Wow! 8 pounds is great! I lost 4 my first week and about 2 each of the following two weeks and then slowed down even more after that. I did have some injury and illness during part of the diet though so I wasn't exercising as much as I was supposed to.
If you still want to lose more weight, then yes you can go back to cycle 1 and repeat the 3 cycles over again. I didn't ever lose as much in repeating cycle 1 as I did the very first time, which I guess makes sense because the body isn't as shocked by the detox. I've been doing EFS since May and I'm very close to my goal, so that might be why it's coming off so slowly for me. I did find that sometimes I get a better result if I do a week of maintenance after cycle 3 before starting back with cycle 1 and sometimes I even lose weight when I'm not trying to in that week. I think it helps keep my body from thinking that it's starving.
Good luck!
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