Sam Sinfield

I can’t believe it’s day 9 already.
I’m now back into my normal routine and doing the whole thing, ie SWF in the morning, lemodade, water and peppermint tea thoughout the day, though I’m still on reduced lemonade and the laxatee in the evening.

Today has been quite hard. I’ve really struggled with the SWF and don’t think I can go on doing it. It really surprises me how difficult its been, drinking it today, cause normally, it’s disgusting, but I can still drink it down quite quick, even without gagging!!

I’m also finding movement quite difficult, things like going up the stairs make my thighs ache. I feel good in myself though. It’s a very clean feeling, hard to describe, as well as clear headed. My head feels more awake but my body doesn’t.

I went to the gym this evening and managed to an hour. I could have gone longer but I had other things to do. It was a little bit more difficult than usual but I was surprised it wasn’t more so, given I’ve gone 9 days without fats or protein and have been surviving on less than 500 calories/day.I know my metabolic rate has dropped because I’m freezing cold all the time. I also know that I’m burning fat, mainly at night when I’m not constantly drinking the lemonade due to the unmistakable taste of ketosis. Minging. The Master Cleanse book says this is due to your body getting rid of toxins. I know from doing the Atkins diet a couple of time that this is ketones. Yes, ketones are toxins in the body, but these aren’t stored in my fat deposits, these are produced by my body burning primarily fat as fuel due to the lack of other fuel sources. This is exactly what I want. I think the book is misleading in some of it’s comments and just plain wrong in others, although the overall concept of cleansing is good and having experience it first hand on now 3 occasions, I know I always feel better for.

Not long to go now, I’m gonna carry on till day 12 or 13 depending on how I’m feeling.

Weight at 7pm: still 137lbs

At least I haven’t put anything on