It has been an excellent fast, and I certainly anticipated it would be a much greater challenge than it is.

I love the lemonade and find it keeps me full. I don’t mind the salt enema as long as it is warm, but the senna tea gave me terrible cramps in the morning, so now I just use the salt, it is a lot better.

I have an interesting relationship with food, and I wanted to take this time to define that, and examine what role food plays in my life. I have been eating quite healthy for the past year or so, but my body has not felt any better for it, so I felt this would be a good way to cleanse my body, and continue with the healthy eating, sort of a new beginning. I am always looking for great healthy recipes if anyone has ideas.

On day six I broke out with a rash on my face, I am doing all kinds of washing with various Sea Salt , ginger etc. baths and others, I am hoping this rash will pass, because it is quite bad.

It was not the goal of this cleanse to lose weight, however I do have excess weight that I would like to lose, and I don’t feel that I have lost any weight. I don’t weigh myself on the scale, because I do not believe in that kind of feedback, but I have taken some measurements and have not noticed any changes. I have tried everything to get this weight off in past years and nothing has worked. I really need to lose some weight for health reasons more than anything and I am hoping that after this fast is over I will have a better place to start from.

I have had such an easy fast though, I have had so much energy and I feel great. I kind of want to continue longer than 10 days, but I think for a first time that is the right time for me. Perhaps I will do other cleanses.