Fasting

I've gone 3 and a half days......amazing experience. the first day is tough. but by the time you sleep off the first night it becomes somewhat easy. Felt great. Highly recommended. But that first night while trying to sleep sucks.

 

How long have you gone? If you have not gone more than 24 hours, I promise you there is a change that you cannot imagine. Hunger is NOT linear. But most of us succumb to it long before the APPARENT linear nature of it goes away.

 

I am now on my 5th day of 16 hours of no fasting and 8 hours of eating. It gets easier and it's amazing. i'm doing this for weight loss. My next goal is during one weekend to try for 24 hours... then eventually try 72 hours of fasting every 6 months

 

what changes did you felt after 24 hours?

 

Up until 24 hours, your hunger grows and grows and you swear you will only grow crazy if you don't eat. You can't imagine continuing the fast.....going to sleep that night (which is the second night, but the first night you go to bed where you at nothing for the entire day) is horrible. You are all wound up. You can't sleep.

But after you wake up, which means about a 36 hour fast, the hunger disappeared. It is there, but in a minor and more abstract sense. It is no longer a pang.....just a vague sense that, yeah, I could eat.

If you can make it to that point, fasting is easy.

 

why did you decide to fast that long?

 

I haven't been able to battle it for longer than three days where the first two days actually went quite smooth but on the third day, the hunger felt a lot more painful than previously. I could probably have ridden it out for another day if I tried but the slight fatigue and cravings for some food were just too big to resist.
Despite that, I felt very alive and the most mentally clarity I have ever felt in my life. It also felt like my vision became even sharper and more defined at that point. It was both a frightening and very spiritual experience at the same time.

 

I think another way to look at fasting is that it helps teach the body to say "no" to itself. This, in turn, helps on the masturbation front. I find the better I am doing on the fasting.....the better I "fast" on the masturbation. They both work in harmony, I think.

 

Stragler,

Can you offer any tips/advice on the 7 day fast? I admit, the notion is a bit intimidating to me, but I am utterly convince to try one would be beneficial to me.

For the record, I do essentially OMAD and have a 48 hour fast scheduled. (last meal tuesday 6pm, next meal thursday 6pm)

 

Wow that was a great write up . I have been wanting to fast for some time i have heard its a very spiritual experience . Could you tell us more about that?

 

Thank you Stragler for the tips on a 7 day fast. I would not have anticipated that the sleep thing would have gone on for the entire week. I figured just the first night. That is good to know.

You mention something else that I hope everyone can take to heart: real food tastes so much better when you fast. It's easier to make good dietary choices if you are not over eating.

I guess that must hold true for ejaculating: It's easier to make good choices if you limit them to the more or less truly necessary ones.