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I have recently gone through a detox - well, actually I think I am still going through it. I am on a raw food diet. The detox started off as a bit exciting because I knew what was happening. Then last weekend, I had massive flu-like symptoms. On Sunday, I slept for almost the entire day. By Monday morning, I felt a lot better, but I was still coughing occasionally. Today is even better, but I still have the cough. I have read from many sources that a raw food detox often makes you feel flu-like symptoms. One book I read even explained why it did that.

My diet has excluded sugar, grains, meat, eggs, dairy, and almost all processed foods. The only thing in my diet that is not raw right now is salad dressing. I am planning to make a raw variety soon. Before the raw food, I was a vegan with hardly any vegetables in my diet and pretty much no fruit. Before that, I was vegetarian for over five years with the same style of eating.

Wow, this thing is always contraversial (I appologize about my spelling, I've always been terrible). Uh, yeah, the Master Cleanse is good, but it can be dealy too!!! My mom knew someone who had half her body stroke, probably had too much bad stuff in her compared to how crazy strong it is O_O Scary, but I know someday I will try it.

I'd say the first thing is to switch everything over to organic, and to take that a step further is to go unprosessed. Woah, yeah, I know.
Cayanne peper is always good for getting the bugs (literally) out of you. I personally can't handle that, but I did start adding it to my hot chocolate along with allspice, ginger, and cinnamon. MIX WELL!!!! And keep mixing because the spices DON'T dissolve. Too strong still? Eat fresh ginger or garlic cloves in smoothies. I can eat raw garlic cloves whole, love garlic! Don't cook it, it'll take the enzymes right out of it! Then goes all the good stuff. *shakes head*

Meat slows you down as well, opposing others on here, but it can stay in your system up to 15 days? Ewww, talk about rotting. Switch to fish, if anything >_< But we are the only 'mammal' out there that cooks its food and raw meat does not tatse good, cept sushi, BUT seriously, meat without spices, it's the worst ever. We only like it because of the spices.

Sweets are very, very tough to get off!! I know that very well. I'm sugar crazy!!! It's my only weakness. So, although one said apples and dates are bad, uh, no, they aren't. I eat them when I crave processed sugar. Works pretty well.

I will eventually go on an all raw diet, which will be tough, but after reading multiple books on it and seeing that's how we're ment to eat, then yeah, i'm going with it. I mean, the gorrilla and elephant eat nothing but raw leaves and berries, grasses, etc, no meat! And they're the strongest?! Wow. Impressive. Here's a little introduction thing that I use as motivation for myself when wanting to go raw: http://rawfoodhowto.com/video-go-raw-now-markus-rothkranz.cfm It's way cool >w<

I haven't gone on a detox diet before, but adding lemon and juniper berries to your diet will help detox you.

Don't forget, one of the best ways to detox is to sweat!

Them gnomes know how to party, let me tell you. 3nodding

Good luck with the detox Piercedpixie! Let us know how it works out. [:

Wouldn't that be great! If the bathroom is small enough, a tubful of steaming water and a space heater are a pretty good substitute----by the time the water is cooled off, that's enough sweatdrop sweatdrop sweatdrop for me---I jump in and bubble up! It's a great way to warm up in the winter. wink

I am so impressed----it's like doing yoga outside here in July and August! Have you gone back? It has to be incredibly good for you.