Detox Symptoms: Don't hate em. They're Milestones

[LNdolls]

Major detox going on, Orangeman... I had a 12 hour whopper on day 3 this time.. never had anything like it before... but I felt much better after it passed. Yours will pass, for sure. Rest, drink a lot of water and rest some more.
Best,
LN

[MichelleB]

I started the Master Cleanser today, and I don't think I have ever been so hungry in my life! I made it through, but I pray that the intense hunger diminishes. I feel as if I need something solid in my stomach, and drinking this just doesn't seem to be satisfying it. Please tell me this will get better! I carried a headache the entire day, and felt so week and unable to concentrate. I had to quit work early as I couldn't think clearly, and ended up sleeping for most of the day and night. I am very mentally ready to do this cleanser and am trying my hardest so far. Also, I fear that by the frequent bowel movements, and not taking in much, that I could mess my system up or rid it of important vitamins and nutrients, or become dehydrated. Any suggestions?

[seaweede]

HI everyone!

I havent seen this concern addressed yet so here goes... I am on day 6 and people are beginning to comment on my weight loss. "You're too thin!" "You're starting to look like a skeleton", etc. I had no real intention to lose weight but in the 6 days I have lost 7 pounds. I am 5'7" and started at 121 pounds. I am now 114. I've been adding more maple syrup to my lemonade but it's almost "too" sweet now. Today I was really light-headed as well.

Any advice??? ???

[mladyJane]

Hi,Michelleb ,you're just going through some heavy detox--I used to get bad migraines -cleansing and fasting cleared this out of my body.The tiredness is also due to the body detoxing--that's where it's putting it's energy right now as it works on cleaning out the old sludge.Frequent bowel movements are good--it means your body is working at cleaning out all that old garbage you don't want inside you.Stanley Burroughs mentions in his book how nutritional the master cleanse drink is--it carries all the nutrition your body will need while it goes through it's cleansing cycle as you fast.You don't have to worry about getting dehydrated, you'll be drinking plenty of fluids during the day between the swd,the senna leaf tea ,lemon drinks,and water.Best wishes to you on your fast

[mladyJane]

Seaweed the weight you're losing is what is known as a false weight--mainly the built up sludge of toxins in your body.I've seen in other areas in the forum where Peter has advised people to driink more lemon drinks if they feel they are losing to much weight -he also suggested to me not to change the lemon drink and add more maple syrup,so try the extra lemon drinks during the day and see if this tapers off the weight loss.You'll gain it back soon enough or most of it anyways,after your fast.Best wishes,hope this helped you some.Dr.Jenson has some excellent books out on diet and detoxification-- on top of the mastercleanse books by Stanley Burroughs and also Peter's book --they would be a good read for anyone getting into cleansing and detoxing they're body.

[Guest]

I'm on day30 and this past week is when I've been having weird mental cravings for fastfood and junk food. I didn't have this at the beginning.

I think I might be craving the texture/desire to chew more than the actual food though. But then again, everyday it's a different food. First it was pizza, then Mcdonalds, KFC and Wendy's which I haven't eaten in years.. :

[mladyJane]

Hi,Noob actually congrats on how long you've been fasting and still are--the cravings are detox symptoms.As former bad chioce foods are cleansed out of our bodies the cravings for them will come back and bother us untill they are fully cleaned out of our system .This is mentioned in the book "Healing with whole foods " by Paul Pitchford. Best of luck to you in your cleansing and your fasting.

[Leah]

Hi all,
I've posted this elsewhere, but this might be an ideal place to post again anyhow.
I'm not doing so well. I'm on day 5, and yesterday was terrible - it felt like i had the flu (very achy, migraine all day, stuffed sinuses) but i figured i'd wait and see what happened with the next morning's eliminations. This morning, however, the SWF didn't really work (sometimes that happens i guess) and so today i still feel awful - also my glands are very tender : it hurts when i swallow, and when i touch my neck. In the book it says that if your symptoms don't go away with your next eliminations, something else could be wrong. Anyone else experience this? What would happen if i took some tylenol??
Advice needed!!!
Thanks,
Leah :-[

[Blackbird]

Ugh. Had those symptoms last time and, from memory, they lasted about three days. I find pain medication helped me (Panadol/Neurofen) when it got hard. I'm not ashamed to say I took two tabs four hourly and they helped immensely.

The caffiene withdrawal is hitting me hard this time and the headaches are blinding but amid the pain I look for signs that things are working such as burning eliminations, regulated urination etc.

[GucciGirl]

I have been craving the same foods everday such as pizza, friend chicken, and chips. It is not going away. WIll these cravings go away. I am on day 5.