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Congrats to you, Jem 
Here's some reflections from Shiva that helped me alot:Fasting can be quite a challenge for most of us. It can also be a time where we are the most spiritually powerful, if we are brave enough to rest in the places where we feel uncertainty. I always fast to shed the burden I am carrying around. I fast to open my life up. Knowing that what is irritating me in any given moment on the cleanse, like my boredom, or the SWF, or any other irritating part of the process presents me with a dilemma.
How do we continue the fast when we are bored and fed up? Fasting will bring moments to us that are instead of being calm and wakeful, are quite edgy and irritable. This is an interesting place. For the fasting practitioner this is an exceedingly important place. Fasting will continually put you in a position of being squeezed. All who fast find ourselves in the squeeze. It's a place where we look for alternatives to just being there. It's an uncomfortable place, and it's often a place where people just give up. We like fasting when we feel inspired and in touch with ourselves and on the right path. But what about when it starts to feel like a burden, like we made the wrong choice and it's not living up to our expectations at all? We begin to question how sane the others on this forum sound to us, in fact, they seem pretty confused. Even Stanley Burroughs as our teacher becomes questionable.
When we feel squeezed, there is a tendency for the mind to become small. We feel miserable, like a pathetic, hopeless case. Yet believe it or not, at that moment of bewilderment our minds could become bigger. We're so used to running from our discomfort, and we're so predictable. If we don't like it, we strike out finding fault with the MC program, or beat up on ourselves. When we fast we just have to grow up."Hope you feel better soon,
TTFN
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Although, I know I am not done yet which is why I am shooting for another 10 days. I led such an unhealthy lifestyle before. I mean, I ate well, but I also ate a lot of unhealthy things too. I found that I was getting more and more depressed and becoming a recluse which is so sad as I am only 25! I have a night out in September and I am so looking forward to being slim, thats my goal and I know that I wont go out if I dont lose my weight in time. I've already booked my train tickets so I have to do this now as people are relying on me to go. I havent been on a night out in like 3 years. So I feel that I really 
