Re: Chris question about your response

Hi #84008
I agree with Fontys comments from his post in reply to your own.

I remember only too vividly, that on my first prolonged fast of 25 days I had the same experience at about the 19 to 22 day stage. Terrible stomach discomfort accompanied by vomiting on small amounts of toxins: this included some acid (and acid reflux) but a mixture of other substances as well, including bile. Not a pleasant time.
The body tends to expel effluent matter at any stage during a fast by any means possible, and that includes the mouth via the stomach: even my saliva was being over-produced and I had a voluminous spitting crisis that lasted (on & off) for several days to a week. But I knew I had to continue with my fast for as long as possible as this was going to be a do or die effort.

Your question about this statement from Shelton....
"There are fasting experts of large experience who hold that regularly the secretion of gastric juice ends with the expulsion of the last morsel of food in the stomach and does not recommence until the next meal is taken"
A. He was quoting from other fasting "experts" who adhered to this view, but this was not Sheltons experience in a great number of cases, as he goes on to say so.

The comment made from your boyfriend......
"quit your'e done there no more food left in your stomach so its now churning its own acid" is not accurate.
Shelton has this to say re stomach acid...................
"The secretion of gastric juice is continuous throughout most of the fast, but in a greatly diminished quantity and is of a weakly acid character. At times its secretion may be stimulated by the usual factors responsible for "psychic secretion."

The only reliable way of knowing that you have fasted to completion is the return of hunger. All other signs are only of secondary importance, such as a clean tongue and bright eyes and so on.

Dr Shelton makes this comment...........
"The primary indication that the fast is to be broken is the return of hunger; all the other indications which I have enumerated are secondary. Often one or more of these secondary signs are absent when hunger returns, but one should not refrain from breaking the fast when there is an unmistakable demand for food, merely because the tongue, for example, is not clean. Inasmuch as all the signs do not invariably appear in each case, do not hesitate to break the fast when hunger returns."

So unless you have experienced a genuine return of hunger, then it is highly unlikely that you have fasted to completion.
I think that at your 21 day stage, you are experiencing an elimination crisis which should be welcomed (although extremely difficult to endure). With perseverance, at that 21 day stage, and in the knowledge that this is an elimination crisis, I would have continued, knowing that it will not last forever and will only have profound benefits for your body.

Regards

chrisb1

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