Cleaning out Remnants of 2008

Today begins my second endeavor into the Master Cleanse - a juice fast that lasts anywhere between 10 and 30 days, depending on the willpower of the participant. I did this fast over a year ago and lasted 12 days. The results were unbelievable.

I developed unbelievable mental clarity. My energy shot through the roof. My skin was glowing. I felt pure and sterile; a blank slate upon which to paint a fresh start. I came off the Cleanse having lost about 10 pounds, and feeling like a million bucks.

...Unfortunately, I also launched into a year of detrimental weight obsession, starvation and insanity. Yes.

SO. Now that I've got some much needed hindsight, I realize that my pursuit of successfully completing the Master Cleanse was the result of my desire to lose weight rapidly. I jumped down the rabbit hole - and didn't surface until a few months ago. Thankfully, I've been scared straight. And my foray into the Master Cleanse has foundations in the pursuit of sanity and purity - not developing the willpower to reject food.

These are my goals for the Master Cleanse:

1. Start 2009 fresh. Eliminate the toxins and impurities built up from the last year.

2. Access the mental clarity that I experienced during the last Cleanse to make some major life choices, and to help deal with finding a mental medicine for anxiety.

3. Give my skin, hair, and insides a deep cleaning - to see how pure can I make myself. Get beautiful on the inside.

4. Reduce cellulite. Hey, look. I know. Sounds like a dangerous repeat of my first try. The truth is, I don't have much of it, but it gnaws at me and makes me feel like no amount of exercise is enough. I think helping to shed the cellulite will help me relax about my body - regardless of the number I see on the scale.

5. At the close of the Cleanse, reintroduce food as if for the first time. Appreciate the purity of raw food & GO RAW for 2009. I think it will be easier to do this if I get a fresh start.

...So, that's what I'm doing. I'm doing the Master Cleanse. Did my first salt water flush this morning. I will keep you posted as to how it goes from day to day. From my last go-round, I remember that the first three days are the worst.

Maybe it will inspire some dark poetry. Or a profound revelation. I suspect I'm going to have to hold out until the end before I experience one of those.


Wish me luck!