lol- I hear ya- I'm on day 3 and I put half an avocado in my green juice this morning- bye bye ~225cal!

@Cate Stillman yeah- I was really missing avocados last week during oleation, so I have very intentionally included avocado in my 500 as part of one meal - and it's totally a win that avocados are what I'm craving rather than 1001 other, crappier things I could be craving😇!

@Valerie Hwang Beck thank you for answering my question. I had a bit of kimchi with the vilepi,, and on the second morning after my purge I had kimchi with the fifth meal. I had some well cooked spinach with the evening (6th) meal and felt really bound up and uncomfortable Sunday night.. Yesterday was my Day 1 for FMD- I had mostly fruit and vegetable juices and a very watered down Yusha for my midday meal, trying to get things moving again . I think where I went wrong was not taking more castor oil the morning. after the purge. Maybe my purge was incomplete in the first place.

@Kate Dupays I think the juices would have treated me better - I started really feeling uncomfortably bound-up on the second day of the rice diet even though the rice was was so diluted with water and I was continuing to drink well over 3 liters of warm water each day..

Love this post! Thank you for inspiring me to drop in a little deeper with my self care this week. This is the second strong signal I've received today around my need to sit with myself in silence and allow my thoughts and emotions to rise up, receive my compassionate awareness, and then let them pass away...I have had so much resistance to seated meditation lately (lately as in a couple of YEARS lately!). Something I've noticed- Yesterday when I got off of work , I immediately began trying to convince myself I should be "doing something" and what I really felt like was warming up in a nice bath, or practicing yoga nidra. I resisted weakly telling myself I should wait until closer to bedtime to take a bath, but then I said-"why NOT now?" So I took the bath. And I went to bed an hour earlier than usual, and slept soundly for nearly 9 hours!

@Cate Stillman thank you. If I think I want to continue with taking ghee for a fifth or sixth day, shall I keep it at the 8 tsp level from day 4, or increase by 2 tsp each additional day? How many more days should I continue before castor oil purge? Until I see oil in the bowl or experience nausea? Thanks.

@Brenda Green I just noticed that you said 8 Tablespoons- the oleation sheet says "teaspoon"...maybe that's why I'm not seeing the signs that my body is complete with oleation.🤔 Haven't been taking enough ghee?