Re: About cheating: my mentor told me....

I'm sorry, but you are NOT doing The Master Cleanse then. Anything that involves anything other than what is written in the book is doing something else. We are here trying to support each other in doing a cleanse. This post is a temptation to those who may feel weak and take heart in what you are suggesting.

If you can get thru days 1 and 2, the rest of the days are THAT MUCH EASIER. Why cheat? The point of not eating is to SHUT DOWN the digestive system. I can't imagine why anyone would PROMOTE or ENCOURAGE eating of any kind, ESPECIALLY AFTER days 2 or 3. This is when it is the most dangerous. You could DIE from introducing food to your body that way. Not to mention the fact that if you are eating any food of any kind, your digestion starts again. Only brutally. Not in a safe way at all. And all that energy is still being expended on digestion instead of cleansing.

This just really hits a nerve with me. I implore the monitors of this forum to disallow posts that encourage this behavior. We are all here to support each other. This encouragement of eating something, is the exact opposite of support. I think I would speak for most in saying that no one is looking for a legitimate or legal or safe way to CHEAT. We are looking for INNER STRENGTH to get through the tough moments.

This is my fifth time doing this cleanse in about 5 years. If there is one thing I have learned from experience is that you will do whatever you tell yourself you are going to do from the get go. If you set out to experience the cleanse peacefully and set aside food cravings ... you WILL. You just can't let your mind get carried away in thinking about food. Just shut your eyes and take a few deep breaths for a moment and think about the reasons you chose to do this in the first place. There is no sense in putting yourself through the torture that this cleanse can become by continuing to eat food on occassion.

The whole point of this is to shut down the digestive system. You can't shut it down when you continue eating. Even too much PULP in your lemon juice can keep the digestive system working, let alone a piece of actual solid food.

I'm sorry, but I just can not get behind this at all and I really hope that people who are serious about getting real results (not just weight loss) from this cleanse would ignore this last post about cheating. Find another Mentor. I don't mean to be mean, but this is just ridiculous!

Please, those who are doing this for the first time, don't even think about cheating. You CAN do this! Trust me. It's not easy. But it does get easier and you CAN do it! And you can do it RIGHT.