green tea and lemon sound tasty to me - with a drop of splenda.

About that 1/2 lemon... I have a lemon tree and the juice I get from half a lemon varies greatly from lemon to lemon. Strange to say, sometimes similarly sized lemons yield different amounts of juice. The nutrition data base I use shows 1 carb per TBS.

Lacking other information about the glycemic index of lemons, I'd be inclined to put these in the same category as carbs from LC veggies - I wouldn't stress on counting them.

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~~~Teelbee
Back to GOAL!!!
start weight: 176/goal range: 137-134/now: 138
Reached goal in Aug. 2003 - 4rd year of maintenance.

Here is a link with some excellent information about the Master Cleanser.

http://www.andeveron.com/2003/The_Master_Cleanse.html

Even though this shuns meat type products, I know a lot of fellow lc'ers who have done the MC and then have reverted back to lc without any problems.

Sheyla

uggggh....i have BAD memories of master cleanse! BF and i tried it a LONG time ago ... and i spent the second day in the bathroom puking! :( needless to say, i quit early!

I did the Master Cleanse for the full 10 days using Blackstrap Molasses instead of the sweet molasses or honey. Talk about NASTY.
Blecchhhhh!
I did feel really *healthy* and *cleaned out* when I was done, but I *DID* have to revert back to LC and eating meat VE-R-R-Y S-L-O-W-L-Y.
Also, it did NOT have the desired effect of making me not want food.
I had HORRIBLE cravings for the duration of the fast and for a good 2 weeks after.
I doubt I will ever do it again. :(
Just my .02
Summer

The lemon sounds like a good idea. My mom always drank her water with lemon, and I usually do too, but I never squeezed the lemon in....I will try that now.....

The reason why I mention my mom is because she passed away a few months ago and drinking my water with Lemon actually makes me think of her....Sounds strange I guess.

I was going to try to go 21 days on the MC but ended up going until my tongue turned white and then turned pink again...which only took five days. But I had already gone 80% raw for one week and then upped it to 90% raw the second week...so I already started having elimination and detoxification. I was told that if you do that, then you probably won't have much of a detox on the MC, and I didn't have too much of one...but I felt great doing it (other than the detox symptoms of headaches, dizziness, cold and hot sweats, etc for one evening). I even worked out at my most intense level of exercise ever and ran my best mile ever while doing the MC as well. I wasn't hungry during it either. The only thing I had left were cravings...and that was pretty much it...

Of course, I decided to go Moderate Carb Vegetarian at the beginning of the year, and that was one of the reasons I decided to do the Master Cleanser. And I just LOVE the way the lemon taste in the pure water and then that pinch of cayenne in it to give it some 'kick'. That's what I'm drinking right now as I type this...

But I know the MC isn't for everyone. My mom tried it and gave up after 2 days, but she was using regular molasses instead of the Blackstrap and told me she had put on about 10 lbs in those two days. I don't know if she was doing something wrong or what...but once she saw the gain on the scale, she decided not to try it again.

I didn't realize how much lemon flushes out fat and all until the other day...I had recently picked up some size 3 pants that were a little too big for me, but my hips were able to hold them up on me. Well, the other day, I was walking around in those size 3 pants..and they kept on fallling down because I no longer had the hips that used to hold them up...and that's when it really clicked that my fat was being flushed out...

Sheyla

Sorry to hear about your mom and i understand how little things make you think of them. My father passed away last October. Hang in there!

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Tracy
REstarted 1/1/05
240/233--goal 150 at least