4 days and done 
Mighty.Sun.Tzu
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I have stated before that in my previous dry fast of 3.5 days i felt i probably went about 24 hours too far, fighting through heavy thirst, dry mouth and throat and drying skin on my lips, face and in several other places on my body along with some little blisters and then paid the price of 10 days of nausia to follow.
In this fast i was much less thirsty and dry at the same point (light to med thirst at 2.5 days compared to med-heavy thirst at 2.5 days last time) and stopped my fast at the level of thirst and dehydrative symptomology i felt i should have last time... and 4 days this time i was comparable in thirst and dryness to 2.5 days last time.
When Med-heavy thirst including dry mouth and throat arose this time, i fought through it only for only about an hour instead of 24, flirting with the idea of at least making it to sleep and drinking in the morning, but decided to play it safe and drank some water with profound delight.
No nausia in moving forward this time so this is very nice. My tongue was pink the entire time in in this fast in contrast to plenty of past fasting experiences (mostly water-only fasts) with a white tongue including one long fast where my coated tongue became pink towards the end.
My body is clearly becoming better at this and i expect one day to safely reach 7 days or even more, breaking at 7 with thirst comparable to what it was breaking this time at 4 and last time at 2.5. Meanwhile i plan to continue 16 hour dry fasts as a daily practice.
- Re: 4 days and done hghbuzz
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This is a reply to # 1,820,557good news Mighty.
your daily 16 hour dry fasts, what time do they start? at midnight, so you don't eat and drink until 4pm the next day, or some other time ?
I only did a 38 hour dry fast this weekend but I think there was some serious internal organ healing going on as I feel completely different now, a major change in my physical and mental well being.- Re: 4 days and done fastician
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- Re: 4 days and done hghbuzz
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This is a reply to # 1,820,679I just felt some activity around my liver/stomach area both of which took a severe battering some years ago from alcohol to the point where I could actually feel they had been damaged and were weak, and that was reflected in my mental health/well being as well.
Since the fast my whole body feels years younger and my insides feel normal again, but my mind is so much more alert and able to think clearer and evaluate different memories quite quickly, whereas usually my memory was total crap and I'd really struggle at work trying to remember what I did last week and how something didn't work and how I fixed it.
When I was 15 years old I used to drink half a bottle of whiskey every friday night for a couple of months and generally drank too much when i was at school, so by the time I turned 18 my body was totally knackered, a classic case of teenage alcohol and drug abuse!
Seems my body is now turning the corner, not bad considering I haven't been doing it for that long and my longest is only 3days 4hours.
I'm finding that I've got injuries I didn't know I had, for example my heel started hurting as it must have some impact damage from walking so much, it's not totally healed yet but feels so much better even though I never thought their was anything wrong in the first place.
- Re: 4 days and done fastician
13 y
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This is a reply to # 1,820,707Thank you very much for responding. As you are reading Dr. Filonov's book you will see that the actual healing process on dry fasts begins to occur on day 5 and culminates on 9- 11 days. However, the detox process kicks in pretty much right away. So as you are detoxing, of course your body and mind will feel different. Dr. Filonov told me once the Depression originates in the liver, and when the liver, hence clean liver clean mind.
I too rip immense benefits from my fasts in term of my mental state. I am starting my next 7 day on Wed and cannot wait...:)
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- Re: 4 days and done hghbuzz
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This is a reply to # 1,820,837Hi Milena,
I don't think thats true that the healing process starts on day 5, in fact it definatly isn't true.
The body starts healing itself straight away, for example if you start your fast at midnight and go to bed, while you are sleeping the body is healing injuries, etc.
I find at the weekends when I lie in and don't get up for any food or fluids then I can feel the healing getting deeper and deeper even if I then get up at 1pm and get on with my life.
It is well documented on the Water Fasting forum that what happens when you fast is the immune system identifies damaged tissue and breaks it down by injecting a fluid into the cells to dissolve them, this then triggers the nerves in those cells so it feels like the old injury or illness has come back and may even get worse until the immune system has finished breaking down the cells so it can replace them with new ones.
Sometimes an injury flares up again and sometimes you can feel the immune system injecting the fluid (I think) when you get a short sharp burning pain in part of your body and you know that something is being healed.
Thats what I was talking about in some of my other posts when I feel these short sharp pains going crazy all over my body when I fast, and I know it is 'healing' as I have joints and old bone fractures, nerves, etc which are transformed as a result
So it is not just detox for the first 5 days, my body definatly heals from day 1 and it was that 'healing' that I found became less active once I started to get really dehydrated on the third day and then perked up again when I had a couple of sips of water.
Maybe the healing dr filonov is talking about happens on day 5 is different to the healing that I experience, i'd be interested to know how they differ.... and also what he has to say about the short sharp pains of the cells being dissolved as I've never read about that in any of his texts which I find bizzare
- Re: 4 days and done mrsFKH
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This is a reply to # 1,820,837Hi Fastician,
Is that your screen name? :)
I have read many times on this forum and a Facebook dry fasting page and other forums that 5 days dry fasting would bring efficient change in body and mind. 9 to 11 days is max. And it should be supervised.
I have dry fasted my whole life with Ramadan. 30 days hour before sunrise till sunset. I have done first 45 hours dry fasting this Ramadan with a few sips of water at sunset and hour before sunrise. I lOst 2 kg and it seems I am not craving like I used to my whole life and also signs that would tell me that periods are coming seem to have changed. Almost no signs at all. I want to do another 45 hours dry fast like I did this mon the before. But does it count as a dry fast while having a few sips of water on these two specific times? And I might be pregnant, but I would know for sure till another 3 weeks. I still feel like dry fasting. I am not thirsty. I do take showers and wash up before prayers.
I would love to hear what you think.
Kind regards
- Re: 4 days and done hghbuzz
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- Re: 4 days and done Mighty.Sun.Tzu
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This is a reply to # 1,820,584Hey there HGH,
Great to hear about your positive results :). Yes my 16 hour daily dry fast usually begins after a light snack (tea or fruit or soup) a couple hours before i go to sleep.
- Re: 4 days and done fastician
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- Re: 4 days and done fastinganne
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This is a reply to # 1,820,557Hi Mighty Sun Tsu,
I am very happy for you.
I admire your perseverance in conditioning your body that learns day after day how to economize water. I see in a method you have been using quite a close resemblance to mine.
I may now laugh out loud without drinking the single drop of water for the last 12 days; However, I will never forget how long it took me to achieve it.
I believe that one day you will be able to endure a long dry fast with a smile on your face.
Love,
Anne- Re: 4 days and done #77446
13 y
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This is a reply to # 1,820,615hi, fastingAnne,
I've seen your posts before... I'd love to be in touch. I'm doing what will become a Water Fast but I always start out dry fasting and never really drink much water on fasts. That's just what feels good to me. i like this forum so far! Haven't read much of it yet but want to check in again. Please write.. are you fasting now? How did you learn to fast for 12 days?
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- Re: 4 days and done Rainy.
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This is a reply to # 1,820,557Congratulations. Did you let water touch your skin when you did this longer dry fast or is it the soft way like Anne does hers? I wonder how much difference it would really make. I have the same question for your daily 16 hour dry fasts. Again, congratulations. That was a major accomplishment.
- Re: 4 days and done fastician
13 y
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This is a reply to # 1,820,737I do absolute long dry fasts. My longest was 9.5 days and currently I am working through 7 days fast - 7 days refeed cascade cycles. The only contact with water I allow myself is washing my hands after the bathroom, my private areas and occasionally cleaning my armpits. No teeth brushing, now showers, no bath and no hair washing. I find it to be a lot easier. Also according to Dr. Filonov whatever skin touches the water does not rejuvenate at the same rate as other does.
When you do long dry fasts, your body literally drinks through skin at every opportunity. That is why Anne reported that her urination would increase after shower or bath. Which in the purist and medical sense would not make it a true dry fast. When I asked Dr. Filonov what he thought about this subject he said that he is very much against contacts with water.
I hope this information is helpful.
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- Re: 4 days and done Mighty.Sun.Tzu
13 y
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This is a reply to # 1,820,841
Hi Rainy and thank you... and thank you also Melena :). I definitely allowed water to touch my skin though i did try to be as dry as possible taking only 1 shower in 4 days for example after getting very dirty doing some work or i wouldn't have done it. But it felt amazing... and i also washed only key areas a couple of other times.
I find it necessary to brush my teeth and mouth though (with just water) especially when i'll be interacting with people and i don't protect my hands with gloves every time i rinse a dish. But i do constantly think about minimizing contact and maybe next time i will do more in that regard because i do believe that less is more.
Side note: as to letting water touch my mouth while brushing my teeth, i believe it does heighten the emotional desire to drink, but caving to emotion has never been my problem in fasting whether dry or water-only, it is the actual heavy physical thirst accompanied by dehydrative symptoms that leads me to drink. Melena, is it your understanding that allowing water to touch the mouth actually somehow increases physical thirst and deyhdrative symptoms too? Thank you .
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- Re: 4 days and done Rainy.
13 y
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This is a reply to # 1,820,903Thank you Melena and Mighty. You both are doing so great.:) I have never tried a dry fast, but this new forum is making me think about it. Sometimes when I Water Fast I have no desire to drink. This would be a perfect time for me to start dry fasting. I've been wondering though how I would make it without water touching my skin as I also have to interact with people. Maybe I could go totally dry on my days off only. I wonder if a person could get by with using baking soda in vital areas that would ordinarily need daily cleansing. Would the baking soda hurt the fast? I could use gloves in the bathroom. I could brush my teeth with a dry brush and just use the moisture of the saliva in my mouth, if I had any that is. :) Well I'm just dreaming, but who knows I may get that far some day. It may be easier than my water only fasts. I am learning so much from this forum. Thank you again for the great inspiration.
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- Re: 4 days and done fastician
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This is a reply to # 1,821,117Dear Rainy,
I am currently coaching a Weekly Dry Fast Group at http://www.fastingconnection.com/intermittent-fast-groups/viewgroup/8-weeklys...
You are welcome to come and join us if you decide to give dry fasting a shot.
It is free and I monitor everyones progress daily.
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- Re: 4 days and done Mighty.Sun.Tzu
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- Re: 4 days and done fastician
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- Re: 4 days and done hghbuzz
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