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I fasted for a day when fighting with my parents. Worst thing to do since I am a Type-1 diabetic and ended up with Diabetic Ketoacidosis the next day and a near-death experience :-( Fasting is not for everyone!
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About 3 years ago, I undertook a water fast that lasted about 17 days. It does take a lot of mental preparation. Nutrition wise, I ate only fruits for about a week before the fast. The first few days were very hard, but then I simply did not feel hunger at all. I intended to continue the fast for 30 days. But from about the 4th day onwards my mouth started having an awful odour and my tongue had a thick white coating…
That odour is probably the ketones coming into play when the body starts using fat for energy, instead of carbs or protein. And yes, it's a well known fact.
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I regularly fast for 20+ hours (calorie restriction, I do drink water because I am not an idiot) once or twice a week. You get very used to it. While its not something I look forward to, it's purely psychological. A few hours after I miss 'breakfast' my tummy rumbles two or three times and then my body doesn't care anymore. The max time I've fasted is forty hours and I have to say if you can get past the first fours…
How is a 500-600 calorie meal 'very small'? Most normal dinners are 600-800 calories.
My intake to maintain weight is about 2600kcal/day as a lightly-moderately active person. I normally do a breakfast of about 400-500 calories, and then 900-1000 for lunch and dinner. So if I weren't just waking up, 500-600 would be very small for me.
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> Some people have a lot of "bad stuff" which will enter their bloodstream when their body breaks down adipose for fuel. [...] you'll have severe "detox" symptoms a day or two into the fast. Your body doesn't work that way. "Detoxing diets" are pure superstition – which toxins are those supposed to be anyway? From [1]: "The 'toxins' usually remain undefined, with little to no evidence of toxic accumulation in the pat…
"Toxicological Function of Adipose Tissue: Focus on Persistent Organic Pollutants" http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/121/2/ehp.120548... "The studies discussed here indicate that AT (Adipose tissue) plays a central role in POP (persistent organic pollutants) toxicology. This role is complex and may seem paradoxical. Indeed, there is evidence that AT is protective under conditions of acute or subacute exposu…
I tried searching for the original article, but this is the closest I could find that had a better writeup than from the telegraph: https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regene... This is the most relevant summary: "In both mice and a Phase 1 human clinical trial involving patients receiving chemotherapy, long periods of not eating significantly lowered white blood cell counts. In mice, fasting cycles…
> I'll pass on this intermittent fasting "fad" for now! It's amazing how people are prone to experiment with this type of things. They're willing to undergo a very unpleasant experience because it might (unlikely) give them a (slight) health improvement.
Furthermore, people experiment with all kinds of things for slight health improvements to stay healthy. Working out is not the most pleasant experience when you think about it, but it becomes pleasant because you mentally associate it with something positive and there are traces of euphoria kicking in when it's a pretty intense workout.
Most people work out to lose weight when it's been years I've told anyone who asked me that for weight loss, working out is more tiring and less effective "calorifically" than simply not eating that extra piece of pie. I've seen people want to lose weight, go for a 20 minute run, then come back and down all kinds of food and still hoping/believing/thinking they're going in the right direction for weight loss and they're eating to recover from the effort.
An Olympic swimmer might need 4,000 calories daily. Most of us don't.
In my own experience day 3 of a water fast had profound effect on my health. I have some health issues so I closely monitor my blood pressure and blood sugar. On the morning of the fourth day my blood pressure and blood sugar would drop tremendously and stay normal for several months. ymmv
The first time I tried it after about 12 or so hours I felt like I was going to pass out. So I ate something to stablize myself. After eating healthier for a while it's much easier to attempt.
In my own experience day 3 of a water fast had profound effect on my health. I have some health issues so I closely monitor my blood pressure and blood sugar. On the morning of the fourth day my blood pressure and blood sugar would drop tremendously and stay normal for several months. ymmv
We are missing a lot of context - much of which you can't supply here even if you wanted to. For example, it seems entirely plausible and not exactly rocket science that not eating the wrong foods (for a given person - what "wrong" means may vary widely and wildly depending on their context!) is better than eating it. For an example (of the example), if you eat a lot of high glycemic index foods it's not hard to gues…
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You didn't consume anything but water for five consecutive days? I also don't undertake what you mean by, "I wasn't very toxic."
> You didn't consume anything but water for five consecutive days? Unpleasant at first but not dangerous to healthy individuals. As someone pointed out: if we wasn't capable of doing that we would likely have been extinct long ago.
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You didn't consume anything but water for five consecutive days? I also don't undertake what you mean by, "I wasn't very toxic."
Yea. It was fairly uneventful. The first day or two I was hungry, but it was mild. Perhaps it was easy, as my eating habits left me naturally in intermittent fasting mode (I'd eat lunch at 1pm, dinner at 8pm, then nothing else).
Glad to know that science also discovered it.