Almost done! Â Less than 24 hours to go and The 10-Day Raw Milk Cure is complete!
Paula, Richard, and I are ready to be finished with our fast as you can see from our comments. Â Do you feel the same? Tell all of us what you think in the comments section.
Paula: Slept badly again but I think the dam broke, literally. Â Feeling better, not as cranky, but still tired despite getting 8-9 hours of sleep each night. Â Appetite back, very hungry today. Â Worked out; I had to – I really needed to sweat. Â Kept it a light circuit of weight training and short – about 20 minutes. Â Felt much better after and followed it with some stretching and 2 cups of milk of course.
Still want bacon and meat in general, beef especially. Make that a grilled ribeye please! Â One more day to go. Consumed 13 cups and weighed in at 115.6.
Richard:Â Naughty me. I had a very stressful workday and ended up eating 2 cookies on display as samples at Whole Foods!
Stuck with the 6 cups for the day. Maybe if I’d been drinking more, I could have resisted the cookies. Don’t seem to be losing any weight as my clothes fit the same.
Am happy that there is only one more day to go.
Sarah: Even though I slept very well, I woke up feeling tired. Â Got the kids packed up and off to school and then rested for about an hour and a half. Â Dreamed about eating tuna salad!
No congestion today just feeling low on energy.
Am really wanting to eat and glad to know the end of the fast is very near. I sauteed lightly breaded chicken in coconut oil with a vodka cream sauce for the kids for dinner and the delicious smell almost totally overcame me. Â I wanted to eat so badly! Â It took every ounce of willpower not to sample just a bite or two.
Got a massage to help with more detoxing today and was told that my muscles and joints were in incredible shape with almost zero inflammation. Very high amounts of pressure could be applied with no pain or discomfort. Very encouraging!  I’m sure it was from the fast.
Drank 12 cups for the day and was enough to keep hunger at bay. Â Soaked in a mineral salts bath and sipped herbal tea. Â The best part about this fast has been the baths, no doubt! Â It’s been definitely worth it to carve out the time for them each evening. Â I think they have helped me maximize the detoxing aspect of the fast.
Day 9 was great for me as well. I woke up to two cuddle bugs in bed with me (my children) and then we got up I made them breakfast while I sip on my milk. We then cleaned house!! It did feel good to get some work done. I could actually clean 3 rooms and not be tired! amazing me. I am wheezing a little, but NOTHING like I used to. Before this fast I could only do one room a day!
We then had a play date and went to a concert and home. It was a long day,but very satisfying. I am not going to stop this Milk Cure. I have been reading that it is best if gone for 4 weeks and then slowly back to healthy diet. I do owe Sarah a gallon of milk if she makes it through tomorrow!! LOL 🙂
I know you will!!!
Its so wonderful to hear how much this helped you! Yay!
Yesterday was a day off from work. I was SO tired despite sleeping 12 hours!!! I think the fast is finally getting to me. Can fatigue be a die-off symptom? Anyways, I have two social meals today for lunch and dinner, but I am so close to the finish line, I just can’t bear to give in! ONE MORE DAY!!!!!! 🙂
Yes, based on my experience during this fast, fatigue is definitely a die-off symptom as I am hardly ever tired and was surprised to be tired a lot over the fast despite consuming plenty of calories every day.
My Day 8 – I had a busy Day 7 as we had dinner company, and that always exhausts me the next day, my day 8. I had a very early and busy morning, and did an especially hard WOD, sweat a lot, 30 min. By evening I was tired. I am not having a problem with having milk as my mainstay, I always know hunger is at bay with a simple 8 oz. of milk or two if needed. I am totally baffled by Richard though. How can any man survive on so little milk and then on top it off by not losing any weight? Could it be that his body is in starvation mode and not letting any pounds drop? I finally got to do my first weigh-in since beginning, lost 5.8 pounds in 6 days! These are those stubborn last 10-15 pounds. I hadn’t noticed it really in my clothing and mirror until Day 7. Since this is going so well and I’m not having any really bad detox, I will try to go to day 13 or 14, to be ready for St. Patty’s Day dinner!
I’m so impressed with everyone doing this fast! And also glad to read that yes, Richard is human. I mean, come on, only 5-6 cups day and he is not hungry or not having any problems?? wish I had his willpower! I am getting hungry just thinking about only drinking milk all day, and I just finished lunch – LOL. But alas, the cookies at the store, well makes me feel better that I am not the only one who can not seem to resist them 🙂 Congrats to everyone who participated!
My husband has amazing incredible willpower. His mind is like a vice. I was shocked he ate those cookies to be honest as usually I am the weaker one 🙂
Yesterday, my 2nd day, I felt really good! Nice energy, calm. Drank about 5 cups. Had a second episode of having to make a mad dash to the bathroom. Went to bed chilled to the bone, hard time getting warm. Slept great. Woke with some indigestion but that’s what I’m hoping this fast will cure. A little headachy but counting it all joyful as I’m sure these are signs of detoxing.
I could go longer but I have dinner plans this week so I’m going to stop the fast and start introducing solids slowly so I can eat my corned beef dinner on Thurs. (I’m on day 9 so I’ll start eating on Monday) I do plan on doing this again when the cows in Mi. have eaten grass. I lost 6lbs., slept well, and detoxed without too much trouble. I have to say that I have been incredibly cold. I know it’s cold in Mi but I’ve never felt as cold as this and we have a mild winter. I put two rice sock heating pads in bed with me and I still ended up curled in a ball. It will be better to do in June, I guess. Also, my eyesight seems to have changed rather drastically. Last week my glasses were fine and this week I can’t see well. I really doubt it has to do with the fast. I probably just need new glasses and it just happened during this. But I’ve never had such a dramatic change in eyesight before. Since most of you are eating tomorrow, you need to bug Sarah on what to start your day with and how to slowly get our wonderful meals back. Can’t wait to eat but not because of hunger……just cuz I love this food!! Congrats to all who finished, tried or are still going!! 🙂
I am so happy this is the 10th day.
Yesterday was good, moving slower than normal though, want to eat, had a couple very strong hunger episodes and had to sit down and drink more milk. Worked most of the afternoon moving things around in the house I will be moving to. And have help moving furniture Tuesday, so I am happy that the fast ends tomorrow. Will need food energy for that job. Took another MS foot bath, I like making time for these in the evenings, the simple act of soaking and drying my happy feet satisfies me. Went to bed early but woke up about 5 hours later and couldn’t go back to sleep until day break, slept another 2-3 hours, feel surprisingly okay. I think it may be more of a busy mind thing than the milk fast.
I have had a rough last couple of days. Went back to the dr. yesterday who said she doesn’t think I have a virus and doesn’t know whats wrong with me… Good news is she was honest better news is that even though I am still not feeling totally better I am headed that way and I have stuck to the fast completely w/o cheating… I have lost 8 lbs and am hoping that when I go off the fast and am eating traditionally that my body looses weight a little more easily. I do want to know when starting to eat food again what should we introduce back first?
So I’m feeling pretty weak, though I still enjoy going for walks, My temperture was down this morning, : ( My face is less red but my scalp doesn’t seem to have changed at all. Not sure if I will eat tomorrow or not. I don’t like being low on energy with three little kids. Does anyone know if this will heal the adrenal and thyroid glands?
I started my cure yesterday. Drinking the milk took up almost all of my time yesterday. Definitely a rest cure. Started detoxing last night, shivers and legs aching. But I’m keeping at this. I expect to go for at least 2 weeks, maybe more. I’m lucky in that I have a quiet weekend to do this, so I’m going as close to the cure as the books talk about as possible. Hopefully I’ll be feeling better by Monday and able to go to work. But no water, nothing but milk yesterday and I’m neither hungry or thirsty. (Maybe sipping 5 ounces of milk every half hour has something to do with that).
The first 2 days were definitely the toughest for me, Sandra. Hopefully you will be feeling great by the time you go back to work on Monday.