Fasting Tips and Tricks

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What is Fasting? Fasting is basically the will of a person to abstain from some or probably all food or liquid and can even both either for a short period of time or for long term.

There are many reasons why a person engaged into fasting. It can be for reasons such as healing purposes, detoxification, addiction (Fasting from alcohol), and the most common and usual reasons is fasting for weight loss.

Fasting heals many disease conditions that allow the body to be detoxified, take a rest and heal. Detoxification from fasting means that when an individual fasts, the energy used up for daily activities are from inside of the body not from the food an individual eats thus helps in cleansing the body of any unwanted toxins. Thus, when an individual fast, using-up those that are not useful for functioning of the body such as viruses, bacteria, waste products, and excess stored fat.

Water Fasting tips

From the title itself, water fasting is basically drinking only water (water alone) and no other food or other forms of liquid. An individual can fast from day 1 up to day30 or even day 40. Although a 10-day water fasting is the recommended number of days but it usually depends on the metabolism of the individuals thus making water fasting difficult.

There are a lot of benefits we can get from water fasting.  It helps remove toxins from our body.  And it has a more good effects rather than drinking juice for fasting because water helps fight against the formation of cancer.

There are some of the tips for water fasting that you might want to know before you begin to engage in water fasting.

  1. One must be mentally prepared. This means that the less pressure you have, the better the results. Don’t abruptly fast say for a month. Try tapering your water fast until your body will get used to not ingesting and eating other substance other than water.
  2. Do not use tap water- Use distilled water instead because it contains properties for cleansing and have the ability to absorb toxins compared to tap water where there is a possibility of a presence of bacteria.
  3. Have a good rest- since your body lacks fuel for energy due to lack of glucose intake, it is recommended to take some time off and do not over-worked.
  4. Be aware and be careful when feeling dizzy.  Slowly rising from a bed or chair can help to lessen the chances of getting dizzy or having black-outs

Fasting Tips and Tricks

Before fasting either by water fasting or juice fasting or any other ways of fasting, one must be ready and must have the commitment.  Fasting definitely requires committed. Making a decision to fast and sticking to that decision is very important. Here are some of the tips and tricks of fasting that you should be aware of.

In order to have a first start on fasting, one must  get rid and avoid addictive substances such as alcohol, nicotine from cigarettes and caffeine, sugary foods, red meat and poultry products although fruits should be gradually minimized and not to avoid since it can still help in giving nutrients to our body.

On the initial days of fasting, one must be prepared as to how to avoid headache, dizziness and other symptoms by taking a single meal at least once per day.

Other tip is to make use of your time to avoid thinking of food. You could clean the house, or wash the dishes, read a book and take a short walk. This will help clear your mind of the hunger that you might experience during fasting.

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Article was last reviewed on December 1st, 2015.

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