Apr
2
5:30am
Good morning everyone. It’s Day 6 of the 10 day Master Cleanse.
Yesterday was an active day for me and I’m feeling it today. When I woke up this morning I was sore and had a headache. It’s not one of those piercing headaches that feels like a drill in one spot, but more like my whole head is throbbing. I took a hot shower which helped some, but I’m still feeling less then a 100%.
I’m just going to push through this and hopefully it will go away by this afternoon.
On a positive note I did receive two compliments about my skin yesterday. I’m surprised that more people don’t use the Master Cleanse to improve their skin. Especially those with acne. They would save a lot of money on skin care products if they did. Not to mention all those products only treat the existing acne and don’t address the source of the pimples.
I had acne into my early 20’s and tried every product in the skin care isle to get rid of it. After years of fighting acne I went on the Master Cleanse and in just a few days saw significant improvement in my skin. When I finished the cleanse I cut way back on my sugar intake and that completely cleared my skin. My friends and family were shocked when they saw how fast my acne cleared up.
Has anyone else used the Master Cleanse to get rid of acne?
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6:35pm
This is just a quick update, but by reading through every one’s comments I think a lot of you will relate.
It’s about the funny things we crave while on the Master Cleanse. You would think after going a few days without whole food you would be dying for pizza, steak, or ice cream. Most of the time you don’t want any of that. After 6 days on the cleanse just the thought of big slab of meat or any other high fat/high sugar food makes makes my stomach churn.
What do I crave? A piece of whole wheat toast. I don’t know why but I’ve been thinking about it all day. Just thought I would share that.
Other then the toast cravings things are going good. The headache let up around 1:00 which is good. I’m also seeing solids coming out during eliminations which is really good.
I did see someone came along and posted “There is no way I’m believing this actually works.” in the comments.
You come across people like this once in while who no matter how many countless thousands people have personally benefited from the Master Cleanse refuse to believe it works.
Every one’s entitled to their opinion, but if you run into people like that don’t let their negativity get to you. If the Master Cleanse is working for you that’s all that matters.
- Raylen
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I have not used the cleanse to get rid of acne, however, my skin cleared up so much that it looked as if I had taken a water hose and gone through my whole body washing out impurities. That shows you that what you put in your body shows on the outside (I previously had consumed a lot of sugar). People were complimenting me on “the new you”. Of course, I was flabbergasted. Yesterday was really my hardest day–I became so light headed while out shopping and I chewed a piece of sugar free gum–that did the trick. I’ve come too far to stop the cleanse now. Much success to eveyone.
It’s day 6 for me, too, and two people have already commented on how much better my skin looks! I’m not a big sugar eater–I suffer from low blood sugar, and refined sugar is a trigger–my low blood sugar episodes make me feel so miserable, it’s not hard for me to avoid sugary things. So, I’m not sure what impurities have contributed to my acne.
One thing I’ve noticed is that my hot flashes have all but subsided–go figure! I’ve wondered for a long time if my acne was hormonally related. If so, I’m not sure how this cleanse is helping my hormonal balance or why–but, it doesn’t really matter! Any day without a hot flash is a good one.
I woke up very light-headed this morning with muscle aches–the aches are probably due to all the weeding I did in my garden on Sat. and Sun. Even though I’ve been tired on this diet, I’ve been more productive.
Hooray for all of us who are now more than half-way through the cleanse! And, for those who haven’t quite reached the half-way point, hang in there. Now that I’m on the “other side” and feeling good, I can say it’s well worth the effort. We can do this!
Hi to all you Master Cleansers! Day 6 and feeling good… The weekend was a bit difficult as I had to bypass some nice dinner outings. I also have been craving asparagus, eggs and mushrooms. I usually eat very healthfully and am already looking for healthy recipes to prepare for my fridge when I will begin eating again. I love to cook so reading my cooking magazines might not be the best thing to do right now. I have lost about 7 pounds and feel surprisingly good. The salt water sure get things a movin in the am. Been pretty much fluid though throughout. Raylen, could you give us all an idea of how you come off the cleanse? I know the book said to have juices and soups and such but did not know if you have some stuff that you like to weed back in… Stay strong, only 4 1/2 days left to go.
Day 8 for me!
Still feel good and my skin feels wonderful. I am still pushing for 14-21 days, hoping I can make it. So far I am down about 12 lbs and hoping to lose a total of 20 before coming off the cleanse.
Please know that coming off the cleanse is very critical. Last time I came of the cleanse after losing 16 lbs in 10 days, I gained 25 lbs. Ugghh! It was the worst feeling in the world. My body wanted to eat all the food that I deprived myself of for so long. This time I know better and plan on eating only healthy.
Good luck on the rest of your journey, stay tough!
Just found this website. I am on day 6 of the cleanse and feel fine. I lost 2 1/2 pounds the first 2 days and since that time I have not shed another pound. Should I cut back on the maple syrup? I know this is not just about weight loss but to go thru no food for 6 days and have so little to show for it is sad. I am also worried about starting back on real food and putting on more weight than I lost on the cleanse. Any suggestions?
Day 6 and yesterday people at church mentioned how great my skin looked…….like alive!! I feel good today…….I skipped the salt wash yesterday (because of church) I usually do it first thing in the morning and I stuggled all evening due to hunger….today I’m back on it. I feel great!! I know I couldn’t make it without that. Hang in there!!
I have cut back on the syrup to lose weight and it makes a big difference. I did this originally for health purposes. This “Diet” was designed by Stanley Buroughs to heal people not just for a diet…so people who don’t need to lose weight won’t lose…..I have friends that are very thin…almost too thin and they went on it and actually gained weight……………You have to read the book!!
Hello All - My Day 3 and I feel okay except for a little “blue” - I have cried this morning really for no reason, but anyway, I am hanging in there not really ccraving any food - have gone from 138 on Day 1 to 132 today - Im sure it was water weight - anyway, I am trying the drink today with limes instead and I actually prefer the lemons - oh well. Have a Great Day Everyone!!!
I just caught up to everyone’s blog. I am on day 1. I thought more people were going to start today, but I haven’t read anything yet. I actually am struggling with this already. I am usually consitpated and that has flared up some hemorroids (sorry to be so personal)and mentally fearful of the eliminations. I do know that this will be the best thing for me in the long run. I did the Master Cleanse back in December and lost 7 pounds, however, was only able to stay on it for 4 days. I wans disappointed, therefore, this time, I am shooting for the full 10 days. I feel fine so far. Already had 4 cups of lemonade and 3 cups of water. Didn’t do any laxatives yet. I have a long work day, therefore will take the “Smooth Move” tonight and the SWF tomorrow. I am rather sleepy this morning, but it could be just because it’s Monday. Hope all those Day 1 people write in soon….would love to hear how it is starting.
This must be a joke!!! There is no way I’m believing this actually works. All you are losing is water weight and muscle, and not to mention, your minds
DAY 4! Starting weight 269.5lbs, 40 y/o BF Wow! I can’t believe I have gone 3 days without eating! The fact that I do not “feel” or look lighter indicates the amount of sludge / fat I’ve been hauling around. I am determined to stick with it tho! No change in joint pain, very minimal eliminations. I HAVE A QUESTION, Can I eat a lemon with some sea salt on it? Would it affect the process? I was not hungry the first day, even watched Food Network without temptation, but man, have I been hungry since then! I am taking hoodia and that does not seem to curb the appetite. Should my hunger pangs be gone by now? I want to go to Taco Bell and PIG OUT on a nacho bell grande’. Please, somebody respond about the lemon! I need to see this thru!
who is kate?…and why r u so disapointing. Just because this may not be for you, why would you voice your negative opinions on others. I feel GREAT!!!! and plan on continuing with what is making me feel GREAT!!. I have lost 5lbs and counting…what about you?
Much success everyone!!!!!
I’d like to know if and when parasites begin appearing in stools. I’ve not used any laxatives yet, as I’ve had no trouble eliminating however, I’m scared that I will quit if I see any worms in my stool. What do I do to address this before it happens?
I disagree with Kay also, it is not a joke, my sister is living proof and I will be too as soon as my daughter moves out next week with her baby so I have more time to devote to this…also, you can lift the dumbbelle weights and walk which are weight bearing exercises as well as yoga, that is sooo gooood for stretching and strengthening stomach and other muscles….(every other day)ps. I have a book from the 1970’s promoting this….
Today is my day 3. Hoodia is my life saver. I’ve tried this before without it and failed miserably. I’m excited to have made it to day 3. I enjoy hearing about everyone’s progress, it’s inspiring. I’m a 40 year old to (like Jasmine). I have only seen 5 pounds weight loss so far but I’m only drinking the lemonade 3 times a day. I just not thirsty. The 3 cups last me all day. I don’t think I’m drinking enough water though cuz I feel a little light-headed.
This cleanse does work and I admit was skeptical too when I first heard about it. Usually anything too good to be true, isn’t true. Then I watched a co-worker do 10 days of the cleanse and could actually see the weight falling off her each day. I then decided to give it a try, mainly because I don’t have regular bowel movements (sometime 10-14 days apart) and I felt bloated most the time. I knew my body has to be full of toxins and I wanted to lose about 10 lbs. before bikini weather. I started the cleanse last Monday before I came across this website and read that alot of folk were starting it on Wed., so it has been nice to have others on board by the time I reached my 3rd day. I just came off off the cleanse. My original goal was to just stay on the Master Cleanse for 3-4 days but since the diet was making me feel so much healthier and giving me a bm each day, plus feeling more energetic, I continued on for 7 days and lost 12 lbs. I felt energetic and worked out with weights trying to tone every other day and alternated walked 30-55 minutes on the other days, plus I’d wake up bright and early raring and ready to do something, so I go so many chores done around the house while on the cleanse. That alone was worth the times that I was hungry and wanting to eat, especially when my husband and daughter was in the house eating whenever and whatever and I was actually cooking the meals for them. This is my 1st day off the cleanse and I feel wonderful about myself and not only do the scales show that this diet worked for me (12 lbs. lighter) I could feel the weight coming off each day and my clothes fitting loser each day. I had tried on a skirt the day before starting the diet and it was too snug in the waist. I tried it on yesterday (7 days of the Master Cleanse) and it is a couple inches too big in the waist now. All my clothes are fitting alot looser and some are too big for me to wear now. So whomever does not believe this, please just try it for yourself for at least 3 or 4 days and if you follow the directions and do not cheat whatsoever, I assure you, you will find out for yourself that it does indeed work. I warn you that it does take alot of determination, self dicipline and will power to be able to do it. You really need to spend days motivating yourself to do it before you begin or you will probably fail. I’m grateful for finding out about this cleanse. It felt great to have daily bowel movements, lose the weight and inches so fast, and to feel healthier. Plus, I have enjoyed all the positive comments that family and friends have given me the past couple days, most of them not even knowing I was on a cleanse until they gave me the compliments about looking great and I then told them about the Master Cleanse. Good luck to everyone that is still on the Cleanse and to anyone new that decides to try it. Now that I am off the cleanse, I have a different outlook on food and I don’t want to gain all the weight and inches back, so I am eating salads, fruits and veggies for the next few days and for the future, I plan to only treat myself occasionaly with junk and fattening foods instead of them being a MAJOR part of my everyday life.
Hello everyone,day 5 for me and still sticking to it. My co-worker was eating some pretze sticks I could smell them. I love starches but I am definitely not going to start back on them excessively after this cleanse. I am feeling better and I am not starving. I do want to chew on something just because I’m so used to eating. I switched from the raspberry zinger tea mixed with the lemonade to mandarin orange spice. It really taste delicious. Putting a twist on the flavor has helped me to stick with this. I encounter people who are negative concerning this cleanse all the time. Really they don’t know what they are talking about. Have no idea of how their bodies truly work other than what
they have heard. People need to learn how to do research. Most of the critics have never read the mastercleanse book. Even before you start the diet you should read the book. Do the research so you can know what is happening to your body. Don’t just jump into something without proper knowledge. I have fibromyalgia and lupus(not the kind that affects my organs) Doctors don’t know what causes fibromyalgia, but I know it has to do with how the body processes toxins. I can say this diet works well with me when I do it. My skin is better and I feel lighter. We cannot allow negative and ignorant people to cause us not to do good for ourselves. We are going to feel so much better. Just compare ten days out of all the days we will eat(sensibly). Although it is hard at times I know we can do this. Keep up the good work.
i’m thinking about doing the master cleanse. But i want to know the grossest thing that i may have to worry about during this cleanse
Day 6
I’m felling kind of down to day. I think its started whill I was auditing a store today and couldnt work without imaging myself ripping open a bag of whatever I was on the shelf.Even the candy bars and i dont eat sweets! So glad I have this site to turn to. Just 4 more days. I do fell good body wise. Well on my way to the gym. Hope to see all of you at the end of the rainbow!!
We can do it!!!
Kay - who ask you 4 your two cents? you are so negative. Makes me wonder how your everyday life is.. oh that right you have nun. That why you go around posting negative comments to happy clean, purified people lol
Hope one day you find your happiness.
Peace to all my MC people
This cleanse is exactly what it says, a CLEANSE.
Sugar free gum is full of toxins people! ASPARTAME being the big carcinogenic (CANCER CAUSING)ingredient!
We are cleansing our liver, kidneys, large and small intestines as well as our blood circulatory system. We are giving our organs a REST!
Sugar is the culprit for a lot of disease processes beyond acne and hormonal flashes. SUGAR CAUSES INFLAMMATION. Inflammation is the precurser to the majority of the disease processes people have!!
If it is a joke to be on this cleanse, according to smarty pants Kay, then it is a joke that people call disease genetic or hereditary. If disease wasn’t created by environmental factors including poor diets and lack of exercise, then how come the oldest population of people we have to study (hunter and gatherers) never had a case of heart disease, diabetes, excema, acne, ect.? Look at what they ate and how much exercise they had! They didn’t even eat GRAINS!!! Their elders weren’t in hospitals being taken care of by their children, they were the esteemed elders who would help pull the boats off the water. They were the leaders of their family offering wisdom and guidance. They weren’t on feeding tubes and 10 different drugs.
I am fed up with ignorant people who have the audacity to come on a site like this with nothing to back up their arrogance. Shame on them, and PRAISE TO EVERYONE ELSE!!
I am 170 and 5′7”. I could stand to lose a little weight. I can’t believe I am maintaining at 650 calories a day. I did cut back on the syrup on the batch I made for tomorrow. I feel good, just hard fixing meals for the family. It would feel more rewarding if after 6 days of no food I had lost more that water weight. I am going to finish out the 10 days. Just afraid that my body is in starvation mode and the pounds will come roaring back when I start back to normal eating and consume anything over 65o calories.
I’m was craving brussel sprouts and lima beans lol that is fun. A pizza uhh sounds uhh!not good.
Hi All -
Tammy -
thanks for your words of encouragement!!! The reason I am doing this is to cleanse my system because of the constiapation problems that I have been going thru. I am hoping to be able to my regular health way of eating and be able to use the bathroom without problems after this cleanse. I recently made a major nutrition change and it worked for about a week and then I was back to the normal constipation, oh well, we’ll see what happend after this.
Well, Have a good night all!
Well, it’s the evening of day 3 for Karry and I and we haven’t cheated at all. We both had a long work day and are at home tonight planning our Caribbean cruise that begins at the end of this month. All we can think of is all the food we will eat on the ship, guess it’s not a great time to do this cleanse but we can’t fit into our clothes so it was a toss up! I know we’re not supposed to do this primeraly to loose weight but we’re trying!Word of encouragement.. I’ve lost 10 lbs already and my skin looks great too!!
Linda {Monterey CA}
Day six for me too.I guesss I crave mexican food. I love this cleanse thou and I thank you for inviting me. I’ve lost 10 lbs so far. I have more to say but I’m soo tired I’ll catch up tomorrow
Sasha
didnt get to write yesterday, i was really busy at work and home. i wish i was craving toast!! but i am extremely proud of myself because someone at work baked homemade (by scratch) chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies, my ALL TIME FAVORITE!! and i passed them up!! OH YEA!! later in the evening i had to take a friend to the fast food and i was real tempted to eat a french fry but i put it back!! I AM SO PROUD OF MYSELF!!! this is actually day 7 and i have never made it this far!! I am so grateful for this group to keep me motivated!!!! no movement yesterday. im not drinking enough!!:(
Keep up the good work!!!!
I am on day 6 of the Master Cleanse and feel great. I am recieving compliments on how thin my face looks. I was worried that on about day 3 I would be very weak and hungry but I wasn’t. It was day 5 that I wanted some real food but I stuck it out and here I am. I am so proud of myself that I could do this. I am going all the way to 10. I feel lighter, cleaner, my complextion looks great and I honestly don’t want anything to eat like I did on day one and whatever that thing was I was going through yesterday is gone. For all of you on the cleanse…KEEP GOING and good luck!!
What is the ingredients and the porportions in the Master Cleanse Diet? I know it is Lemon Juice, maple syurp, and cayenne pepper
Ok guys. This is my very first day! It is going to be very hard for me, being that I have absolutely no will power at all. But I am determined to stick it through. Pray for me please. LOL. I will write and keep you guys posted. I plan on doing it for 12 days, hope I make it.
I read somewhere that the DR stated its a possibility that you can eliminate tapeworms, pinworms, and roundworms in the stool while on the MC pllleassee tell me that DIDNT happen to you?
WOW, I can’t believe there’s a bunch of other people on day 6 too!! I didn’t get to read everyone’s posts. There are sooo many! That in itself is inspiring to me
I’m so glad to know other people are doing this too! I just read a tiny bit about the skin clearing up. I have noticed when I look in the mirror my skin has been looking a lot healthier lately 
My first 2 days were the HARDEST! I had the WORST headache because I was so used to drinking diet pepsi!! Ever since about day 4 I have been feeling energetic and GREAT!! I would have never imagined or dreamed that I would actually get a burst of energy. I figured I would be sooo weak and just sitting around. I’m SOOO glad I stuck with it. I almost quit last night 
only 4 more days to go right?! YAY! Good luck to you all! You can do it!!
I have seen way too many different recipes for this cleanse and bought the ingredients to start. Can anyone help me find the way to start???!!!
Day 1
So far so good. The idea of staying on this cleanse for 10 days is so intimidating, but I feel I can do it. Earlier this year I completed the fruit flush, and loved the feeling after… I am hoping this is the same if not better. Wish me luck.
Hi everyone! Me and a couple of my coworkers decided to give the MC a shot. I’m really excited about getting my body in order but scared because I eat when i get bored…now what am i gonna do? lol
But im determined to stick to it with the help and support of my coworkers and hopefully some of you on the site!!
Wish me luck…Day 1 is 5/14/08 and that’s when I’ll give you guys an update!
**Much Love**
I am also on Day 6. Hallelujah! I feel great, however, my coworker started ahead of me and stopped at day 5. The recipe she got off the internet called for 8 oz. of water to 2 tbsp of each of the liquid ingredients. She was queasy from the start as the mixture was too sweet and finally quit when she vomited. I bought the book by Burroughs and read it ahead of time. I followed the recipe in the book and my only complaint(besides hunger)LOL,is that I have had accidents due to the proximity to the restroom to my office. I would have preferred to have 10 days off to do the Cleanse. I was 124.5, and have lost 6 lbs and I plan to continue for the full 10 days. I have not tried the salt water only the Smooth Move.