Rudy - you mention the "wimp" option 3 times, and then go and ask for a herbal laxative tea that tastes nice. 

Sorry, I couldn't help but laugh.

I can't offer any advice on the cleanse - I have only done it once for 5 days (not the recommended 10), due to work commitments.  Personally, I love the lemonade, and consume cayenne regularly, so I am fortunate that I don't have issues with burning.  Did you shake it up well?

From memory, my ratios were different to those that you calculated, but that could be my, ahem, less than optimal mathematical ability.  I'm pretty sure I was using the juice of half a lemon, 2 tablespoons of maple syrup/honey/agave to 500ml of water.  The cayenne I think was supposed to be an eighth of a teaspoon or something.  I just guessed the cayenne - who can work out an eighth of a teaspoon?

Regarding the herbal laxatives - I have only ever used Senna pods.  They are cheap as chips, and I have found them very effective.  Do you want nice tasting, or do you want effective?

Senna tea doesn't taste as good as a cacao smoothie, but it doesn't taste as bad as I imagine jet fuel.  If you are not a cacao lover, then it probably tastes about the same as a cacao smoothie! 

Incorporating asanas to aid elimination sounds like a brilliant idea - something that I didn't think to include, although the senna works well enough by itself.  But I am liking the idea very much of incorporating asanas when I do the cleanse over Christmas.

What postures are usually used? 

Pavana Muktasana (isn't that more elegant than "wind removing pose") would be a candidate, I would think, as it works both the ascending and descending colon?  Besides, it just feels so good.
I would be very interested in other asanas that might be beneficial.

miss g

Maybe that's why it tastes like "nothing special"?

I did 5 days with no problems whatsoever, and 3 of those days were at work.  If you can fully rest after a time, you could probably get away with less sweetener for the whole period.  2 tablespoons worked for me, especially with carrying out work etc.  Oh, and the fact that it tasted awesome.


Holy guacamole!  Do you mean 3-4 hours of salt water flush/exercise/toilet routine?  Almost like circuit training at the gym, I imagine. 

What a pity I don't have a free 3-4 hour block of time in my calendar before, oh, 2010.  Otherwise, I'd be onto that like a shot!

Thanks so much for the exercises.  I don't think I'll be doing your "commando" routine, but I will incorporate a couple of those, along with my own.

Yes Peta, I will, thast the reason for this thread.

Hey Giggles, just get up 3am and You done by 7am,

but in the instruction the whole routine only takes 1-2 hours and less than 4 litres,

it is just that I was never able to achive clean water out, so I was pushing it longer
and it also shows how bad my health used to be in tehj past and the state I came out of my mums cooking.

so it should be much easier for others

DAY 0 - friday

friday was day 0 lots of lemonade but also some fruit and veg juices, the only fibre was cherries for lunch, I cooked big pot of veg soup (onions, zeleriac, pashnip, carrots, broccoli) and drank about 2 lires of water from the soups sometimes mixed with honey.

so day zero was hich on liquid, minimum fibres, lots of minerals and lots of calories, good preparation.

we stared to hopuse clean with hot water carpet cleaning machine, so lots of furniture lifting and lots of work with teh vacum machine - should all add to the detox and defat.

starting numbers before the MC :

weight = 64.0 kg
weist = 78 cm
hip = 83 cm
calipers measurements around the tummy : 24-15-20 in mm, average = 19.6
figures are above belly button, bellow and on the side

Rudy you are constantly searching to find exactly what works for you. Thanks for posting.

xoxoxo

Hi Rudolph,

Do you have the opportunity to rest almost completely in the coming days to help with the fatigue and cleanse?  Perhaps re-reading your favourite books from the Anastasia series?  That might help, if it is practical.

Are you doing the salt water flushes and exercises too - you haven't mentioned them.  I guess you are doing the salt water flushes, as you mention the body retaining salt.  I wonder if my cleanse was gentler in the beginning because I didn't do the salt water flushes?  That extra dynamic may mean a more thorough cleanse sooner, perhaps.

Ok, ignore the question about salt water flush - I've just realised that is what SWF stands for.  DOH!  I thought you were describing the lemonade, and was racking my brain as to what SWF stood for (sweet water fruit?). 

"Hang in there" with the cayenne -it is such a wonderful spice, with amazing properties. 

One question - if you make a concentrated and super sweet variation, could that not lead to dehydration?  Just wondering.

Go gently,
Michelle

Hi Rudolf,

I find neat lemonjuice(sometimes with E / V olive oil) and cayenne(omiting the maple syrup) works really well.

Call me strange but I love the taste of this.

Wishing you well!