May I drink tea while fasting? 
#95194
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MoreThis is day 2 of water fasting, yesterday morn. and this morn. I had a cup of tea with raw honey (0 cals) and the rest of the day only water. I heard tea had good enzymes for dieting and losing weight, so it can't be bad to drink on a fast? And it's 0 cals too. So...to drink tea or not to drink tea? (Will ketosis still be effective, tea or not?)
Thank you.
-DNA- Re: May I drink tea while fasting? Fonty
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,135,382Hmm. First, honey does not have zero calories. It is a Sugar and is exactly what you don't want to add to your body while fasting it will end it instantly.
Second, you are either dieting or fasting. If you are fasting you just have to drink your water according to thirst and avoid putting anything on your skin that would interfere with the detox, not use toothpaste etc. Just stay out of your bodies way while it does what it needs to do to restore full health. This will include weight loss in very good time but will include many other benefits. If you are dieting you can add things like weight loss teas but you are NOT fasting in this case, you are entering a starvation diet and I have no knowledge of that other than that unlike fasting it is a very dangerous thing to do.
So I suggest no tea and water only for fasting. :)
There is a free online book that is well worth the read here:
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.toc.htm
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Andrew.
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- Re: May I drink tea while fasting? #95194
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This is a reply to # 1,135,403Lol, I checked the honey container and it said Zero Calories *0*, and it's Raw, but maybe it's still bad? Also, Tea is also 0 cals so I don't understand how it is starvation if there are no calories to begin with? I mean, tea itself is 0 calories, it's like water with herbs? Thanks for the website, I'll check it out right now. (Lol, you're not the only one who said my username helped you remember how to spell DNA.)
- Re: May I drink tea while fasting? bling
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This is a reply to # 1,135,403
So do you consider the juicefast as a starvation diet, or the Lemonade Diet ? I can't see how that can be, when people have good results and feel healthier.
Even Bragg, on short fasts, recommends a cider vinegar or lemon with honey/maple? in a couple of your glasses of water a day, to dissolve mucous.- Re: May I drink tea while fasting? chrisb1
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This is a reply to # 1,135,553Bling,
I wouldn't call Juicefasting or Juicefeasting (as some people call it) a starvation diet: it is more of a "reducing diet" with weight loss and health benefits that accrue because of it. Fresh organic juices are saturated with natures nutrition.
Paul Bragg did add the items you mentioned, such as Apple Cider Vinegar to dissolve mucus, but for the purists this was again a reducing diet.
Any form of liquid nutrition though is better absorbed by the body as it requires the minimum of digestion: that is why fruit is considered to be easily digested because it is mostly water and considered by most to be pre-digested. So basically, more benefits accrue with the least amount of nutrition, and therefore Water Fasting is considered by many to be the "ultimate" with zero nutrition. This forces the body into Ketosis which results in the maximum healing and cleansing.
Regards
Chrisb1. - Re: May I drink tea while fasting? Fonty
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This is a reply to # 1,135,553Maybe I'm just a purist in this case. I think that juice fasting is a means to an end. A slower way of cleansing or losing weight than water fasting, but I wouldn't think it would be good for the body to continue indefinitely any more than it would be to continue Water Fasting indefinitely. The body admittedly needs rest from digesting foods at times but complete rest for ever? It's a natural bodily process and as good as juicing is it isn't utilising the whole body, and once the goal of the juice fast is achieved, just like water fasting, the body needs to get back to 'normal'.
So while I wouldn't call it a starvation diet as such, I would hesitate to suggest that juicing is providing everything that the body needs. Don't ask me about the Lemonade Diet , it doesn't sound like something I would like. :p
Andrew.- Re: May I drink tea while fasting? chrisb1
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This is a reply to # 1,135,569Andrew,
I don't think anyone mentioned juice fasting indefinitely, or even there being a need to. I know I certainly didn't. It will have benefits, but as you rightly point out, it is not nearly beneficial as water fasting: the body will need to get back to normal at some point by providing solid nutrition.
Regards
Chris
- Re: May I drink tea while fasting? Fonty
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This is a reply to # 1,135,578Yep I understand and agree Chris. I was just responding to bling's question about whether or not juice 'fasting' is a starvation diet. I don't believe it is, but in the very long term it possibly could become so is my answer I guess.
- Re: May I drink tea while fasting? Fonty
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- Re: May I drink tea while fasting? bling
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This is a reply to # 1,135,569Who is talking about indefinately?
I was just making a point that the odd cup of tea without the honey/milk, would be a minor indiscretion, and not a major catastrophy, and i would doubt that it would ruin the fast.
Yes, you are a purist. LOL. And you have every right to be, this is the waterfast forum afterall, not a waterfast but you can have this and that forum LOL. But most of us are not perfect, and if it takes falling off the wagon a few times to complete a fast, it is a means to an end in my opinion.
If you are already used to drinking just water it doesn't come as such a hardship as it does for those of us who normally drink tea and coffee or whatever. I have gone 5 days without coffee now, this time around but still drink a couple of teas, that is my next aim, to drink them weaker, then without milk and then cut out completely. Then i'm caffiene free, but giving up coffee was the hard part.
You have the luxury of already being a raw foodist, so you will obviously find it easier than others to adjust to the waterfast. A lot of us are still trying to get there and will make lots of mistakes and do things we are not supposed to do while we get there.
If i have to make my journey by going around the scenic route, juicing to start or whatever it takes to eventually do the water for longer than a few days, i will, and i will not see that as any sort of failure on my part.- Re: May I drink tea while fasting? Fonty
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This is a reply to # 1,135,591And nor should you feel it is a failure. I feel exactly the same way about my efforts. I am far from perfect and still fall off the wagon all the time, my wagon is just a bit different to yours is all. :)
I've only been on mostly raw since I started fasting again in August last year then. I went cold turkey off junk food and soft drinks then and it was fasting that paved the way for that change in my lifestyle.
Andrew.
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