Today is day 35 for me. Over the last 5 weeks I've gone through several cycles of detox symptoms and - go figure - times I've been hungry. I've recently been planning to go off the fast, unsure whether I'd do 30, 32, or, by God, even 40 days. As I've gone this far, I'm going for 40. When you get to 30 days, does it really matter if you go to 40? Frankly, when you get to 15 days, does it really matter if you get to 20? The simple (non)-answer is that everyone will have diferent experiences and make personal decisions based on any number of reasons. But here is what is really important: As someone posted earlier, how you break a fast can make or break the whole experience for you, whether you did 5 days or 50. In my recent daydreams, while reading menus from restaurants I plan to visit and recipes I plan to try, I've been considering that fact, realizing that I need to introduce foods to my body slowly and carefully. Not only that, I truly want to make a healthful diet a consistent part of my daily life. That is far more important than regular periods of fasting. I spoke to someone who'd recently done a 10-day Master Cleanse, who hopes to do a 20-day one after the July 4th holiday - after she's eaten some things she knows aren't healthy for her. Everyone will have their own ideas of what makes a healthy diet (vegan, macrobiotic, vegetarian, The "Zone" and so on). So I won't argue my philosophy, especially since I really don't have a formal one beyond a true desire to be healthy in an unhealthy society. But I watched a movie last night to motivate and educate myself a little. Super Size Me is a documentary about a man who spends 30 days eating 3 meals a day at McDonalds, breakfast, lunch and dinner. What his body went through was incredible, and sad, as it's reflected in so many sick Americans. Now, when all is said and done, this post is nothing more than a movie review? Well, yes, I suppose it is and I apologize for that. But I truly believe that an addendum should be made to the Master Cleanse book telling everyone who's planning to break the fast, whether it's 5 days or 50, to spend the 90 minutes watching it. I swore off McDonalds and other fast foods back around 1990, so it wasn't as though I'd even consider visiting one now. The movie was motivational to me nonetheless because you can even load up on a high sugar, high fat diet at some "health food" stores now. Good luck and good health to everyone who is making the sincere effort. Watch the movie; it's worth your time.