Starting a 40 Day Fast

Can't you all just be supportive?

Good Job OP...Super Idea!

When something is wrong and dangerous, nobody should support that. Shame on you.

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I realized it was sarcasm. SORRY xoxo

Can't you all just be supportive?

Good Job OP...Super Idea!

When something is wrong and dangerous, nobody should support that. Shame on you.

Definitely sarcasm!

Can't you all just be supportive?

Good Job OP...Super Idea!

When something is wrong and dangerous, nobody should support that. Shame on you.

That was sarcasm. Major, full of sciencey stuff sarcasm.

I just want to point out that if you cant eat at a deficit long enough to lose weight, how do you expect to fast for 40 days?

This is what I was thinking the entire time I was reading the answers! LOL...

Sweetie, you have posted this cry for help on a website built to COUNT CALORIES...if you don't eat you don't have anything to count, so we MFP'ers have not a freaking CLUE what you are talking about! Eat the damn food...eat less of it than you burn off in a day...walk around the block a few times...drink the magnetic water (whatever that is) And, please, don't expect a group of folks that are getting healthy by counting calories to ever support starving yourself!

As with so many other posters, there is so much misinformation and myth in your post it is difficult to know where to start.

You have either been led on by your "medical consultants" who are clearly not MD's or nutritionists, or you have been reading too many crap websites, or both. Your relationship with food sounds as though it is very distorted.

I have no doubt that you are desperately looking for help and willing to try anything. If so, please drop this idea of fasting for 40 days and go see a real doctor, and hopefully a nutritionist. Good luck to you.

I have tried juicing fasts and after the third day I was so hungry I ate everything in sight. I have read the fasting for a few days as well as taking some kind of natural oils can help pass stones. Fasting for that long may do terrible things to your body though including triggering a ravenous hunger that might make it difficult to eat healthy when you add food back in... also it may slow down your metabolism and cause you to gain when you begin eating regularly. For cleansing out your digestive system a fast for a few days is not such a bad idea... but be aware that your body can just as easily pass liquefied food and if you try your fast with green fruit smoothies you will be able to absorb the nutrients while satiating your appetite as well.

I truly believe that 40 days is far far to long of a fast of that type. You might be able to do it on smoothies but not on lemon juice... you will find yourself feeling sick, exhausted and unable to resist the cravings that are bound to ensue.

Please... if you choose to fast... do it for a shorter amount of time and drink juice or smoothies that include fruit and a variety of leafy greens that will give your body the nutrients it needs. Your brain, muscles and organs need these things in order to function properly. You risk throwing your system out of balance by restricting crucial nutrients that are vital to your health. Also i suggest throwing avocados in the smoothies... you will not taste them it will provide essential fatty acids that your body needs.

I would ask one of your doctor friends for some specific advice... tell someone who is a doctor exactly what you plan on living on and have them help you decide how long of a fast would be advised for you. 40 days is far too long. I never made it past three or four days and that was with juicing. I haven't felt the desire to fast in quite some time... but i did find that it helped a great deal with getting me regular again if I was suffering digestive issues. Again... this is only a few days... not anywhere near the amount of time you are considering.

Oh god, it's the magic water diet.

There is no magic water. You are not full of toxic waste. You do not need to cleanse your toxic body.

I highly suspect that you're a troll trying to start a drama thread.

Well one good troll deserves another:



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