Date:   1/9/2012 11:15:48 PM ( 12 y ago)
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Hi Adam and great job on completing 23 days!

I like Edberg's reply quite a bit and agree with it completely.

To reinforce what he said, it sounds very much like your body needed less food so early after breaking and as Edberg said 5 days (or so) of strictly juice would have been fantastic. If it was me in your current situation, i would likely go back to water-only for a day or longer (partly depending on your symptomology and likely until you are feeling basically at least pretty good) then go to strictly juice (no solids whatsoever) for about 5 days.

Once you break the water-only fast feeling good, i would expect your body to thrive on the juice which provides the perfect level of digestive complexity for what your body is ready to embrace as well as nutritionally dense, enzyme rich sensational nutriment. As well you will find that with such a gradual return to eating, your body will not only be ready to digest whole fruits after the 5 days of juicing, but will absolutely thrive on them (and absolutely without lethargy and/or depression) once juice alone has prepared the way.

Whole fruits can be ok in breaking a long fast, but would need to be taken in tiny portions as in perhaps 2 oranges carefully chewed throughout an entire day. I personally prefer to avoid whole fruits entirely until i know i can safely have larger quantities (lest i be tempted to have more than i should).

I believe you can gain a lot of weight post-fast if this is your desire, but agree that you shouldn't be in a hurry to do this while your digestive system is in so delicate a state.

Of course the weight you will likely aspire to gain is in the form of muscle... not fat... and fat is all too easy to gain by over eating, so how best to eat in achieving your goal becomes a delicate balance. Muscle gain can best be achieved with resistance training and also (in my opinion) with short duration, high intensity cardio (meaning sprints) combined with slightly more nutrient dense calories than your body is likely to be burning. Getting to 165 or 170 pounds would be easy, but getting there with 10% or less body fat is the challenge.
 

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