Re: Looking for a Fasting buddy

40 days is a lot for your first water fast. There are certain dangers in such a long fast if you are not experienced and not supervised.

Try 8 days to see how it goes, then refeed and stay with almost entirely fruits and vegetables. If you must have animal products, stick with homemade yogurt, free-range eggs, and wild-caught fish, but all that should be at a minimum.

After a couple months of that, do a 15-25 day Water Fast (the main event, so to speak).

I personally am between my first 8-day Water Fast and my serious 14-18 day Water Fast that I will begin in early October.

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Separately, if weight loss is the goal, Water Fasting may not be the best approach. Water Fasting is best for those seeking autolysis, but for weight-loss, a 60-100 day juice fast is probably better in terms of risk and tolerability. There are YouTube videos of 60-100 day juice fasts that have lost 60-100 pounds of weight.

A 40-day water fast as your first fast is risky, particularly if your main goal is just weight loss, rather than trying to cure a specific disease. You can even combine the two, doing an 8-day water fast immediately transitioning to a 30/45/60 day juice fast.

How much weight are you trying to lose?

A 40-day water fast is generally something done by people trying to cure advanced stage cancer or some other serious disease, with relatively little left to lose... Tweet