What about fasting for detox and weight loss
I AM TRYING to simplify my life, lose weight and get healthier. If there were spiritual benefits that would be a plus as well.
I found a whole ‘subculture’ of people (committed to-) and methods of- ‘fasting’ out there.
The basic method involves drinking lots of water (one ounce per every pound of weight you are on a daily basis), using eminas extensively, and going without food (ALL food) for 7-14 days while your body cleanses itself — and doing this (within certain guidelines) fairly regularly or periodically.
Ida know — toxins or no toxins, the idea of going without ANY food for such long periods seems dangerous (anything more than a day seems it could be hazardous for some) — and the prolonged or even repeated use of emenas seems like it could be quite dangerous, too.
I know that yaw’ll say you’re not doctors but I already know what my doctor would say.
Any educated or semi-educated or skilled, semi-skilled or trained or opinionated folks want to comment?
#2) Fasting to detox is rather severe. The reason religious folks fast is that their boss told them to: “But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days” (Mark 2:20). But that only works if there is a spiritual life being augmented in lieu of the physical.
#3) Folks who try to lose weight by fasting tend to put it back on because the body isn’t going to put up with www.gangstarvegashackcheats.club/gangstarvegashack/ this not eating malarkey for very long. Add to that the discomfort sliding into pain and the human tendency to double-spend, and one fasts a couple of days and then eats banana splits because he “earned it.”
#4) NEVER get an enema. Your body knows quite well what to do with the waste from food you eat. You not only don’t need to do the job for it, but like drugs (and just about everything else), if you do the job for it, it stops doing the job itself. Seriously, exactly like if you take heroin your brain stops producing dopamine, if you get too many enemas, your intestinal muscles stop being strong enough to push the waste out on their own.
That said, I would recommend merely including in your diet a daily dish of legumes + rice, which are utterly non-fat, healthy as any food available, and so low in the calorie dept. that you’ll probably burn off the calories cooking and eating the stuff. Flavor as you wish with all that your supermarket has in the spice herb aisle. There’s your “cleansing” of the system. You don’t try to wash things out. Intestines don’t work that way. You put thru what pushes things out. THAT is how your intestines work.
It all depends on what kind of fasting you are wanting to do. But, overall, fasting for weightloss is not that great of an idea. For detox it is not bad, but really tons and tons of water is the safest and best way for detox.
As for fasting, most cultures that partake in it for spiritual/religious reason do not do a complete fasting. Normally it is a bread and water fasting or no meat fasting. There are a large amount that partake in the “No food except water during sunlight” type of fasting. 98% of everyone who loses 50 pounds or more will gain it back plus way more within 2 years. It stayed with me fro age 9-25. Drinking a lot of water is a good thing, but not that much. Eight 8 ounces glasses a day is the recommended amount – do you weigh 64 pounds?
Extensive use of enemas is extremely dangerous. Once you clean yourself out, to continue to use them is going to have a very convulsive effect on your intestines, and could cause permanent damage to your internal organs. Enemas are designed to aid in bowel movements – not clean your GI tract.
Not eating for that amount of time is insane. Not only is nanocat correct in saying you are going to be hallucinating, you could starve your body to death. People have died from not eating in less than 14 days. Lack of nutrition, vitamins, and minerals also causes permanent damage.