I had never heard of the dry fast except with the Muslims not drinking during the day and then drinking and eating like a pig at night. Dr Fuhrman had a lady who would have problems with fasting after a couple of days on her own. Under his guidance she had them but learned that she was not drinking any water. It was fixed with her drinking water. Fuhrman and Shelton never used dry fasting according to their books. People just drink what they need-- no less and no more.
The coated tongue is there all of the time until you break the fast. Say you break the fast with fruit and start another fast right after that. The tongue clears and then it gets coated again. How long it takes to get coated is how long it takes for the body to go into the fasting mode. I say on my site that during the fast, the mouth becomes an organ of elimination. Also you are seeing the mental addiction that people have to food.
It sounds like the dry fasting is an issue of control with you. You want to control something (your mind wants to control something). The fast is where you do not control anything with ingestion and your body drinks when it is thirsty. Your mind is not involved when you drink when you are thirsty. But with this dry fasting then your mind can decide if you drink no water for 10 hours or 15 hours or 21 hours or 40 hours. You can then debate with yourself what is the ideal number of hours to dry fast. Then it is not perfect since your are making a choice. But when the body drinks when thirsty, you do not make a choice. Then it is perfect.
The body has its own intelligence just like with an animal. But people have a mind that can decide all sorts of strange things that are against survival. Fasting is not the mathematician's operating table. It is God or nature's operating table. |