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Originally Posted by MightySunTzu  Hey Ginkgo,
In my own experience in this 30 day fast, i had only raw, then cooked juices before bed and woke up to 3 morning bms (after 19 days without the slightest movement). No solid food whatsoever led to this delightful release. At least in my case, the juice alone seemed to re-engage peristalsis in all of its glory. |
The colon works better than ever after a vacation. I think that the idea of eating solid food after a fast is dependent on the use of enemas. If someone uses enemas to wash out everything during the fast than there is nothing solid in the colon to come out. But if no enema is used then there is stuff that is waiting to come out.
Before the world wide web, Chet Day had newsletters and he would interview natural hygienists. In one he brought up the enema and then gave quotes from different sources to show that there was a lot of disagreement.
During my last fast, I had no intention of using an enema. But on the 4th day I did not like feeling that stuff just sitting in there. So I took enemas until there was no stuff in the colon left. Now I could have kept that stuff in there until the fast was over and it would come out as soon as I broke the fast.
But I did not like it in there so I took it out. So then for me to have a bowel movement I would need to have something in there that I would get from solid food.
Also if you have seen the following anywhere, please let me know. But I have never read that while you fast, peristalsis stops. Under normal conditions it never stops. But I concluded that it does stop during a fast.
When I did a fast with no enema, I would have no need for an evacuation (BM) during the fast. But then when I would break my fast and start eating, sometimes I had to evacuate before I finished eating. Now the waste from that meal takes many hours before it can come out.
So I concluded that the waste from before the fast would sit in there and not need to come out since there is no peristalsis. Then when I start eating, the peristalsis begins again and then I need to evacuate. Also it works much better than it did before the fast.
Also here is an interesting thing about English. If you fast for 3 days and then go 1 hour into the 4th day and break your fast, then you did not fast for 4 days. But you did break your fast on the 4th day of your fast. So if you were to break your fast after 29 days and 16 hours then you cannot say that you did a 30 day fast unless you round it up. But you could say that you broke your fast on the 30th day of it.
Here is another one like that. How many years are there between 1 BC and 1 AD. There is 1 year between them. There is no 0 BC or AD. In fact if it is 1 BC and 1 day, then you are on the 1 AD year.