I think the last week of transitioning back to a regular diet has been harder than the 40-day fast was. I wanted to overcome my addictions and get back to a live-food diet, which is exactly what my body has done. As long as I stick to the live foods - I do great, but a couple of times I have had some of my children invite us to dinner and it's been a disaster. The two worse episodes have been with pasta and bread.

When I break the new rules and eat something that has been cooked - especially with white flour - I am in agony for the next 24 hours. My body has no tolerance for this garbage any more. The other night when I was hurting, I realized that I had just spent 40 days cleaning the garbage out of my intestines, colon, organs and cells. Along with the garbage, I cleaned out the defenses my body had built up toward these toxins (such as mucoid plaque).

Now, without the defenses, my body can no longer handle these foods - isn't it interesting to know that in order to keep eating these foods we consider to be normal the body has to coat the linings and build up defenses to protect us from what we are doing to ourselves? This fast continues to teach me so many things that I only understood intellectually before - when you experience it first hand, it begins to take on a whole new diminsion.