Water fasting?!
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nikkibrianne64
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So I have heard of water fasting for several days at a time. What are your thoughts on it? I have been thinking of trying it? I can't imagine that I would last more than one day but I've seen that fasting may have good benefits for cleansing.
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My thoughts are that it could be dangerous and should be medically supervised.9
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nikkibrianne64 wrote: »So I have heard of water fasting for several days at a time. What are your thoughts on it? I have been thinking of trying it? I can't imagine that I would last more than one day but I've seen that fasting may have good benefits for cleansing.
Our body cleanses itself.
I think a cleansing of any kind and water fasting are ridiculous.9 -
Dangerous and unnecessary. Dangerous as in inadequate nutrition and moving you towards a dangerous mindset.9
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What exactly are you cleansing???
Why people do this to themselves is baffling.11 -
Not eating for several days is starving yourself. Water fast just makes it sound better. It doesn't purify your body of anything except for water weight which you'll put back on when you start to intake food again.
Your body doesn't need a cleanse, reset or jump start. You can accomplish whatever goals you have by just eating a balanced diet at a reasonable calorie amount.9 -
The only time I have water fasted, was before a colonoscopy. I actually went 64 hours with nothing but water and that God awful colon prep! That was pure torture. Personally I think it is a ridiculous and very unhealthy way to lose weight.6
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Showers are for cleansing. That’s the only sort of cleansing your body needs!
Your liver isn’t just there to look pretty! 😉7 -
It's a bad plan.
If by "cleanse" you mean that your body will have time to evacuate pretty much any food that was in transit in your digestive system, thus register a completely fake amount of weight loss on the scale (nearly all water weight and digestive system contents, plus a bit of unhealthy-rate fat loss and likely some muscle loss as well) . . . then yes, it will "cleanse" you.
It will also tend to fatigue you (big time, if multi-day), likely resulting in less movement during the day, and an inability to exercise (effectively, if not literally), so some amount of reduced calorie burn and fitness degradation.
It's not healthy. Why would several days of no nutrition (a.k.a starvation) be healthy?8 -
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