Sam Sinfield

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve now started the master cleanse, not the full-on cleanse though as I actually have to leave the house and go to work so I’ve decided to leave off the laxative tea and saltwater flush for the first few days and only do that at the weekend, I think the half hour drive to work would be too difficult!

Why?

I’ve decided to do this one for the detox more than anything. For the past few weeks, I’ve been feeling very low, physically and emotionally. I’ve had an ongoing cold for nearly 3 weeks and I’ve been filling myself with loads of junk and alcohol. My brain feels kinda numb and I’m finding it hard to focus. I’ve reached a point where I think I can’t go on feeling like this. I need to flush out my system completely. The master cleanse seems extreme but I think it’s just what I need.

The Start

Ok, here’s the stats, the real ones:

• Height: 5ft5
• Weight: 10st 1lb
• Chest: 32inches
• Waist: 29inches
• Hips: 39inches

Ideally, I’d like to lose about half a stone and a couple of inches off everywhere would be nice, realistically, I don’t think that’s going to happen in 10 days. I will take ‘before’ photo’s tonight and I’ll take ‘after’ photo’s and if there’s a noticeable difference, I will post them, maybe.

Day 1

It’s not too bad at the moment. I don’t eat breakfast anyway, so I haven’t really noticed any difference until now. Now it’s lunchtime and I’m getting hungry. Having a glass of the homemade lemonade does take the edge off the hunger but it’s not very nice and I’m having to force it down. I think maybe I’ve put too much Cayenne Pepper in it. It’s a bit hot! I think it’ll be a couple of days before I notice any real difference in how I’m feeling. This better bloody make me feel better. I’ll be well pissed off drinking this crap for 10 days if it doesn’t.

I seem to spend most of my life on one kind of diet or another and never seem to lose any weight.

‘Eat less, exercise more’ is what the general consensus seems to be. I’ve been trying this for the last few weeks and am yet to lose weight. I go to the gym for an hour and a half every other day and work really hard and also go jogging for at least half an hour every other day. I’m down to a calorie count of about 700/day. I would have thought it a physical impossibility, but I’ve only lost about 1 pound!! I’ve tried just about every diet and am yet to find one that really works.

The next one I’m going to try is the lemonade diet. This is a temporary ‘fast’ over about 10 days. I’m still waiting for the book (another bloody book!) to arrive in the post but it basically looks like you just live off mineral water and fresh lemon juice, cayenne peppers(???) and some kind of laxative tea. Sounds repulsive and no doubt I’ll starve but this is apparently the diet that Beyonce went on for 2 weeks and lost 22lbs!! I’ll try it for 10 days, the only problem is fitting the fast into my life so I don’t miss out on my valuable weekend time off from the kids when I have to go out and get drunk.

I’ve got half a weekend off this weekend and a whole weekend off next weekend so the fast will have to wait until after then. I’ll post before and after weights but there is no way I’m posting before and after photos, not having my flab shown on t’internet.