Re: day 7 water fasting

Hi wickedlylu. My longest fast was 27 days and I had awful symptoms towards the end.

It was an old member here, Fonty, who told me that it didn't matter if I fasted for 10 days or 40 days, because you have to refeed in between for equal periods anyway, so the time period is much the same. Even recently, after several months refeeding on good healthy raw food during which period I maintained my weight loss with ease), I still could only manage 23 days. But it really didn't bother me, because I can see the graph coming down.


http://www.tickerfactory.com/weight-loss/wjfZGk0/


You can try a long one if you want, but I think you may run out of nutrients and then want to go a bit crazy at the end. For me the REAL benefits came when the fast taught me to love and eat healthy raw food. Before I ate processed food, and now I just fall in love with a Cripps Pink or Braeburn apple and could eat them all day. It only took one or two shorter fasts to get me like that.

Go for as long as you want, but remember don't ignore the real hunger feeling, which is felt in the throat and does not go away. This I think for you will come before 38 days. I could be wrong though.

Oh my next fast will probably be towards the end of this month, so my refeeding is timed to coincide with the Christmas period, for obvious reasons. Then another one in the new year.

Personally I like targets, I see my weigh drop as my flight plan into an airport with my desired weight as that little green runway which I am getting closer to. I intend to do a smooth touchdown sometime in early 2009.

I also like to give my body time to adjust, skin tighten up and so on, and in my case I will probably lose a bit of bone and muscle too as I will be carrying half my weight when I get to where I want.

So to get back to the 38 days, I think you will probably get real hunger before then, but in any case I can't see any benefit in doing longer fasts over shorter ones, not for weight loss anyway. I think you'll feel more in control if you choose when to stop rather than have your body tell you. But at the end of the day, it's your personal choice.

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