Re: powerray, are you still around?

hi! it is great to hear from someone! I am, to answer your question, totally involved in a life-process of learning, embracing, and becoming committed to a serious practice of fasting. I anticipate that I will do quite a lot of fasting in the beginning, for initial healing -- as soon as I learn to really do it. Then for the rest of my ... life, I guess, there will be maintenance fasts, several per year...fasting is my chosen healing modality/way of life.

So, I did do this fast .. I don't know when the post was from. Subsequent to this (I think) I did a 4.5 day fast and most recently a 3-1/3 day fast. ... All these have brought improvement in all my symptoms and in my emotional state. ... FAstign is tricky . It is my way of totally transforming myself...what fasting asks me to do is really get ready to leave behind permanenetly my food addiction. To live "food-sober" and on (for me, only me, and I would never prescribe for others) QUITE a sober diet. .. to the extent I am not ready to do this, I do suffer following a fast... becuase the fast strengthens and empowers my body to protest against (and actually FEEL int he first place) my self-hurting compulsive eating/emotional eating behavior!

My general theory of fasting as a healing practice is that it (1) repairs the damage I have done to my body and then (2) empowers my body to demand that I act more gently.

Oh god so it is HARD -- but there's no real alternative, is there? If I don't fast and really figure out a way to behave /eat soberly afterward and really change my life-choices and habitual behavior -- I am just repressing everythign with food all the time and... killing myself slowly... so, after a fast, it's rough!!! I have to put a lot of effort into becoming willing to, finding ways to, act more "food-sober" post-fast, as I plan the fasts and execute them. I mean to fast a lot longer eventually -- 30 days or so, the way people do on the fasting forums. I want quite soon to achieve a ten-day fast -- but that's my biggest goal for right now... I kind of KNOW how challenging it's going to be ... though it can also change quickly! Healing can be a long time in preparation and then happen quite seemingly suddenly. Then it's a case of maintaining the healing/"sobriety"/new life choices (ugh ugh ugh! :) ) .. I was going to say , i kind of KNOW, how challenging it is going to be, to REALLY YIELD to the healing which fasting prompts me to engage in -- to really get as "food-sober" as fasting demands. The way that fasting demands food-sobriety/life-sobriety from me is, that after a fast I am in SO MUCH PAIN if I go back to my old ways.

So, I hope that answers what you asked. It is a big roundabout answer. But I would love a fasting buddy and hope to hear form you , and please just ask me anything, including anything I have omitted to address in your post!
Best regards!
Powerray Tweet