Bright's thoughts

Oh my goodness...I have a glass of fresh squeezed OJ in front of me and I have hardly pallet it! It is so intense! They say sip it. Well, duh! Sips are hard to do even. I may water it down. Prior to the cleanse if I had a 8oz glass of fresh squeezed OJ I would down it fast. Hardly savoring the taste. But now, OI! Talk about the most intense taste and feeling! I didn't do the Lax tea last night or the SWF this morning. I feel weird! I read that many experienced MCers do it one last time. I guess next time I will. I will start the probiotics today too to get the bacteria back in my gut. I need to get the good ones in before the bad ones set back. LOL! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probiotics I was at the Health Food store last night and was talking to a gal about the different cleanses....colon, parasite, liver, kidney etc. She said that the MC is a good over all one but not super specific. She recommended in a month or so to do a colon cleans then the parasite one. ...

I cheated a tiny bit yesturday! Only a tiney bit. YESTURDAY was so hard! Yesturday was the anniversary of the mormon pioneers entering the salt lake valley. My family celebrates it by going on a little trek pulling a wheelbarrow like a hand cart and the bike trailer as one too. I usually make some treat that pioneers might have had. I made brown sugar candy (similar to carmel) and scones. I licked my fingers many times while making the candy and had a small pinch of the scone. Yesturdya was my hardest day!!! Everything was so tempting! It ws calling out "eat me eat me!" LOL! I am back on track today and will finsih tonight. Tomorrow I will break my "fast" with OJ then move into soups then solids. I am down 9lbs now and my skin (face mostly) went through the ick phases of puffy, teenage acne type without the zits....just bumpy. Weird stuff to smooth again. My tounge (they say the white is toxins) has gone from pinkish to white to less white not quite tot...

Well, Iw as getting bummed that my tounge was still white. Now it is mostly pink! The coating is super thin. It never got really thick like they say it would. SO I guess, I was doing something right. LOL! I have done super well until just a bit ago. Today is Pioneer Day and it is actually celebrated in Utah. It makes the day that the Mormon pioneers came to the Salt Lake Valley. We have a tradition of going on a little "trek" with the kids. We pull a wheelbarrow and another wagon. We have anscetery that came across in the Martin Handcart company, so we try to celebrate their life. I decided to make some candy for them that ws on a pioneer food website. Well, I ended up licking my fingers SEVERAL times. A couple were even intentional! Dang it! It was BROWN SUGAR candy. Similar to carmel. YUM! I am excited to have it done! 10 days will be tomorrow! I will go ahead and do the Lemonade in the AMs and help continue the cleansing process. YEAH Day ten is soon at ...

Each night on the MC you drink and herbal tea (lax tea) with Senna in it. I use SMOOTH MOVE. You are only supposed to steep it for about 10 minutes. Well, last night I forgot about it and left it for atleast TWENTY! Well, the stronger it is the sooner it will wake you up. It woke me up at 3:30 AM. GOODNESS!!!! I do have to say there is a bunch more crap in there! So beware how long you steep it. I hadn't had cramps with it until this AM. The SWF seems to be taking longer today again. ?????? Not sure why that is. I am feeling good though. I plan to drink more lemonade and water today. See if I can flus more out since I only have a few days left and I am anxious to return to normalcy with my family, not hiding at meal time. I have read two and a hlf books in the past 8 days though so I am doing good things. LOL! I way behind on laundry though. I have good energy! I need to get moving on the importnt things in the house though. I have been lazing around in my mind...

WOW! I am almost done with day SEVEN! All I can think of is "WOW! How have I done this?" It is amazing how the body adjusts! It really does! Seriously! I have been missing food though. Yesturday, we decided to go to Ogden (about 2hrs North). My Hubby didn't have Breakfast. I had been avoiding leaving the house. I hadn't gone to the store to replenish our cereal supply so the girls had eaten it all before he made it to the kitchen. I needed water (distilled), lemons and maple syrup so I was headed to the store. He said to wait and we would go all at once. SO we all piled in and went to the HEalth food store fist then to the grocery store. His plan was to get pop tarts. So he went in and I stayed out with the kids in the van. He came out with a DOZEN FRESH doughnuts. Oh my goodness!! They smelled just like KRISPY CREAMES! They weren't but oh how heavenly they smelled. He handed them out to the kids and I had to get out and hang out at the bakc of...

I'm struggling this morning! I haven't gone anywhere this week hardly. I walked to a neighbors around the block and when to the gas station to get milk. That is the extent of my travels this week. The sad thing is I could've gone out more earlier this week. I wasn't have BMs in the afternoons until Wednesday. Yesturday, I even had an accident again but it was in the afternoon! So I am nervous to leave the house for longer than 10 minutes. I just drank the SWF it was hard this morning. It is so true that this is mostly mental. I can handle the hunger cause it is minimal. I am a social butterfly and am being cooped up. EEK! I'm seriously thinking this is the end. BUT, am hoping to push through today and get atleast one more day our of the way. Maybe it will get me over the hump. Almost half way there! ALmost! UGH! This is hard! I was thinking, trying to figure out what I will do on Sunday when we have church at 9 and it goes for 3 hours. So I am ti...

Holy cow!!! I'm here and kickin! LOL! Yesturday was a good day. I wasn't very hungry. Did I say that right? Yep, I wasn't very hungry. Strange! I did make a mistake and accidently at a grape. We have grape vines along our back and side fences. The skins are a bit tough and I tasted one to see if they were ripe. I squeezed the inside into my mouth. It wasn't ripe. I didn't even relize what I had done until a bit later. I was picking a plum and thinking "I'd like to taste this plum" then realized I had a taste of grape in my mouth. OOPS! Oh well! I small grape. I didn't really have any detox symptoms yesturday and I was quite active. Today is different. My tummy is hurting...not sure what is up with it. I guess detox symptoms. I think today will be a relaxed day. I do need to do some laundry (okay a lot) but I think that will be about it. I read on the Master Cleanse Forum http://therawfoodsite.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=9 so...

My Sister in Law called today and was surprised I was STILL doing it. Hmmm...I think I just got more incentive to do it longer! I was ready to quit this morning! Now I am going strong! I have not been hungry at all today. I was really weak this morning, but have gotten strength back. The SWF worked even better today and is flush more stuff out....no longer like it was yesturday. It was funny last night, I made spagehtii and went to see if it was ready. I usually taste it. I put it in my mouth and immediately thought "oh crud! and ran to the sink and spat it out!" LOL! I made toasted fench bread too. THAT would've been better to cheat with. HMMM, I love french bread and it even better when it has been toasted with butter. YUM! I was really lazy yesturday and took a nap...well, decided to read instead. I read almost the whole book! LOL! I haven't had any major detox symptoms. I am pretty healthy and don't smoke or drink so those don't need to be...

I slept like a log last night! It felt so good! I didn't even wake up when my neighbors went walking. Usually Nala (my dog) barks at them. I did hear her bark at 6:30 when they came home. My bowels started moving about 7am and I went potty and drank my SWF (salt water flush). It was easier this morning. I thought of miso soup. LOL! I laid back down for a bit. SLowly it began to work. It is now 11:20 and I don't think I'm finished with the flush. Skip this part if you don't wnat to know gross details...... my stool was well not stool but mostly liquid. The fluid was almost yellow. The last one I had was really yellow and clear . It was very acid and burned. Okay not so gross now. I have developed a white coating on my tounge, they say it is toxins coming out....gross. They say to continue the cleanse until your tounge is pink again. Could take longer than 10 days. OH! I was NOT hungry this morning! I was still nauseated byt the salt water too...that h...

I began The Master Cleanse by Stanely Bouroughs yesturday. The idea of this cleanse is to "fast" for 10 days with only a few things to drink such as lemonade made with 2T lemon juic (fresh), 2T Grade B maple syrup and 1/10 t cayenne pepper in 8 oz of spring or distilled water. Each night you drink a cup of laxative tea and each morning you drink a quart of water with 2t of sea salt in it. The idea of this cleanse is to clear your body of the toxins built up over time. The lemonade provides the nutrients you need. The Maple syrup provides 50 calories per tablespoon. The cayenne helps clean the blood and the "plaque" build in the intestines. By not eating solid foods it allows the digestive system, kidneys and liver to be cleansed. The systems may focus on cleaneing instead of the "normal" jobs of digesting and cleansing form the "toxic" foods we eat. Below is my day one 7/16/07 The night before I drank a laxative tea "smooth move...