First Morning

This is going to be an interesting morning.  I attempted to wake up at 5:30am, but had to hit "snooze" several times.  I tried to go to bed earlier and was succeeding in drifting off to sleep to a meditation CD that features "sounds of nature".  It is super cheesy and even includes howling wolves.  It helps me fall asleep faster and I was almost out when Ben decided his earplugs weren't drowning out the sound and he turned it off.  I had to start the process of falling asleep again.

It's important to wake up earlier when you are cleansing so that you can make sure you are not far from the "facilities".  I am up now and just finished the salt water flush (SWF).  32 oz of H2O and 2 teaspoons of sea salt.  Most people are totally grossed out over drinking it, for some reason it doesn't bother me as much.  I am not typically drawn to salty foods, nor do I like them, but I can do this pretty easily.  

Why the SWF?  Basically, salt is not absorbed into your system and it causes gravity to pull all of the waste down or out quickly.  The effect is nearly immediate.  In fact, in the course of writing this blog, I've already run to the bathroom a few times.  Peter Glickman, the man that made the lemonade diet famous again, calls it the agitator cycle and refers to the lemonade as the rinse cycle.

I can tell it's going to be an odd morning already.  I was slightly constipated, which has not been the case in over a month.  I attribute it to the cooked food that I ate on Sunday.  Since I've been eating raw food, I've been super regular.  Cooked food takes longer for your body to process.  Sometimes, the digestion process can take over a week!!!  This is not the case with raw food, your body digests it very quickly.  

I'm going to go peel some lemons to run through the juicer.  It's not the best case scenario since the lemons loose some nutrients after time has passed.  The ideal situation is to use them right after they've been juiced.  So much easier, though, to make a batch of lemon juice and utilize it throughout the day.  Plus, you get more juice and organic lemons are not cheap.  

My focus today is to try to ignore the smells of food.  I nearly went nuts last night when I saw a tupperware container of fresh broccoli and lettuce.  I almost justified breaking down last night and it wasn't even day one.