Water Fasting challenge, support and buddies

dakitten2

Hi there, I'm looking into doing 20 days water fasting.
Are there people here who have done this before, able to tell me about their experience and what to expect?
Also, if there is anyone interested, I would like to do this together with someone for moral support and share of experience.

Water cleansing is great! I do it every day, sometimes at night too. Just make sure to have enough soap and shampoo, and a towel to dry off when you're done.

Oh, wait - you're talking about those stupid cleanse things. Pretty sure that the liver is meant to cleanse your body. But hey, enjoy starving, fainting, electrolyte imbalances, and any hospital stays that may accompany ingesting nothing but water.

This has put a big smile on my face!!! So big that I'm going to give up on the fasting thing!

The OP said she's giving it up, so let's give her a BIG HAND for coming back down to the planet with us!!

Woooooo Hoooo!

Horray for health!

I pray that she is serious. I went on a liquid diet that had all the vitamins etc that you are supposed to have. It consisted of 3 shakes per day for a total of 330 calories daily. The OP will be getting ZERO calories. I weighed 169 when I started and dropped to 115 and then dropped to the floor passed out. Taken to the hospital and admitted for irregular heartbeats and much more. My metabolism was wrecked. As they weaned me back to solid foods, I gained 2-3 pounds per day for a long long time and ended up weighing more than when I started.

I just never want anyone to travel the road I traveled and on water only, it is much more dangerous than what I was doing.

OP, I hope that you just didn't say that to shut everyone up. We are all genuinely concerned about your health. I'm a lot older than you and am almost to my goal and I did it the right way for the first time in my life. Just be patient. Exercise more or change up your exercise. Every time I plateau, my dietician tells me to change up what I'm eating and my exercise routine. It seems to restart things again. I've lost 143.8 and have 1.2 pounds to reach my goal and I started on October 20, 2011. Oh and btw, I have had double knee replacements and bulging discs. So please don't get discouraged, just keep plugging on. It really does work.

GrumpierCat

I did lose weight in a healthy way. I find it difficult to stuck to that many calories a day (that is to say create the deficit to be able to keep losing) after one year of being strict.
After a while it becomes discouraging and disheartening and sad and frustrating and you yourself end up having issues with food.
Everything in your days revolves around that and, although all you do is healthy and balanced for your body, it is, on the other side, subtly, creating an unbalance in your mind.
Weight loss is a no-win-win situation. You get better in your appearance if you are successful but you increase the chances of spoiling your relationship with food.
Hence, 20 days of drastic action can't cause any more harm than that we cause to ourselves in our EVERY DAY battle.

This is the worst logic I have ever seen applied in any argument regarding weight loss.

Seriously, not even "muscle weighs more than fat" comes close to the massive infusion of fallacy inherent in the above-quoted passage.

I would really, truly, desperately like to see you reformat this into a syllogism that arrives at the same conclusion as your last sentence.

mustgetmuscles1

Is this 2013?

taso42

I don't think you'll even make it 4 days

quirkytizzy

I don't think you'll even make it 4 days

Pretty much. I'll never understand the logic that says "I can't stay at a low calorie count, so I'll just stay at a ZERO" calorie count. It's like - if you have a hard time sticking to 1,200 - why do you think ZERO is going to be any easier?

ndj1979

you can expect to be in starvation mode and feel like crap...that is if you don't die first...

this may be the worst idea I have seen on MFP....congratulations...

ndj1979

I was looking for buddies and advice from people who have done water fasting before...
I don't think you can compromise your body in 20 days and if something does not work out well, I'll just stop.

20 days of not eating anything will compromise your body ...

would you think 20 days of eating twinkies every day would not compromise your body..?????

why don't you just eat in a deficit and lose weight in a healthy and safe manner...?

BeachIron

Twenty days without food?

Voluntarily?

No. I have no desire to starve myself for 3 weeks.

AlongCame_Molly

I did lose weight in a healthy way. I find it difficult to stuck to that many calories a day (that is to say create the deficit to be able to keep losing) after one year of being strict.
After a while it becomes discouraging and disheartening and sad and frustrating and you yourself end up having issues with food.
Everything in your days revolves around that and, although all you do is healthy and balanced for your body, it is, on the other side, subtly, creating an unbalance in your mind.
Weight loss is a no-win-win situation. You get better in your appearance if you are successful but you increase the chances of spoiling your relationship with food.
Hence, 20 days of drastic action can't cause any more harm than that we cause to ourselves in our EVERY DAY battle.

No. Just.....no. To all of it.

BrainyBurro

The third fast was for 21 days. I made it to day 19 and became very sick from the toxins being released into my body. I was very toxic and it had a negative affect on my body.

protip: right click and view image to see the full effect.

ashliejones13

You sound borderline anorexic and I'm not saying that in a mean way. I'm saying that in a concerned way. To say losing weight is a no win situation is completely far out there. You should be happy you're healthy, that's a win win win situation in every aspect. You should love all of the food you're putting in your body to keep it alive. You should be happy to look in the mirror regardless if you've lost 10 or 50 or 100 pounds. Fasting for 20 without religious purpose and for the soul reason of losing weight is unhealthy in every way. It is a lose lose situation. I hope you can see I'm not being rude or mean, I just think you're over thinking this and going down a wrong road.

AlongCame_Molly

I was looking for buddies and advice from people who have done water fasting before...
I don't think you can compromise your body in 20 days and if something does not work out well, I'll just stop.

You don't? And if it turns out you're wrong and you can, you think 1) you'll know and 2) just stopping the fast will remedy it?

This should be interesting.

This.

"I don't see how jumping off a 20 story building can be detrimental to my health! And if it turns out is IS dangerous, well, I'll just stop falling." :noway:

tigersword

I was looking for buddies and advice from people who have done water fasting before...
I don't think you can compromise your body in 20 days and if something does not work out well, I'll just stop.

In 3-4 days your metabolism will slow to a crawl. And then you start catabolizing muscle tissue (including your heart,) since your body will start shedding the tissue that takes a lot of energy to support, which are muscles, bones, joints, and organs.

In 20 days you can most certainly do serious, catastrophic damage to your body. But hey, it's your life, if you want to end up comatose or hospitalized, go for it.

Sunshine_Kubes

I did lose weight in a healthy way. I find it difficult to stuck to that many calories a day (that is to say create the deficit to be able to keep losing) after one year of being strict.
After a while it becomes discouraging and disheartening and sad and frustrating and you yourself end up having issues with food.
Everything in your days revolves around that and, although all you do is healthy and balanced for your body, it is, on the other side, subtly, creating an unbalance in your mind.
Weight loss is a no-win-win situation. You get better in your appearance if you are successful but you increase the chances of spoiling your relationship with food.
Hence, 20 days of drastic action can't cause any more harm than that we cause to ourselves in our EVERY DAY battle.

I know that we can survive weeks without food.. However, it's not smart to do this. Your body will indeed go in to survival mode.. Weight loss will be accomplished, but once you start eating again, even if its only 1000 calories, your body will hold onto every single gram of fat you consume, your metabolism will be super slow and used to running on next to nothing, so it will just store every calorie.. Not smart.. Be safe

wheelermel

It is dangerous to promote drastic measures like fasting, particularly if you have no professional training to back up your claims.

"Hence, 20 days of drastic action can't cause any more harm than that we cause to ourselves in our EVERY DAY battle." OP, exactly how many years of training in medicine/nutrition/physiology/biochemistry do you have? I really would like to know, feel free to message me personally.

Also, for anyone concerned about clearing "toxins" from your body, consider that your liver, kidneys, lungs, skin, and other organs are quite capable of clearing "toxins" everyday. While fasting you are at risk of damaging your organs, which would actually decrease your body's ability to detox your system. Thousands of years of evolution has sorted out this problem already.

Take care of yourselves out there, people!

ndj1979

Check out master cleanse by Stanley Burroughs.

i prefer amateur cleanses to master ones....

raqtor

Please don't do any fasting over 7 days. Your body will shut down to try to survive and you might damage your metabolism or do even worse permanent damage.

jofjltncb6

Check out master cleanse by Stanley Burroughs.

*sigh*

Contrarian

There are so many people in the world without access to adequate nutrition, and we have people who willingly refuse to eat for 3 weeks. For what? Vanity?

This actually disgusts me.

What the ****ing ****?

HonuNui

If you love your body and want it to work for you, don't punish it into submission.
Honor it with healthy food and delicious movement.
Dress it it amazing clothes and praise it for what it allows you to do.

Beautiful. Just beautiful.