[ginkgo]

Keep us posted on this every few days on this thread. Starvation starts when fasting ends. Fasting ends with true hunger. You already know this so it was for the other poster. My website on fasting has quotes by 19 different MDs on fasting plus a quote about fasting by the New England Journal of Medicine. I will fetch the quote about when starvation begins.

My site has a psychiatrist (all are MDs)(Dr Alan Cott) that has a best selling book on fasting. He says that the fatter someone is, the less their metabolism slows down while fasting. I need mine to slow down during fasting since I have always been thin. Dr Fuhrman, M.D. had a broken foot and the doctors said he would never skate again. He fasted for 42 days and went back to pro skating.

Anticipation is bad. Oprah's guru (Tolle) says to be in the present, not the future. There is a classic book called Be Here Now. Even Jesus says to let the future worry about itself. Fuhrman never fasts anyone more than 50 days in case you have not reached true hunger by then. Of course with him, people want to get back to their daily living and they pay him over $100 a day to be at his place and be supervised by him on Fasting.

I have fasted for 22 days and did not reach true hunger. My body wanted me to fast longer. I did it that long since many Christians do it for spiritual reasons and do it for 21 days so I beat all of them. Gabriel Cousins, M.D. is another psychiatrist that fasts people. He promotes the spiritual benefits. The less toxins that you have been consuming makes the fast easier. All the fasters, including the psychiatrists say that the hunger is all mental and it is a false hunger unlike true hunger. Whether someone gains the weight back or not depends on what they do after the fast. But that is the same anytime, right? I forgot to mention that Gabriel Cousins M.D. has a few books on eating like Conscious Eating and he recommends an all raw diet.

Here is the quote about starvation: "Hereward Carrington, M.D. wrote a book called Vitality, Fasting and Nutrition. He says 'fasting is a scientific method of ridding the system of diseased tissues, and morbid matter, and is invariably accompanied by beneficial results....The whole secret is this: fasting commences with the omission of the first meal and ends with the return of natural hunger, while starvation only begins with the return of natural hunger and terminates in death.' Natural hunger is the body saying that it is time to stop the fast since it is all clean."