Re: DAY 10 and not much is happening

I know how you are feeling but you have to patient. It took along time to get the crud into your body...it will take time to get it out. I have been doing a juice fast for a couple weeks and now I'm on my third day of the MC. I think most results are going to show over the long run and the body purges in spurts. I have noticed that I'll not lose any weight for a couple days and then suddenly drop 3-4 pounds all at once. I even GAINED a pound a day after I started the MC!!!! At first if freaked me out...I mean how can you gain weight on lemonade and exercise? Then I realized that it's probably water retention from the salt water flushes....something I'm going to stop doing and instead do enemas or senna tea.

If your tongue is still coated with film and you aren't having strong desire for food then I'd suggest you keep going. Make sure you are getting lots of rest and followed up with exercise. Do your best to stay away from toxic environments and stress so that you can listen to your body. If you tongue gets a nice pink color and you are desiring simple foods then it is time to break.

One last option to consider is to split your fast into 2 or even three periods to give you body a chance to rebuild. If you break the fast and eat healthy for awhile and let your body rejuvinate and rebuild, then wait a couple months and do another one...or two. I just read a post on another board from a guy who just finished a 100 day juice fast. Wow! He worked up to it gradually over a couple years.

Finally, you have to be careful. When you are depriving your body of food, it is storing up memory from being in "starvation" mode so that the next time you go back to food your body is going to want to store up the fat in case it gets starved again. It's a built in safe mode. The way to get around that is eating right and doing regular exercise. But you probably already knew that!

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