Re: Water fasting/supplements
The lowered metabolic rate that fasting brings about can last up to 6 weeks after breaking it; gaining excess weight post-fast therefore depends on what you eat and how often, so most return to their old eating habits and gain excess weight.
A low-calorie but nutrient-dense way of eating will avoid regaining excess weight, as hunger/appetite is a response by the body to its nutritional needs; eating the typical standard american diet will not satisfy the body "nutritionally" and so keeps you in a constant state of hunger and so you eat more "foodless foods" and pile on the pounds. Eating a high nutritional diet will satisfy the body nutritionally and keep appetite and hunger at bay. The Nutritarian way of eating means you can eat as much as you like and still lose excess weight post-fast.
Traditionally, fasts were broken on a mixture of fresh orange and apple juice graduating to freshly extracted carrot juice and then graduating to juicy fruits on day 2 or 3 (depending on how long the fast was) and then salads on day 4 or 5 and including some concentrated foods after 6 to 7 days. All of this dictated by bodily demand or need.
Breaking a fast on
Watermelon though is fine, as it would be with any other juicy fruit, but you have to masticate the food thoroughly before swallowing: this was the experience of both
Shelton and Vetrano after supervising 50,000 fasts.