day 5 master cleanse

I overcame my desire for hamburgers. After a lot of whining and fits.

I don't have much news. On this cleanse, your expected rate of elimination is about 3X per day. It is not solid. You gotta wonder what's going on after 4+ days of no solid food, and your "detox" really gets going around day 5. I wish I was a doctor or Osmosis Jones so I could tell what was actually happening inside my body.

The cravings on day 4 were not hunger, or not in the sense we normally mean, because I have felt that tummy rumbling less and less. I do feel a kind of empty feeling, especially in the evenings, that is probably more like real hunger.

I have less fatigue, but I am routinely ready for bed around 9 or 9:30, which I don't think is a bad thing. Yesterday I rode the exercise bike. Not for very long, but just to see how I felt. While I was doing it, it felt GREAT. My muscles felt so good working like that. After, I was very tired. And when I woke up in the night I was sore, but this morning not sore at all. Like my body repaired itself in the time allotted for that, instead of having to digest food. Interesting.

Yesterday I finished all my lemonade for the day by 5:30. I wasn't hungry after that, but I was bored, and would have eaten if I weren't doing this. Also interesting. But then we started watching Wives & Daughters and I wasn't bored anymore! And I wasn't even snackish! I would like to break the habit of eating while we watch stuff. It started in LV because we didn't have a dining room or a dining table, the only place in our small condo was the couch, so that's where we sat, with trays. And we do it here, but I don't think it's a good habit, because then whenever we watch something, even if it's not a meal time, there's usually snacking involved.

This morning I resumed the salt water flush.

I don't have a scale and don't really weigh myself. I remember my mother-in-law asking me "are you losing weight" when I was working at the dry cleaner (answer: yes) and she said "how much?" And I said, "I don't know." And she said, aghast, "You don't know? What you mean you don't know? You guys don't have scale?" (Answer: no.) But I don't care. I feel better, felt better than LV before I even started this cleanse. And I can tell from my clothes. And I can tell from how I feel in my muscles when I ride the bike. And I can tell from my calisthenics. And I can tell from my overall less sluggish feeling. These changes we're making are very positive. And I feel 100% better than in Las Vegas. And I don't want to going back to feeling so awful.