Fasting?

[Taiji Bum]

Anybody into fasting here? Whats the longest you've gone? How do you ease in and out of it? I have the books and have done it for years but never talked to anyone else who has done it.

[mYTHmAKER]

Anybody into fasting here? Whats the longest you've gone? How do you ease in and out of it? I have the books and have done it for years but never talked to anyone else who has done it.

 

I did a ten day water fast many many years ago.

About 2-3 years ago I did 14 days and mYTHISmaker did 10 days.

September or so of this year we did 4 days and two weeks ago we did 3 days.

Over the years I've done a few days here and there.

It's also a good thing to do if you are sick with a cold.

We hope to do 3-4 days every month or so.

The long fasts were supervised.

We don't eat heavy before to fortify ourselves . We are vegetarians and eat fairly well in general.

We drink about 8 - 10 glasses of water a day while fasting. Sipping not drinking a lot at once.

Breaking the fast we have a piece of fruit or maybe some steamed zucchini.

We eat a little every few hours. The next day we don't eat anything heavy such as nuts.

We have a fruit salad, blended greens, steamed veggies.

On the supervised fasts we broke them with a few ounces of grape juice on one and a little

steamed zucchini on the other.

We are not overweight and as a result get weak by the third day.The first two days I can usually do light exercise. I also lose weight pretty fast and can drop 5 - 6 pounds in 3 days.

On longer fasts the weight loss will eventually slow to about 1/2 pound or less per day.

Luckily I gain it back in about a week or so.

[TwoTrees]

*3 times a year, for 10 days. I'm hoping to expand them to 12 ... but we'll see.

Only water & raw restricted juices during them.

Like the Myths, I also keep it light before and afterhand so as not to bloat or create any unpleasantness.

Used to be hard to do, starting out, but gets smoother & easier cumulatively.