Date:   11/22/2008 3:08:43 PM ( 17 y ago)
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Hi Rainy, and anyone else who this may apply to,

I THINK I am beginning to understand the issues surrounding eating disorders (with an emotional basis) and water fasting.

Here is what I DO know. I know I could not possibly have fasted successfully if I had the issues with food that I did several years ago. I hadn't really thought about it until I saw that video that I posted elsewhere in this thread, but looking back, and remembering my failed attempts at dieting, and how miserable I felt and the temptation to binge afterward (curry, beer etc), I would not have done it in that state of mind, because I was too much into comfort eating to hide from the emotional issues. Also, looking at my more recent fasting experiences, particularly recalling issues surrounding this post
//www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=1185055#i
- I am pretty sure that a hostile emotional environment would have equally thrown me off track. I had to rest for about a day after that particular incident just to get my composure back. Thank god I only had to put up with that crap with someone for a day!

So in retrospect I think people have to make sacrifices to fast, i.e lifestyle changes. No good saying "I need this job" or whatever, if it is causing you stress and leads to emotional problems that affect your eating patterns. Another biblical quote - it is easier for a camel to go through they eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Whether it be job, past memories, other family members, I really think you have to unload whatever is causing the problem to find happiness, else the fasting process will only be the equivalent of a "purge" in a binge purge pattern.

I have seen plenty of people fasting here with low self esteem, it comes across all the time in their posts. You kinda know they will be the same in 2 weeks, 2 months, probably 2 years.

Anyway I hope you do succeed of course. I think the people I have spoken to who know about EDs are well aware that people with EDs will try and use a fast simply as a purge mechanism rather than tackle the underlying problem so that's why they won't advise it, also for many people EDs are always a shadow that haunts them even when supposedly "cured". However my guess is that in theory, someone with an ED who fully resolves their emotional issues FIRST, AND has a bout of really healthy eating to improve the body and mind COULD do a successful fast, though maybe they wouldn't feel the need for it by then! If they did so it should really be medically supervised and have a health check at start.

That's my teo pennorth, or cents, depending on which side of the Atlantic you live.
 

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