Once again, she says her first food is going to be steak. Chris told her, and Mouseclick and others as well, regarding how dangerous it is to have steak immediately after a fast.

It seems more an experiment with supplements than a water fast. Her appearance startled me. Health attainment is not the motivating factor here, so it is hard to understand. May she safely reach her spiritual goals and never need to venture down this path once more.

Just seen the video,
I don't see any need for anyone to moderate/delete/edit your post JeanValjean, unless the worst happens perhaps?

It is also possible she may come thru this experience unscathed, but then how will we, or anyone, ever know the extent of any harm/damage caused unless Olivia or her husband reveals it?

It is significant that hunger is mentioned more and more as the fasts progress as well.

The breaking of a fast with steak/meat is potentially dangerous in that with the genuine return of hunger there is usually a ravenous and urgent need for food, and unless this is "controlled" leads to "gorging".
Gorging (if allowed) on high-water-content foods is much safer than gorging on concentrated foods such as meat and steak (not recommended) which MUST be chewed/masticated thoroughly before swallowing. This is the only way meat could be tolerated in the breaking of an extended fast/s..................

SHELTON.
"Dr. Wm. F. Havard records the following cases: "A young man twenty-four years of age who had suffered from chronic constipation and indigestion, fasted twenty-seven days after reading an article in a popular health publication. On the twenty-eighth day he ate a meal of beefsteak, potatoes, bread and butter and coffee. He was seized with violent vomiting spells and could not tolerate even a teaspoonful of water on the stomach. When called on the case I discovered an intense soreness of the entire abdomen and every indication of acute gastritis." "A young man about thirty who had fasted on his own initiative for forty-two days attempted to break the fast on coarse bread with the result that vomiting occurred and the stomach became so irritable that nothing could be retained. There was marked emaciation and extreme weakness and every indication for immediate nourishment."

An Associated Press dispatch dated Aug. 28, (1929) recounts the death of Chris Solberg, 40 years old art model, following a 31 days fast, which he broke by "consuming several sandwiches." The sandwiches, a later report stated, contained beef. Ignorance and lack of self-control killed this man"...................................
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02/0201hyglibcat/020127shelton.III/020127.ch30.htm


Olivia's experiment may go horribly wrong and where any advice has been ignored. She will do her own thing it seems regardless of any consequences.
I just hope for her sake, that commonsense will prevail sooner, rather than later.

Chrisb1.

I think she is OK.However, she needs to break the fast with juices not with steak. She does not look anorexic at all.... In fact, she has mentioned that she still has body fat.According to her weight she should have. I would be more worry if she would weight 70LB. I wish her the best !!!!!!

Even if she makes it to day 40 and eventually gets her health back, I doubt this will be the last 40-day fast she ever does. This looks like an obsessive disorder to me.