Re: What has fasting done for you?

hi,
I have a feeling I have similar issues to yours, and I am fasting to regain my health. I mean to start a Water Fast shortly. I hope to go about 10 days. I wish for longer, but...I am not experienced with longer fasts. I have an ingrained (and probably food-addiction-based) fear of fasting that interferes with me in my efforts but I am working with it and overcoming it. My fear of fasting seems to have to do with my thinness but I do feel confident reading fasting literature and listening to my experience and body and intuition that fasting is very right and very necessary for me. Digestive issues are a real challenge and I feel for you (and myself! ha.) I think fasting is the very therapy for me.

Anyway, if you want to be fasting buddies, please respond here or message or email me!!!

I am feeling so symptomatic/in need of a fast that I may start as soon as today or tomorrow. But I would be there for you any time.

To address your question, I will assert that, slowly, gently, and holistically, and NOT with instant results but with total healing, and spiritual healing included, -- fasting has done everything for me. This despite that I do not yet have the ability to eat gently enough post fast to maintain the beautiful healing results ... it is again my fear and anxiety-to-gain-weight that is getting in the way... so that is another issue I am just committed to resolving. I have total faith in fasting. it has so far -- reformed my diet (2 years and a bit on raw foods only)and I think this is an incredibly important step. I still really suffer from my digestive issues , but this is attitudinal/behavioral. I have to learn to just really radically respect my body when my body can't handle food. I have to get used to the behavior of pushing away the food. I have to detach myself from comfort eating. FAsting of course prompts me to do all these things. i am convincced this is the path to healing for me. it seems so much better than pharmaceuticals and even using a lot of herbs which can be abused too potentially. .. As soon as I get a handle on the not-overeating post fast I expect my health to rocket upwards. After this fast I intend to make a Commitment -- like a commitment to sobriety -- to push away the food bravely if my body says "no." Oh my God the courage this is going to take. i expect I will post about the process on this forum. I think my body is to be trusted. I have a lot of experience with it and believe in moving toward this radical respect of it. it will be hard and I will screw up but it is a step in the right direction. ... fasting has prompted this step by strengthening my body so my body can really react strongly and make me quite ill when I overdo food after a fast. The fast strengthens my body and so my body reacts strongly with a "STOP!" message right away -- stop eating! that hurts me! I am sick! i have these digestive issues! says my body. After a fast my body is strong this way instead of being too weak to respond, and me only feeling the effects of my over-eating much much later in the form of say cancer or something. It's uncomfortable, because the result is I get really ill from overeating whose effects I was able to repress before a fasting process -- but it is so worth it to be healed this way by the fast. Kind of MADE to respect myself. I do feel myself to have gotten much healthier in my fasting so far. And this without much success at all in fasting for any period of time. My longest 4.5 days. ... I struggled to get into fasting at all. I am not well, by any stretch, but i see the way there. I really want to make a big change with my eating behavior right now -- first doing a fast for as long as I can or dare; and then, as I say, committing to REALLY respecting my body when it can't handle food -- as scary as this may get -- after the fast. I think this will make a huge difference to how I feel and function. It will be the beginning of my body's real healing from these dysbioses/intestinal issues. This will mean the real beginning of my having a life...
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