i am going to water fast for 10 days.

I fast daily from 7 pm to 7 am - That's how my body was designed to do it.

I have never thought having hunger pains was a good thing. I have never thought that good nutrition strategically throughout the day was a bad thing. I think fasting can put your body under a lot of stress in doing without. Many organs can become stressed without input. Demands are placed on other organs to compensate for the ones needed nutrition.

Limiting intake is good. Replacing a meal with a nutritious smoothie is good. But withholding nutrition from a body just does not make sense to me. Maybe that is because I put energy (food) in and expend said energy.

What do I know? Not much. Just an old grandma that's been around the block more than once.

Post Edited (PeteZa) : 8/15/2017 8:45:33 AM (GMT-6)

Agent Bex said...
I am definitely glad you are deciding not to water fast! I did this several years ago and was hospitalized in order to prevent heart failure. I was told I was lucky to be alive, with my heart so weak. When you water fast, you lose muscle. Yes, even if you're not underweight. What's the most important muscle in your body? Your heart. Fasting should only be done under a physician's supervision to monitor BP, electrolytes, etc.-*especially* when you have a multi-systemic illness.

Amen!

I know getting raw milk is an issue in most places but there are a fair amount of people that have claimed that a raw milk fast have rid them of Lyme.

As with anything there are risks. One should educate themselves fully before attempting any type of fast. It should be done with medical supervision (preferably a naturopath) where possible.

I did water fasting without knowing anything about fasting.

I just was feeling bad during lyme. Nothing I took made me feel better.

When I ate, I felt bad. So I decided to stop eating.

Everybody already fasted, without calling it fasting.

If you have children, you will know many children, during illness, will stop eating for quite many hours, if not a full day (or even more).

It's impossible to force food on some kids, and their bodies are screaming to fast. Nature.

I skipped one meal, during lyme, as I felt bad.
Next morning, I was feeling slightly better. As I was still not hungry, I skipped breakfast.

At lunch time, I decided to skip it too. Until the evening. Still not hungry.
So that was my 1st fasting day.

2nd day, morning, I felt better. So I continued.
In the end of the day, I felt almost normal!! I had more energy, I felt positive, my urine started to come out so yellow as it never had before. I think.

3rd day, it was fantastic. I mean, compared to the nasty weeks, months before. I felt so good, so energetic, that I decided to go ... jogging!!

Bad idea. After about 10 minutes or so, I crashed.

I came back, shaking, and ate one sweet pear. The energy came back, I went to the computer to read about fasting. Yep, definitively, it's a bad idea to do physical exercise during fasting.

I remained then the rest of the days only taking one fruit a day.
Amazing results. All infections stopped being active.
My urine was coming out so yellow, stinky, as it never had, possibly my whole life.

I think I felt all lyme symptoms disappearing... Some returned after I re-started eating, but I felt that fasting meant one step up in my healing.

Since that first fasting experience, more than 10 years ago, I still see how it changed my body to this day.

My body since then learned how to detox through the kidneys.
Before, I peed mostly clear water. Barely any smell, any color, for decades.

All toxins remained trapped inside me (?).

To this day, my eating habits changed for good, since that first fasting experience.
I eat breakfast and lunch well, but barely anything in the evening (not hungry).
Before I was hungry in the evening, and skipped breakfast often.

I do think fasting was a great tool for me. I did that without knowing, but now that I know, I use that from times to times.

I usually do one week to 10 days maximum. I usually will eat a fruit a day.

I'm extremely thin, and always felt good when I fast.
I usually fast in winter, when my immune system is low.

It's like it reactivates detoxing and other things in the body and mind.