The way to get weight off and keep it off is with a total life style change. We did not get fat because we eat the correct things. (voice of experience) We got fat because we eat garbage. My definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over and expecting different results. I have been doing the same things over and over for almost fifty years and expecting different results. I have gained and lost enough weight in my lifetime for ten people. The only way to get weight off and keep it off is to modify what we eat and increase the amount of activity each day. For me, it is not so hard to lose the weight. The hard thing is to keep it off. Good luck to you.

Blueduck

I lost 15 pounds during my 12 day Master-Cleanse and kept it off, but only because I radically changed my eating habits after the MC. I never dreamed this would happen in a million years, but while I was on the Master-Cleanse (lots of free time when you're not eating, LOL) I read most of the posts here and learned for the first time about eating raw. I found that towards the end of the Master-Cleanse I was really craving healthy foods. And then when I went off the MC, my usual favorite junk foods (french fries, ice cream cones from DQ, etc.) just did not taste nearly as good as I remembered, plus I felt sick after eating them vs. eating raw, where the foods taste great and I feel great after eating them.

I also lost an additional pounds since coming off the MC a month ago, so I've lost a total of 20 pounds in the last five weeks. It does work - but as others have written, only if you change what made you gain weight in the first place - poor eating habits. I found the MC helped me tremendously to do that.

Good luck!