Getting and Staying Healthy After Fifty

I’m tired or torturing myself. I must not have been very toxic, because I never had a lot of detox symptoms, except for the coated tongue, which will just have to stay that way.

I’m really sick of the whole thing. I’m still hungry, and the energy I had on day four and five is totally gone. I’ve only lost 5 lbs, which I will gain back as soon as I start eating again.

So today I will only drink the lemonade, no salt water flush, no laxatives, no torture. Tomorrow I am going to start the four day routine to come off the fast, although I think it’s probably pointless, and unless I lose another 5 lbs. over the next 4 days, I’ll consider this whole thing a bust.

Besides which, I absolutely have to take my vitamins from now on, because last night I was up four times with severe cramping in my feet, which can only be a potassium deficiency. I took a multi last night, or rather at 4 a.m. this morning, and I will continue to take my vitamins from here on out.

I’ll do the modified fast after the four days, drinking the lemonade and tea during the day, and having a salad for supper. No laxatives, though. I’m done with laxatives, even bulk laxatives. I figure a raw food diet is laxative enough.

So ends the torturous 10 day fasting experience. I’m really horrible at fasting. I don’t ever intend to do it again. I’ll do the modified fast for a month and see what happens, then I’ll add another raw food meal and stick with that for a month.

I know that one reason I failed so miserably is that I didn’t do any exercise to speak of. I admit that. I intended to, but didn’t because I had more important things to do, and my mind just wouldn’t wrap around the exercise thing. Now I’m truly too tired to exercise, other than walking up to the store for food, which is exercise, I guess. I will try to walk faster, so as to burn more calories.

My advice to anyone trying this Master Cleanse is not to be tough on yourself if you fail. It’s a very, very hard thing to do for ten days and four days after. Not a lot of people succeed their first time out. So if it doesn’t work for you, try something new and keep on keeping on.

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