thanx blueduck - i wasn't drinking a whole ton of water but definitely my diet consisted of lots of vegetables and fruit to be sure.... very little meat if any.... I did get of the program after 2 weeks - only because I was looking like a mack truck hit me and feeling nutritionally depleted.... it's been a month now since I stopped the program and since writing the forum, I've had some improvement without taking any kind of herbs or teas etc... so that's good... I thought my bowels wouldn't work again like they did - Magnesium hydroxide is irrating to the intestinal tract. Nice.

bye for now