How to Do a Water Fast

Water fasting is the most natural, oldest, and most commonly used way to lose weight and detoxify your body. However, doing it properly is important to avoid damaging your body and maximizing detoxification and weight loss.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Water filter or source of pure water
• Recent doctors visit,
• A place to rest
• A schedule that permits decreased activity.

1. Consult a health care professional before starting and fast, diet or exercise program, in order to avoid injury or complications.

2. Before beginning a water fast, it is advisable to spend three days to one week eating less food and then only fruit and vegetables and then only pure juice. Pure juice is juice without sugar or additives. Orange juice is great.

3. About 6 pm before the day or your fast stop all eating and drinking except for pure Filtered water. Filtered water is important, because this will assist in the elimination of toxins and waste in your body and help curb hunger

4. Decrease activity level, but do NOT stay in bed.

5. Drink at least a gallon of water a day. Drink more if you are significantly overweight.

6. Make sure to maintain light activity, walk at least one to five miles a day is advisable, but some people can do more and some must do less. Yoga is also a great way to assist is the detoxification process.

7. Sleep and rest when tired. Fasts can last hours or days and it is important to make sure your body is receiving enough rest so that it can properly detoxify your body.

8. When you have decided to end a fast you must do it properly. Begin by drinking pure juice and then move onto vegetables and fruits. The basic formula is one day of fruit and juice dieting for every four days of water fasting. After you have returned to eating solids, make sure you are making wise choices and not gorging yourself.

Tips & Warnings

• Often after a fast you will find that eating big meals is harder. This is a result of your stomach and organs shrinking and is a good thing and will help you control how much you eat at meals.
• Doing a enema or a saltwater flush is not necessary, but can help assist with the detoxification process.
• On extended fast avoid standing up too fast, because dizziness may occur and blackouts have been known to happen. If you feel dizzy, steady yourself or go down to one knee in order to regain composure.
• Consult a doctor before beginning a fast.

[taterfay]

on 10/18/2009 interesting article, thanks!

[wisewoman08]

on 10/3/2009 Thanks I always wanted to go cold turkey like that in a fast.

[jonathanfb]

on 10/3/2009 When I did my water fast I didn't take any supplements. Some people do, but the strategy is to let your body detoxify and harvest old and damaged cells and eliminate excess in your body. By taking supplements this can lessen the degree of detoxification and also force your digestive system to function wasting energy that could be spent on detoxification. Your body will harvest dead tissue, damaged cells and even tumors to acquire needed resources. If you are doing a juice fast. Taking supplements is alright and some people actually recommend it. If you want to consult a physician before beginning feel free, when I consulted my doctor, he said it wasn't required to take any supplements unless I felt the need to take them.

[askapeach]

on 10/2/2009 Great advice and well written...detailed...specific. What about vitamins and other supplements normally taken daily?

[fran77]

on 9/30/2009 Great advice. 5*