First off - you should have started a Colon Cleanse BEFORE beginning the MC. The reason you felt sick is DIRECTLY related to the toxins POURING into your colon - and SITTING there (BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T CLEANSE YOUR COLON PRIOR TO!!! By cleanse - I'm talking a GOOD week or two on Dr. Schulze 's Intestinal Formulas #1 & #2). Obviously, you are going to feel sick.

You body HIDES illnesses. When you actually BEGIN to TAKE CARE of your body - that is when it starts to heal and clean out! If you get sick - it's because you already WERE sick, and NOW your body is ACTUALLY BEGINNING TO HEAL ITSELF. The WORST thing you could have done was break your fast - ESPECIALLY with the foods you ate!! Good God! No WONDER you got sick!! Is that how you normally eat!? As for your fever - well hey - that's your body FIGHTING something. Your body is actually KILLING germs/bacteria/etc. Now is when you should be fasting! The idea of fasting is that, if you are not taking in food, your body will begin to feast on the TOXINS built up from diet, emotions, environment, etc. You will heal much quicker if you DO fast.

Your comment about doctors - they don't know squat. Doctors are educated in DISEASE. They know the "symptoms" of each disease, and how to "ease" the SYMPTOMS. They do NOT know how to CURE you. They are not taught about HEALTH. I reapeat, doctors ONLY attack the SYMPTOMS associated with your illness. They do NOT attack the illness itself. Why? Because they don't know how to. If you want to get healthy - to get well - YOU have to do it yourself. It does take work. It takes self-responsibility...

Here's what's helped me. Once a week for 2-4 weeks just skip one meal. Then skip two and just eat supper. Drink only water (purified/distilled, big debate on this). Finally get up to going 24 hours with just water. After you've achieved that (I do it weekly) you'll have cleased a bunch. Then you can look around at all the fasting options. There are a million. Water takes great determination, but you can go 10 days, work, and feel great. Myself, I just fast on water once a week as a practice. I'm on day 7 of Master Cleanse with salt water flushes, P/B shakes, and P123 parasite cleanse. It's been a breeze compared to water. There are many cleanses around that don't involve so much sweetner. I love the lemonade, could drink it for a year I think. I'm down 12 pounds in 6 days (some of which will return as stored bowel matter when refeeding begins).
I wouldn't give up. Search around and experiment. There is no perfect formula for everyone. There is little agreement on how to fast. Joel Furhman, M.D. treats just with water fasts. Bragg suggests one day a week and 7-10 days quarterly, but his daughter (he died surfing in his 70s or 80s) does one day a week and 3 days quarterly.
At the end of the MC/Ultimate I'm doing a Liver Flush and I'll put on the board what my experience has been. I'm 58 and it's taken over 35 years for me to work out a regimen. It's not about a one time cleanse, it's about a healthy lifestyle you can adopt, and it will change as you get older and get more experience. Hang in there. Mike D

wow,
i hope you figure out that enjoying life has alot more to do with living a clean lifestyle than eating cheeseburgers and fries!
but to each his own...
.i would like to point out that the sickness you felt was caused by the toxins being released, not the cleanse, and by gorging on junk food, you just added another layer to your mucoid plaque, which is your body's way of defending itself..... the fact that you felt so much better only underlines how effective our body's are at protecting us from pain... in the long run, you would feel better than you can even imagine at this point in your life if you followed through with the cleanse and changed your eating patterns.....

the most macho thing you could do is probably go through the cleanse and show that you are strong enough to handle a little discomfort to improve your body's health

my humble opinion

First let me say that if you "really" felt like eating a burger... you did well... !!!

its important to eat good, healthy food, but one must not become his/her own dictator - the soul is the number one organ in our body- !!! so keep it happy.

however, in short, here is my experience with fasting

about 8 years ago , when I was 20 I moved from Europe to the USA. during my first year I started eating fast-foods, delivery-pizzas, etc... certainly not every night but it was quite frequent... at the beginning I had no problems. I went swimming and did other sports, I was burning everything...

unfortunately, I also had phases when I didn't swim and lived a sedentary lifestyle, I was a social smoker, but in those phases I would smoke daily...

on myn last year of university, worried about making the grades to go to graduate school - I stopped sports all together- and locked my self at home with the books.... and with drive-in-burgers; sodas; delivery pizzas etc... ect....

eventually I gained a lot a weight .... I had a fat belly, and my clothes did no longer fit, I smoked about a two packs of cigarettes per day,

it was so bad that once my mother when picking me up at an airpor did not even recognise me....

.... a few months after finishing university... I was feeling depressed about my appearance , always lethargic and I addicted to fast foods - although I did also like to eat genuine, tasty foods (even if a bit rich).....

anyway, one day in a health-food store I found a flyer about a supervised fast , all tha talk about detoxing, breaking addictions and loosing weight sonded very good and I decided to go and join their program...

eventually , I did I supervised fast that lasted 21 days.... 3 days transitioning in with raw foods - 15 days only on rigorously strained (completely liquid) juices... and 3 days of phasing out.....

I lost all the unwanted weight, got back in shape, quit smoking, regained self confidence, felt amazingly energetic ( I had lost that feelings about 4 years earlier, and people kept telling how healthy and toned up I looked....

it was an amazing experience !!! my self confidence grew , but I did not beome arrogant, finally I felt in tune with what my body needed and felt that I had gotten rid of years of accumulated toxins and bad habits...

ever since, I fasted another time about two years ago ; again I felt quite stressed (this is life folks - things happpen !!! and we go through phases), was smoking again and was not eating as well as I would have liked (tho, it is now very very rare that I get a craving for junk-food, and when that happens I oblige myself ... cause I am no self-dictator)

this time, since I already knew the skill, I did not need any supervision.... I just bought a juicer, an enema bag (like in my previous supervised fast, I do 1 enema each day to flush toxins from intestine) and did a 16 days fast -including the 3+3 days of tansitioning in and out... once again afterwards I felt fantantastic...

the very same day that I broke the fast I had to travel to a war-torn country (I am an anthropologist, work for a human rights organisation, and participate in independent media projects). for 6 weeks I lived under strict corfew, amidts helicopter raids , shellings, deaths and all the other aberrant things that psychotic leaders and war-lords design to protect their interests....

anyway, what I think is that, also in this case, the fast greately helped me to get rid of toxins, and most of all go to build up the necessary character strenght needed to perform highly stressful and demanding tasks.....

now two years after my last fast, I am fasting again .... dont think that I am a fasting junkie - after all I fasted 3 times with gaps of 8 years and 2 years in between......

I am my third experience now and today I am on the 6th day of a 10-day juice fast !!!!

For several years I have been back in Europe.... once again I am facing several demanding tasks, and once again I think that the fast will help me go through it.... as I said its been two years since my last fast and I dont think I am over doing it..... the benefits for me are enormous......

one more thing; I thought it was funny when you told us about your avocado - bacon burger, mmmmm that sounds delicious, as do the chilli fries with cheese... but I want to say two things:

first: me too if I have a craving for a avocado burger and fries (not during the fast tho) I would eat it !!!!! and enjoy it !!!!! guilt is for fundamentalists !!!! hahahah

second: one can eat perfectly healthy, tasty, genuine food that taste delicious !!!
healthy food is NOT boring !!! think of how many healthy dishes there are in italian cusine -to give only one example-

what we must avoid is dead-processed-chemically-treated junk food !!!! that stuff is no food, it does not taste good and is addictive because of the hight amounts of additives (excuse the pun), artificial sugars and chemicals these corporate bastards put in it.


take care

hope I did not bore you

love

bruno