Dieting

[Artashes]

Re: Dieting

The longest fast I did was 11 days.
I was about 200 or more feet above the Columbia river in eastern Washington.
The climb was basically straight up or down a Mesa or shear cliff. Strenuous each way. One had to walk about a mile to go up the easy way and that was away from the river.
I got stronger as did this but did drop some weight. I noticed no ill effects. I did become hungrier as the days passed.
I have heard or read of people suffering ill effects from going that long without eating, but I'm not one of them.
I do not recommend this duration of fasting to anyone.
However, to fast for one day, or even two days has many benefits. Both health wise and spiritually if one turns their thoughts in that direction.
Pepsi, a one day fast can be highly benificial, and surprisingly speed up weight loss.
My personal opinion is one should be relaxed when they do this and not anxious or worried.
Unless someone has some medical issue, a one day fast isn't going to kill or cause any physical problems.
And in fact is quite a benificial and healthy thing to do.
Just something to think about.
----------- man does not live by bread alone -------------
Artashes

[Artashes]

Re: Dieting

The longest fast I did was 11 days.
I was about 200 or more feet above the Columbia river in eastern Washington.
The climb was basically straight up or down a Mesa or shear cliff. Strenuous each way. One had to walk about a mile to go up the easy way and that was away from the river.
I got stronger as did this but did drop some weight. I noticed no ill effects. I did become hungrier as the days passed.
I have heard or read of people suffering ill effects from going that long without eating, but I'm not one of them.
I do not recommend this duration of fasting to anyone.
However, to fast for one day, or even two days has many benefits. Both health wise and spiritually if one turns their thoughts in that direction.
Pepsi, a one day fast can be highly benificial, and surprisingly speed up weight loss.
My personal opinion is one should be relaxed when they do this and not anxious or worried.
Unless someone has some medical issue, a one day fast isn't going to kill or cause any physical problems.
And in fact is quite a benificial and healthy thing to do.
Just something to think about.
----------- man does not live by bread alone -------------
Artashes

Forgot to say this ----- if one does fast for one day, a golden opportunity arises.
When one breaks a one day fast, IMO, one should eat a --- very --- small amount of fruit. Something like 4 or 5 strawberries. One should eat them slowly and chew them well. One should savor the flavor and hold that flavors pleasure, and then calmly wait for the next appropriate meal time.
So, if you break your one day fast the following morning, then after eating the 5 strawberries, you would then refrain from eating again till lunch time. At lunch and thereafter if one then sticks with eating an healthy and appropriate number of calories, then you will dramatically speed up your weight reduction!!
Artashes