I will be following your fast with interest. I had my own experience of meeting my mucoid plaque last May! At the time I had enrolled on a residential juice fast with the aim of releasing my fears around going without food. I had been encouraged to over eat as a child, and as an adult I would use food treats to lift my mood when I was feeling anxious or down. More recently I had been inspired by friends who fasted regularly and some who ate only raw food. I had been feeling it was about time I addressed my food issues. As with many things, there was a period of adjustment as I went from being unable to contemplate the idea of going without meals, through a real fear of doing so, then a kind of knowing emerged that I was ready to do a five day juice fast and I felt I was open to whatever happened. (Probably a good job too as it was beyond anything I might have expected!) It was only when I arrived at the venue that I heard people talking about mucoid plaque for the first time. I was flabbergasted when they showed me some photos. It felt like I couldn't quite believe there was such a thing in people's guts. Surely it couldn't be true, that after a few days of drinking juices and rehydration compounds, a putrid smelling, rubbery, lobed string would fall out of my insides? Well to cut a long story short, that is indeed what happened. In fact I was the first to "let go of mine" so I felt quite proud of myself really, when just three or four days before I'd never even heard of mucoid plaque. I can tell you when I had got over the shock of hearing about it, I put my guts on direct instructions that if there was any such thing inside my body, they were to give it up ASAP. Et voila! Out it came! For any sceptics out there, I can tell you that once seen and examined, this is no ordinary everyday body waste. I might have been a bit flippant in writing some of the above, maybe to reflect the absolute disbelief I went through, but on a more serious note, the cleanse I took was in conjunction with daily meditations, yoga and discussion circles, and it was indeed a very spiritual experience. The cleanse worked for me on many levels. On the physical, I am much less attached to food than I was before and have continued to change and refine my eating choices since then. Indeed I am now able to see this as an ongoing process. During periods of contemplation during the fast, I had some very important realisations. Then some images came, then a process where I gained a physical experience of a concept which I had been working with but until that point had not fully understood. In the days afterwards I noticed a freedom from some conditioning which had been holding me back. This had not been in my consciousness during the fast, but had been quite a pressing issue over some weeks beforehand. I had thought it couldn't be resolved, now all of a sudden it was, without any conscious awareness of the process, all thanks to the juice fast stimulating a release of toxins and dead vibrations on so many levels. For me, these events then in turn led to and linked with other very profound and moving experiences throughout the next six months. With love on your journey. Lesley, x