Day 1!

My fast got delayed for a bit. Combination of illness and a few other factors. All the more reason to follow through with it. Which I have! I am writing to you at the end of Day 1!
Today wasn't bad at all actually. And considering I work around food (really good food!) that was no mean feat.
It probably sounds like day 1 shouldn't be that tough to get through, but as I said before, I'm a foodie. And as I learned the first time round - most of it is a mental thing.
The fast that I am doing is the 'master cleanse' lemonade diet, made famous recently by Beyonce Knowles. For those of you who are unfamiliar, it basically consists of drinking a lemonade containing maple syrup, lemon juice, cayenne pepper and of course water, for a minimum of ten days. Doesn't sound so bad, except that you can drink ONLY that for ten days. No food. No food at all. There is a delightful (!) laxative tea you have to take as well as a salt water flush you can do (not for the feint at heart, or at stomach). The only respite you get is peppermint tea every so often. And as I'm not a fan, that doesn't really mean much to me. It's a rigid diet.
But once I started researching more on it, I realised that you could use different herbal teas and that there were also different modern versions of the cleanse - a 5 day one, the 10 day one, a 15 day one and also a 'relaxed version' where you can eat a meal a day.
I'm still doing the ten day rigid diet but knowing that I can break it up with different flavoured herbals teas makes all the difference. Doesn't sound like much I know, but believe me, once you have done the full on master cleanse before for a full ten days, the idea of a different taste in your mouth is like heaven!



Mind over matter. Goals in sight.
Day 2 here i come!