Setting up Fast Summer 2012

It has been some time since I suggested a community juice fast (kind of like a group hug). I am going to do one starting July 15 and ending July 21 (feel free just to join for just a few days). This is purely a cleanse and prepare for a richer more comprehensive program I am putting together for the fall. (In the fall, I am looking at a year-long eating program that I believe will create great health.)

So there are a number of ways you can do this fast, I think of it as varying levels of self-love and whatever fits your lifestyle… However the fast should include the master cleanser (see below). The idea is to drink as much water and master cleanser as possible. These are some ideas for you:

·         Vegetable Juice: Juice vegetable juices 1 – 3 times a day, drinks these as your meals. Vegetable juices could be carrot, spinach, kale, collards, cucumbers or any combinations of fresh squeezed vegetable juices. You can juice them yourselves or go to a store like Jamba Juice and let them juice it for you. Of course throughout the day drink the master cleanser. Try to stay organic.

·         Since it is summer, I do a fruit juice like  watermelon… but if I do that I only do it once a day.

·         Master Cleanse: You could do a master cleanse fast only, this is tough but manageable. Just do master cleanse beverage all day long

·         Adding a salad: This is a plain salad, lettuce and cucumber with lemon juice and EVO. You could have this twice a day if needed.

·         You can do any combination of the above. You can also add herbal tea, of course no caffeine or sugar or honey.

Remember the first day or two you might get a headache, try to tough it out, they say it is healing and it is your body ridding itself of toxins. Oh, needless to say, if you are pregnant or managing an ailment or life with serious drugs, legal or illegal, you should not do this.

Master Cleanser recipe is about:

·         For 16 ounces of water:

o   one lemon,

o    1/5 teaspoon of cayenne,

o   grade B maple syrup to taste (2 – 4  tablespoons) I try not to overdo the syrup because we want to reduce our dependence on sweets but if it taste good we drink more and drinking a lot of this beverage is what we want to achieve - the last fast I excluded this completely but is was very hard core and as the kids say “nasty”)

This is what I am going to do:

·         Good Morning cleanse: 2 eight ounce glasses or more of Master cleanse (Water, lemon and cayenne).

·         Mid Morning Cocktail: Vegetable juice (Carrot and Kale or Carrot and Cucumber or Carrot and spinach or some combination of the all of the above). Add a little ginger for taste

·         More master cleanse (really drinking this all day)

·         Midday Special: water, cinnamon, ginger and lemon, juice an apple or two with it to add some flava, play with the amounts to get a taste I like.

·         More master cleanser

·         Evening Cocktail: Similar to Mid-morning.