The Dukan Diet. Named for the French physician who devised it.
Your real name wouldn’t be Tobias Funke, would it?
Other than a few very selective medical studies applying narrowly and without complete corroboration to certain conditions, I don’t know of a single reputable medical body saying there is any value to fasting, nor that fasts of more than a few days are harmless. I’m waiting for the OP to post any contrary cite from a recognized medical authority publishing in a peer-reviewed journal or from a regulated study.
The whole fasting/toxins/colonic cleansing/etc. woorld is anti-science luddism.
I ended up fasting to for 48 hours. I stopped because some people were really worried about me and also because I possibly had low blood sugar (which I haven’t mentioned to anyone)
http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/symptoms-of-low-blood-sugar-topic-overview
I was bored to so I walked to the shopping centre at about 5:30pm. I was wearing a long-sleeve shirt and had a backpack on and I was sweating a lot on my back. I thought that it might not be low blood sugar because normally I don’t walk that much or have my backpack on while walking. I went back to the grocery store and got “super nudie green” juice (kiwifruit, passionfruit, celery, cucumber, spirulina, kale). At home I had it watered down once plus again about 3 hours later. Also when I got home my forehead was starting to sweat.
I’m following this webpage about breaking a fast:
At the moment I’m about 71.5 - 71.8 kg with light shorts and t-shirt. (I have two scales)
I plan to do at least 36 hour water fasts again and maybe try to get past 48 hours.
It is meant to take about 3-4 days to be able to handle regular food again so I’d be able to handle the all-you-can-eat salad bar for the birthday party on Thursday.
Did you experience any dizziness or lightheadedness along with the sweating? What about your heart rate? Did it increase? Sweating while going for a walk while wearing long sleeves and a backpack, on it’s own, doesn’t seem like enough to come to the conclusion of hypoglycemia. IMO, of course.
No I didn’t experience any dizziness or lightheadedness along with the sweating though I did at other times. My heart rate didn’t really increase. I thought I’d just be on the safe side and also it would stop others from worrying. One of my flatmates was saying he is twice the weight of me and he thinks fasting is a bad idea. My doctor has seen lots of my blood tests results and said a week long water fast is “fine” so I might try to do it again - unless my stomach gets flat in the mean-time.
The “transfiguration” was when Jesus appeared with Moses and Elijah… all 3 of the people in the Bible who fasted for 40 days!
There are wonderful spiritual or personal reasons to go on a fast of a day, two or even a week, but the reasons John clay offers are decidedly not among them. There will be no long term weight loss, your body shape will remain exactly like it is today, and as for setting an example for another, its going to be a very bad example.
if you want to lose weight, well - stop wanting to lose weight and start wanting to eat and live healthier. Cut back a little on the sugars starches and fats mostly by cutting the portions,eat those whole grains legumes and fresh plant life and increase your activity to enhance the metabolic balance. The more you ‘measure’ success via scale, the more counterproductive and obsessive your thinking will be. The slower the loss, the more likely it represents a permanent change in lifestyle that is sustainable. Deprivation is not sustainable.
Hell I would refuse to even step on the scale, except at a doctors office. The way you measure your success is by seeing that small changes you are making in portioning etc lead to better health rather than a better number.
I never claimed my reasons were “wonderful”.
What if I do more fasts? I mean anorexics do lose weight in the long term. Though I’m going to slow down if I’m starting to get bony.
We’ll see… but at least that is no worse than things are now. Some sources say that fasting can involve muscle loss or putting on fat due to a starvation threat.
“Very bad”? Basically I emptied out my digestive system them gradually got it going again in a healthy way…
I’m planning on fasting every now and then then eating normally not “dieting” all of the time.
Smaller portions sounds like deprivation to me. Though lately I’ve been starting to do that as a way of fasting. BTW the point of fasting is deprivation. So feeling deprived is expected.
BTW what do you think of this?
And there’s discussion of talking bushes, giant boats, people turned into pillars of salt, etc.
Oh JohnClay, don’t ever change.
I don’t think there’s much danger of that.
Aren’t mental health issues covered in a country with socialized medicine ?
Well my meds cost me a couplle of dollars a month when their actual price is hundreds of dollars I think. Also my doctor’s appointments are free.
. . . and atheist John Clay is convinced that these three individuals actually fasted for forty days . . . why, exactly?
:dubious:
I mean according to the Bible they fasted for 40 days. Some believe they didn’t even drink water. My mum and wife’s mum think that the “days” could have a different duration to normal days. My doctor thinks divine intervention was involved.
Reminds me of a passage from Stephen King’s The Stand where Glen Bateman talks about the Native American tradition of walking into the wilderness with no food or water and waiting for a “vision” to come:
“And eventually, of course, it would,” he chuckled. “Starvation’s a great hallucinogenic!”
I woke up this morning thinking about this post and it made me laugh all over again.
I wonder if their 40 day fast was like the fast of Muslims during Ramadan - maybe they didn’t eat or drink during the day and had something late at night.
After Jesus fasted for forty days, He had visions of the devil tempting Him. So it is not necessarily going to be a happy experience.
FWIW.
Regards,
Shodan