La da dee, la dee dahh, it's The Master Cleanse, Day 4 Update, aren't you excited?:
- As anticipated, I woke up feeling the most normal so far in this process. Sure, it helped that the sun actually made an appearance, but overall I felt pretty much like myself, enough to sing stupid songs to the dogs (because they are a captive audience, after all) and go Christmas shopping. See? That's me in the Von Maur bathroom with my new coat on, happy to have actually brushed my hair (okay so I didn't wash it, but that's beside the point).
- I did get really tired at the end of a few hours of that, but once I came home and had a shot of the maple syrup and some more of the Lemon Drink I felt good enough to do a little yoga. I skipped the hard stuff, stuck to stretching and relaxation poses, and let me tell you it felt GOOD.
- I have to be honest, I'm getting to sleep in when I need to during this, so if you have a job where you have to leave every morning I can imagine that this might be very hard to coordinate with your schedule, and to get to bed early enough to have all the energy you want the next day.
- Today my cravings were the best yet: tacos from that Mexican dive down the road, and spaghetti from Buca di Beppo. Mmmm...
- Today my ears sounded like they were draining a few times.
- I find the general feeling of being a little empty and a little slowed-down has given me more and more time to think about how I want to live and what I want to be able to focus on. There are moments when I think "I'd really like to just figure that out while eating some chips and salsa, thank you very much", but then I realize that if one thing I draw from this experience is a turning inward without distraction, then it will be worth the discipline it takes to have gone through at least once in my life. I know after this I will still find it hard to believe I was able to do it.
- As far as the, ahem, *cleansing* portion that some of you may be wondering about...you know, the detoxing? Maybe I just don't have a lot of junk in my body, but I really am not noticing too much happening in a bad way. I still have 6 more days to go, so I suppose we'll see.
- I have to tell you though, that at the end of this day I am really ready to go to bed. One thing you can't do while being on this cleanse is be an insomniac, thank God. There's no way your body will let you stay up that long! And with that, I'm off to have some more dreams - they've been really interesting the past few nights.
