Caffeine

Something I was unclear on in the booklet is caffeine. On the list of foods for the cleanse you'll see "Green Tea" under beverages. Green tea does have caffeine in it. The general idea is that during the prep period, caffeinated soda and coffee drinkers wean themselves from coffee to less coffee to black tea to green tea. Then to non-caffeinated herbal tea for the duration of the cleanse.

BUT, in honor of the fact that we are not stashed away at a lovely retreat center in the Berkshire mountains (...sigh...) for the duration of this cleanse where we can care for and possibly restrain someone in the thralls of caffeine deprivation, I put green tea on the list as approved for the cleanse. Much of our caffeine addiction is mental but some of it is indeed chemical and if your body reacts strongly to caffeine deprivation (hopefully you know who you are and are busy weaning yourself to avoid this) I want you to be able to function so left green tea on there. Ideally you will drink it "in case of emergency" because you probably don't want to feel slave to a steaming paper cup anyway and this will be a great chance to break with this old habit.

So, in a nutshell...green tea is on the list as approved in case of emergency. It's up to you to be honest about that. I don't want this cleanse to hurt you, I want it to help so be wise.