have just had my fifth glass. I’m taking the cayenne separately as i hate the taste of the Lemonade with it in even when its fresh but figuring that it will mix in my stomach anyway – hoping that’s ok and must research it on this site to check. I didn’t do the SWF this morning and not really looking forward to it tomorrow but will bite the bullet and do it anyway because i realize that its an integral part of the process. Looking forward to my senna pod laxative tea tonight as I really like the taste of it – it is a very gentle natural laxative but works perfectly.

Detox and the Salt Water Flush

I didn’t do the SWF this morning as its my first day and I hadn’t done the Ease In. I have only just looked at my tongue so I don’t really know if it was white before I started but it has a thick white coat on it now which isn’t very nice to look at. I’m pretty sure it’s not normally like that. I’m going to be using natural senna pods to make my laxative tea tonight. I used them last time I did the cleanse on my own about 5 months ago – the tea tastes really nice and it works brilliantly and seems to be a very gentle laxative. I’m not looking forward to the SWF. Last time i did the Master Cleanse my husband to be (who is now my husband as we got married on 13th October 2011) would make the drink and bring it up to me in bed, id drink it do a bit of work on my laptop for 30 minutes and then dash to the loo when i couldn’t take the cramping any longer – it really works! I have to get up and make it myself this time as I’m on my own for the next 10 days.

Psychological and Emotional

Psychologically and Emotionally I feel pretty stable today – actually stable is an understatement – I feel rock solid. However, we are only on Day 1 so it may not be so in a few days time.  I’m hoping I won’t wobble as last time I did it I was around a lot of food and it didn’t bother me at all which surprised me greatly. I even cooked a few meals for my husband and his mum and even that I found fine. I’m a bit worried that because I’m in a house on my own for the whole 10 days instead of making it easier it will make it more difficult. I do have a bad habit of making a problem out of nothing so I’m going to stop this thought process right now and just wait and see.

Weight Loss and Physical Results

Starting weight 1701bs. I didn’t do the Ease In as I only found this site on Saturday but as i did the whole 10 days on my own about 5 months ago without it I figured that it shouldn’t make too much difference to the outcome. I weighed myself this morning and was shocked to find my weight at 170lbs – I  did think it might be around there so I guess I shouldn’t have been TOO surprised. I have been diagnosed with ME and lost so many of my symptoms whilst doing it last time it will be great to have a diary that I can refer back to. I’m hesitant to write a full list for fear of boring the reader but if anyone is interested they can be found on my blog. Today I feel a bit sick but i guess that’s normal. I haven’t been hungry until an hour ago (17.00 in the UK) soooo on the first day i don’t really have anything worth reporting physically or weight wise.

Psychological and Emotional

Psychologically and Emotionally I feel pretty stable today – actually stable is an understatement – I feel rock solid. However we are only on Day 1 so it may not be so in a few days time.  I’m hoping I won’t wobble as last time I did it I was around a lot of food and it didn’t bother me at all which surprised me greatly. I even cooked a few meals for my husband and his mum and even that I found fine. I’m a bit worried that because I’m in a house on my own for the whole 10 days instead of making it easier it will make it more difficult. I do have a bad habit of making a problem out of nothing so I’m going to stop this thought process right now and just wait and see.

Support from Family and Friends

This is the second Master Cleanse i have done – the first one without this site as i only found it on Saturday by accident and had planned to start today (Monday) on my own so was blown away that i could find support here because I’m completely on my own at home for the next 10 days as my husband is looking after his elderly mother and staying there for a while. He is very supportive on the phone and helped me no end last time I did the cleanse – making my SWF and bringing it to me in bed. I can see already that there are going to advantages and disadvantages to being on my own this time. Disadvantage – no one to juice the lemons for me but I purchased a brilliant electric citrus juicer that you just press the lemon  gently down on and it gets every drop out with no effort, no one to bring me my SWF before I get out of bed. Advantage – no cooking smells, cooking, shopping for food, not being able to join in on a drink etc. Last time I did the MC I found the hardest part of it was losing the joy of sharing a meal or a drink with my partner.

Master Cleanse Diet Day 2

Last time i did it the cleanse I lost a lot of my ME symptoms. I concluded that food must have a lot to do with causing some of my symptoms and although i try very hard to eliminate harmful foodstuffs its really really hard to get them all out of your diet and even when you think you have they slip in somewhere unnoticed and cause the problems and it takes ages to work out what it is you are eating that is making them reoccur. This way (I hope) i can start to reintroduce food stuffs to a totally cleansed system and and adverse affects should show up pretty instantly  it will be obvious what I’ve eaten that caused the symptom.

Last time i did it (November 2011) i lost about a stone in weight and guess only as i didn’t have scales and wasn’t really sure what weight i was when i started. I’m interested in losing some weight and very interested to see how much weight loss is possible doing this cleanse.

I have joined a group on the internet http://themastercleanse.org/ for those of you who are interested in finding out more, and one of the things they like you to do is to write 100 words each day in 5 categories as a diary of what is happening to you, how you are feeling etc.

The categories are: The Lemonade Diet Process, Detox and Salt Water Flush, Psychological and Emotional, Weight Loss Physical Results and Support from Family and Friends.

I will try very hard to keep this diary up to date so that i have a record of what happens to me throughout the process and will try to remember to post my results up here as well.

Master Cleanse Diet Day 1

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A weak bladder affects around 75% of the population over the age of 55. It also commonly affects expectant mums, especially as the pregnancy reaches the later stages. Although different extents of the weakness exists, the problem is nevertheless an embarrassing one. Something as simple as a sneeze or a little laugh can in most cases be enough to trigger a ‘leak’. The wearing of pads or ‘adult nappies’ can control the result of a weak bladder but the wearing of which does little for the self esteem of the individual, usually likening themselves to a baby. Getting to the root cause of a bladder problem is not difficult, it is attributed to old age and although there are prescription drugs available which aim to treat the cause, the side effects are very often undesirable and most sufferers prefer not to take them, and revert back to sanitary pads.

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With dozens of skincare products littering the shelves of local pharmacies and drug stores what makes Natox different?

Unlike most other skin creams that only act on the surface of the skin, Natox penetrates deep down to the source of skin problems. This replicates the effects of Botox; acting directly on the muscles and nerves that ultimately create lines and wrinkles.

Natoxhas been clinically proven over 6 years of Pharmaceutical Controlled Studies to be an effective, painless and injection free alternative to Botox. You can read the scientific study in full here.

This study lasted four months and involved 64 participants each with frown lines of at least half a centimetre long. The control group received a placebo/un-medicated cream whilst the others received Natox.

Participants in the Natox group had a significant improvement in frown lines compared with the control group. Both deep and newly developed wrinkles showed a consistent improvement, demonstrating Natox’s overall effectiveness.

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In the holistic as opposed to chemical controversy, there are firm believers on both sides. While many consider that unnatural remedies such as Botoxand reconstructive surgery are your best option for a young appearance. Others contend that natural anti aging product lines are considerably better for the skin, and can have equally spectacular effects if practiced as part of a everyday skin care schedule. A great many people who have used a natural anti aging product over time have seen a vast decrease in fine lines and seams, initiating the same effect as overpriced chemical treatments offer.

Botulinum toxin A is a bacteria that is shot into the skin to loosen the muscular tissue. It consequently shrinks things such as frown lines and laugh lines, for temporarily smoother appearing skin. Nevertheless, the effect is not lasting and the treatments are not inexpensive, so over time these payments can add up and make this a really pricey beauty option.

People can spend a lot of money on treatments over the years and if they run out of money and can no longer afford to buy Botox, the effects go away completely. When using natural anti aging skincare products however they profoundly nurture the skin from within, providing long term beneficial properties at a fraction of the price.

Instead than freezing or loosening the muscles, or drawing them tighter at some surgeries do, natural age revitalization products feed the skin cells and help them to rejuvenate and become more flexible. There is nothing abnormal about them, and no one can argue that nutrifying and hydrating your skin might be a bad affair.

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Rosacea is an extremely common skin condition which appears on the face of sufferers making it an embarrassing ailment.

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Whilst the cause is unknown, traditional treatment is via steroid or hydrocortisone creams, both of which carry additional side effects such as thinning of the skin. Even so, these anti rosacea creams are not very effective in completely removing the red, blotchy skin which often appears around the nose and cheeks. Rosacea can cause spots on and around the nose which over time will swell the nose and give it a mottled look. I (the article author) have rosacea. Apart from the visible veins on my nose and around my eyes, the constant spots around my nose and the redness, the worst thing about rosacea is strangers often think I have a drink problem because the symptoms mirror that of an alcoholic – not a good condition to have in a public facing career or even going for a job interview!

Traditional treatments have come and gone and used a variety of herbal ingredients but none of these to date have had any appreciative effect – until now. The world renowned skin care company Revitol have released a rosacea cream which claims to completely remove the redness, thread veins and visible blood vessels, irritation and soreness of the condition using completely natural ingredients. They have been so successful that the product has appeared in high brow magazines such as Time, Vogue, Good Health & Natural Health and earned glowing reviews.

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 In the Kalahari desert in Africa grows an unlikely plant that has proven weight loss benefits.

The Hoodia plant is a cactus which has been eaten by tribesman for thousands of years, mainly eaten before long hunting trips lasting numerous days. Why? Because it has the fantastic quality of making you feel full. This natural appetite suppressant has been reviewed and claimed as a successful weight loss product by none other than the BBC and CNN. The BBC news article is here and claims it was a ‘stunning success‘. The article can be read in full here.

The exact chemical in the cactus which causes the body to surpress the appetite was discovered and all rights to its sale was purchased by Pfizer, the huge pharmaceutical company behind Viagra and many other popular drugs. However the plant extract itself is readily available by many Health Shops and Internet Sites.

The product we are reviewing here is UniqueHoodia and is advertised as the purest, strongest and most effective Hoodia product on the market. There are many Hoodia supplements available today but as the BBC article referenced above lays testament to, many do not contain any of the Cactus extract whatsoever. UniqueHoodia differs from the rest as it is officially certificated to contain 100% pure Hoodia extract and as a result has legitimate medical backing unlike sellers of similar products.

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