Have you ever done a 24hr fast?
 

Tried one on Monday. No food for a day, just water.

Was under a lot of stress so I stayed home, didn't go out all day, tried to clear my head. I had also been eating a lot of crap lately and my stomach was not liking it at all (nerves and bad food don't go well together). Next time I will remember to turn off my phone, because I ended up having an especially stressful day. Still, it wasn't too hard and I did feel better the next day.

I think I will try to do it at least once every two months. It's supposed to be great to clean out your system of toxins and maintain health and vigor. It's also supposed to help clear your head.

Anyone try it?

Only after a 24 hour session...

Well ... I won't be able to eat for a few days now so I guess I'll find out :thumbsup


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Anyone...?

Get your mind out of the gutter - I meant a drinking session:upsidedow...

No, just have the mental images of Eddy getting fucked for 24 hours.

you hit reply not pm :Oh crap :helpme :1orglaugh :smiling_b

No and I do not see a reason why should I.
I would prefer doing only "super healthy" food instead.

As for toxins - is there much point to have toxin free body for 1 day out of 60?

No food clears the mind. It is evolution. No food clears the mind to be focused mainly on finding food.

I went on a diet and lost 55 lbs in one month. Ate 300 calories a day. Was on a diet pill Dr gave me. Worked wonders.

This is VERY dangerous - Do not attempt unless under strict medical supervision - Even then, don't do it would be my advise...

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Common sense escapes some people :)

A few years ago I did 4 days, only water. Strange thing is on day 4 it seemed easier and I could have gone another day or two but I got weirded out by my lack of appetite.

there's nothing to it. Around dinner time you'll feel hungry but later on it will pass and you will hardly notice it.

in my experience, i always did a 1 day fast after several weeks of healthy food choices at an aggressively low calorie intake. typically my good dieting habit would end within several days of the full-day fast. i sorta attribute the problem to my pushing the diet too hard, restricting calories too much, & going to a full-day fast is the epitome of over-doing the dieting. my body stops losing weight until i cave in & have a day off the diet, & suddenly i gain back 10 pounds, & find myself unable to get back on the wagon. game over.

I like IF much better, every morning my stomach is empty while I work a physically laborious job & feel much more in tune with my body chemistry, & mental discipline.

:2 cents:

i fast for 14-18 hours daily. 24/7/365

but fasting to cleanse toxins is a myth.

That's what I wanted to hear ...

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I also read that it gets easier (even enjoyable) after 4 days.

Fuck that for a bacon butty.

There is no upside to starving yourself for a day, there are numerous downsides. And do yourself a favor and stop saying hippy, feel good buzzwords like "toxins" which are NEVER defined and actually educate yourself from credible medical literature. Starving yourself = bad in every possible way as far as your physical health is concerned.

Eat healthy whole foods and exercise, drink enough water and get enough sleep every day you won't have to worry about these mysterious "toxins" and you'll feel like a million dollars all the time.

It gets easier because once your blood sugar is completely depleted and spent, you switch to fat for energy. Without waivering blood sugar and insulin highs and lows, your appetite is greatly diminished as your body enters a state of ketosis.

I only used to do 3 day fast.
One day fast does nothing and is just as hard as 3 days to do.

Most I've done is 10 days.
But all that was when I was in my teens and twenties so don't know what to say about doing it when older.

And after a few more days one starts a pro ana blog ...

I've fine the 5 day juice cleanse before. It was hard but after day 2 I didn't even want food. It's weird how fast our bodies can adapt.

I drink fresh fruit smoothies for breakfast. Vegetable salads for lunch. Lots of water. Chicken or fish for dinner. Steakhouse 2-3 times a month. Couldn't imagine not eating.

I almost do a 24 hour fast every day more like 15 hours. It's called intermittent fasting. It increases GH and helps burn fat the best. If you really want to do a fast (cleanse) it needs to be at least 3 days and you need to have time off to lay in bed.

I do a 24 hour fast after a cheat day.

As someone who has fasted at least 18 hours most days for the last 2 years, I can say it's something you have to build up to. Don't try to just jump right in or you will be hungry as fuck and fail.

Spend a week putting off breakfast until 9 or 10 am. Then extend that another hour a week later. And keep building on that.

I go to the gym 18 hours fasted and work out like a werewolf on crack. I'm building muscle and getting ripped. I love it.

and that first bite of food is so much better.

Hows your drug habit doin ?:helpme

Can A 3-Day Fast Reset Your Immune System?

"Well, maybe not a total reset, but at least a mild refresh. The science suggests that, if you can do it, a prolonged fast for 2-3 days or longer may induce your body to clean out some old immune cells and switch on production of new ones."

I'll take a good healthy dump over a 24 hr fast anyday!

Whoa!!!! You starved yourself, eating less than an Nazi death camp prisoner, used stimulants at the same time and lost weight? What a fucking shock. Best doctor ever!

Read what doctors say about fasting. You're not starving yourself, since you can go weeks without actually starving. Not surprised by all the hate and ignorance.

you mean you can go weeks before starving yourself to death.

You can go weeks before starvation. Starvation is when your body starts digesting itself.

Yeah, true, but I can't start with 3 days. Not sure if I want to do that long.

no, that's not starving. and no, you do not go weeks before your body burns cells for energy. it's called ketosis and it kicks in within hours, not weeks.

If you can do one day then 3 days is easy.
If you do 3 days you don't even care about food after that.
Seriously!

The first day is the hardest.

:2 cents:

I was curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation#Common_causes

"Starvation" essentially begins if you are consuming fewer calories than you need. After that, you get varying levels of severity.

A) You are starving yourself - That's what not eating is
B) There is no credible medical literature saying "hey, starve yourself, its a perfectly healthy thing to do"
C) You don't know what "starving" means
D) You clearly don't know what "digestion" means
E) Your body cannot "digest itself"
F) I've forgotten more about university level anatomy and physiology and nutrition this week, than you'll learn in this life
G) If "hate" is saying "don't be a fucking idiot and starve yourself as there is zero medical benefit whatsoever", then yeah, its hate - you got one right

Some fucking idiot wrote a book in 1940 about fasting and republished it years later as "The Master Cleanse Diet" and since then, every hippy fuckwit with zero clue about diet and nutrition seems to think they can starve themselves healthy and "beat the man". Its the most asinine thing ever. Your body has daily nutritional requirements, including a host of vitamins and minerals which are responsible for the reguation and function of nearly every single process in your body, right down to the cellular level... so no, you can't deprive your brain of fuel, you can't deprive your body of energy (calories) and yeah, starving yourself like the fuckwit above who lost 55 lbs is a very stupid thing to do. First, he lost quite a bit of water as he depleted glycogen stores in his muscles, ate less salt etc etc etc (maybe 15-20 lbs), further, this leaves your body in an advnaced state of dehydration - which has all kinds of consequences,... then a significant portion of his weight loss was muscle tissue as he starved his body of calories and muscle tissue is more easily converted to glucose than fat. All that muscle tissue also includes organs such as your heart - which is why people who starve themselves often end up with heart problems and organ failures. There is literally no end to the reasons you should not eat less than 500 calories a day than your body requires. Eating 300 a day is idiotic. Eating zero a day is a level of stupidity that has no description from a health standpoint.

Again... starving yourself = stupid.

G) Suck my dick.

Btw, How did a nutrition expert end up as a troll on gfy? Tell us please.

Pretty sure people have been fasting since before 1940, not only hippies. Your condescending attitude comes across in all your posts. Your friends must love you. Now kindly fuck off.

For me personally, (i've actually cut carbs out recently), it never happens for in less than 48 hrs. I've tried doing hrs of cardio etc and it hasn't helped me get there faster. It may vary a bit from person to person and we do kinda sorta bounce in and out throughout the day based on how we are eating - but to be in ketosis to the point that it will show on ketostix takes me at least 48hrs. Mostly, i presume because a significant amount of glycogen is stored in your liver and because proteins in part, get converted to glucose - even though you're eating low carb. That's why the optimal way to lose weight on a ketogenic diet is to have a fairly high % of calories from fat, not protein (more than 1/2 for example)

People have been doing heroin and a whole lot of things since before 1940. That doesn't mean its a "healthy" thing to do or something that people should be advising people to do.

My condescension is first towards you and your ignorance of the topic and attempting to correct me with even more spontaneously made up ignorance and then towards the attitude that doing the everything wrong to your body - depriving it of calories, vitamins and minerals, depriving your brain of energy, burning muscle tissue for energy and walking around in a state of serious dehydration is somehow "healthy".

It fucking idiotic and to me, its no different than someone coming here and saying "hey, you can cure your cancer by eating a sheet of paper". This bullshit is dangerous and VERY unhealthy. Just because a bunch of assholes get on board and eat paper, doesn't change the facts. Neither does the fact that they were eating paper since before 1940.

no, i cant a4d the food required to fast... :(

Also, if you eat you don't shit - Then what do you do for fun?..

I did a 30 day fast once (no food for 30 days, only water).

Ask your questions.

For any particular reason?..

Health reasons.

When a body is deprived of external energy sources, it starts to absorb any internal resources, both native and foreign . This is why there is a high chance that toxins, tumors, unnatural growths, etc. get completely dissolved by the body.