Prep before fast

[mhaddon]

I've tried a raw detox with smoothies and only made it 5 days. I was nursing at the time and when my back started having horrible pains I gave up. Before I was drinking a quart o smoothie daily for at least a month so I thought I was ready. That was in march of this year and after that I pretty much fell off the raw wagon hard into the SAD and caffeine in large amounts :(. Well I want to do a juice fast and I should get my juicer next week. So I'm think of a gentle
Prep week in advance and no caffeine to
Go ahead and get over that not on the fast. What foods would you recommend and do you think some cooked the first few days would be ok? I don't want the huge shock and pain I had last time. It was bad. I'm obviously toxic and need this and want to go raw. I am about 15 pounds overweight and mostly belly fat from four pregnancies. (19 month old is youngest). I'd love for the belly fat to be released.
I need a sweeter raw dressing recipe and any advice on how to make this sucsessful. I aiming for 10 days as a
Starter.

[fastfreedom]

My guess as to why you had back pains is cus you were detoxing quickly and the toxins couldn't be released fast enough. So I would suggest starting with a raw food diet if you don't want to go through the detox pains in such a way. You'll still detox and get pains from time to time, but it will be spread out over time and you'll not get bombarded with the toxic pain all at once. This is a slower, but gentler route to cleanse the body.

If you still wanna fast though then I would still suggest going on a raw food diet for at least a week. Drink LOTS of water to help all that fiber clean out your GI tract a bit. Also I would recommend using an enema or colonic daily while fasting to help rid your body of toxins. Or also if you begin to feel pains from the toxins being recirculated in your body use the colonic or enema.