Starting Tomorrow - A few concerns/questions

[sugarloaf]

Hi all!

I am going to be starting the MC tomorrow and I have a couple questions and concerns that I was hoping you all could help me out with.

- When you do start to smell from the detox, how bad is it? Am I going to be the person no one can stand to be around at work or home?

- Does anyone have any idea if the MC has any effect on birth control pills?

- Luckily I have some vacation days that I took in order to avoid having to be at work for the entire cleanse, but how bad is it being at work on the cleanse? I don't know about everyone else, but I have really bad issues with public bathrooms and especially work bathrooms. Ours is tiny and I don't want to be "that girl" that people are really grossed out by.

I'm going to do this regardless. I'm just curious how bad it's going to be as far as being at work and if I'm going to be sprinting to the bathroom every couple hours or so.

Anyone else starting tomorrow??

I need a friend. :) My boyfriend's not doing it with me because he works in construction and it's not the most cleanse condusive environment for him to be joining me right now.

[peanutterb]

hey, welcome!

check out this thread - it's the general help for newbies and will answer alot of your questions

http://therawfoodsite.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1154


detox is different for everyone. i've never smelled or had bad breath. and i've asked to i know i didn't. but i am a nazi for good hygeine so i do shower and brush my teeth a lot more than the average person. when on a cleanse i find that others stink more than anything else. they smell like old food or bad milk.

take any prescription pills around midday, after your salt water flush has completely flushed out.

you can work while on the cleanse once you figure out how everything works. i had to wake up 2 hours early to do the swf before going to work.

please join the "anyone starting in August" thread or the "2006 what day are you on" - there are a bunch of people who have started within the past month and down to the last few hours on those threads and we give each other support.

glad to have you on the board. there's tonnes of info and help here. take your time and read the threads and do searches and you'll find answers to anything you're looking for.

best wishes!

[sugarloaf]

Thanks so much!

I ended up deciding to hold out a little while longer on starting because I forgot that we have a huge 3 day thing going on next weekend where I really won't have a comfortable situation to be cleansing during.

I'm not sure when to start now, but I think maybe it will be good to read through more information on here and be much more prepared.

Do you think it's a good idea if I kind of do a half cleanse type of deal? I was going to drink the lemonade to get a taste for it, but I thought maybe I'll drink it during the day and then eat dinner. I want to try it out because I saw someone post that idea to help them quit smoking and I would love to find a system to help me quit soon. Having read a bunch of your postings I would love your opinion on if you think this would be a good idea or not.

Thanks! :D