Re: Intermittent Fasting - Help please

HariEmani,

Part one is good background....does not need any comments.

... part two....

My current fasting method from 1st October 2015

16:8 - 5 days a week

24 hours - 2 days a week (Tuesday and Saturday) 

This fasting method is good.

My current diet:

Organic brown rice with non organic vegetables side dishes, organic millet based Indian recipes - dosa and roti.

I think Roti and Dosas are not the most healthiest foods.

Dietary Supplements:

Protein in powder form combined with multivitamins (10 gm) and protein in healthy biscuits form which contain 30% protein. I take total 100 gm of biscuits which contain 30 g protein.

Protein powders in my opinion are partial food and protein biscuits are evn worse, I bet bisuits have so many junk ingredients, such as sugar and presrvatives. I would stay away from these things. Get you protein from raw plants. An elephant gets all its protein from leaves.

noni juice - about 100 ml per day 

Is Noni juice freshly made and consumed right away? If not, I would stay away from it too. All juices made in factories are cooked twice and lose all it's nutrients and then they add synthetic vitamins, colors and sugars.

lemon juice - about 4 or 30 ml mixed with 150 ml of water with a pinch of baking salt and rock salt early morning and before bed.

Lemon juice is great before meals.

chelated minerals

Do not know much about these minerals so cannot comment.

My daily consumption method.

8 am to 2 PM – food consuming period.

Start with lemon juice, after 10 minutes I take 30 ml of noni juice with a glass of water.

How do I break 24 hour or 16 hour fast: I start with high digestible protein biscuits - about 9 gm of protein and 21 gm of carbs and other ingredients (total 30gm). After about 30 minutes I take my regular meals.

Long fasts should always be broken with light meals, including two day fasts.

Today I found an organic shop near by, only papaya and most of the vegetables are available for me. I stopped eating fruits two years ago as I did not see any health benefits. Plus acidity formation was too high or I felt hungry and had to eat my regular diet again.

Fruits are necessary for some micro-nutrients. Fruits are the cleaners and vegetables are the healers.

Any suggestions on how to improve my fasting process would be appreciated. Also what to expect and not to expect will also help in case. 

ALL IN ALL, YOU HAVE DONE AN AMAZING JOB FOR GETTING YOUR HEALTH BACK. FASTING HAS HELPED YOU CLEAN YOUR BODY AND IT IS FUNCTIONING BETTER NOW.

I would look at Magnesium deficiency, Vitamin D deficiency and Iodine deficiency. Get some tests done for these three which will solve some of your issues.

Part three is good.

You are very organized, your post is well written and you are methodical about it.

Thank you for sharing your journey.

 

Archus