Day 8 and ready to quit!

[wilykat]

okay, this is day 8 for me and i'm really ready to quit. this thing has done nothing for me except make me lose weight which is not a bad thing but i know i will gain it back after the fast simply because i will be eating again. my husband and i plan on going veggie after this but not raw. anyway, my face has broken out in a heat rash from the cayanne pepper and i have not eliminated anythng of significance. i have not gotten any extra energy and have basically been a cranky mess and my period came a day early.

my husband and i eat pretty clean already, not raw, but whole grain everything even before it was "in." i thought that i would really detox something awful but other than being tired i have not had any detox symptoms. I know that i only have two days to go but i am not having anything benificial to say about this cleanse which sucks because i was really looking forward to it.

so i talked to my hubby about starting the oj tomorrow and he is so ready to quit he started eating peanuts. i told him to stop before he makes himself sick so at least he is not eating anything else. but i'm torn. part of me is like it's only two more days but i really want this rash to go away and i wonder how effective the cleanse will be without the pepper.

maybe i'm venting, maybe i'm confessing but i sure could use some input.

wilykat

[sherryraye]

wilykat,

I hope that you will give it a few more days. I am sorry that you are having such a difficult time, but you are doing good things for your body. Your may be eliminating toxins through your skin which would explain the heat rash. You do not need to regain the weight that you have lost. Once you finish your fast you can follow your body's new instinct and continue to eat very light, raw meals. I know from personal experience that if you go back just once to eating heavier foods, that it becomes so much more difficult to avoid them. Try to go at least the 10 days. You have made it this far! Finish it, darlin'! Your body is becoming healthier in spite and perhaps because of your discomfort.

Peace,
Sherry

[wilykat]

thanks sherry. i'm trying to make it. i look like a monster (to me). i think i am going to drop the pepper becaue the rash has gotten worse since Friday, when it started and sometimes it burns and itches. just two more days but i fee like forget it. i justhad my lax tea for the night and i am just so over it. i'm ready to quit. i know i will keep going but i don't want to (whine, whine)!!

wilykat

[fancy1]

wilykat...
Try taking the peper in capsule form
Also:
You made it this far... hang in there....

[Miracles1]

Hey Wilykat,

How did you do. I really hope you decided to hang in there. The best advice that I have read on this site over the past year is:

Don't end on a bad day.

Everyday is different and I really hope when you woke up this morning things were different for you.

Let's us know.

[Disappearing_Act]

Hi Wilykat:

I know what you mean. I am now on Day 9 and I am wondering, what is it all for? I try and concentrate on my chronic medical problems rather than being cold, bored with lemons and disappointed with the form and amount of elimination.

Sure, I wish I could eat, but luckily my eczema (which is actually worse) reminds me to hang in there. I am not really hungry, but boy, do I miss food.

I just wonder if I can go pass fifteen days. The mind can play tricks and I can forget about my thyroid problem, fibroids, eczema and being overweight. I really want to go as long as I can.

Hang in there!

[patriotgirl]

wilykat, DONT QUIT!!! Trust me. I dont think the rash is from the pepper. I did a cleanse last year ( my second one) and I broke out in a wicked rash. I mean this was so BAD that it was spreading and the back of my knees was bright red and then it turned purplish. It got to where I couldn't touch it. Anyway it was awful. I had it on my neck and stomach and the creases of my arm (where it bends). My eliminations were next to nothing. I found out later that the reason was my bowels had the plaque build up and the toxins couldn't escape through that so it went out through the skin.

We eliminate four ways: colon, skin, mucos membranes, and lungs. So hang in there and get drinking more lemonade and follow the diet EXACTLY like it reads. Salt water in morning and tea at night. GET FLUSHED!! Do it for yourself. You deserve to be CLEAN!!!
Good luck and hang in there!!!!

[patriotgirl]

ME AGAIN!! Just wanted to say I've done 5 cleanses in two years. All successful. The first cleanse I passed a kidney stone, and the second cleanse passed another kidney stone, the third cleanse I experienced the rash and after that......smooth sailin'. It's not the cleanse that causes these bad experiences---it's what we have done to our bodies already and now the lemonade is stirring it up and sweeping it out. Be glad that you have found this info and beginning the process of a healthier YOU and all that stuff is coming out now instead of just building and building and cause all kinds of problems for when you are older!

YOU CAN DO THIS

[Purrpuss]

Hi Wilykat, please don't give up yet you are doing so well, and yes I know how silly that sounds when you feel rotten, BUT you are doing well ! Please have a read of the detox symptoms thread as there is a lot in there that may help you.
Like patriot girl I also feel that the rash is not from the cayenne, but toxins coming out, and feeling emotionally all up in the air is also a detox symptom which may be being heightened by your period
Sorry, it really is awful feeling awful, but please do say with the cleanse as it does lift and pass. I was also a "cranky mess" for about 3 days of my cleanse and in the end got a big bottle of water, a big bottle of lemonade, a huge box of tissues and took to by bed and cried almost solidly for 2 days. When I got out I felt so much better emotionally, as though a massive weight had been lifted that I had no idea was there, or rather that I have now realised that the stresses I had accepted as just being there had become distresses and needed to be released. For the most part I couldn't even tell you why I was crying, I just know that I needed to cry, and afterwards just felt so much better
Please try and stick with it Wily, you have come so far and you are having significant eliminations, just not the expected ones.........at least not yet

[wilykat]

okay now it's day 9 and i'm still ready to quit but i'll hang in there one more day. Â*i'm just wondering, what happend to all of that energy i was supposed to get? Â*i feel the same, but uglier (weak smile). Â*my dh was so ready to quit last night that he ate some peanuts at the suggestion of stopping. Â*anyway, i talked him into continuing with me.

i don't like this cleanse. i was expecting so much more. Â*i even got two of my co-workers to do, now there may be three or 4. Â*but i don't feel cleansed.

the reason why i think it is the pepper is because i was fine until i went to the health food store and bought a different pepper. Â*the very next day i used it and was broken out by that night. Â*it was a burning itchy rash and i was sneezing a lot too. Â*so i'm ditching the pepper all together today.

i think if i do this again i am going to wait until after i come off my cycle becaue i have been a mean, evil grumpy moody mess this whole time with no energy. and i feel so depressed. yes, definitly wait until after my cycle next time.

thanks everyone for your support and god bless those of you who can go longer than the ten days.

wilykat