I sorta had an oatmeal cookie...

[Springtime]

I've been about 85-100% raw for the past week, and i feel ok, no major detox symptoms or anything, it's going pretty smooth. The past two days i've 100% (minus a pinch of cayenne) and still, i've gotten no bad symptoms.

So, today after lunch i started to feel a major blood-sugar drop coming on me, so i decided to have a regular oatmeal cookie. (I tried dates, they didn't help, nor did banana).

I know i make my own rules, and raw is what i make of it, but i'm more curious about how this will effect my detox: am i back at square one now? Or should i just hope i wont feel terribly sick and nauseous, and keep going?

Thanks!

[Revvell]

O.k., you had one oatmeal cookie at lunch (sort of) and that was how long ago? Are you feeling terribly sick and nauseous? There's your answer.

[Aleesha Sattva]

the most important things you need to give up is white... white flour, white sugar...

and an oatmeal cookie is white ;) so i wouldn't do that next time. give the date and banana time... it would have done what was needed doing. (or perhaps some freshly made juice)

[Revvell]

the most important things you need to give up is white... white flour, white sugar...

and an oatmeal cookie is white ;) so i wouldn't do that next time. give the date and banana time... it would have done what was needed doing. (or perhaps some freshly made juice)

No, oatmeal cookies are sorta brownish and she only sorta ate it. ;)

[Springtime]

Thanks for the replies

I just wanted to make it clear that i wasn't asking you guys to tell me wheather i'd be sick or not, because that's obviously something i'll find out on my own.

I was just curious about the whole detox thing, if it's just somehting that continues, or if it's like smoking a cigarette, somehting that sort of wipes out all the good stuff you've been doing in the near past. (one cigarette is one week of exercise out the window basically

[busy91]

I feel this way, our bodies are always detoxing. Just being in this poluted enviorment causes this. I think the oatmeal cookie is already out of your system. Sugar is bad for you (of course) but I don't think one cookie is going to undo anything. Just go back to eating raw like nothing ever happened, and try not to do it again.

If you want to avoid the sugar drop maybe you should eat fruit throughout the day to keep your levels even.

I am surprised the dates didn't do it, when I eat dates, my head spins it is so sugary.

[Aleesha Sattva]

your question makes no sense to me at all. how can eating one cookie replace ALL the toxins you've been releasing? how can one cookie take away ALL the health you've achieved???

[Springtime]

your question makes no sense to me at all. how can eating one cookie replace ALL the toxins you've been releasing? how can one cookie take away ALL the health you've achieved???

Oh, I think there was just a misunderstanding. I meant to say that i was curious about the "principles" of detoxification, in a theoretical way. The cigarette-example was just an example on how some toxins reverse a detoxification, and some don't. But i guess the bottom line is that what matters is how toxic something is, where a cookie is nothing at all compared to a cigarette. Hope i'm making some sense. I just wasn't being anxious about that particular cookie or anything, just curious about detoxification as a process.

busy91, i have a very high sugar tolerance, i've never had a "sugar high" in my life. i once tried taking a pill (from the hfs) with something called ALA that was supposed to let less sugar into your blood, hence reduce sugar highs and lows, and i was knocked out for hours because it basically kept all sugars from my blood... So when i feel a blood sgar drop coming, i just try to eat anything i can and pray it helps ;)

[Colorawdo girl]

springtime...your detox and cleansing are just fine. Back on track with no worries.