I was a little nervous that today would be painful, but it was the best day so far. I slept through the night, managed the salt water flush quite well, had tons of energy (productive energy), and cooked diner!
The keys to the salt water flush seem to be:
- Drinking the salt water at room temperature
- Sitting in a semi reclined position
- Steady intake (not too slow, not too fast)
- As few breaks as possible
- Short breaks
On various master cleanse sites people talk about the tongue getting fuzzy and that you should stay on until it clears up… I am not quite sure how much merit there is to this, but my tongue did get fuzzy today. I won’t be too graphic here but there are other indications of where you are in the cleanse and I seem to be on target.
That aside, today was a wonderful day. As I stated, I had lots of energy, focused energy that allowed me to take care of things I have been putting off for a while now. I cleared the grass from a new perennial bed that we are putting in in the backyard, reorganized the closets, cleaned the house, dropped off some donations, went to Dwelling Spaces to spend my birthday gift certificate (from April), fixed a summer squash, sausage and tomato dish for dinner and made some pasta sauce for tomorrow night — all without licking my fingers! Luckily, by the time I was fixing dinner I had tasters around to let me know how I was doing on the seasonings.
My motivation for fixing dinner…
A lovely eggplant and Black Krim tomato were ripe and ready to go. While I could not enjoy their wondeful flavor, it was a pleasure to make two scrumptious dishes for Jeremy and mom… I never thought I would say this but, the delicious smells and contented smiles were reward enough.
