Now I need some tips from anyone who is willing to give it, As I sit here eating the slice of pizza that I will be able to eat within the next 2 months.
I need someone to help me out. I have tried fasting before and have always failed. I even wanted to start to today I got through all the wat to 6:0 pm before I eat something.
The longest I have gone has been 3 days.
Then I convinced myself that I need food.
I have to fast for 55 days. This is not an option. I need support to help me get through this. Now when you fast do u just drink water. Or do u have juice when u are weak?
Please if someone has successfully have gone longer than two weeks please give me tips and tricks they have used to get through it.
I have to fast for 55 days. this is not an option.
starting weight 231 goal weight 175
Seems like your reason for fasting is just weight loss, and judging by your past results that hasn't been enough to motivate you. In other words, you really don't want to fast, but it is merely a means to an end.
My suggestion is to forget about Pizza, and start eating more fruits, and vegetables, and drink green smoothies. Do this for a couple of weeks.
Then shoot for fasts that are more reasonable to build your confidence.
Yes, I know it isn't what you wanted to hear. Sorry.
Before you plan on fasting, whatever your reasons are. You need to research, study, read everything you can. You HAVE to educate yourself, other wise you will just continue to fail, and start a cycle that will only frustrate you in the end.
This forum is great for support and questions, but it sounds like you are pretty clueless. I do not mean that to be an insult, but please do some studying first.
i agree with both posters above. i would like to add that keep small goals, such as I will eat more nature made foods and nothing for ten days. then you can say I will fast only for one day. If you succeed take that as inspiration and try two days, then three days and so on. feeding in between is very important.
Pizza is junk food. nature made foods will naturally reduce your weight. no meats either, even though some may call it nature made, it is very high protein for us two legged animals, especially those who are trying to clean their bodies.
It is one of my very rare spiritual posts, but you can ignore that if you are concerned with the material side of things. The fact is though... "A common scenario is for someone to break the fast after a few days due to the pressures of life, and then binge on comfort food"
I suspect you will be doing that too, unless you change your lifestyle to prepare for the fast.
Weights are in kilograms, multiply by 2.2 for pounds. Good luck, and if the first fast doesn't work out, don't give up, come back here and keep trying. Oh and you drink water only on a water fast.
If you have a good diet you should be able to go on a long fast. Your belief that you need food is the generally accepted medical belief. If you know anything about the medical system you will know that it's based on treating symptoms and not causes. Everyone is conditioned to have false beliefs based on corporate agendas. You can see from this forum that people have done fasts of 40 days and longer.
The main thing that will make fasting easier is to drink only pure distilled, reverse osmosis, or good bottles spring water. Tap water has many harmful chemicals. Have nothing else but water. After a number of days it will become easy to keep going because you won't be hungry. If you feel like eating you can think yourself out of it because this is so easy and you're losing about a pound a day. Don't exercise or exert yourself physically. Keep your mind busy by reading books or other mental activities. If you feel weak or ill it's only your body getting rid of toxins. If you can't deal with the symptoms you should stop the fast and try again another time.
The last thing is that you should work on improving you diet if you don't want to gain the weight back. The book "Eat to Live" by Joel Fuhrman is a good starting point, although I don't agree that all fats should be cut so much. Good luck.
and this may have already been clarified before, but i didn't quite understand the point anyajb12 was trying to make about eating disorders.
from what i've gathered from reading posts here in the waterfast forum is that you can engage in a fast at any time... you can start one after weeks of healthy-eating/juicing preparation, or you can go into it completely "cold turkey". granted, you'll probably have more severe detox symptoms doing the latter as opposed to the former, but it's still possible.
and also wouldn't fasting HELP deal with eating disorders? a fast will help retrain your tastebuds and your entire system to crave proper foods in the proper amounts... it gives you an entirely different and healthy way to view food. and might i remind that any of us who engage in fasting would probably get labelled with an "eating disorder" if we were to confide this to a mainstream doctor.
Asking you to be realistic is not being bad nor an ass. Just the opposite, you came here for support, as we all do. But we got to respect your mind, your intelligence. You certainly do not want a pad on your shoulder or a "It will be OK, babe..." with no more explanations. You are not a child, you are not a frivolous faster to be, I believe. And you are not stupid. I am sure you want sensible and intelligent guidance, as we all want it and need it. Because at the end, you want success not failure.
Your fast is very ambitious. It is ok not to set limits to it. It is ok to desire a very very long fast (that is my dream too since I have only fasted 4 days top). In order to achieve our goals, we have to know all we can possibly learn about fasting. I suggest you read the archives and all literature you can about fasting before hand. It will empower you, gratify you, so much....
Please, do not be fast at judging some reactions. Most members talk from experience and are well informed. Just do your homework, and keep talking to us. There are many here that can help you achieve your goal, like Chris, MOuse, etc. The better you prepare for it, the longer you will be able to fast, the happier you will be with the results.
also wouldn't fasting HELP deal with eating disorders?
Eating the wrong kinds of foods could hardly be classified as an eating disorder in the true sense of the word. You can fast and lose weight, but if you go back to your old habits of eating fattening foods all hours of the day and night, you will gain back what you lost. Better to change the eating habits first.
might i remind that any of us who engage in fasting would probably get labelled with an "eating disorder" if we were to confide this to a mainstream doctor.
I think most here on this forum have had enough of what main stream doctors have to say. That's why we're here. That's not to say that doctors don't have a place for traumatic situations, but most stick pretty much to what they learned in medical school, just recently accepting accupuncture, and chiropractic health systems.
After as many fasts as I have done I wouldn't care if they thought it was an eating disorder. I know better.
um, i wasn't trying to imply that that 6FT_BEAUTY has an eating disorder. i was actually saying the opposite because it was my opinion that anyajb12 was a little too quick to label her with one. i mentioned the mainstream doctor thing to show how unpleasant it feels to us fasters to be given that label when we are actually pursuing one of the healthiest activities we can do for ourselves.
and i really don't think it matters whether you change your bad eating habits before or after your fast... just so long as you change them, PERIOD. in my opinion, i think it would actually by easier to change them afterwards, because you will be keen to maintain your weight loss.
i really don't think it matters whether you change your bad eating habits before or after your fast... just so long as you change them, PERIOD.
Can't argue with that. However if you have bad eating habits, you are likely to revert back to them after the fast.
If an effort is made to get that under control prior to the fast making them the "new" habit, you will have a much better chance to succeed in my opinion.
"and also wouldn't fasting HELP deal with eating disorders? a fast will help retrain your tastebuds and your entire system to crave proper foods in the proper amounts... it gives you an entirely different and healthy way to view food."
LOL.. well considering anorexics fasts constantly.. aren't they always resetting their tastebuds?
and nevermind the reason why people usually have the more mainstream ED's, physical abuse etc.. I guess once they reset their tastebuds.. they just magically get over all of that.
Hmm maybe they should chew a mint to reset their tastebuds.. easier.
right.
and anyone who yo yo diets... ie fasting.. gaining the weight back via binge because *ahem* they never clearly got to the root of why they are obese and broke those habits.. fasting gaining the weight back.. (which btw is a non purge form of bulimia) is more than likely an eating disorder. its just another form of a yo yo diet.
anorexics are on a "starvation diet". they aren't fasting... they've gone way past their body's reserves and their bodies are now consuming healthy tissues.
fasting for a fact "resets" your tastes. i've read many posts by Chris and Fonty who attest to the fact that fasting, along with proper re-feeding causes your body to only crave healthy foods in healthy amounts. and when a person who has done this tries to eat former "comfort foods", they are actually disgusted by the sugary or synthetic taste. i also read about this fact in detail in the book "Fasting and Eating for Health" by Joel Fuhrman, M.D."
it's not "magic"... it's biological and psychological.
i never said that you said fasting was an eating disorder. i said that most mainstream doctors would say that fasting is an eating disorder.
I only call it like I see it..I haven't broken any rules. Just voiced my opinion, but ofcourse since its NOT what you want to hear ie reality its me being a dick.. although I do prefer the word prick :)
this is a public forum, don't post then.
I never could understand people who only hear what they want to hear.
but whatever.
Am I the only one that gets here that if you let yourself (speaking anyone here) get to 300+ lbs.. shoudlnt you figure out the reasons why you got to 300+ lbs to begin with and start from there? Instead of thinking fasting is gonna cure whats in your mind?
And stuffing your face with pizza the night before a fast is just gonna make you rebound and continue a cycle.. using fasting as a weightloss tool since you *ahem* haven't taken care of the real issues to form habits. ie all those who constantly break their fasts eating complete shit.
I'm not an *expert* but I can quote the majority of people here are the above.. and how do I know? hmm because they post it!
I only call it like I see it..I haven't broken any rules. Just voiced my opinion, but ofcourse since its NOT what you want to hear ie reality its me being a dick.. although I do prefer the word prick :)
If it's got a kickstand or a dick...I can ride it!
But on a more serious note, I do agree that some serious soul searching needs to take place in order to figure out why someone gains and retains weight. Seems like it often has to do with "control" issues when a person feels out of control in areas of their life and controlling what goes or does not go into their mouth gives them a sense of power.
Then you add into it all the preservatives and additives that have been proven to cause people to crave a food more and it can be an uphill battle.
But at the end of the day, what more ultimate control is there than doing something so right for your health? Fasting can give one a sense of accomplishment because if it were easy, everyone would be doing it.
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anyone who has fasted please help! 
