Re: cheated on diet with an orange

No offense to you personally but this "listening to your body" is just an overused "cliche" that has become absolutely useless. You would have to be hyper intuitive, enlightned even ;+D,  very experienced and knowledgeable for that to be of any value. Mini Buddha...........;+D

The bottom line is that when you are fasting and you have a bad reaction it's due to heavy detox and the system is having a Herxheimer reaction which means that it's passing more toxins than it's able to process. In short those down moments are actually good thing and if you eat then you are putting a screaching halt to the detoxing that was occuring so you musta dialed the wrong number when you were "listening to your body" ;+D. The wisdom is to start drinking lots of water and lemonade to keep things diluted and moving out to allow the system to get rid of the toxins that were causing your ill feelings. If it's bad enough while Burroughs is dead set against enemas there have been many reports of folks getting instant relief from doing an enema during a detox reaction.

When you ate you also stopped the system from being in fasting mode and now the digestive system has been reactivated and the body must process the solids and purge them before going into ketosis again. While it doesn't negate the previous 7 days "completely" you won't picking up where you left off.