Scribbles

Woohoo, I made it to day 8 of my Master Cleanse. Not that I’m surprised I could do it, but it is a relief after a series of nightmares where I ate a ton of food and immediately regretted breaking it. So I am craving food after all, but not in the sense of craving described by the book. They make the distinction between craving and hunger as craving being wanting a specific food, such as pizza, or coffee, or fried chicken, and hunger being the desire to eat anything, indifferent between devouring either a large salad or a burrito. Well, I’m craving good food, such as grandma’s cooking, or some of the interesting eats I’ve been meaning to try out after reading reviews on them, or even some of the restaurants I usually frequent. The foodie in me needs to be satiated.

Physically I feel fine, quite energetic and focused. I didn’t experience any of the difficult days (2,3, 7) that other people did, other than being quite sleepy the first few days. I also haven’t experienced the day of clarity on day 8 yet. My activities in the past week haven’t suffered either, I managed to work, hit the gym twice, attend dance classes thrice. The only pain is socially, as I haven’t been able to break bread with family or buy my visiting friend a drink.

I realized that the maple syrup has been giving me enough calories and energy to not experience the usual dizziness, irritability, and weakness when I go without food for too long. My caloric intake is about 1000 a day, and hence I’ve only lost about 5-6 pounds of weight. One of the pieces of advice was to measure the inches and not the pounds, and I can say that I do look slimmer on the waistline. Overall, I am content with the cleanse, but will save my final conclusions after this is over. In the meanwhile, I gladly report that I’ve made it so far, and am alive and kicking.