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CurlyFem20

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Hey Everyone!!!!! Im really new to this whole thing and Im looking for a semi support system... I really am trying to stick to a 10 day water fast... Lately Ive been feeling sluggish and just "slothish". So a few days ago I decided today would be the day that I was going to man up and try this water fast. Are there any tips or words of encouragement you guys would love to share???!!!! EVERYTHING (negative or positive is welcomed!!!!!):hurray:
 
I thought about doing one too. There are alot of benefits.
And what I've seen on other websites and even heard from my doctor was that the people that say its unhealthy are the ones that know nothing of it.

Water fasting & juice fasting helps detoxify your body. Everyone I know that has finished their fast has felt great afterward.

But I would recommend a 10 day juice fast if you haven't done a water fast before. Or start with a 3 day juice fast then 10 day water fast then finish with another 3 day water fast.
This is what I found on another site::

Benefits of Water Fasting – Water Fasting Tips


•It cleanses your respiratory, circulatory, digestive and urinary systems, destroying impurities all over the body and eliminates uric acid deposits.
•People detoxify and heal more quickly with water fast than with any other fast. This is because with water fasting, your digestive passageway and organs are able to rest completely, allowing for all of your energy to be used for cleansing and repair of damaged tissues.
•It restores your body balance by eliminating wastes.
•It has been found effective in the treatment of type II diabetes.
•It has been found to be one of the most effective treatments for obesity.
•Water fasting is beneficial in epilepsy, reducing the length, number, and severity of seizures.
•It is effective for treating both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
•It improves poor immune function during fasting.
•Water fasting increases your cell-mediated immunity and immunoglobulin levels.
•Water fasting decreases your antigen-antibody complexes, and enhances natural killer cell activity.
•It increases your life span.
•It helps you in weight loss.
•Water fasting promotes detoxification.
•It gives your digestive system a much-needed rest.
•Fasting promotes the resolving of inflammatory processes, including painful inflammatory syndromes such as rheumatoid arthritis.
•It quiets allergic reactions, including asthma and hay fever.
•It promotes the drying up of abnormal fluid accumulations, such as edema in the ankles and legs and swelling in the abdomen.
•It corrects your high blood pressure to a safe range within two weeks without drugs. And the blood pressure will remain low after the fast if you eat correctly and live healthy.
•Water Fasting helps to overcome bad habits and addictions. It rapidly dissipates the craving for nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, and other drugs.
•It restores your taste appreciation for wholesome natural foods. People say that their taste buds come alive after fasting and that food never tasted so good.
•It is exceptionally beneficial in chronic cardiovascular diseases and congestive heart failure, reducing triglycerides, atheromas, total cholesterol, and increasing HDL levels
•Going on water fast gives you the motivation and enthusiasm to make a fresh start and commit yourself to a new and better way of life



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But so you know the first 3 days r the worst.
And the first 3 days you should feel very weak because your body is eating your muscles but then when you hit day 3 or 4 your body will switch over to eating your fat.
BUt REMEMBER: Drink lots of water!
 
And what I've seen on other websites and even heard from my doctor was that the people that say its unhealthy are the ones that know nothing of it.
Riiiiight. Your doctor told you to do a water fast for 10 days? Really? Please provide me with his license information ... because he needs to be reported.

Water fasting & juice fasting helps detoxify your body. Everyone I know that has finished their fast has felt great afterward.
Please provide links to studies explaining exactly WHICH toxins are removed from your body.

•It cleanses your respiratory, circulatory, digestive and urinary systems, destroying impurities all over the body and eliminates uric acid deposits.
This can be done by drinking enough water AND eating healthy food.

•People detoxify and heal more quickly with water fast than with any other fast. This is because with water fasting, your digestive passageway and organs are able to rest completely, allowing for all of your energy to be used for cleansing and repair of damaged tissues.
Please provide a source for this information. Your body needs nutrition to repair damaged tissues. Healing is actually slowed when the body is vitamin deficient.

•It restores your body balance by eliminating wastes.
Your body elminates wastes naturally if you eat a healthy diet.

•It has been found effective in the treatment of type II diabetes.
Source please?

•It has been found to be one of the most effective treatments for obesity.
Bahahhaha. Source please.

•Water fasting is beneficial in epilepsy, reducing the length, number, and severity of seizures.
Source please.

•It is effective for treating both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
At the risk of being redundant ... source please.

Ok so the rest of these are just saying the same nonsense over and over and over ... so I'll just say for all of the rest of them ..

SOURCE PLEASE.

Please provide a reliable and REPUTABLE source that shows controlled studies that have proven what you say above. Thank you.

And the first 3 days you should feel very weak because your body is eating your muscles but then when you hit day 3 or 4 your body will switch over to eating your fat.
Nope. Absolutely factually untrue. Your body burns muscle and fat in nearly equal proportions when you reduce calories. When you starve yourself, you're not only burning muscle and fat, but you're depriving yourself of nutrients.
 
I think I'm wasting my time here.
I just posted what I've found form other sites.
 
I would honestly caution you against this. While some people may say that water fasting has a lot of benefits, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. Also, you never know how you are going to handle it psychologically.

When you fast, you are essentially starving yourself. You are not removing toxins, you are destroying your immune system and making yourself weaker. You may see some weight loss result from it, but I can guarantee you that you are going to end up putting it right back on, because that's what your body does to protect itself. Some people feel euphoric when they are doing or finishing a fast, but it is not because you are actually biologically renewed. During the fast, your brain protects your body and your mind by going into "starvation mode." You are eating away at your reserves (not as good as it sounds...), and so your brain says, "okay, we're dying here. I'm going to put all of my energy into making the body feel okay, just in case we get back to some nutrients." You are DYING, and your brain is making a last ditch effort to keep you strong enough to survive long enough to get to food. When you finish the fast, you may feel euphoric, but not because of the reasons that most fasting proponents would have you think. You are happy because you are not going to curl up in a corner and starve to death.

Fasting can harm your internal organs, especially your kidneys and liver, because they are forced to work "double time" to force stored nutrients out of your system so you can survive AND to do their normal job of breaking down proteins and other substances (toxins). Usually, especially in fasts longer than 2-3 days, finding nutrition becomes the priority so those proteins and other substances will become secondhand and you will actually STORE more toxins in your liver.

A fast of 1-2 days won't kill you, but medical professionals and scientists (or even people like me, who have just taken a few biology courses at school), can say without a doubt that anything longer can very likely do lasting damage, and at the very least it is quite unhealthy.

Then there is the psychological side of things. Depending on your personality, you may actually be able to convince yourself that fasting is better for you, and start engaging in anorexic behaviors without really thinking that you are doing something bad. Encouraged by the fast to stop eating, you will just convince yourself that you're carrying on the good work of the fast. Not true. There are plenty of physical risks that piggyback off of this, commonly anemia (which will make you feel extremely sluggish and weak, and will prevent your blood from carrying oxygen to your body, since you won't have iron/hemoglobin at normal levels), and irregular heartbeat (which can lead very easily and quickly to death).

If you are looking for something that will make you feel cleansed and renewed, I would recommend a whole and raw foods diet. Eat raw fruits and veggies, and only whole grain pasta and bread. Get protein from lean sources like chicken or turkey (light meat). Take a multivitamin and make sure it has calcium AND vitamin D (to absorb the calcium into your body). Drink lots of water and don't eat anything with sugar except for fruit, and avoid all sugar substitutes except for sugar alcohols and stevia. This will help cleanse your intestines and I guarantee will make you feel cleansed, but it is sustainable for your body because you are eating the things that it is meant to eat and you are not eating processed foods, which will literally sit and rot in the bends of your intestines. Another plus on the funny side, you will #2 a lot more. Maybe I'm weird for thinking that's awesome...

Fasting seems like a good idea because we all want a quick fix and we want something that will make us feel better, but the risks, at least for me, far outweigh any benefits I might receive. In any case, I know that you are going to do this if you want to, and I would strongly encourage you to see your doctor and inform him/her of these plans. They will discourage you most likely, but you need a medical professional to know that you are doing this in case something bad happens. Also, you might get a blood test before and after just for fun, so you can see how it affects your body chemistry. That may be enough to convince you to never try it again.

tl;dr Fasts are bad for you and usually have more negative than positive risks. Don't cleanse by starving yourself, do it by eating healthy and natural foods. If you are dead set on doing it, tell your physician because someone needs to know what's going on if something goes wrong with the fast.
 
I think I'm wasting my time here.
I just posted what I've found form other sites.

By just posting some crap you found from another site, you are going to have that ripped apart. This is especially true about detox myths. Kara was exactly right with everyone of her comments. We see people coming in every day saying do detox but not one can back up their claims. You talk about removing toxins but no one, not ONE, has ever been able to tell us what these mystery toxins are.

In truth, detox is a marketing ploy.
 
I just posted what I've found form other sites.
In other words, you're just parroting myths that others have posted and don't actually have any knowledge or studies to back up the information you're posting.

Not only are you wasting YOUR time, you're wasting the time of everyone on here who is looking for valid, real, safe advice to lose weight.
 
Water fasting has nothing to do with losing weight unless you plan stop eating forever.

Health issues - a different story. Might be good for one day just so you feel lighter. All other "benefits" are not proved by the official science as yet. However, I do not exclude the possibility that there may be something good in fasting but I would be very suspicious.
 
Oh lord you guys!!!!! I do (personally) believe that fasting will have beneficial effects... Im a really shitty eater so I KNOW it has to help me more than harm. I think I will stick with a juice fast and go from there.. or eating raw foods in between when the cravings are terrible. Thank you guys negativity and all=)
 
another perspective re water fast

I think the best I can offer is to do what feels right for you.
Your body knows best. Trust what it tells you.
That is my humble opinion.

Kat
 
I do (personally) believe that fasting will have beneficial effects... Im a really shitty eater so I KNOW it has to help me more than harm.
You gotta love people like this.

So what? You "believe" based on absolutely no research or understanding of nutrition or how your body works that this is a good thing and you "know" it will work. When people who know what they're talking about tell you that you're off track you tell them they're being negative.

And we wonder about the "dumbing down" of America. We wonder why spammers succeed. We wonder why people fall for the stupid Internet scams and lose everything. We wonder why people are unhealthy and fat.

Because the vast majority of people out there don't CARE about actually THINKING and LEARNING something.

Wow. It's threads like this that make me remember how stupid most of the population really is and make me scared for the future.
 
I think hostility and all the negativity is not helpful here. I believe that things can be explained in such a way that doesn't require such hostility. As for the topic at hand: Bottom line - ask your doctor, hon. Always consult your doctor before trying anything like this. Between the two of you, you can figure out what works for you and what is best for your health. :) Good luck!
 
I think hostility and all the negativity is not helpful here.

I think the hostility was entirely justified. The subject matter in Deanna's post begged to be ridiculed for it's stupidity.

Months or years later someone will come across that post and if it hasn't been refuted they may decide to do a water fast.
 
I think the hostility was entirely justified. The subject matter in Deanna's post begged to be ridiculed for it's stupidity.

Months or years later someone will come across that post and if it hasn't been refuted they may decide to do a water fast.

It's possible to refute something without being hostile and negative, just saying. :) There is enough negativity on the internet, without need to add to it here, where people have come together to help support each other and help each other reach their weight loss goals. :)
 
hi

hi there :)

i do think you need to talk to your gp about this ,your body needs food to work and function in the right way and also for weight loss i am sure from reading on here you need to eat every few hours or your body holds onto fat so you wont lose at all .
there is so many site that can fill your head full of things you should/shouldnt do ...but have a good read at some posts on here as i have done and you will see so many people have lost weight in so many diffrent ways but it all comes down to healthy eating working out getting plenty of sleep ect
i wish you well but please talk to your gp water is not enough for your body to live on chick you will end up feeling ill
jodie x
 
Kara, you are a bit off on your information. You can not detoxify simply by eating right and drinking lots of water, especially if you have lived a fairly unhealthy lifestyle. To completely detoxify, you need to empty your body so that everything can be flushed clean. If you are eating a normal diet and trying to detoxify, then you are only flushing out the food that you are taking in normally.

Think about your drain in your shower ... over time hair starts to build up and then other crap builds up in the hair and your drain stops flowing. Continuing with your normal showers only continues to clog up the drain because of all the past junk ... the slow way to declogging the drain would be to run water through it non-stop ... eventually it might unclog. However, if you do an actual cleanse (which I recommend over a water cleanse), then you can actually unlodge the garbage and flush it out. Eating healthy only helps reduce the clogging, not stop or fix the damage. And, no matter how healthy you eat, your body still gets clogged, so cleanses are always a good idea.
 
No, that's not true.

The rest is good advice, but the above is another myth.
to clarify:
if you don't eat on a regular schedule (ie. skipping meals), then your body will be more likely to store the food as fat because it is unsure when the next meal will be. Also, eating on more regular intervals keeps the metoblism at it's peak instead of highs & lows ... of course, i could go on to balanced diet (good ratio of protein, carbs & fat) in every meal, as that also causes fluctuations in your metabolism.
 
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