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We hear about people who say they're going on a 7 day fast, a 10 day fast, a 30 day fast and so forth. My question is, how does that even work? In my mind to "fast" means to not eat. If you don't eat, you perish. If anyone here has done this, shed some light on it for me please.
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Have you ever fasted?
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You can still drink. Basically your body lives off of stored muscle and fat...I personally don't think it's healthy, since your heart is also a muscle...
I've only fasted for a day at a time, on "fast Sunday".
I've only fasted for a day at a time, on "fast Sunday".
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I could never do that. It reminds me of one poster I saw on the Garfield website: I can't diet for medical reasons, it makes me hungry.
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Same here, only done a one-day fast at a time. I did it more often in the '70s when Jim and I were doing our spiritual journey in India. (The Indians don't even consider one day without eating to be a fast).thepossiblepolice wrote:You can still drink. Basically your body lives off of stored muscle and fat...I personally don't think it's healthy, since your heart is also a muscle...
I've only fasted for a day at a time, on "fast Sunday".
What always amazed me is the amount of time one spends preparing and eating food. During a fast you have noticeable extra time on your hands.
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thepossiblepolice wrote:You can still drink.
You have to drink or you gonna die! And no, I've never done it and probably never would voluntarily.
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I don't think I would have the physical or mental tolerance to pull it off.
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Most people will fast from food, but still drink, when they're fasting. Others will fast form certain foods and others will fast for a period of time - like sun-up to sundown or between certain hours. I guess it's personal preference, though last year one of the students in my school was fasting for Ramadan, which was a sun-up to sun-down fast.
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Thanks for the replies all. I really wasn't sure what the process here was. If it was just abstaining from CERTAIN foods, or eating very light, or eating nothing at all. But I always wondered how that was even possible.
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I don't get home people do that. The body need solids at least every 3-5 days right?
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alan smithee wrote:thepossiblepolice wrote:You can still drink.
You have to drink or you gonna die! And no, I've never done it and probably never would voluntarily.
lol, I know...But in the OP it said "you don't eat, you perish" or something like that and my first thought was..."Not for a long time, as long as you can drink..."
I don't know who I'm kidding because I give myself 24 hours without food before someone is going to kill me because I'm such a bitch...
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AtownPeep wrote:Thanks for the replies all. I really wasn't sure what the process here was. If it was just abstaining from CERTAIN foods, or eating very light, or eating nothing at all. But I always wondered how that was even possible.
There are all different versions of fasting, juice fasting where you only drink fresh juices...All different fast type diets where you drink lemon juice with pepper and honey in it with all sorts of variations...
A lot of times those are combined with hydrotherapy...(not for me, ew)
My husband wants to go on the Fat Flush diet which seems like a fast to me even though you can eat some things, because it's so limited and you drink a lot of water with unsweetened cranberry juice and a fiber laxative...He's just desperate though, to lose weight at this point.
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From time to time I tell them to hold the pickles.
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