GREAT work, you guys!

What a great thing, to be able to do this as a couple! Sounds like you are doing wonderful work, and will enjoy many many benefits!

If you are drinking 3 quarts each of juice, this could explain your reduced weight loss (not necessarily a bad thing). Paavo Airola recommends we consume 3-6 CUPS of fresh juices daily while fasting.

A comment: The wonderful book, Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing, notes under its Arthritis entry, "The nightshade vegetables (green peppers, eggplant, tomatoes, white potatoes) contain a toxin called sotanine that some people, particularly those suffering from arthritis, are highly sensitive to. Sotanine interferes with enzymes in the muscles, and may cause pain and discomfort." You say you are drinking large quantities of tomato juice (and 3 quarts is a lot of juice anyhow)... I wonder if you shift the focus of your juices you might have better success flushing your joints.

Airola's break program:

1. DO NOT OVEREAT! (you will pay!)
2. Eat slowly and chew your food extremely well.
3. Take several days of gradual transition to the normal diet (particularly after a long fast like yours)

First day: Eat one whole apple in the morning and a very SMALL bowl of raw vegetable salad at lunch, in addition to your usual juices.

Second: Soaked prunes or figs (with soaking water) for breakfast. Small bowl fresh vegetable salad for lunch. Homemade vegetarian vegetable soup (VERY little if any salt) for dinner. Two apples between meals. All in addition to juices.

Third: Same as second, but add a glass of yogurt and a few raw nuts for breakfast. Increase salad portion at lunch, add a boiled or baked potato. A slice of whole grain bread with butter and a slice of cheese with soup for dinner.

Fourth: Continue to eat light, eat clean, and eat slowly! If you fast longer than ten days, extend the break one day for every four days of fasting.

Good to hear from you folks--please keep in touch and let us know how things are going!

Oh, are the colonics you are doing professional colonics, or do you have a setup at home?

Best to you both,
Somer