Just started one last night, so I'm about to hit Hour 24. I don't think I've ever intentionally gone without food for a full day once in my entire life, so I'm interested to see how long I can hold out.
The Reddit sub for fasting has people who claim they go for a couple weeks with just water (with electrolytes), so I'm curious how long folks have pushed themselves with this.
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Muslims fast for 29 or 30 days from the crack of dawn until sunset.
If you're doing it for a whole month, wouldn't it be a lot healthier to fast from sunset to sunrise?
We fast from dawn to sunset because we are commanded to do so. Night time is meant for sleep. That would be cheating.
Your body adjusts. Just make sure to give it what it needs though.
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Muslims fast for 29 or 30 days from the crack of dawn until sunset.
If you're doing it for a whole month, wouldn't it be a lot healthier to fast from sunset to sunrise?
No clue if this was ignorant or a bad reach for a lame joke, but either way WOOF.
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In comment 14909698 Optimus-NY said:
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Muslims fast for 29 or 30 days from the crack of dawn until sunset.
If you're doing it for a whole month, wouldn't it be a lot healthier to fast from sunset to sunrise?
No clue if this was ignorant or a bad reach for a lame joke.
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In comment 14909699 Milton said:
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In comment 14909698 Optimus-NY said:
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Muslims fast for 29 or 30 days from the crack of dawn until sunset.
If you're doing it for a whole month, wouldn't it be a lot healthier to fast from sunset to sunrise?
No clue if this was ignorant or a bad reach for a lame joke.
It's neither.
Well that's like saying why do Jews eat unlevened bread and not shellfish. Shellfish is certainly healthier. I fast everyday for about 20 hour depending how hard I workout. Ain't that hard honestly if you eat nutritious whole food. Actually most days I eat a little something to start just because I start getting grumpy, stressed, and anxious. At that point I know it's time to eat. Blows my mind people feel the need to stuff their face all the time when that is certainly not how we are designed to operate.
I surprised myself as I had no intention of going that long.
Did this 6 years ago, but went in very prepared. I read many books on the subject and researched for some time. It wasn’t a flash decision. I also didn’t want to mess around, having never done it, and hired a consultant who had helped facilitate thousands of fasts prior.
Every morning and evening we took my vitals, blood pressure, temperature, etc. He helped coach me through it.
My initial goal was to do about a week, 10 days tops, though 5 days would have made me happy. Funny thing is I felt pretty good, and vitals were fine, so I kept going. Later on in the process got a little scarier as you feel weird sensations that you’re not sure if it’s good or bad. So that’s when it’s time to tether back to Earth.
Did a very gradual re-feeding of about 6 weeks. It was intense but I felt beneficial at the time.
I wouldn’t go that long again, but a 4-5 day, maybe up to 7, is a good zone to be.
How did you feel after the first few days?
Same. I did a three day fast over the 4th of July last year and a five-day fast earlier this year. I felt great days 3 and 4. My energy levels were high and hadn’t experienced a level of focus ever. Day 5, I began to get pain urinating as my body started flushing out only toxins and water out of my system.
Disclaimer: I trained my body through recurring 1, 2, and 3-day fasts over 18 months. I would discourage fasting over 24 hours for those just starting. Please talk to a knowledgeable fasting Doctor if you are considering this.
The first week was so hard because your body isn't used to that kind of change but after the first week it started getting easier I was only going to do 21 days at first but when I saw the the change my body when through I lost like 45lbs I when the 40 days
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Christian so I have done the Danielle fast which is vegetables and water for 40 days and nights
How did you feel after the first few days?
The benefits of autophagy are pretty powerful
https://www.healthline.com/health/autophagy - ( New Window )
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In comment 14909760 DRich1980 said:
The first week was so hard because your body isn't used to that kind of change but after the first week it started getting easier I was only going to do 21 days at first but when I saw the the change my body when through I lost like 45lbs I when the 40 days
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Christian so I have done the Danielle fast which is vegetables and water for 40 days and nights
How did you feel after the first few days?
I think we all need to realize the kind of food our body truly craves and stay away from the junk. I'm glad you came out of it better. Let's all load up on fruits high in Vitamin C and avoid all the crap.
I'm more concerned we live in such a wealthy country and we foist garbage on our population causing untold amounts of malnutrition. No people aren't starving here, but we live in the lucky 80 percent. Instead we have fat, malnourished children which causes learning issues, mental and physical health problems, disability, unproductivity as they become adults. The ironic part is in this land of "plenty" the nutrionless crap people eat actually increases the amount of vitamins people need for their bodies to function properly. If we changed our subsidies a bit we could easily solve this with massive economic impacts in both the short and long term.