Last year when i was here, i stopped all suger, salt and sodas even diet and i was free from all cravings, even into the second week my cravings are slowing down...but i am wondering again about long term, the feeling will last?

I remember getting aa regular coke at a restaurant and spitting it out it was too sweet

My situation is a bit different as I had gone on a juice feast for a month back in June. This jump started me and I had "detoxed" during that time. Now I can't eat or drink a lot of the things I used to love. Too sweet, too salty, too bland lol.

I think it is okay to have some sweets and I have yet to find something that fits my new taste buds. In fact sugary treats make me ill now as well as dairy. I can't stand them, but I have had a few things that were very low on sugar that I sort of liked and appreciated more. For me personally, I can't see myself going back to my old ways. I just don't have the energy to go backwards and I don't like how I feel when I do have slips.

I think your question depends on the individual. For me personally, yes it will last. I can't see myself going back to all that sugar and salt. The reason is simply that I thought I loved those things before, but really I didn't and I found that out after 30ish days of lacking all that processed sugar and crap my body was finally free. I do have other issues though, things I'm trying to give up, etc, so that is where my struggle is I think. For me it is more about cooked foods versus raw as I'm heading toward a raw food lifestyle, which I love personally. But I have this emotional attachment toward some cooked foods like breads and pasta etc. I don't mind having those foods, but not as much as I do. If that makes sense.

I think long term it depends and it probably depends on listening to your body and how you react to the food you eat.

tell me about you juice fast what plan did you follow..

I found out about the juice feast when I tried the Master Cleanse, which was a bad experience for me. Not to knock anyone who has tried that, but for me personally it was just like drinking sugar water and I became ill. The juice feast is about getting your calorie intake and basically getting all or most of your nutrients. You basically juice veggies and fruits and you do take supplements as well, you can find out more if you do a search on Global Juice Feast. You don't buy juice as that would have too much bad stuff in it, but you do have to buy a lot of produce, have some method of juicing, juicer or blender/bag. You buy a lot of produce so it can be expensive in that respect.

People who do the juice feast do it for their own personal reasons. Essentially it is a form of fasting, but you're not suppose to starve yourself, so you drink a lot of juice. My juice always had pulp so I got plenty of fiber and had no problems in that respect. My downfall was not liking the green juices. I mean spinach/carrot/celery/pear juice isn't exactly on my list of things I like and no matter how many ways I tried green juices, sweet or savory, I couldn't stomach them for long. So, I wasn't drinking enough near the end and decided to end my feasting experience after 30ish days. More like 40, but there you go. I slowly got back to eating solid foods, took me a week. I gained about 8 pounds back from then weight loss I had, then started loosing again after I got back to something normal. I'm still loosing and haven't gone back to my old ways, but found new issues and such I'm still dealing with. I still overeat etc.

I think you can detox normally through just a proper diet. Cutting out all those bad sweets and such, processed foods, is key I think. I remember that first week of juice lol. I was craving things I hadn't wanted for years. I wanted pizza, chips, cake lol...very strong cravings, but they went away the second week for me and after awhile I started listening to my body. So, when it was screaming at me to end the juice feast, I listened lol.

I personally would not do a juice feast like the one I did again. If I wanted to do a cleanse, which I do believe in, I would go a day or two with just juice or smoothies just to give my body a break. I do think there are people who use things like juice feasting as a weight loss method and do misuse it. Meaning, they do these feasts over and over again, almost like an addiction. I also think there are people who go right back into their old eating habits and such, but that is a common problem with any form of diet. I did want to loose weight while on it and I did, but I quickly saw that as a long term method it isn't very supportive. Just my two cents though.

Now I want to do another form of detox and am planning on doing 30 days of 100% raw food, for November. I want to shed the last of my food issues and see how I do. I'm a vegan anyhow, so it isn't that much of a leap for me to just eat raw food hehe.

I feel like i need a good detox, I too also cut all meat but not dairy from my diet...

I think just going to natural foods is a great detox. After all, aren't the "toxins" coming from processed foods? If you switch to a diet of whole grains, organic fruits and vegetables, water, beans, that kind of thing, I think it does wonders for the body and getting rid of cravings. I am a meat eater too but I feel better when I have things like salmon, other fish, eggs, a bit of chicken.

I think for all us humans who are, you know, human , sweets will creep back in, and I just figure every now and then I need to be strict for a bit about the sugar, and then the cravings go away again. Might be strict a couple weeks, maybe just 3 days, depends how things are. Once I'm in a good place, I find that having dessert once a week (and always avoiding refined carbs) keeps me in that good place. I can also have a square of dark chocolate 2 or 3 times during the week without a problem. Personally, fruit doesn't cause me any craving problems. I had grapes last night, and they were so sweet, I felt like I was having a true dessert.

I think it depends. If you are a type of person who love sweets then it might be harder to just cut it out of your diet. I wasn't fully into sweet things, I like sweets, but can go a long time without ever eating a dessert type item. I mean a piece of dark chocolate can last me a month.

I do love hummus though...*eats way too much hummus* lol

Yummy and a bit of bahbahganoush, with a salad of cukes, tomatos and onions....I love that stuff learned to cook and eat middle eastern, My last husband was from Israel

Ohhhhh..yummy!

I'm going to try to make a humms, raw food version, that uses zucchini instead of chickpeas. Ha we'll see how it goes lol. I do love the stuff.

I just had a amazizng summer salad from crispers...love them

New macbooks come out tomorrow Yea!

ditto here. Birthday cake - especially with buttercream frosting - was a huge downfall for me. And those big, soft, frosted cookies..... But since I ditched processed sugar and artificial sweeteners, and went whole foods, someone can wave a piece of cake under my nose and I'm actually kind of grossed out by it. These days, I'd rather have a bowl of fresh pineapple than ice cream I finally did have something sweet the other day - a Kashi cookie. Had one and that was it, no urge whatsoever to run for another one. So, yeah, I'd say the cravings can stop for good if you avoid whatever triggers them.

I know lots of people like to give themselves freedom and don't want to eliminate anything because they don't want to feel deprived in any way but, quite honestly, I think that avoiding something all together is much easier than putting it down after one bite. I read something here, I think it was last week, PhotoChick was quoting Kaplods (I'll paraphrase and hope Kaplods forgives me ) "You wouldn't tell a heroin addict that if they are good all week they can have just a little shot of heroin on the weekend". Not to compare sugar addiction to heroin addiction but addiction is addiction whether it's nicotine, alcohol, drugs, or Sara Lee. While I do know people who have teetered on the brink of alcoholism, quit drinking, then after a while been able to have a drink now and then; it usually ends up that the occasional drink grows back into the every day drink (and sometimes beyond). I'm afraid, that for me anyway, it would be the same with sugar so I'm just keeping away from the sweets.