Day 9 - Mastercleanse - 30th November

Day started again pretty well for both of us. We both went straight onto the lemonade when we woke but decided that we had probably been purged enough and delcined the laxative tea. I collected our friend from the airport and Julie did some baking. Neither of us had any movements today.

For me the day was the least painful. I was full of vigor, I had no headaches and the small hunger pangs I felt were easily subdued by the lemonade. I think my body was now in the stride of it all and I had a sense that I could probably keep on this thing for as long as was necessary.

Julie was still feeling pretty wiped out and was finding it difficult to consume more that 4 lemonade drinks per day. I think 6 must be the minimum to supply you with the energy you need. So she's in a losing battle.

We decided at the end of the day (around 7:00pm) that we should start the orange juice tonight. Our friend had just arrived and we were expected to a party on Friday night and a pot-luck supper on Sunday night. So we needed, in any case, to be ready to eat by then.

So we had some fresh orange juice. Just half a cup each to start with.

Now I haven't had orange juice for about 10 years, considering it to be far to acidic for my constitution. Well, what we know about our constitutions is zip. We all have ideas about ourselves I'm sure and I'm sure we don't know what we are talking about in the main. I'm convinced (because of what people tell me) that I have a wheat intolerance, a necessity to have a certain amount of fat everyday, I have candida (this one was very popular some years back - do you remember everyone had it for a while), intolerance to dairy products, acid stomach that produces an acid reflux and terrible bad breath if I don't eat regularly (Julie will testify to this one), a very ichy scalp due to some other intolerance, an underperforming liver and others I won't go into. But in reality I don't suppose any of these is anything like what I really have. All I can say is that the orange juice was absolutely gorgeous. Julie had 3 glasses and I must have had 4 or 5. Apparently it is the best thing for you at this time of the diet because it forms an alkali base and lining for the stomach. Who cares; it was great.

We went to bed well satisfied.