I was just telling a sistafriend this afternoon about my desire to do the master cleanser again and lo and behold, this article popped up on my NY Times homepage. I have long been an advocate of different kinds of fasting and tried the master cleanser years ago before it became "Hollywood" to do so. I've done it about three or four times, only once the entire 10 days. Though I lost weight (and regained some after), I wasn't using the cleanser as a starvation diet and believe it can be dangerous to do so. For me, fasting is more a way to detoxify but also a means of meditation, an opportunity to reassess my mental, spiritual, emotional and physical health. And I've had good results when coupling fasting with a lot of solitude and thoughtfulness (since everyone else is eating, this is not that difficult).
In addition to the master cleanse, I've done raw food fasts, juice fasts and various combinations an old health guru friend of mine Mwangi would contrive: "the garlic is to detoxify, while the raw collard greens will ..." Yeh, Mwangi would put together some doosies but they always did the work he promised they would do. I still seldom get winter colds and flus, perhaps in part due to the seasonal fasts my friend would recommend for me.
In the dissertation years (as I'm calling that dark period now), my will to go without food suffered a great deal (all my willpower was channelled into writing I guess). Consequently I haven't done a substantive fast in some time. Maybe my desire to fast presently is part of an overall shaking off the mental and physical consequences of that intense period in my life. I think it's a good plan to wait until after the holidays to begin, however (not because I intend to pig out--although I am looking forward to my mama's sweet potato pie). The master cleanse actually takes a few days preparation, the actual fast and a post-fast regimen. I doubt that the crash dieters are approaching it in this way, which is why I caution using it solely to lose a quick 10 or 20 pounds. It can present people who want to lose weight an opportunity for a fresh start I suppose, that is if they don't revert to their bad eating habits right after the fast.
While I don't tend to make New Year's resolutions, I think I'll put the master cleanser on my to-do list for Jan 2007. Any takers out there?
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