Fasting

May 22, 2003

I am about to embark on a 48 hour water fast. wish me luck.

May 22, 2003

Good luck, and may you be rejuvenated on your 48 hour fast!!!!

Peace out and in!

mzdjflye <mzdjflye wrote:

I am about to embark on a 48 hour water fast. wish me luck.

May 22, 2003

I'm right behind you I am going to start Friday night and fast

through till Monday morning.

Doug

rawfood , " mzdjflye " <mzdjflye> wrote:

> I am about to embark on a 48 hour water fast. wish me luck.

May 22, 2003

Good luck

Peter

mzdjflye [mzdjflye]

22 May 2003 05:20

rawfood

[Raw Food] Fasting

I am about to embark on a 48 hour water fast. wish me luck.

May 22, 2003

I'm in the breaking phase of my water fast that ended on Monday morning. It was

28 days long. Quite an experience.

Good luck to you! I'm sure you'll do well.

Mel

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Peter Gardiner

rawfood

Thursday, May 22, 2003 1:10 AM

RE: [Raw Food] Fasting

Good luck

Peter

mzdjflye [mzdjflye]

22 May 2003 05:20

rawfood

[Raw Food] Fasting

I am about to embark on a 48 hour water fast. wish me luck.

May 22, 2003

goodness 28 days??

rawfood , " Mel " <bc05356@o...> wrote:

> I'm in the breaking phase of my water fast that ended on Monday

morning. It was 28 days long. Quite an experience.

> Good luck to you! I'm sure you'll do well.

>

> Mel

> -

> Peter Gardiner

> rawfood

> Thursday, May 22, 2003 1:10 AM

> RE: [Raw Food] Fasting

>

> Good luck

>

> Peter

>

> mzdjflye [mzdjflye]

> 22 May 2003 05:20

> rawfood

> [Raw Food] Fasting

>

> I am about to embark on a 48 hour water fast. wish me luck.

>

May 23, 2003

Hey Mel; you can't just drop a bomb shell like that and walk away.

Tell us more about this 28 day fast. Was it good, horrible, fun,

scary, or boring? How long did it take to get over being hungry?

(This is false hunger by the way, which is why it goes away.) Did you

fast until you became hungry? Or until the coating on your tongue

went away? Or was 28 days your goal? How was your energy levels

during the fast? Was this you first fast? Or are you an old pro? Did

you continue normal activities, during your fast? How did you sleep?

How did you start your fast? How are you coming off the fast

(breaking phase)? Did you read any good books on fasting before doing

yours? Does being asked a lot of questions irritate you?

Doug

rawfood , " Mel " <bc05356@o...> wrote:

> I'm in the breaking phase of my water fast that ended on Monday

morning. It was 28 days long. Quite an experience.

> Good luck to you! I'm sure you'll do well.

>

> Mel

> -

> Peter Gardiner

> rawfood

> Thursday, May 22, 2003 1:10 AM

> RE: [Raw Food] Fasting

>

> Good luck

>

> Peter

>

> mzdjflye [mzdjflye]

> 22 May 2003 05:20

> rawfood

> [Raw Food] Fasting

>

> I am about to embark on a 48 hour water fast. wish me luck.

>

May 23, 2003

Mel,

I have done a 28 day fast too.

I did it at the start of going 100% raw and have never been bothered

either by detoxification or relapses. I think you will agree that it

really does something for the flavour of a spinach leaf which has to be

experienced!

Well done

Peter

Mel [bc05356]

22 May 2003 14:32

rawfood

Re: [Raw Food] Fasting

I'm in the breaking phase of my water fast that ended on Monday morning.

It was 28 days long. Quite an experience.

Good luck to you! I'm sure you'll do well.

Mel

-

Peter Gardiner

rawfood

Thursday, May 22, 2003 1:10 AM

RE: [Raw Food] Fasting

Good luck

Peter

mzdjflye [mzdjflye]

22 May 2003 05:20

rawfood

[Raw Food] Fasting

I am about to embark on a 48 hour water fast. wish me luck.

May 23, 2003

Peter; how did you feel during your fast? As you know I would like to

do a long fast but I work in construction and am working 60 hours a

week. Since 9/11 everyone wants to live in Hawaii. If I got dizzy at

work, it would not be good as I am usually on a ladder. I'm going to

start a 3 or 4 day fast tomorrow, Friday, and I do not return to work

until Tuesday. Maybe I will just see how I feel and extend it into

the work week. Except for a few relapses I have been 100% raw since

the fall of '99. I own my own company, so I am my own boss, and my

boss is a mean old bastard that won't let me take any time off. Also

I am thinking that on a longer fast I would lose a lot of weight

(which I have none to lose) and someone may have me carted away in an

ambulance. Or someone may say; " hey Hitler is dead, you can eat now! "

Doug

rawfood , " Peter Gardiner " <petergardiner@e...>

wrote:

> Mel,

>

> I have done a 28 day fast too.

> I did it at the start of going 100% raw and have never been bothered

> either by detoxification or relapses. I think you will agree that

it

> really does something for the flavour of a spinach leaf which has

to be

> experienced!

>

> Well done

>

> Peter

>

> Mel [bc05356@o...]

> 22 May 2003 14:32

> rawfood

> Re: [Raw Food] Fasting

>

> I'm in the breaking phase of my water fast that ended on Monday

morning.

> It was 28 days long. Quite an experience.

> Good luck to you! I'm sure you'll do well.

>

> Mel

> -

> Peter Gardiner

> rawfood

> Thursday, May 22, 2003 1:10 AM

> RE: [Raw Food] Fasting

>

> Good luck

>

> Peter

>

> mzdjflye [mzdjflye]

> 22 May 2003 05:20

> rawfood

> [Raw Food] Fasting

>

> I am about to embark on a 48 hour water fast. wish me luck.

>

May 23, 2003

Doug,

One goes through a lot on a fast: most is positive.

On a 60 hour working week! Wow - I did not work which limits

me a bit in giving advice.

The water fast is the big detoxification but the only negative symptoms

I experienced were an

ache in the throat which lasted a day or so and some inside mouth sores

were cure by increasing

the water intake. My reading beforehand held out the prospect of a dozen

or more bothers such as head aches,

bad breath... ...none of which happened.

You probably would need some hydrotherapy, which means the gut wash; I

read

ideally every five days but I had it once a week and was fine. I felt so

much

better with the rubbish emptied: I had a positive surge after each wash.

Beforehand,

the hydrotherapy experience was new to me. However from your starting

point of being raw already,

it might not be so beneficial. It might be an idea to just see how you

feel. If sluggishness

creeps in then do it.

I walk for an hour a day and kept that up and my memories on those walks

are still

vivid. Certainly long term concentration weakens but senses sharpen and

one gets flashes of inspiration.

Thus you might want to keep a list of things to do to keep the working

day straight.

I would not worry too much about losing weight. No matter how much you

fast there

always seems to be fat about. I dropped from 70 odd kilos to 49 and am

now about 55.

On my last couple of days it started to get mildly painful to walk. It

seemed that

there was little between the bones of my feet and the skin. I just

walked more slowly and gently

so that there was no pain.

On the positive side a lot of healing goes on. My skin became cleaner

and softer, the whites of my eyes

went stronger, circulation improved and other things happened which I

have mentioned before. The sense

of smell shot up. Hunger never bothered me: the odd pang could be

easily cured by a glass of water.

The drinking at least 3 times a day is important for the kidneys, as I

recall.

I would sit through dinner parties sipping water and watching others get

tired and tipsy!

No doubt, I should have looked at the colour of my tongue which I am

told blackens until all

the toxins are out when it returns to a healthy pink and it is time to

end the fast.

Otherwise explaining what a long fast is like explaining sex to a virgin

or swimming

to someone who has never been immersed in water. It really has to be

done.

Of course you need to build up to a long fast but overall it is an

experience for which one is the

much richer.

This may prompt Pete to tell us more

Peter

kauguy [no_reply ]

23 May 2003 11:59