Hello Tommy,
My name is Eric I am very aware of the benefits of fasting, I have completed a 40 day water fast in 2006 at a fasting center in Koh Samui, Thailand. I was totally out of shape when I arrived, I ended up losing 73 pounds in those 40 days, and started eating better, after 6 months I had only put 16 pounds back on. Some people will come on here and say what I was doing was starving myself, however it was quite different, I did it for spiritual reasons, and I had plenty of fat reserves, each pound of body fat is worth about 3500 calories, and you do not enter a state of starvation until your reserves are depleted. remarkably I had bowel movements all the way up to the 40th day. I realize that 40 days is quite extreme, and not recommended for most people, but I have found that the first 48 hours are the toughest, it is usually not until after about the 3rd full day that your hunger goes away, which is how long it takes the body to stop seeking the sugars, and starts metabolizing the fat as Ketone, which the body uses exactly the same way as sugar for energy. I don't recommend doing a long fast for weight loss, but if you are interested in detoxing the body it is the way to go.
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Hello Tommy,
April 26, 2010 - 1:53amMy name is Eric I am very aware of the benefits of fasting, I have completed a 40 day water fast in 2006 at a fasting center in Koh Samui, Thailand. I was totally out of shape when I arrived, I ended up losing 73 pounds in those 40 days, and started eating better, after 6 months I had only put 16 pounds back on. Some people will come on here and say what I was doing was starving myself, however it was quite different, I did it for spiritual reasons, and I had plenty of fat reserves, each pound of body fat is worth about 3500 calories, and you do not enter a state of starvation until your reserves are depleted. remarkably I had bowel movements all the way up to the 40th day. I realize that 40 days is quite extreme, and not recommended for most people, but I have found that the first 48 hours are the toughest, it is usually not until after about the 3rd full day that your hunger goes away, which is how long it takes the body to stop seeking the sugars, and starts metabolizing the fat as Ketone, which the body uses exactly the same way as sugar for energy. I don't recommend doing a long fast for weight loss, but if you are interested in detoxing the body it is the way to go.
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