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Originally Posted by ginkgo  I am sorry that I did not see this until after you did your your fast. I fasted 22 days. Dr Shelton fasted 6,000 people with daily enemas. It did not hurt them. Then after that he fasted 34,000 people without an enema. He felt is was not needed. Ask a doctor how do stop the peristalsis (the contractions) in the colon without drugs that happen 24 hours a day. He will say that you cannot. Then tell him that with fasting it stops. See you don't need to go since no food is going in. Your colon took a vacation for the first time in your life.
You do not need a gallon of water daily. It is just a lot of extra work for the kidneys, but it sounded like you were using it as a drug (medicine) to get rid of bad breath. All this information is on my website on fasting along with quotes from 18 MDs. Also it includes a quote from the New England Journal of Medicine saying that fasting is a good way to lose weight as you have discovered.
So during a fast your mouth becomes an organ of elimination. So your buttocks are not supposed to smell good. Also your tongue gets coated during the fast and you can watch it to see how it is working. Now if you have fasted like over 30 days and your tongue clears, that means to stop the fast right away. |
I started out needing a gallon of water a day, and after that it topped off to needing maybe 48oz a day to curb hunger pangs as well as feel well.
Eating has been a treat so far...though I have only just started implementing grains back in. A serving of oatmeal with a tablespoon of pure maple syrup is incredible. I feel like I am eating a lot, but I am not getting too full, I mean I had two salads today and they were heavenly...it felt like a lot of food, but I know it wasn't.
I am going to start tracking all I eat, as I don't think I am getting enough calories. It has been mainly fruits and vegetables. I am able to say no to pretty much anything fast food-like, and tasting something allows me to know if I want any more. For instance, movie popcorn, which before I would eat half a bag of before and get sick, I thought tasted disgusting. So I ate the honey nut cheerios I brought with me.
Everything tastes better and I feel phenomenal.
I did like not pooping though, lol.