2 quick points:

1. The lime/lemonade mixture is actually quite tasty. For anyone who has ever had the "Lemon Ginger Echinacea" juice lots of healthy juice companies sell, it is quite similar. I like it alot.

2. I felt quite loopy last night, but in the great I haven't slept for 24-hours way...giggly and emotional. I almost cried, which I would have wanted to do anyways, when my friends whom I deeply love, Benjamin David Lee and Lisa Anne Silberstein, came to say goodbye before they went back to their home in Guatemala. I love you kids and hope your journey is a safe, uplifting one full of healthy poops!

Well, poop ya later!

--daimian

So I was feeling pretty good this morning. A little yoga felt great, and I decided to try my current normal exercise routine. I took a long walk and run out in the sunshine. I ended up at the gym where I've been working out. I stepped inside and tentatively sat down at the bench. I started to work out. To my delight, it felt amazing. I weighed myself, and I'd already lost two pounds (two pounds in two days?) (i'm not even trying to lose weight), but I'd lost nothing in strength. I must be burning fat. I felt like I was on ecstasy or something, my body felt light and clean and clear and focused. It was all so easy. What's going on?

Afterwards, walking and jogging home was more delight. Delight, as in "of light." That was the feeling. The sun was bright, the air cool and clear.

Home, I had some good cleansing poops, like the ones Daimian describes. (Not quite there with the vagina feeling, though! We'll see.) In the shower, my skin felt oddly soft. Nice. Weird. I'm imbibing more water and spicy lemonade as I write this.

So much for the supposedly difficult day 2! So far, at least. We'll see what the next hours bring.

--tony

Today I decided it would be a good idea to go into work and maybe earn a little extra money and avoid overt food distractions. However, this is also the first day where I will learn the wrath of the Salt Water Flush.

As I previously mentioned, you are to chug 1 quart of salt water as soon as you wake up and within an hour you will have an extremely wet bowel movement. Generally I have pretty specific time budgeted (which I no doubt go over) to "prepare lunch for work", "maybe poop", "make breakfast", "brush my teeth" and "stretch". Today, I figured I would have plenty of time as I knocked-out "lunch for work" and "make breakfast".

So, I wake up and chug the salt water and await. After about 30 minutes I go to the bathroom. After another 5 minutes I go to the bathroom again. On my third trip I realize, amongst other things, that this is one of the closest sensations to being a woman I may ever get because you see, while I may say "poop" or "#2", it is more like you are urinating from your butt. As I am a male with a decent appendage, I rarely ever have a sensation similar to a woman's vagina, but today I did and for a second realized it probably felt pretty similar to what I was experiencing.

However, the projection had to end and I readied myself for my 30 minute commute (20 minutes walking, 10 minutes BART) to work. As I was departing my apartment I was thinking how I extremely did not want to have to desperately go to to the bathroom on the subway, or in the road, so I did a little check. The check I would say is equivalent to keigel exercises but you are more tightening your poop/butt muscles and seeing if you have to go. Sure enough I determined it would not be worth the potential mess so I ran upstairs for another go round. Following this I grabbed an extra pair of underwear and thankfully made it to work without any additional issues.

This is something you gradually learn throughout the cleanse, the time and extent of your poops following the Salt Water Flush. Hopefully I now know mine.

Well, poop ya later!

--daimian

It's been up and down this first 36 hours, but mostly up. I've felt hungry, but not unbearably. My body feels a little edgy, like the molecules in my arms are frenetic. No food to settle me down. But my energy has actually been quite good so far. I feel light, at times in the good ecstatic way and at other times in the unsettling light-headed way.

As for the relaxative moments we're all waiting for, I had a strange movement around 4am last night. Liquidy stream. Not much left in there after dropping off all the big kids at the pool yesterday morning.

The sea water flush this morning, however, did not produce any immediate flush as it's supposed to do. Not sure what to do about that. Perhaps increase the salt quotient.

Now it's spicy lemonade until the cows come home.

--tony