Fasting is not easy if you do it all by yourself. You need a lot of self esteem, very good motivation and a very very strong will to go through. In a group, fasting together, it would be much easier. If you have done everything right with your preparation, then you have no appointments, no commitments at all for the next few days.

From today on I will begin the fasting information with my own details. That means 7 points which will be repeated every day. Also I’ll posting at the end of my fasting day, just before I go to bed. With time change you might have the information the following day.

1. Weight:      morning:  116kg  (255p)      evening:   116kg  (255p)

2. Last night: Was long and sweaty, we have summer and around 25 celsius during the night. Also the body likes to sweat and loosing water. Not a very good sleep.

3. Ingestion:
Early Morning:   2 glasses of mineral water.
Late Morning:   1 big cup of tea.
Lunchtime:   water, water, water
Afternoon:   purgation of the bowel (takes mostly 3 to 4 hours)
Evening:  glass of fruit- or vegetable juice

4. Excretion:   Profoundly bowel purgation !! Your urine should be always light-colored !
5. Exercise – Rest:   None
6. Personal hygiene:   Cold shower in the morning and a cleaning one after purgation.
7. Sensibility:   You have to have a warm and pleasant feeling.

My opinion.

This first fasting day, and the second, is the hardest through the fasting period. This morning it seemed already that I was fasting many days. Then one can face irculatory problems, having dizziness, a bit of smaller eyesight, dry mouth and a shattered, floppy feeling. The solution, drink water in small portions, go with a cold water damp towel over your face, neck and arms and most important – lay/sit down, relax, let your body slowly get used to the new lifestyle.

On this first day (and mostly second – some beginners even need a third day) you have to recover and keep up your motivation to go on. Sometimes the appetite will disturb you, all of your body, from top of your head till your toes will signal pain, not heavy, but very uncomfortable. All your muscles (and I mean ALL) signalize pain.  I found out, the easiest way to get over it, to distract yourself, is watching movies on TV or writing this article. Also I tell as many people as possible that i am going to fast, that makes it easier to keep the word and not giving up to early, being a softy or a coward.

  Very very important during fasting, the inner- and outer-hygiene.

Most important during the FIRST FASTING DAY.

This first day you have to clean your bowel for the first time. This kind of purge and detoxify is immense important. My way to do so is drinking salty water with lemon. In other countries (Europe) easy to get in pharmacy’s is „GLAUBERSALZ“, also called bittersalt. 2 teaspoons of salt in a glass of warm water and a few splashes of lemonjuice. Drink it down in one go and drink another glass of water directly afterwards.

Don’t go far from a toilet now, an hour or two later the cleaning procedure will start !!

Whoever has problems to drink such or has a sensitive stomach or bowel (a colonoscopy or your physician can tell you), should use the „clyster“ method.  Like I wrote before, one can buy premixed liquids which hospitals etc. use before a colonoscopy. I prefer those over the clyster system, also because clyster only cleans the lower part of the bowel. Today I had to use the clyster, see pics, because my premix lotion arrives on Sunday. Bad luck.

        This we can buy in Uruguay, not bad.

As one can see, I already lost during the last 24-30 hours about 3 kilogram of body weight. Mostly water draining out the muscles and the rest of the body. This, as well as the diarrhea after clyster or saltwater, is a heavy burden for your body. So, be prepared to relax, to rest or sleep, just what your body requires.

Everyone has to find its own method, just think that the laxative liquids or salt liquids are an incisive penetration of the intestinal system. But it has to be done – every second day – because the body excretes/detoxes during the whole fasting period, even after 20 days. One won’t believe, how much „dirt“ we have in us and we can eliminate.

  Information charts from a specialized Fasten Clinic.

From top left to bottom right: Sauerkraut,  „Sauerkraut juice“ is a good purgation igniter. A professional clyster bag for 1 liter. Showing all the inner organs. Ideal position during purgation. Glauber Salt, strong magnified, it will dissolve in water completely before use. And – professional guidance in a Fasten Clinic.

Not only through the rectal, also through the mouth/lung, the urine and especially the skin. That’s why the topic about personal hygiene will become a main discussion.

Introduction.

For thousands of years, people have fasted to achieve physical and psychological health benefits, but only recently have scientists confirmed that fasting, in conjunction with eating a plant-based, salt-, oil-, and sugar-free diet (SOS-free diet), offers tremendous benefits. Benefits which nowadays are scientifically proven.

Eating and Not-eating – Being-Awake and Sleeping – Tension and Relaxation are like North-pole and South-pole  between them human life occurs.
Eating during the day and fasting during the night belong obviously to our rhythm of life that no one really thinks about anymore.
Our body takes the necessary  substances during the night out of natural body reserves. Important to all this is quietness, warmth and security. This is also the crucial requirement to successful fasting.

What Exactly is Fasting?

Therapeutic fasting (also called “water-only fasting”) is the complete abstinence from all substances except pure water in an environment of complete rest. It is important to emphasize that simply abstaining from food—even for a few days—while continuing to work, exercise, and worry about day-to-day cares is not therapeutic fasting.

Likewise, eating only certain foods or drinking only juices is not therapeutic fasting. Juice diets and “elimination” diets can be healthful, but they are not the same as therapeutic fasting. The physiological and clinical benefits are different.

There are different methods of fasting and everyone has to find its own way and favorite method. During the last 50 years practicing fasting, I choose a mix of water-, tea- and broth-fasting.  Tea and broth contents 99% water anyway, but provides to me more often a warm drink then just water. Benefits are the same.

Why Fasting ?

The clearest indication for fasting is the loss of appetite that characterizes acute disease. Fasting is extremely effective in helping to quickly resolve the problems that cause symptoms like fever, inflammation, and other temporary pains. It can be very helpful to stop eating until the crisis has resolved and hunger returns. That might mean skipping a meal or two, or it might mean skipping many meals.

Fasting also has been proven to be effective in a variety of other situations, including helping the body to heal itself from high blood pressure, diabetes, and autoimmune diseases including lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, asthma, eczema, and psoriasis. Fasting gives your body the opportunity to purify and heal its tissues and to eliminate undesirable tissue accumulations and growths.

Why do I Fast ?

The answer is very easy, if you have a look onto the list of benefits, you’ll find it. When time comes that I miss several of the benefits then I know my time for fasting came again. This time I missed:

mainly energy.
quality sleep.
elimination of aches and pains in muscles and joints.
increase or elimination of headaches.
stabilization of blood pressure.
stronger and more efficient digestion.
loss of excess weight.

Just to mention a few. Above that, it’s a good time to stay at home, temporada in Uruguay forces you anyway. And in hot summertime the appetite is less and the interest less to cook heavy meals. It’s also a chance to clean out our largest organ, the skin.

When to Fast?

The most important advice for anyone considering a fast is this: If you are going to fast, do it right, or don’t do it at all. To maximize the benefits of therapeutic fasting, complete rest is essential. Complete rest is hard to get in a noisy, high stress, and/or nonsupportive environment, so finding a safe, supportive environment is necessary if you want to get the most from your body’s self-healing mechanisms.

Who Should Fast?

The decision to undertake fasting should be made in consultation with a knowledgeable physician, ideally one who is certified in fasting supervision. Sadly not available in Uruguay, but I have plenty experience to do it on my own.

Warning: Don’t do it on your own, as a newcomer, without experienced guidance.

You don’t have to be seriously ill to benefit from a supervised fasting. A fast can be of great help if you need to make lifestyle changes to achieve improved health. Fasting for as few as five days often will dramatically shorten the time it takes to make the transition from a conventional diet and lifestyle (with all of the associated addictions, pains, fatigue, and disease) to the independent and energetic state associated with healthful living.

Where to Fast?

Once you have made a decision to fast, selecting a facility that will meet your requirements. An experienced health center provides an ideal environment. In addition, it provides knowledgeable medical, psychological, and other therapeutic care as needed and, when you start eating again, healthful meals designed especially for you by expert chefs. As a bonus, one can have lectures on healthful living that will teach you how to continue living healthfully when you return home. I know many people they check in a Fasting Clinic for several weeks as a second holiday per year.  Right – if one can afford the price.

It will be continued tomorrow – stay tuned !   Fasting is NOT starving !