A woman in my office recently completed 10 days of the Master Cleanse, also known as the lemonade diet. She spoke so positively about the cleanse that I decided to read Stanley Burroughs' book, "Master Cleanser". After reading the book and hearing so many positive reviews, if have decided to try it for myself.

I will let everyone know how it goes every day and how I am feeling. I plan to follow the cleanse for 10 days. I am making my own lemonade with organic maple syrup and organic lemons, and have purchased an organic herbal laxative tea and organic peppermint tea (for a treat now and then) as well.

I started this morning with a big cup of herbal laxative tea. Now I am drinking the "lemonade", which is surprisingly delicious. So, nothing too exciting to report yet

I'm feeling a bit antsy about not eating any solid food for 12 days (only juice for 2 days following the fast). I'm already a bit hungry and it's only been a couple of hours. This will be an exercise in will power .

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I started the lemonade diet yesterday morning (Sunday). I began with the laxative tea then drank the lemonade all day. Finished off the evening with another cup of laxative tea.

All day yesterday I felt exhausted. I was chilled to the bone and spent much of the afternoon huddled under a duvet trying to get warm. My digestive system felt a bit off, probably because of the tea. By the end of the day I noted that my tongue had turned grey. There wasn't a film on it like there usually is when I'm sick, it was just grey. Pretty strange, but I didn't panic because I had heard of others having the same experience. Also, all the filings in my teeth are super sensitive, like I'm brushing my teeth with tin foil.

This morning I began by drinking the salt water flush. This worked really fast (in less than 30 mins), so be careful with this one. I then drank a cup of laxative tea and started my day. I have a good amount of energy today. I even had enough energy for a workout. I don't feel as hungry as I did yesterday, but I'm staying away from the TV cause all those food commercials are deadly.

Other than that, tongue is still grey and filings are still sensitive, but everything else seems to be right on course .

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Today has been a struggle. I have very low energy and I have had very severe food cravings all day. I can smell the neighbours dinner and I want to crawl right inside their window and eat it all.

I am getting pretty sick of the taste of the lemonade, but did figure out a cool trick for drinking the salt water in the morning. I found that if I used a straw and sucked past my tongue the water didn't taste as salty and was much more bearable. I might have to use a straw for the lemonade soon. As a treat, and a break, I had a mug of organic peppermint tea. It tasted sooo delicious .

To my absolute shock, when I weighed myself this morning I haven't lost even one pound. I don't know what's going on with that, but it's a cleanse and not a diet so weight loss isn't the goal here anyway. I though it strange though.

Today was so hard that I have made 5 days my new goal on this cleanse, instead of 10 days. I feel that my body is definitely being "purged" of many things so I feel that the cleanse has been a success so far.

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Sorry for not posting the final days of the master cleanser until now.

so by day 4 my appetite was really low. i wasn't craving food as much anymore and that made things a little more bearable. i just got so sick of the lemonade drink. by day 5 i could barely choke the stuff down .

day 5 couldn't have come sooner. although i was completely pleased with how the diet was cleansing my body, i was so tired all the time and spaced out that doing this diet for 10 days seems impossible for me. for two days after finishing the cleanse i just drank orange juice. as soon as i started drinking OJ my energy came back and my body felt renewed.

after the two days of OJ i started to incorporate food back into my diet. i started with an organic tomato soup, which is suggested and have built myself back up from there. i experienced no problems with going back to food, but my appetite is greatly reduced . i have been eating really well since the cleanse - it motivated me to eat really well again.

even though i didn't lose any weight on the master cleanse, i felt that it was very effective at cleaning the digestive system and body. i will probably do this cleanse twice a year from now on, maybe for longer next time.

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Hi guys
good Question.