It’s now day 10 of my fast. I woke up and weighed 215 pounds on the nose, so I have lost 10 pounds in 10 days. At least now I have an effective way to lighten my load in the future if I ever need to take off weight quickly. I again went to the gym first thing in the morning, ran on the treadmill for 15 minutes and did 13 minutes on the stairmaster. Nature was calling so I didn’t get my last couple minutes running stairs. Then I worked shoulders, chest, and abs with weights and came home and did some crunches and stretched. I still feel some repair work going on in my lower back, and a pain that had been in my  right hip prior to my fast was present on the way to the gym but disappeared once I got some blood going to my four limbs. Amazingly, that pain has disappeared the entire time since about day 2.  On the treadmill, I am sweating but I definitely don’t have the water in my system like I did prior to the fast because I am not sweating near as much.  I can also sense a feeling of not pushing it to the limit. I feel amazingly strong, but I can tell the lack of protein and overall nutrition would take its toll if I went balls out.....

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So yesterday I was telling my sister about me calling my psychic Mary who gets hits of information from souls and spirits to see if she had any information coming in about how long I should be on my fast. I am such an extreme person, like way beyond the normal extreme person, and I have been kind of putting it in my head that I am going to do this for 40 days which I know I would have no problem with, I’m just not sure I want to weigh 180 pounds when I’m done with this. I’m an athletic big strong guy and I want to make sure I’m not going to do my body more damage than good. Anyways, Mary said to call her on day 10 of the “Master Cleanse” and she’ll be able to tell me then. She said when I called she got the vibe that it’s either 10 or 15 days but she’ll know more when she speaks to me on Monday. I feel so blessed I have so many smart, loving people around me looking after me. She made a lot of sense and like she said, I can always do it again, which I can see making it an annual routine. ....

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So getting back to my sister, who thinks I’m a California nut to begin with, just said, “Michael, you are the king of mind over matter, we all get to laughing about you there's no question about that, and I know you could do your 40 days, but you’ve never like dropping your weight below 200, so just pay close attention and really listen to your body". You would think that this was my older sister giving me advice, but she is 15 years younger, and has her life in a good place to keep order. It’s funny but last night I had this crazy dream, which was the first dream I can remember since I started my fast. I was on the cleanse and somehow I wound up in this room with a TV on, I was sitting on the floor, nobody was around, and a round coffee table was in front of me with a box of delicious looking hot tacos packaged like from a taco truck. Well in my dream I started eating the tacos and I couldn’t stop, and when I got halfway through the box, I realized that I just broke my diet and I wasn’t sure what I should do. I couldn't go back and by continuing now I lost the benefit I had going. That’s when I woke up. ....

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