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I was constantly constipated and suffered from recurring acne and lethargy.
Concentrating on any one task for more than a few minutes was nearly impossible.
I woke up each morning hating life.
I despised my bloated image in the mirror.
Suffered from severe depression, low self-esteem and deep feelings of worthlessness and inferiority.
Knew nothing of self-control or fasting and detoxification. Basically lived life to eat and appease the round-the-clock cravings that controlled my existence.
End Of The Road
Went to mental health professionals and took a myriad of medications for anxiety and depression, meanwhile ballooning to 260 pounds (my ideal weight is 190).
Went to colonic clinics and bought every colon cleansing product under the sun.
But nothing seemed to help. To my dismay, they were not able to fix me.
I was in my early thirties yet looked at least ten years older. When I would go out with my mother, people actually asked if I was her husband (a great compliment to her, at least :).
A Turning Point
Fasting and cleansing came into the picture sort of by accident. I had read in a magazine how people had lost dramatic amounts of weight and improved their health through 30 Day Detox Fasting programs.
I was also fortunate to be exposed to the Lemonade Diet which helped me to detox and lose a substantial amount of weight. But I first had to make a great deal of mistakes and go through many failures before reaching my goals.
Visit the Lemonade Diet Store to browse kits and supplies related to this fasting and cleansing detox system.
In that site there are also some good articles related to fasting and cleansing that will give you additional information on detoxification and how it can help you to drastically improve the quality of your life.
It is the aim of this website to help you to avoid these pitfalls so you can reach your objectives without having to be derailed for years by the same mistakes I made. If you are serious about fasting and cleansing, I suggest you print as many pages of this website as you can, and then read them over carefully with a highlighter for study.
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So, going back to my personal story, the situation was dire and apparently hopeless. Disgusted with my obesity and overall poor health, one day - out of nowhere - I simply decided to start fasting to lose weight.
I just stopped eating for a few days.
Clueless
Honestly, at the time I did not the slightest clue as to what I was doing.
I knew in my heart that my health was in danger. That I needed a viable way to achieve Quick Weight Loss.
Within six to eight hours after I stopped eating, the hunger pains were horrendous.
My head was throbbing and I developed a metallic, unpleasant taste in my mouth.
Upon closer examination in the bathroom mirror, I noticed my tongue was covered with a white, sticky film. It was utterly disgusting.
I tried to tough it out and eat light. But the hunger intensified until, inevitably, I succumbed and ate a cheeseburger with fries.
Once I "inhaled" the burger, I felt like a failure and just wanted to die. But, at the same time, I was puzzled and felt compelled to know what had happened to me.
Curative Crisis
I was in for a very rude awakening. Being a writer and journalist, I started doing research.
This quickly led me to fasting and cleansing and the process known as curative crisis.
A curative crisis is basically a detoxification "illness" that the body goes through when one stops eating for more than eight to 24 hours.
It is a period of withdrawal where the toxicity embedded in the bowels becomes acute and one experiences headaches, dizziness, weakness, nausea, vomiting and even fever.
The reason this happens is because the body actually goes into toxic food "withdrawal."
In other words, since you are not continuing to eat the garbage that was making you sick, your body then starts to purge the toxicity that this food contained.
It is NOT a pleasant process. Ask an ex-smoker how he felt the first 72 hours after he puffed on his last cigarette.
Fasting and cleansing is very similar. You are, in essence, breaking a "drug" habit that was killing you. Do not become alarmed when these symptoms start to emerge.
They are normal and will pass by the ninth to eleventh day - if you are water fasting.
During a juice fast it may take slightly longer, I have found. Why? Because you still are receiving calories from the juice.
So the digestive system is doing two things at the same time: *Detoxifying you from the bad foods you had been eating "and" *Digesting the raw fruits and vegetables that you are drinking as part of the juice liquid fasting diet.
Taking Bach Flower Extract as a supplement helped me immensely to traverse the detox fasting and cleansing symptoms - anxiety, irritability, nervousness and insomnia.
I highly recommend you give it a shot if you intend to start fasting and cleansing for longer than 24 hours.
In my case, the withdrawal symptoms were severe. My bad and excessive eating had badly polluted my digestive system. Fasting and cleansing put me face-to-face and toe-to-toe with the consequences of my destructive lifestyle.
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Perhaps a graphic illustration can help depict just how destructive intestinal toxicity can be.
I was an environmental reporter for various years and could vividly recall the putrid smell of lakes that had been used for illegal dumping.
I actually stepped into them to take pictures, so I was able to get a nose full of the stench.
To see garbage overflowing from what used to be a beautiful lake was very sad.
And it was a horrible, devastating sight. That was exactly what my body had become due to my binging and obesity.
In essence, my bowels, my blood, my cells ... my entire being, was polluted and ailing.
This was a hard pill to swallow for a stubborn, one-track-minded person like me who hated to admit he was wrong. But I did admit it.
Thus the door to change opened ever so slightly, and I was able to start earning my freedom. Change and transformation was there for the taking, but it would come at a price.
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My body had to go through an emergency detoxification process that only fasting and cleansing could accomplish.
I hit a bottom. I knew in my heart of hearts that, at this particular juncture, no diet could help me.
Fasting and cleansing was my only option if I truly wanted to break the food addiction/binging cycle and give my body the time it needed to heal.
Again: I needed to stop eating altogether for a season to give my body the time it needed to detoxify and heal.
One particular fasting and cleansing tool that helped me immensely when I first started was committing to follow a Cleansing Diet .
Our definition of a cleansing diet is where one goes through 30 and 60-day cycles of fasting and eating - fasting and eating - fasting and eating.
This is also called partial or intermittent fasting. It works very well for persons who wish to enter the fasting lifestyle slowly.
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Robert Dave Johnston
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