I had my first real hunger pangs today. I've noticed that my senses of hearing and smell are becoming slightly heightened, as if my animal instincts are kicking in and searching, sniffing, listening for what to consume.

Walking by an Indian restaurant today -- wow did that smell good! Food. And then I had to stop by Rainbow to stock up on maple syrup, and there, walking the aisles, I felt a thousand tiny cravings. No one thing screamed at me or became some beckoning Mephistopheles to my Faust; but kale and feta and chocolate and oregano and ripe tomatoes. Yes.

During the afternoon, the headaches and hungers came and went like the peaks and valleys of a roller coaster. Up and down. Supposedly day 3 is the last day of hunger cravings; it's been my first.

I had an unusually oily poop. Not sure what I'm detoxing there, but whatever it was, good riddance. Stanley Burroughs, in the original book on the Master Cleanse, talks much about the importance of cleansing the mucus that builds up in the body. Maybe that's what I passed today.

Feeling a little irritation from all the cayenne pepper, and not needing to lose weight, I've slightly recalibrated my spicy lemonade along the lines that Burroughs suggests: more maple syrup and less cayenne, while maintaining the lemon levels.

--tony

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