[greenbunny]

I have done the master cleanse GP. I ??ve also done just about every kind of fast out there including a month long fast once. Over the 20 years I ??ve been around this I spent the first 16 on a roller coaster. I ??m an Aries and Hungarian ?? fire! I tend to go all out, all or nothing. It wasn ??t until the last four years that I came to understand that what I needed to do was incorporate important new things at a rate that my system could integrate it fully without a backlash. Whenever I fasted or went all out raw not listening to my body and what it was telling me I ended up worse off in the long run. After fasting my body would say wow, finally ?? famine is over!!! And then I would never be able to stay on a clean diet long. My body wanted fat so bad and wanted to dive into eating big time. When fasting, the body actually will be more efficient at holding onto fat, so after a fast I usually gained weight no matter how little I ate and I was very very hungry. I know that a great many people have achieved tremendous healing through fasting and make a great case for it. I have found that staying raw for a longer time has more benefit for me than fasting. For me, this is a long haul not a short one. I really want to do this in a sustainable way that ??s so healthy, happy and a part of who I am, that it just feels normal. Right now it ??s about making raw completely natural to me. That can ??t happen by fasting first. That ??s the last thing I need. I ??m at a point where I crave live food. That happened slowly. I ??m aiming at the rest of my life here so it has to be done in a way that is do-able. I don ??t know what your situation is. Maybe you are ill in some dramatic way that makes you feel like you don ??t have the time to do it in stages. If you just want to get your body prepared for live foods by doing the fast I strongly urge you to reconsider. Live foods is all you need to get into live foods. You can get into live foods and still keep your life just as it is with work or school or life activities just as they are with no cleansing reactions if you do it little by little. When fasting I had to rest a great deal. It felt good, but it wasn ??t practical for continuing my daily life. Raw foods can be transitioned into seamlessly. It ??s only my opinion, but if I were in your shoes, back at the beginning, I would skip the fasting and the extremes and just add one new thing at a time and make it a habit before going to the next. But then again, if I were back at the beginning I would probably never listen to me ?? oh those fire types!!!!

greenbunny