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Fasting.
Raiden333
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For some personal reasons, I'm going to fast for a week. I've read that I should intake 'herbal tea and diluted fruit juices', but I haven't been able to find exactly which teas/juices would be most important for me to ingest. I was thinking tomato/grapefruit juice and green tea. Any suggestions?
And please, keep the 'fasting is stupid, why would you want to do that?' comments to a minimum, I have my reasons.
And please, keep the 'fasting is stupid, why would you want to do that?' comments to a minimum, I have my reasons.
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I would say drink some orange juice, but if you drink orange juice on an empty belly the acid can you feel a bit ill.
If any fruit juice will do I find that apple juice is more satisfying on an empty stomach than orange (or any other citrus) juice.
I suggest a 48 hour period, you might want to look at some special concentrates that you can drink during the day to provide you with your nutrients. Water with fresh squeezed lemon juice also helps to curb your hunger. If your bent on doing a week, consider fruits and veggies.
Please, be careful. A lot of us are pretty used to eat 3 meals a day or similar, not eating at all can be a shock to your body.
some from meat
some from anything that isnt plain ol water.
If its your first time, do not do it for a week. Thats like having your first experience behind the wheel of a car be at the Indy 500.
Start off with a 24 or 48 hour period. Personally, I see anything less than 24 hours as not fasting, its just skipping a meal.
some people also do it to shrink their stomachs so they don't eat as much, which results in weight loss, and i've considered it, because i am overweight, but i found the best way was to have a healthy diet and exercise. but i did slim down some, like i lost 7 pounds in that week, and then gained like 3 back, so it helps. i'm pretty sure a lot of people have something against, and i'm altogether really not sure if it's a good thing to do, but so far no harm has been done to me, and i feel good afterwards, if not a little tired.
and anyone is welcome to say anything against what i'm doing or if i'm wrong about something, cuz i'm korean but born in america, and when we visited korea, my parents decided to take me the doctor (and yes it was a doctor, not some health adviser or chiropractor acupuncturist), and i didn't have much idea of what was going on.
good luck.
And I am doing it for spiritual reasons. So there. :P
Wow, neat. Maybe next time he'll let some of your blood to get rid of ill humours.
I respect people who fast for religious reasons or protest, but I don't understand how you can call it "fasting" if you're drinking a bunch of calories. You might as well be eating.
as my excuse, i started doing this 6 years ago, and that time it might have been just like a "fad" or whatever, and not much research done into it. but i am going to admit that i'm pretty healthy than i was before, and i'm not giving the diet all the credit.
and i think your comment on the doc and blood letting is a bit unnecessary Fat. He was a real doctor and my parents didn't take me for some cheap ass medical cure.
back to the TS, i know people who went on fasts that ranged from 7 days to 40 days, except they would only eat once a day, or eat anytime before noon. and it wasn't some huge meal like steak and potatoes, it's always some form of porridge or something.
also, i was shown x-rays of myself, and i had this build up in my large intestine of poop, and then after the fast, it was gone, and i pooped pretty well for about 3 months.
anyways, i don't want to defend myself, i agree that the whole plan is a myth and that it can do more harm than good. thanks.
The shrinking your stomach part was perfectly reasonable, but everything (or lack thereof) in moderation.
the average Americans intestines are packed with terrible things, (mostly beef...) considering most Americans don't miss a meal, they never give the intestines a chance to empty completely. People can claim that fasting has no health benefits: the fact remains they are most likely carrying 2-3 lbs of excess waste
Spiritually, fasting will make meditation and prayer a serious experience. I often found myself sitting with a clear mind without realizing it. Extrenous, stressfull thought becomes less every day. If I had intended to do any serious kind of meditation, I might have had some very incredible experiences. Being my first fast, and feeling this 'zen' nature overcoming me so often I was honestly content to stay inside my everyday conscious mind
If you're doing this for prayer or meditation I wish you luck!
Do not drink grapefruit juice or tomato juice while fasting! You will already have nothing in your stomach, and the acids in those will tear your stomach apart and make you feel very sick. Use something a little more mild like apple juice, as jclast suggested earlier. While they're BS, the base of several detox drinks that you're supposed to fast while taking involves apple juice because it's easier to take on an empty stomach (those detoxers don't really work, but there is a reason for the ingredients involved).
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This is not meant to be a knock but is there any evidence of the whole "stomach shrinking" thing? I always thought hunger was caused by hormones.
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I don't know if the calorie-rich drinks will prevent this, but you could very well end up with some seriously nasty symptoms (vomiting, diarrhea, etc) by the end of the week.
You also need to be careful once you stop fasting - don't go back to three large meals a day right away, you should work your way up slowly over a few days, else you run the risk of your body rejecting the nutrient-rich foods that you're taking in, which also isn't pleasant.
Also - are you allowed smoothies? Because if so, just blend a bunch of fruit and berries and some protein powder or something like that into a smoothie and you should be pretty good to go nutrition-wise. At least, for a week.
i don't have any hard evidence of that stuff working either, but afterwards i did eat less, and gastric bypass surgery basically makes the stomach smaller, and also allows food to bypass the small intestine, and it yields good results for people who are like morbidly obese or have some other problems. but hormones and other chemical triggers probably do have some signficant effect on hunger, as there are supplements that repress hunger.
i'm just saying what's going on in my head, i don't have any source for this stuff.
also, on the fasting thing, the people i mentioned who did 40 days were like pastors and missionaries. are you planning on fasting completely for 7 days with like water and tea? if you are, i really commend you for that. i did a month fast once (religious reasons also), and i only ate before noon, and it was only either fruit or porridge, and i ruled out all forms of media such as tv, music, books (cept the bible), and playing guitar. cutting out tv was easy, because i didn't watch much tv anyways, but this was during the summer, and the order of the phoenix was coming out, and it's pretty standard for albums to come out during the summer so it was a bit of a pain. also, i had to quit playing in the band i was in during that month, which lead to the band breaking up altogether. all that was pretty hard. food wasn't much of a problem after the first week and a half or so.
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