Re: Starting to Fast Again, Get my life back

Hi, I'm not an expert or a doctor so I hesitate to say anything.

But what I can share with you is my own experience while being on the master cleanse. It has let me see how much of an emotional eater I am. That I crave food to comfort myself and it's steeped in my family history and also my low self esteem. This is just for me and I know everyone is different.

I looked online at books about emotional eating and how to take control of one's eating on Amazon.com and then I searched the database of my local public library (most libraries are hooked up to a national sharing system) and ordered several books that had the best reviews on the subject to be delivered to my library. So that will give me a chance to learn about it while I am still fasting on the MC. I did order from Amazon.com an emotional eating workbook and one of the books about Mindful eating.

I think there are also support groups, overeaters anonomous, that could be helpful in a long term support way. I haven't gone yet but I would like to. I imagine they format that like a 12 step program.

I think the previous poster asked really good questions though about things like candida. Because if you have too much candida you crave certain things.

I do recall in that movie 'Supersize Me' there was some aspect of chemical addiction of eating fast food. Not sure if it was all the high fructose corn syrup or something else. It did seem there was a chemical component to the craving in that case.

Anyway, I just want to say that you are not alone. A lot of people struggle with this issue. That's just statistically clear. I think we can all retrain ourselves by educating ourselves, finding out what's behind the hunger and dealing with those issues patiently and gently and not beating ourselves up or expecting perfection.

I think The Master Cleanse is a really good way to clear the toxins out. Literally.

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