do you fast?

18 years ago

...for whatever reason.

i used to...not really on purpose....just too busy!

I haven't done it in years, then a month or two ago....i quit eating for a few days. Felt great.

I'm eating again, but are there any health risks associated with this? My stomack felt icky when i started eating again...like it didn't want to work!

pros...cons???

xoox

duck

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Happy_Go_Lucky_Gayle
18 years ago
When I was in my 20's I had to force myself to eat. I never felt hungry. Now at 59, I'm hungry 24/7. I can't fast because I am diabetic.

There is a fad of "cleansing" now days with Lemon Water. People claim it brings on spiritual revelations. You are just detoxing your body.

Gayle
grammahony
18 years ago
No, I like food to much to fast. Besides I get light headed and dizzy if I don't eat a couple times a day.
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casey_nfld
18 years ago
I had a professor in university who fasted every Friday. She was thin and beautiful, she had 2 kids and her husband was a doctor. I doubt it hurt her.
western_pa_luann
18 years ago
DH and I do for Lent, with no ill effects.
lydia1959
18 years ago
I've been on a 2 day fast before for detox/weight loss... but these days I only fast at night while I am sleeping. :-) I have too many problems with Hypoglycemia to do any more fasting.
nodakgal
18 years ago
I couldn't do it if I tried. But I bet I could live on this fat on my body for a week!
jannie
18 years ago
Once in a while, i'll be too busy to eat breakfast or lunch, but I feel dizzy and weak when I don't eat. so I snack most of the day. I don't deliberately fast,I think it's unhealthy for me. I have kidney failure and I'm getting dialysis three times a week.
duckiedo
Original Author
18 years ago
i've been putting honey(3tbsp) and cinnamon in my coffee in the morning...maybe that's what's keeping me going. the honey doesn't give me problems like sugar used to, as far as the blood sugar goes...

xoox
duck
lindyluwho
18 years ago
I fast daily between breakfast and lunch and again between lunch and dinner. LOL!!!

Linda
duckiedo
Original Author
18 years ago
lol!
country_bumpkin_al
18 years ago
No..I've never fasted, but have a couple of friends that have!

Duckie...check your email...! *S*
intherain
18 years ago
I've never fasted. My sister, however, has done a cleansing a few times, where she can only eat certain foods. She loves it!

Sheryl
duckiedo
Original Author
18 years ago
by cb...my email has changed...and i don't know how to change it on here..how do you do it???

xoox
duck
maryanntx
18 years ago
Duckie, I think when you fast that you shouldn't start eating regular food. You should gradually get your stomach used to food again with liquids and soft, easy to digest food for at least a day.

I only fast when required before medical tests. Of course I have lost so much weight that I am trying to eat all the time to gain some of it back.
jaybird
18 years ago
no Ma'am...I'm always S L O W :^)
joyfulguy
18 years ago
Again, instead of sleeping when the sun did, I stayed up most of the night, had a short sleep after that, then got up just in time to get a couple of things done, and feed the barn cats ...

... but no time to put food into my face, before I needed to leave to attend the ROMEOs group at church ... Retired Old Men Eating Out, they said.

It used to be the Senior men's Coffee Hour, so I said that I thought that it should be ROMDO ( ... Drinking Out) - but that idea didn't even survive, let alone achieving anything like unanimous consent.

Often they have muffins, squares, cookies, etc. but today ... nothing. Just coffee ... no fair.

After the meeting, and clean-up (including waiting for the samitizer to heat up so that we could rinse our cups), plus some personal paper work, I visited the grocery, bought a litre of choc. milk (on "special") ... and drank part of it, on arrival back at the car.

So I wasn't totally bereft of food (as sometimes) through until now (nearly 4).

The choc. milk was all that I bought ... so I guess that some of us can visit the store on an empty stomach without coming out loaded down.

I've never fasted for Lent ... I figure that it's sort of an artificial self-deprivement ... I'd rather put myself out to help someone, try to build a better community, or international relations, or something which I'd term more "useful".

Haven't been much for "fast" cars, either - too expensive in relation to the value received.

Have a great couple of days till weekend, all - and a lovely (still spring) weekend.

ole joyful
country_bumpkin_al
18 years ago
I have no idea how to change it here Duckie..but you can email me at countrybumpkin @ microxl.com! (don't put the spaces!)*S*

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