Day 1 - 12:52PM

*yawn* good morning all!

Okay. So Day 1... Super exciting! Woohoo!

I am trying to make the first couple days easy for myself. So I made a batch of lemonade (6 cups) ahead of time. I only made 6 because I actually wanted to lose a little bit of weight while I am doing this so I am lessening the amounts of lemonade and the syrup I take in. But if I get super deprived feeling I will make more. So no worries either way!

42oz Water (filtered with my brita, sorry best i can do, we are very poor and i have had it for a long time)
3/4 Cup Lemon Juice (didn't have money for organic, so they are regular, and from wal-mart of all place (ugh), i will buy them from a local produce stand from now own.) SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL HARVESTERS!!!!
2/3 Cup Organic Grade B Maple Syrup (i am using trader joes)
1 Teaspoon Cayenne Pepper ( i got mine in the thai section at our global foods market)


So my beginning weight this morning was 188.0 just like last night.... BM after I made my lemonade. Probably due to senna tea last night.

Some people say they experience cramping while using senna tea. I don't have that. But this morning I did feel a little achey. Also, I find that if you are feeling crampy while trying to sleep, roll on your back. This made me feel good and no acheyness for the rest of the night.

Alright, I will update more of my adventure later. I have some jewelry stuff to do.

If anyone is interested in my work (job) you can see some of my stuff in these links:

http://GardenGwyn.Etsy.com
http://PhoenixLlewelyn.Etsy.com
http://LlewNaTique.Etsy.com

byby!!!

Day 1 (sort of) Night Before

So it's day 1, technically. Because it's after midnight here.

But anyhow. Treating this as night before. I just finished my senna tea, and i will be heading off to bed soon.

weight earlier tonight 188.0 even.

usual weight variously measured during the past month or so 187.2

More to come tomorrow. I will post my awesome lemon and maple adventures!!!

Update

I haven't started my cleanse yet. I wanted to. I bought the ingredients but they just sat there. I feel a lot of negativity coming off of people that I just want them to all go away so I can do this in peace. But they just won't. I am going to be starting my official cleanse May 11, 2009. The day after Mother's Day. My life will begin to slow down at that point and maybe it will be easier to focus on my fast.

I weigh 187.2 lbs at the moment. And I am shocked at how far away I've led myself from my... self.

I used to be extremely active in belly dance, roller blading, painting, just general active things. I was a sprinter in track in high school and a cheerleader. My sister was also a track runner and is just really into exercising in general. So where I am now is really far off the path.

I have been researching the Master Cleanse for months now. I am so psyched to start. I want to do it NOW! But patience is a virtue. I am pacing myself. I will ready my mind for it. That way I will not want to quit by the time I've started into my first days, which are known to be the hardest.

I want to rid my entire house of clutter and food and just generally distracting things that would pull me off course.

My husband won't do the fast. He tried for a day. But I don't think he actually drank enough of the lemonade. But he lasted the 1 day, but ate food the next. Which was longer than me. But he won't start it again. He eats almost exclusively meat and potatoes... which you would think would make him a large fellow. But Josh is actually, REALLY skinny, probably underweight. He is 25 and weighs about 127 lbs. He is about 5'10 or 5'11 when he decides to stand up straight. He has a curved back and just won't do anything about it. This makes me angry.

Anyways. A lot of people are so ghastly shocked when I mention the lemonade fast. From my best friend to my mother in law to... well just anyone. They don't care to listen to what I have to say. They don't want to read the book that Stanley Burroughs wrote. They just throw negativity back in my face even when I haven't even brought the topic up.

I mentioned that I used to be huge into belly dance. Well, I am going to be again. This is going to be my anchor. I dream and always wish that I could belly dance for a living. I just don't have the means to put myself out there. Or so I tell myself. I have no money for classes. We are dirt poor. I try to make money from my jewelry but I sell about 5 items a month, on average. I can't seem to keep a normal job. My mind can't work around it without me going completely off the wire and getting a little crazy in the head. I need non-structured, free and creative surroundings.

So there's the second update on me and a little about my life.

So if anyone wants to join my journey to a new awareness remember, May 11, 2009!!! That is day 1.

It will actually start May 10, 2009, Mother's Day because that night I will have to take my 'Smooth Move' senna tea, before going to bed. But that's all something to talk about for a different day.

INTRO:

This is just a preempted entry. I haven't started the Master Cleanse as of yet. I have a plan to do so soon however. This entry is more for a little background about me before I jump into this.

I'm 23 years old. A female. I live in the Midwest where just about everyday the weather changes. I'm married and have no kids. Currently I have no job. I do however spend a lot of my time making jewelry and selling it online at my Etsy shop, Phoenix Llewelyn Designs.

I currently weigh around 185 pounds. It fluctuates between 183-186 depending on the time of day, when I last ate, etc...

One particularly curious thing about me that started me on my path to cleansing discovery is that I have very large breasts. Two summers ago, before I was married I was a 32" under bust, with a J cup. About a year ago my shoulder started to hurt. I thought it was my fiance's (now husband) bed. Which was as hard as a rock. Eventually my whole left arm would go numb unless I shook it. It wasn't the prickling pain like when your arm falls asleep. It was real numbness. It got so bad that I couldn't do my passion, which is dancing, belly dancing to be specific. I spent a whole fall and winter indoors in a basement having no exercise or sunlight. I gained weight extremely fast, and that made me more miserable on top of my constant pain in my arm/hand/wrist/shoulder. When we moved into our own place this last January (2008) I woke up one morning and my whole arm was numb. But it wouldn't come unnumb. I didn't know what was wrong. I was screaming and crying, generally, freaking the hell out. My husband didn't know what to do to help me. Somehow he got the idea to call a massage therapist. And I came in that very day. That started my course into natural healing.

Anyhow.. I ended up becoming an employee for that therapist, but things didn't work out, as per usual with me and working at a scheduled job in general. But I've gained a lot of knowledge. And I also have a path that I need to follow to get myself where I need to be.

My entire left arm still goes numb on occasion, but I know how to keep it in check. I want to do the Master Cleanse to see if it will help loosen up the trigger points I have in my back and shoulders and neck to get me closer to my goals. Also, when I reach a point where I can actually not hurt when I move my left hand and arm, I will be focusing on weight loss. After that I will be first in line for a breast reduction. Which is the root of all my problems to begin with.

So that's a little background information on me. I promise I won't make any more posts this divulging. But I figured it would be easier this way to get it out there. Kinda makes me feel like I have a purpose for this. I guess I've always been a show-er and a do-er. Not just one or the other.

So stay tuned for my Master Cleanse Day 1 post. I'm sure it will be... exiciting.