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DQueens · 12-13-2006, 05:14 AM

"You will still pass some waste even after a couple of weeks. Basically (not to get too personal) my stool was a plastic looking substance. I am assuming this is dead tissue and toxins that had been building up over years in my body."

Sorry, i just had to make a comment. Your stool was that colour and consistency most likely as a result of your digestive tract being able to pass only bile, and dead cells along the digestive tract that the excess acid in your stomach (which has no food to break down) was destroying.
Your body does not work in the way that you are describing. Any ingested toxin, that is absorbed by the digestive tract will be moved to the bloodstream and either eliminated by the liver or incorporated into your cells (you are right in saying that many toxins are trapped in fat cells). The digestive tract eliminates the waste that your body does not absorb. Hence you are not "cleaning" yourself out when you pass stool, only moving along indigestible fibres and water.
On that note the way to properly detoxify your liver is to eliminate caffeine, alcohol prescription and non prescription drugs and high fat foods, and to increase your consumption of dark-coloured vegetables and fruits. Ingesting mroe fibre will prevent some of the ingested toxins from your environemnt from being absorbed into your bloodstream because fibre adds bulk to the stool, and increases intestinal motility.
To answer your question, no i have not done a fast, i have suffered from an eating disorder, however, i have been overweight, and i have lost weight. While your definition of anorexia is fasting for periods of years, mien and the generally accepted definition is "the tendency of an individual to refuse to eat despite being at or below a healthy body mass index". The term actual means "no eating". So, essentially, by that definition fasting IS anorexia. While there may be no loss of control or distorted body image, repeatly denying your body the calories it needs as an attempt to get healthier IS a diagnosable quality of disordered eating.

12-13-2006, 05:14 AM	#73 (permalink)
DQueens Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 65	"You will still pass some waste even after a couple of weeks. Basically (not to get too personal) my stool was a plastic looking substance. I am assuming this is dead tissue and toxins that had been building up over years in my body." Sorry, i just had to make a comment. Your stool was that colour and consistency most likely as a result of your digestive tract being able to pass only bile, and dead cells along the digestive tract that the excess acid in your stomach (which has no food to break down) was destroying. Your body does not work in the way that you are describing. Any ingested toxin, that is absorbed by the digestive tract will be moved to the bloodstream and either eliminated by the liver or incorporated into your cells (you are right in saying that many toxins are trapped in fat cells). The digestive tract eliminates the waste that your body does not absorb. Hence you are not "cleaning" yourself out when you pass stool, only moving along indigestible fibres and water. On that note the way to properly detoxify your liver is to eliminate caffeine, alcohol prescription and non prescription drugs and high fat foods, and to increase your consumption of dark-coloured vegetables and fruits. Ingesting mroe fibre will prevent some of the ingested toxins from your environemnt from being absorbed into your bloodstream because fibre adds bulk to the stool, and increases intestinal motility. To answer your question, no i have not done a fast, i have suffered from an eating disorder, however, i have been overweight, and i have lost weight. While your definition of anorexia is fasting for periods of years, mien and the generally accepted definition is "the tendency of an individual to refuse to eat despite being at or below a healthy body mass index". The term actual means "no eating". So, essentially, by that definition fasting IS anorexia. While there may be no loss of control or distorted body image, repeatly denying your body the calories it needs as an attempt to get healthier IS a diagnosable quality of disordered eating.