Eight pounds down in eight days... cannot ask for anything better than that! YAY on having to dig up your "skinny" clothes. There's no other way to reduce body mass in such a short amount of time, a big part of what I love about the MC.
That, alone, is so important to someone who wants to lose some tonnage. How many times did I go on a diet and feel terrible in the first few days, hit an anguishing plateau, and just give up in pain, self hatred, and humiliation? Too many times; way too many times. The MC is the best way to bridge painlessly onto a new eating regimen.
What are your plans after 10 days, JJ?
For me, I will be eating a lot of veggies, no bread, no refined sugar, and limit my fruits to bananas and apples (and absolutely NO fruit juice). I am a huge fan of Dr Eric Berg's Adrenal diet (see drberg.com) and it is a pretty radical shift away from the SAD (standard American diet), so I am ready to go back onto healthy eating indefinitely. I have an Adrenal weight gain pattern, so for people like me, his plan is for me to eat proteins (fats ok, even cheese) and lots of veggies, mostly raw, but definitely not hingfried, and absolutely no starches. I frickin' love his videos (he's all over YouTube) as well as his book, the 7 Principles of Fat Burning, and I fully credit his program for getting me to shed the menopause weight gain that had me at 150 lbs 3 years ago.
OK, endorsement over. But, JJ, you are probably going to recognize that your body doesn't now crave anything particularly unhealthy, just FOOOOOOOD, and (I know you didn't ask me for advice, but...) you have this golden chance to create a pattern of eating (after easing off the MC) that is healthier for YOU. Because you have probably lost your addictions to whatever you shouldn't have been eating in the first place. That's what happened to me. I was a pasta addict and chocoholic before my first cleanse, and I bridged over to a grain-free diet with minimal sugars, and the fat continued to burn off. I could NEVER have quit pasta cold turkey without a Master Cleanse first.
OK, keep on posting. You're mastering the Master Cleanse in a challenging situation with your job demands and all.
Well done, m'dear.
Lem
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