What To Do After The Master Cleanse
Mar 12th, 2008 by Raylen
So you’ve finished the Master Cleanse, and you’re wondering where do I go from here? Here’s a few tips on what to do after the master cleanse.
How you break a long fast is extremely important. You need to gradually ease your way back to solid food after having completed a couple of extra days of juices. You need to come of the Master Cleanse properly. Here is a schedule that works.
Days One and Two After Your Cleanse
Drink several glasses of fresh orange juice (8 oz) throughout the day. The orange juice will prepare the digestive tract to be able to once again properly digest and assimilate solid foods. Don’t gulp it — drink it nice and slow. If you have any difficulties during the transition increase the amount of water.
During the afternoon of day two prepare yourself some vegetable broth. This should not be canned soup that’s full of preservatives, rather make yourself some fresh homemade soup.
Days Three and Four
Drink orange juice in the morning, for lunch eat raw fruit, and at night eat fruit and/or vegetable salad. No eggs, fish, meat, pastries, bread, milk, tea, or coffee. Milk causes mucus and creates toxins in the body, and it’s known to cause problems in the stomach and colon…
Day Five
You are ready to start eating normally again. This will be your first day of a regular breakfast with solids. You should have your glass of lemon and eat fruit, vegetables, berries, or seeds for breakfast — nothing else. If you have gas or other digestive distress go back to day two and repeat days two, three, and four. You may have to do this a few times until your digestive tract is ready to process solid food again.
It’s highly recommended that you begin to take Probiotics after breaking your cleanse. This will replace the good bacteria that was removed when you cleansed the colon. The good bacteria keeps the gut balanced and it also produces Vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B12, and K. Don’t take the Probiotics while you cleanse. They’ll just get pulled out of your body.
During your cleanse is the time to start to retrain your brain about your eating habits. You’ve got a fresh slate, why not take advantage of it, and begin to live a healthier life, and what you eat is the place to start.
First of all you should eliminate all processed, refined, and fast foods from your diet. Justify them how you like but the bottom line is that they are not good for you.
Increase the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables you eat. You should have a minimum of 5 servings a day.
- Replace all white flour products with whole wheat
- Restrict your salt intake
- Eat lean protein
- Limit your dairy intake
- Drink plenty of water
- No soda and other sweetened drinks. Remember the juice on the shelf isn’t much better than soda. You want fresh squeezed juices.
Eating a healthy diet will provide your body with the nutrients it needs to stay healthy. It also means that your body will be able to better hold toxins at bay. Eating healthy will also help keep the weight you lost off.
Coming off the master cleanse just takes a few days. Follow these steps and you’ll be set.
I am on day one, and could not get to the bathroom in time and am at work. Luckily, I have another pair of pants in my car and am not meeting any clients. However, I did not expect or read anything like this so it took my by surprise.
I have had colonics before and she has had to stop the treatment short since I tend to let loose (pardon the pun) so easily. Is this a good thing or a bad thing?
Any thought on this.
I do triathlons and work out 15-20 hours a week. Can I take supplements, vitamins while on the cleanse? I scheduled the cleanse between races, but am still planning on training. Will I be able to get enough fuel to sustain the workouts which get rather intense?
This is my first time doing Master Cleanse… and my third day I feel really weak, almost fainted. I am thinking to do only 3 days and may be build it up that way. Do I still have to go off the cleanse in a really slow fashion or can I drink OJ on day 4 followed by soup on day 5… back to normal Day 6
Hi Raylen
You mention in your guide of what to do and what not to do to cleanse the colon and mention not to try colonics or enemas due to there harmful effects. What would these be?? And are you speaking from experience..
lean proteins? I have ALWAYS eaten salmon and grilled chicken but in the master cleanse book he says that we don’t even need to eat predigested flesh…and points out that the body is only made up of 16% protein! Not to mention the fact that the strongest animals are vegetarians! I cannot believe this… so what do you think about this….
Also he mentions eating seeds, nuts, fruits and vegetables… what does he mean by seeds?
Follow the Master Cleanse exactly and no other way with organic products. It works my daughter lost 10 pounds I lost 8 pounds. I was having Migraines for several weeks and I have arthritis. The Migraines went away after 3 horrible days of being sick and the arthritis swelling and sore to touch was relieved, I won’t say cured because it is still there just not painful. I feel great and will do this again, I also had colds and sinus continually before it cleared all that up. Smelling foods is what makes you crave at least in my case so I covered my nose. I’m not sure how some people lose 20 pounds because it didn’t for us but I’m still happy that we did this. Good Luck on yours and stay with it.
I followed the directions of the fast very well, however the salt water flush did not work for me. I drank laxative tea every night. I broke the fast as directed with the OJ, however I did not have the vegetable soup.
2 weeks after my cleans ended, I find myself more constipated and my eating habits are odd. I”m eating lots of fruit and sugar - and I feel awful. Should I go through the cleanse again?
thanks so much for all your advice. i just successfully completed the cleanse (and i feel great!! and although it wasn’t my goal, i did also shed a few pounds, which always feels nice). from all online sites i found, yours was overall the most knowledgeable, informative and overall helpful. this one post, however, was a little vague and it wasn’t until after much searching that i found the answers i was looking for. namely: on days 1 - 5, is one still, also, drinking the lemonade? when does it get cut? gradually or at once? and also: what happened to day 4!? the post skips right from 3 to 5. (oopsies!) i decided to do the same as day 3, and adding nuts and seeds for the dinner salad.
anyway, these few oversights aside, your site is great, it really helped. thanks again!
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Im on the master cleasne and it is my first day and I haven’t went to the bathroom or anything I feel my stomach growling but I never go I drunk the laxative tea last night and the sea salt this morning but nothing happened plz tell me if I have did something wrong I really wont to lose weigh
I actually agree with comments 7 & 8 from Patti and Karen…with regards to what said Patti in comment 7 about 2 weeks after the master cleanse eating habits changed and craved sugary foods i experienced this too and and ate out of control, more like not knowing my limits on portion control!!! …so was thinking of going to start the cleanse again to re cleans and loose the 5 pounds i gained back!! should I re do the Master Cleanse? and with regards to comment 8 from Karen…i too was a little unsure of how to exit the MC properly….on day one and two when you drink orange juice do you suddenly stop the lemonade drink too on these days…after day 10 is it a sudden stop of drinking the lemonade drink because this is what I did… Thanks!!
Hi.. my second day today. the first day was kinda hard i had to cheat a little and have a turkey salad w/ italian dressing. today i plan to stick to the master cleanse lemonade only. i really want to lose 20 lbs. by Dec. 15 2008. Thanks for everything.
Miss LT