I honestly think to maintain 10lbs/weeks for 2 months is a lot to expect.

Your starting weight is the same as mine, but I don't know how tall you are (I'm 5'8") so I have no idea if 110lbs is a healthy weight range goal for you to be at or not. Also the more weight you need to lose in relation to your height is also going to affect your rate of weight loss, so if two people at the same height have two different weights, lets say, 200 and 400, the person who weighs 400lbs is probably going to lose weight faster if they both do the same exact thing. So if you are much shorter than I am and you weigh roughly what I did, then you would probably lose faster than me. If you are taller, then you would probably lose at a slower rate. It also depends on your ratio of muscle to fat too.

For me, I am fasting mainly to help heal my pancreas and hopefully start to reverse my diabetes and help heal my myriad of other issues, so weight loss is not my primary goal but it is a nice side benefit (at 201.5 lbs at 5'8" my BMI was starting to be in the obese range which is not healthy).

I did a couple of days of low-carb (my own shakes made from rice protein and flaxseed oil) to start my fast so I was already probably into ketosis by the first or second day of the fast which I think has helped my weight loss. But as of today, the 6th day, my weight loss has dropped to 1lb, as opposed to yesterday when I droppped 3 lbs and 2 lbs the day before that, so I can figure that I may start to lose at a much slower rate from this point on, but I don't know for sure since this is uncharted territory for me. Also, you have to figure in that you will gain about 5lbs when you start eating real food again.

In any case, you cannot make weight loss demands on your body, it's your body which will decide what it wants to lose and when and if you make your goals too difficult to attain, you may end up being super frustrated and quitting the fast.

Also, I really wouldn't expect to be able to do any real workouts either. I had started to work out pretty regularly before the fast and I worked out the first day but since then I don't have enough strength to be able to do anything like that. I take a short walk once per day, that's all. I would eventually like to add in some toning with resistence bands, but I don't even feel the motivation right now to do that. I don't know how I will feel in the future, but for now, no workouts for me.

Also, to maintain your loss after the fast, you will have to VERY SLOWLY break the fast and slowly add in exercise and change your eating habits.

This is just what I think. I don't think the goal of weight loss alone can sustain you through the rough times of something this intense.

I wish you the best!

Hi,

I realy loved doing juice cleanses and the Master Cleanse. I had really great experiences doing both, icluding days of just absolute euphoria which is something I haven't experienced yet doing this Water Fast although I did have one energy spurt for roughly 12 hours so far. Both take a little work though to prepare for yourself, although The Master Cleanse takes a little less.

For the juice cleanses I did many, anywhere from 5-14 days and I have done a 10-day and a 14-day Master Cleanse.

My favorite juice combination of all time is pineapple and Celery with a little kale added in. I also loved Watermelon juice too. I was pretty hardcore most of the time about it and would only prepare what I was willing to drink right away, usually about 16oz. of juice at a time, so there was a lot of cleanup involved each time with the juicer. Sometimes when I was feeling lazy, I would drink store-bought bottled organic juice to drink in the morning and then I would get 2 other juice drinks at a juice bar for the rest of the day. Those days tended to be more expensive, but sometimes I needed a break from doing all of that juicing. Summer is a great time to do it since there is so much great produce out there. You can get a lot of mileage out of juicing relatively inexpensive celery, carrot and apple to juice as bases for your juice.

I really loved The Master Cleanse because it was like being able to drink lemonade all the time. I have no tolerance for spicy things at all, so I did it with Cayenne capsules that were buffered to be easy on your stomach and I had great results. I also used colon cleansing pills once a day instead of the traditional lax tea and salt water flush. Not to be too gross, but it was amazing what I was eliminating even at the 10 or 14 day mark. I also did The Master Cleanse when lemons were much less expensive in my area (I was able to take advantage of a sale both times). Now I only see them for about $.80-.90 cents each which would really start to add up when you consider you need at least 12 lemons a day to do it right. Plus there is the cost of the grade-b maple syrup to add in too.

I am not doing those again because since I've discovered that I am diabetic, I have seen that I am extremely sensitive to even a moderate amount of carbohydrates or sugar, which is what you mainly get through juice cleanses and the MC. I also think I have mild Candida which feeds on Sugar too. If my diabetes improves though, I might do a juice cleanse of just green juices of such low-sugar vegetables like Celery and cucumber--this is also how I plan to break my current water fast.

I'm also lucky because I have a window of time when I don't need to work, so doing the Water Fast for a good length of time is possible for me. I would not even consider it if I had to work. I had a very strenuous and physically demanding job before, and I had no problem working while doing juicing or the Master Cleanse, so that is a plus. I also was able to work-out which I cannot do at the moment.

I'm also doing water since I want more intense healing which can be achieved through juicing or the Master-Cleanse but I think at a much slower rate.

So if you do not have diabetes or Candida and you have an active schedule or you want to work and/or workout, and you are willing to put in the preparation time, then juicing and the Master Cleanse are really awesome experiences that I'm really glad I had and would recommend wholeheartedly.

Best Wishes!

Hi !! You are going great ! Iam on my 4th day now..in between i turned to juice fasting for a day.. but i have changed back to Water Fasting again. I have lost 6 lbs so far ! I still havent started feeling all that good. I guess its because in between i took some juices..anyways waiting for the good feeling and the bouts of energy that people so fondly talk about to creep in !

On-a-mission,

It's amazing how this Water Fasting has really brought me in tune to the visual and olfactory pleasure of food which is something we don't pay as much attention to in this culture--we are mostly focused on taste. It's weird too how doing cooking related things and taking deep whiffs of my boyfriends food doesn't make me want to stop fasting and eat. I'm sort of past that now. Also, before I really loved to cook and know I enjoy it even more.

Thank you so much for the kind words and the encouragement.

Lhasaodessa