Shen’s Master Cleanse

So I post on craigslist that I will be doing the MC and I need a ton of lemons or limes. someone replies to me and says his boss has a lemon tree and gives me his number.

A real nice guy nate is, he picked me two grocery bags full and brought them to me at work. He works at the airbase next to pearl harbor, so he brought them to me at the Taco Bell on the 12th of March.

The lemons are pretty huge, I will try to get a photo of a bag of them. I am assuming they are good enough for the MC. They are yellow and they smell like lemons…

I don’t want them to go bad so I start planning.

So I have been trying to fit 10 days of downtime into my life, it has been tough. I kind of just decided it will never be the perfect time to do the cleanse, so why not now. There will always be something within ten days that would require eating or drinking….

What am I sacrificing?

St. Patty’s Day
Lunch with a ex co-worker that may have a job offer for me
Date night dinner with my g/f
Did I mention eating for ten days!

I have a few friends that have tried it, none for the full 10 days. My dad hiked through the Haleakala crater with just a sack of oranges when he was younger, I think that took him a day or two. Why am I doing it? It is kind of an experiment… Look forward to my goals post.

I will be at my girlfriends parents place exactly two days after my tenth day, I am expected to have a big dinner with them, hopefully it won’t be that first night I get in… Will I be repulsed by the taste of rich food? I may… They will understand, hopefully.

Why am I doing this? Why would I be stupid enough to try living w/o food for 10 days? What am I trying to accomplish?

Why not?!
It is partially an experiment, to see what all the hoopla is about it.

I don’t feel in the best shape, mentally or physically
I think the cleanse will be a significant way to make a change, more of a milestone. Usually I am like “I am going to eat healthier…” and then comes frozen pizzas or dinning out… Now I have a specific date so I cannot be like “ohh maybe just this time, I can start tomorrow.” With such an event like this fast I cannot be like oh next time.

The past few years I have always been stuffy
Whether it be my nose, throat, ears… I have this build up of mucus in my throat, whenever I get sick I wish I could just take a scrapper and get the lining of my throat so I can breath

I do have a small cyst in my ear
I got it cut our when I was younger but the hole never closed and it always had stinky dead skin in it. I am not sure but it would be nice if this dissapeared

My energy could use a boost
I do work out every weekday(almost) at the submarine base gym but I still hate getting out of bed in the morning. I usually sleep in till 11am+ Saturday and Sundays

Beer belly
I have a little belly I have been developing starting my Sophomore year at Iowa State University, those guys are boozers! My junior and senior year at University of Hawaii at Manoa didn’t help it either. I am not ashamed of it, even sometimes I flaunt my bambino I may be having in 9 months. It just would be soo cool to be flat in that area.

I will see if there are more things I should add, I just think a set few now are good so I can look back and see if the Master Cleanse did anything to help my goals.