lucky u melanie

today is my 1st day...im wish i could go down 10 pounds in a week.

I think it probably has to do with gaining it so quickly. Back in mid December I weighed 142 pounds. And with new boyfriend routine of going out to eat alot, and he's not Vegan and is very skinny and so I ended up weighing 154 pounds at the beginning of this cleanse. I am on day 8 and I'm down to 141.5 (down 12.5 pounds).

Actually, due to that and other factors, I have decided I am going to cut the cleanse a bit short. Well, I'm going to go 10 days, just not the 13 days I had originally planned. So, Wednesday will be my last day. I'll still be doing Bikram Yoga of course ... but, yah, it does scare me just a bit to lose weight THIS fast. My last two cleanses, I was lucky if I could take off 8 pounds in a 10 day period.

I have already far exceeded (weight wise) what I thought I would do in 10 days, and it's already day 8.

My renegociation with myself though is this: After the 3 coming off days, I'm going to eat only RAW FOOD for the next 3 days after that. That's still a bit of a challenge.

Good going Melanie!

Victoria

I did this for mainly the cleansing properties; so when I lost close to 6lbs by day five I almost came off the cleanse. It really scared me becasue I thought my 140lb was mainly muscle weight. Today day 8, I have lost a total of 10lbs...which I can truly attribute to water weight.

I am okay with that since I did continued to (moderately)work out the whole time...From what I hear you'll gain some back when you start to eat again.

I lost 7 pounds in 5 days and I wasn't so happy about it. That was the reason I got off the cleanse after only 5 days.
However I gained 5 pounds back in the next 3 days:)
Have fun

Remeber at least these two things in regards to rapid weight loss on the cleanse. 1. You usually have at least some stuff hanging out in your stomach, small and lower intestines that you are in the process of digesting that all gets cleared out during the first few days of the cleanse. As soon as you start eating again this will come back along with probably a few pounds. 2. If you don't usually hydrate yourself well, and then you go on this cleanse, you are likely to let go of a lot of water that you usually retain. Its counter-intuitive but the less water you drink the more bloated you can be, since your body hoards water when its scarce. If you weren't well hydrated before the cleanse, you likely are now due to the liquid diet and therefore you may have also let off a lot of water weight that will also come back if you revert back to old habits.

The Master Cleanse of course has been sucessfully used by several people as a weight loss tool, and there have been numerous posts positive and negative about its use in this respect on this forum. However, do keep in mind the above two effects of the cleanse when either getting scared or excited about the initial quick weight loss. By the way I started my (10 day) cleanse a healthy 132, lost about 8 lbs, now a few weeks later I average around 130.

What is a liquid protein diet and what do you do on it?