Does anyone else ever do a 1 day fast on a regular basis? Years ago, when I was 'dieting' successfully, I found that one little trick was to do a 1 day fast every week. It cleaned out my system (and my palate), jump started my weight loss and prevented stalls and helped prevent me from sliding off the side with "just a bit of this and a bit of that" cheating.

I haven't done a regular fast for years but am thinking I may have to start again even though I'm not dieting. This last week I feel as if I'm not being quite as good as I could be even though I'm still making good choices and controlling my portions for the most part, so I decided to do my fast today since I'm home all day.

The fast I found most successful and the one I'm doing is to drink an 8 oz glass of liquid every hour. I start with an 8 oz glass of Water with 1 Tbs of lemon juice in the first hour. Then the 2nd hour is an 8 oz glass of my diluted juice mixture. Then keep rotating through the day.

I happened to pick up a Woman's World today and I decided to try their juice mix: 1 cup cranberry juice, 1 cup pomegranet juice, 1/2 cup orange juice. (All the juices are fresh pressed, not from concentrate and nothing added...not even sugar or artificial sweetener.) Stick that in a pan with 7 cups of water and bring just to a boil. Then add a pinch of clove, 1/2 tsp cinnamon and 1/4 tsp cardamom. Simmer for 5 minutes.

You can drink these cold or warm, but on a cold day like today, I'm warming up the juice. It tastes a bit like a mulled cider...perfect for the holiday season.

I started at 7 a.m. this morning and have to say that I'm feeling quite good at noon.

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Make me jealous...a tree loaded with lemons? I have trees in my orchard loaded with...ummm...bare branches. :thumbup:

My sister got me to do the Master Cleanser awhile back, but I gotta tell you...drinking epsom salts isn't gonna happen. As fast as they go down, they come right back up. I did a modified version and that works well. Actually, I had a few hunger pains yesterday by evening on the juice, but never did with the modified Master Cleanser.

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Ok Elfie.... I am sitting here as I type.... drinking my "smooth move" tea..... I went and picked enough lemons off my tree to make a gallon of "mexican lemonade" :thumbup: My plan is to do this for 2 weeks and perhaps longer.... min of 2 weeks. I have an allergy appt for the 8th of Jan. I want to be tested and have basically nothing in my system that provides a false positive. ;o). Not to mention jumpstarting the weightloss again for the first of the year. I have become superb at maintaining. ;o) Hopefully this will also propel me in to more consistant exercise since I feel so good while fasting and accomplish so much.

Want to jump on the Lemon truck with me!?

Happy 2010! Lets be losers! hey doesnt' biggest loser start up again on the 5th?