Thank you so much detour. I appreciate your take. I had thought of that and did start to up my intake of all. I ensured I was drinking plenty and probably getting more like 7-9 cups a day. I'm not overly active, well, 2 under 4yo and shopping, etc...so mild level of activity each day. I go to the gym once or twice a week, but that's all. I'd usually walk more but it's raining and miserable here at the moment.

I looked today and no movement at all! It's official...this is done for me. I think I need to move forward and work on some other way of dealing with my health. This is obviously not for me. :( I didn't want the ongoing stress of trying to lose weight. I was excited about the prospect of leaving that behind and just focus on a healthy maintenance lifestyle. It seems weight is my lifelong challenge and will continue to be so.

My biggest fear now is that stats show most of this weight will return. One lady commented that her weight returned the first day on her orange juice. :( That's so darn scary. I'm trying to avoid Depression from all of this, and at least look on the bright side.

I never hear negative stories on these forums.....and I don't feel happy posting mine, but I was just hoping this was something that I could overcome. I loved the fast for the first 10days...energy was amazing, found myself grinning for no reason...it was sooo fabulous. From 10 days it's been awful. I'm sad, depressed... you name it. :(

I want to try and conceive again and am low in folate and iron, so I need to start building these back up before I can start. I think if I finish now I have two weeks to work on that before trying again. Maybe something good can come of this afterall.

Thank you for your support and for listening to my long whinge. :)I'm not usually this down....maybe my period coming. I hope. :)

Deb
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Pepe I knew you'd pipe in with your stock standard response. Hey, I appreciate the time you took to type it out (or cut and paste).

You have assumed a lot from my post about my lifestyle and habits, claiming mostly that I obviously have a lifetime of bad to correct! I don't feel this is very fair or supportive. True, I am being down and negative in my post, but that was just how I was feeling...disheartened. Sometimes when others are down, a swift kick is not the most delicate way to pick them up again...or perhaps you have military training! Or perhaps a male perspective. Either way, it's not really the only way to treat these weight related posts.

For some, weight is a battle. I have never been obese, overweight or anything close. I have lived a fit and active life...for ALL of my life. I still currently attend the gym and do as much exercise as I can fit in with my two small children. I eat a fabulous diet, in fact I eat better than anybody else I know, bar one woman I know who is entirely raw vegan. I haven't chosen to take that step at this time in my life, but I am conscious of my health, from every level.

I suffer from endometriosis, and you may also have opinions on how my bad eating and lifestyle caused this too! Let me just say, as a young woman at 18, after having radical surgery for intense pain, and being put on horrible drugs, I became hormonally unbalanced, gained weight, suffered back pain and to date, many miscarriages. I struggled to drop the extra weight I'd gained and when I eventually came off the drugs, I lost it within 6 months! The moral of my story is that sometimes there are OTHER causes for weight gain or the inability to lose it.

I have had two babies and after my second I lost 50lb's (which was how much I'd gained whilst pregnant) within 6months and only recently started to gain again, after another miscarriage and another early pregnancy loss. It's my hormones again, my endometriosis again. I was scheduled for surgery when I discovered this cleanse.

You see, my weight gain relates directly to my hormones and my reproductive health. The reflection of my limited success with weight loss here was leading me to feel that I'd also failed to affect any changes within my body. I am petrified of another operation and was feeling very sad that it would come to that.

Sure, you say this cleanse AIN'T IT...and ok, perhaps I was hoping for too much. The weight is not the BIG issue, it's the by product of my internal health. It's like a gauge for me. When I'm well, my body shows it and I sit at a low body weight, as I have for most of my life - unwell periods aside.

Sorry if this sounds rude, but I was really looking for support here. I realise you're sick of people talking about weight, but you'll just have to stop reading them. I realise you're the picture of health and are very proud of yourself...as you should be. But I think I also read that you'd been fortunate enough not to have any major ailments inhibiting you from having an active and health lifestyle. Lucky you.

Deb