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. *i'm just wondering, what happend to all of that energy i was supposed to get? *i feel the same, but uglier (weak smile). *my dh was so ready to quit last night that he ate some peanuts at the suggestion of stopping. *anyway, i talked him into continuing with me.

i don't like this cleanse. i was expecting so much more. *i even got two of my co-workers to do, now there may be three or 4. *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. *the very next day i used it and was broken out by that night. *it was a burning itchy rash and i was sneezing a lot too. *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

[wilykat]

also, i am so jealous of my husband because he had tons of energy, felt great and is totally like, i want to be a vegetarian now and i don't feel like i ever have to eat again. meanwhile i feel like crap.

wilykat

[Purrpuss]

Huge hugs to you Wilykat, and much respect for sticking with it :)
Please do try and add a little cayenne - maybe reduce the amount to just a tiny pinch - its possible the health store cayenne is fresher and stronger which may be causing the reaction ? The energy will come, you may just have a lot of stuff to get rid of, and of course the added hormones won't be helping :(
It must be really frustrating, feeling so low, but just think, if you can get through this you can get through anything, and you know it does work as you have a boingy hubby to prove it :)

ps, you are not ugly, you are lovely, and I have a whole board to back me up !!!

[sherryraye]

wilykat,

i totally understand you being jealous of your husband. but you will get to that point. your body is busy eliminating some serious toxins and you are doing FABULOUS. you are sticking with it during the time when it is most difficult, but when your body needs it most. you have got to understand that the toxins that are coming out of you through your skin might have made you really, really sick later on. you may be heat rashing your way out of some really serious illness. keep at it wilykat. you are WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL and VERY SPECIAL.

Love,
Sherry

[wilykat]

Hi everyone and thank you so much for your support. i finished on day 10 and i'm back to eating solid foods. i plan to try again in may and hopefully i'll have better results.

on a positive note, another one of my co workers and his wife are planning to start next week, and two of my co workers are finishing up their first 10 day cleanse next week. my husband is convinced that he can survive on the juice all day and just dinner at night (i know he can, i'm just jealous) and my face is finally clearing up.

i'll always be around lurking and am seriously considering going raw. does anyone know of any good starter books?

take care everyone and i'll see you around.

wilykat

[Guest]

Gosh I wish I would have found this post before giving up on Monday, day 8!

I've eaten largely whatever I wanted since then and my face shows it along with the scale today saying UP 10lbs. ARF!
So i'm easing back into it today w/ lemon juice this morning after tea, SWF and going whole hog, full tilt tomorrow, Monday for at least 14 days.

What i think i have to do is just keep looking at this board. I read both books and have ordered the raw books from Amazon. I want to get down to 125 which is realistic but now back up to 160. i've juiced before for 1 month and it comes off - the lemonade is easier than doing the juicer; cleaning to greens and i have more energy but still not as much as what others show...

i must have a bit yet to detox.

thanks for your continuing support - i'll get past 8 days this time!

[Guest]

WILYKAT & everyone:


DO THE P & B SHAKES!!!!!! with the MAster cleanse!!!!!
Psylium husks and Bentonite clay!!!! search for bulletins about it!
Waaaay better than just the master cleanse!
I felt the same way the first time i did the master cleanse (like a year ago) that it didn't really do anything... but this time i'm on day 7 right now and i feel GREAT! and i think the P & B shakes are making me eliminate more crap stuck inside me that the lemonade soley, didn't. (but i STILL don't know FOR SURE if its JUST ALL THE Psyllium being eliminated or is it REALLY MUCUS and stuff that was stuck inside????
*anyone know?)

(make sure you do the SWF's everyday though! and drink LOTS of water too!)

[donart]

Its just the psyllium.

Adding something, (anything) to the MC interfers with the deep tissue/cell cleansing that takes place during a properly done cleanse.

http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=478&i=43513

[heidichu]

uhoh... i am the one who wrote the post you -Donart- answered saying i was on day 7, well i started the p & b shakes on day 3 so i guess i will stop today.. and just continue with reg. master cleanse.. now i'm disapointed :( i only want to do 10 days though so do u think i got enough out of MC for just 10 days?
i really am feeling wonderful so i dont know, maybe for me the p & b shakes are GOOD. ? cause i do see mucus being expelled with the pysillium. i am drinking TONS of water and totally making sure i dont have a P & B shake within 1 and a half hrs of lemonade.
last time i fasted i felt awful... like a year ago. i didn't do p & b shakes then and i didn't barely eliminate anything! i do the swf everysingle day... well not tomorrow i cant -

BUT AM I just not toxic or too constipated and it wont come out!?

i dont know!(but i am scared of that bc i usually eat SOOO MUCH, more than ANYONE I KNOW -SERIOUSLY - and i dont go to the bathroom THAT much.. for how much i eat! and my stomach is ALWAYS usually sticking out! i'll go days without going to the bathroom! when i'm at my bf's i seem to "hold" it unconsciously i think. so thats why i'm doing this cleanse and i thought the P & B's were helpiing.... but i do eat healthy and NO meat...and not too much dairy. lol. ok i am posting this but i orginally intended to write just you but maybe others can see too!
thank You~

[wilykat]

well it's day 8 again. *i'm not so ready to quit like i was last time. *i'm going to do it. *i'm just ready for the feel good part of the cleanse to happen. *all of my co-workers who did the cleanse felt so good and so much energy. *i tell people about the cleanse but i don't feel like i can personally endorse it because i have not felt any positive effects from it. *my husband has and he is like a mc preacher. *he has gotten so many people on it too. *he LOVE the master cleanser. *i hate it. hate it, hate it, hate it.

love ya'll,
wilykat

[diamonds]

Wilyat,
did you feel any benifit from the 1st mc after you went off it? I have been having a similar experience to you. I am dizzy all the time though. Feeling really rough. I am on day 7. I too don't understand everyone feeling so great on it??? I really wasn't that hungry until now. My body is begging for food! I can't even fantisize about what I want to eat. It's just pure hunger. But I will make it to day 10 if it kills me. gosh i hope it doesn't.
Thanks for the imput.

[wilykat]

okay the benifits: my acid reflux cleared up and my allergies too. i lost 12 lbs and gined only 5 back. i went vegeterian and that's about it. it wont kill you but it sure will feel like it. at least that's how i feel tonight.

hang in there,

wilykat

[heidichu]

Little Buck:

add/drink more maple syrup! it really helps with hunger.. i usually eat SOOOOO MUCH.. so i go through A LOT of maple syrup for this fast....so i get enough calories to not feel like i'm starving to death! lol

[diamonds]

Thank you i did try to increase the ms, but it tastes soo gaggy (is that a word?).
I could not sleep very well last night, my heart was racing and I could not get warm. It scares me. could my body be shutting down?

[heidichu]

I FEEL THE WORST RIGHT NOW! day 9!!!! AHH i'm going to bed and hopefully i wake up~ lol! i know i will but i feel like a zombie!!!!! i think we are just major detoxing cause i did add WAY more cayeene yesturday and today and more lemon juice... I wish i would have added way more from the first day! lol.. (i do cayeene shots followed by ice cold water)

but what if it IS my body telling me to eat already! i mean i want a sandwich SO bad. i almost gave in and ate a bite of my bf's last nite... but then i imagined after i took one bite, then what!? i would have wrecked my detox and got nothing but disapointment in myself lol. everysingle night now i have dreams that i accidently eat and then i am so mad at myself. last night i dreamt I ate a whole bunch and then felt awful.. so i am going through to tomrow and having oj wed. AHHH but iT S SOOOOO hard!

am i major detoxing or should i really start with oj NOW!??? ( i am doing everything right -swf and all that jazz) my tongue is still white.. but is it just from the lemons!!!>>>>>???!!!!! cause its got yellow tint!!!!?

[diamonds]

I know it sucks. I will be oj'ing on thursday, but I wish it was tomorrow! I have to go for the 10 days. I would hate to have gone through all of this to not fully benifit.

The white tongue is a detox symtom. Keep going...you only have one more day. You can do it!

[Wellheregoes]

Gosh I'm glad I found this thread. I'm at the end of day 7 and today was simply AWFUL. I had to go to my garden and give a friend bak choi and lettuce that I won't be able to eat. Then I needed more lemons and everything looked good at the store. My son was with me and I even stopped to look at Whole grain Fig Newtons. Before this I wouldn't have even given them a thought. I was so ready to quit and saw this thread. Ok, I'll hang in there, don't know if I'll go past ten but I feel better after reading everyone's thoughts--thanks for sharing.

[cristaj1025]

So with you on this one....Im on day 8 and have had a rash on my face and part of my neck for the past few days, however someone on another thread said it could be an allergic reaction to the citric acid, so i dont know what to think now. should i wait it out or stop the cleanse. im going to go to the doctor today and see what he thinks!!but you may want to be careful with this rash, i mean no offense to everyone else on here, but everyBODY is different and you could have a problem with this MC. i would suggest going to the doctor, like me!!see whats the problem. my only thing is if it is the citric acid that is the problem, how can we then drink the oj.....its like we r stuck!!:confused:

[Res]

This is the first group of people who have said that the rash didn't go away. It's the first time - usually the rash goes away so it's a good idea to check with your doctor. And keep us posted cause we're all still learning.

~Res