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Originally Posted by M1kester  Hey guys, hoping this thread isn't dead, but I have just completed a 7 day water only fast and lost 11 lbs. My plan was to lose weight and then build muscle and get toned. |
As far as plans go, i think this is a pretty good one. Can it be assumed that you welcome the cleansing and healing benefits in addition to the fat burning?
Your fat loss likely constitutes about 3 pounds out of the total 11, the vast majority consisting of temporary water loss.
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Originally Posted by M1kester My question is: Would it be okay for me to start out by maybe drinking a protein shake, or something like slimfast, also I was going to eat some tunafish and white rice along with some raw veggies, would that be too hard on my digestive system after ending the fast? |
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Originally Posted by OnMyWeigh Yes that would be too hard. That can do more harm than good. You're supposed to break a fast with diluted orange juice OR... |
I agree with OnMyWeigh. If it is me i am strictly juicing for 24-40 hours after a 7 day fast. It's way too soon for tuna, i would hold back til day 5, 6, or 7 for that... rice maybe on day 4 or 5, though you may have heard that refined grains stripped of much of their nutritional portrait are not a good choice. I don't know anything about slimfast so i won't comment on it, but whey protein powder is quite digestively simple and would likely be workable as early as day two with some careful experimentation (ie: start with a little bit and see how you feel 20 minutes later).
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... We never uses juices here as I've modeled my program on what happens in nature and it occurs to me that every other species both fasts and starts eating solid food when ready to eat. W>e've fasted thousands of people over the years and high water content, juicy fruits like papaya and watermelon seem to the easiest, most digestible things for most people to start with. You can't improve on whole food, and having the fiber allows the body to start things moving in the colon again as quickly as possible." |
I have long wondered... if animals in the wild were capable of juicing, would they still break a long fast with whole fruits?
. While generally speaking i believe we can learn a lot from them, their inability to do something doesn't necessarily make it wrong for us. After water, nothing is digestively more simple than juice and immediately after a fast, digestive simplicity is key, the simpler the better.
But... if one was going to break the fast with whole fruits i completely agree that papaya and watermelon would make excellent choices. Nevertheless, whole fruits will require careful moderation, something that can be exceedingly difficult emerging from a fast where appetites have on occasion been known to rage ferociously. Such caution need not be practiced with juices which makes them far and away the safest choice.