The Master Cleanse - sounds like the end all of detoxes, no?

The Master Cleanse; apparently it has been around a long time and lots of people have tried it  Some guy invented it and wrote a book about it. I hear it has become a fad. It's labeled as a detox diet/cleanse. Some celebrities have tried it (including Beyoncé). Seems like some people think it's grand others while other think it's rubbish.  Lots who have tried it say they couldn't complete it because it was too hard. Sounds like something worth trying, right? If for nothing else than shits and giggles (pun intended). If you aren't familiar with me or my style of writing, I tend to use sarcasm and weird humor quite a bit.

Anyway, I've decided I will give The Master Cleanse a try. If you googled this cleanse (probably how you ended up here) you will find lots about it from multiple sources, both for and against it. I did google it and I found I couldn't find many people who did the cleanse and documented it well. Cue me deciding I would be the person who does and then I will know that what is said is true as well.

The cleanse consists of an "ease in" period of 4 days that are optional but recommended (I skipped it), then "The Lemonade Diet" which I will now refer to as Spicy Lemonade and finishing with an "ease out" period of 4 days which are not optional.

The ease out is set up like the ease in but it is reversed. I have listed the ease out below:

• Day 1 - Fresh Orange Juice: This means getting oranges and squeezing them yourself.
• Day 2 - Soups and Broths: Made from veggies (they don't say it but probably the more liquidy the better) is liquidy is even a real word? Probably in the Urban Dictionary... but I digress...
• Day 3 - Juicing: This is you taking fresh fruits and veggies and blending them up into something you can drink.
• Day 4 - Live Foods: Basically anything alive that is plant based; no meats and no dairy either.

I might have added my own spin on what they say but what the hey I am going off memory. More on the ease out later.

 After the ease IN, comes The Spicy Lemonade, which is made by combining:

• Grade B Pure Maple Syrup - if you cannot find B then use Grade A.
• Fresh Lemon Juice - same meaning as the Orange Juice, listed above. 
• Pure Water - not distilled or carbonated. Like Spring or Filtered.
• Cayenne Pepper - says you can substitute it out for capsules or for ginger or paprika (but they are not as effective).

The Lemonade, which is spicy if you haven't realized that yet, Is supposed to be used for no less than 3 days with 10 days being the standard and NO MORE THAN 40 .... SERIOUSLY 40!?!

You are also suppose to do nightly laxatives (or daily depending on who you listen to) by way of a tea &/or a Salt Water Flush, hence forth abbreviated to: SWF.

The SWF consists of two things:

• Pure Water (warmed) - see above for description
• Salt - non iodized, sea preferred.

The idea of the SWF is to get all of the built-up toxins out of your system, so if you are not having a bowel movement while on this detox, it is not going to be effective.

From this point forward I will write a different blog posting on each day of my cleanse (with pictures - hopefully). I am hoping to do 10 days not including the ease out. We shall see.