What day are you on and How are you doing: General Check in

[mtmouse]

My question is this, I know it is recommended to do it no more than every 3 months. Is it ok to continue the cleanse for 30+ days, even though you may have fully "detoxed" after 10? In other words, is there a problem with just doing it for as long as you can (within reason) just to reap the positive benefits?

jShizz,

I think it's highly unlikely you were completely detoxed after one 10-day cleanse.

Also, virtually everyone who has cleansed for longer periods finds new and often surprising "levels" of cleansing after 14, 20, or even 40 days. So we may never actually be fully detoxed.

My feeling is that if you have the time and want to cleanse longer, you should absolutely do it. But do commit to at least 10 days, keeping in mind that even though you loved your first one, you may not have the same experience the second time around, and the next cleanse may give you different or more difficult challenges.

And if you do end up with another walk in the park, enjoy the outing!

[psstt]

Can someone please tell me if I am supposed to drink the laxative tea on the evening of day 10 if I plan to break the fast on day 11?


thank you

[Lin]

psstt, no you don't have to drink the tea on the night before you stop your cleanse and you don't have to do the SWF on the day you stop either. Of course, you can it you want to, but it's not necessary.

cd2318, I'm sorry that you've had a rough day. Day 6 is often a big detox day for lots of people, so maybe it's just your day to feel rotten!!
Anyway, hang in there and hopefully tomorrow will be better!!

I started freezing around 5:30 this evening and so I went out and took a 30 min. walk to warm up. It did the trick! So I've gotten my share of exercise today!

I'm not planning anything special for Labor Day weekend, so hopefully all will go well with my cleansing. I'm glad I'm not going to a picnic or something, so I won't have to do any explaining. Some people just don't get this at all. I prefer to keep my cleansing talk mostly on this board.
Of course my DH, DD and DS will be here and they'll be eating around me, but that's o.k. I wish one of them would have done this cleanse with me, but no such luck! I doubt if my DH would ever do one! At least he is supportive of me when I cleanse. The only thing that bothers him is when he takes the kids out to eat on weekends, I don't go. My DD who is 20, has done one 10 day cleanse with me. She didn't like it much!! My DS who is almost 16, tried it one day and decided that it was too hard!! He's still a little young for it yet.
I'm looking forward to a nice long laid-back weekend, hopefully and I hope everybody here has one too.

[mtmouse]

Pssst,

That seems to be personal preference. Burroughs does not specify. I personally do not do the tea that night, and I also skip the SWF on the morning of day 11 (or first post-cleanse day).

I do this for two reasons: on breaking the cleanse, I want my body to start functioning normally as soon as possible. And second, I can't wait to stop them both!

But it seems that many people do one or both of that last day's tea and the next morning's SWF.

[cd2318]

cd2318: you can go here The Raw Food Lifestyle and select the After the Cleanse thread.

Yes, that's it! Thank you, Res!

[Res]

And second, I can't wait to stop them both!

Amen to that Sista!



cd2318: You're welcome!

[Preciousmoments]

Hello guys,
I am sooo upset Today is the end of day 20 for me, and I had a really bad emotional day. I, like many of you, am an emotional eater. Today, I cheated and I ate. It was a quarter of a baked potato with of all things a little of guacamole. After I ate it, I felt like crap mentally not physically. As I was thinking to myself of what a stupid mistake I just made, I started getting more and more mad at myself. At the end of it all I decided that everyone makes mistakes and this is only making me more determined to make sure that i now make it to day 40 instead of my original 30. I will not let this happen again, and hopefully i get control of this emotional eating at the same time. Instead the food making me happy, I only felt worse, and I sure do not want to feel like that again.

[Stephanie J]

MC #1 Day 29

Today will be the last day of my cleanse. I feel much better than yesterday, but I am exhausted. My body is telling me to call it quits. I bought a few grape fuits and am looking forward to seeing how my preferences for food will have changed. Daily Dophilus starting on Breaking Day 2, lactic acid yeast + Dragon's Blood + Primal Defense in addition to DD on Breaking Day 4. It's been a great journey with you all and I hope to see you again soon.

[Res]

Steph: WAY TO GO!!!

How did finals go? *hug*

Love,
~Res

[Cinderlyn]

Day 6

Hello everyone. Here for our daily check-in... Yesterday, Day 5, went well for us. We realised Jon needs to put 3 teaspoons of salt water in his SWF for it to give the desired effects, and he thinks they are working much better now. Mine work just fine, but have from Day 1.

Yesterday we kept ourselves busy, we went to the mall and did some shopping, was a little amusing to walk past the food court in the Mall... We just joked about it.

Today we are going to go out again, cant sit at home all day, think we will get bored and dont want to tempt temptation.

Thanks for the encouraging words everyone.

We are on the home stretch... 4.5 days to go...

Hope you have a great day.