My records of therapeutic fasting for more than 30 days

What results can be achieved with a 30 day fast?

It is important for a person who uses the fasting technique that the final results justify the work done. Statistical data confirms that when fasting, a person loses excess body weight and significantly improves the condition of his own body.

From a review from a regular reader:

“I have long heard about this method of losing weight, which involves 30 days without food. This seemed to me an absurd, dangerous way. I tried more gentle methods - sports, various medications. Results were achieved, but with difficulty. At work, one girl simply began to melt before our eyes. Everything turned out to be much simpler - she was starving. She told me that she hasn’t eaten anything for 2 weeks, and she only has WATER in her diet! To my surprise there was no chance, I decided to try.

To say that it was hard is to say nothing. Especially the first days. The only thing on my mind was food. Sometimes I woke up in the middle of the night (I couldn’t stand it) with only one thought – to eat. How many times have I said to myself - fuck it! And then she drove away the evil thoughts. She reassured me that the result was worth suffering a little. After about a week, my body calmed down, and fasting became much easier. I didn’t feel like eating, and sometimes I felt nauseous from the pungent smells of the former deliciousness.

At the start of the hunger strike, I weighed 72 kilograms. Now, a month later, I’m 55. Of course, I limit myself to some foods. I try to eat a balanced diet, little by little. But such a shake-up was beneficial. I feel great. It became easier to breathe. Night snoring has disappeared. Physical activity does not bring such fatigue.

Irina B. 30 years old, Samara"

What happens to the body

Hunger is an extraordinary stressor for the body. Especially if this happens for the first time, using the maximum time frame. Beginners are not recommended to use the 30-day diet without prior preparation.

The body needs food to function properly. Necessary vitamins and microelements are taken from food and converted into energy. If the amount of incoming fat exceeds the wasted energy, they are deposited in the body.

The essence of fasting consists of 3 stages:

1. The first is the anxiety stage. 1-4 days of fasting. Food stimulation occurs. The person experiences severe bouts of hunger. Pain occurs in the intestines. Headache, dizziness, and nervousness are observed. The person partially loses concentration and cannot concentrate. Apathy and a dejected mood appear. Daily weight loss is 1 – 2 kilograms.
2. The second is the stage of restructuring. From day 5 of fasting. The feeling of hunger is dulled. A characteristic acetone odor appears from the oral cavity. In some cases, the effect of a coated tongue appears. A person quickly gets tired, feels weak in the muscles and throughout the body. There is constant drowsiness, which comes to save energy. Heart rate and blood pressure decrease. Hungry fainting is possible. Weight loss 300 -700 grams.
3. The third is the adaptation stage. From 26 to the thirtieth day of fasting. The person returns to normal mood and gains strength. The coating on the tongue disappears. The sclera of the eyes becomes white (sometimes bluish) in color. The condition of the facial skin improves, and a healthy appearance of the skin appears. Weight loss 200 – 500 grams per day.

Drinking Diet Requirements

So, while losing weight on a drinking diet, you only need to drink. It is acceptable to consume low-fat dairy and fermented milk products, low-fat broths, compotes, jelly, juices, and tea. Of course, ordinary clean water must be present in your diet. Any drinks containing sugar and alcohol are taboo on the drinking diet.

Let's look at each drinking dish in more detail.

Water

- the most important component in your diet. Drink at least 1.5 liters of clean, still water every day. For people with a very strong will, there is even a purely water diet, in which only water is allowed to drink, and other liquids are prohibited. But, no matter what endurance you have, do not continue this regimen for more than three days. This carries a risk of health problems. While on a 30-day diet, don’t forget to start each day by jump-starting your metabolism by putting a glass of healthy water in your stomach.

Broths

You can eat beef, chicken and fish. They must be low-fat and only home-made (no packaged soups, bouillon cubes or other similar products). When cooking, you can add calorie-free seasonings, herbs (parsley is a priority), you can add a little salt, and also season with pieces of carrots and celery to diversify the taste. But we don’t eat solid ingredients. Before using, strain the broth so that only liquid remains. Otherwise, this is already considered a violation of the diet rules. It is important to note that broths should only be made from meat; it is prohibited to cook them on bones.

Dairy and fermented milk products

in liquid form. We drink kefir and fermented baked milk with a fat content of up to 2%. It is advisable that the milk fat content threshold should not be higher than 1.5%. We prepare low-fat yogurt ourselves at home; store-bought fruit varieties of these products are definitely not suitable.

Juices

. Of these, the priority on this diet is apple, grapefruit and other citrus fruits. But it is very important that you must be 100% sure of the composition of the juice (especially the absence of sugar in it). Of course, it is better to drink freshly squeezed homemade juices. In principle, you can consume any juice, both fruit and vegetable.

Compotes and jelly

cook yourself from fresh fruits, dried fruits, berries. The introduction of oatmeal jelly into the diet is also welcome.

Note that the cleansing processes in the body during a drinking diet proceed as follows.

The first 10 days the intestines and other excretory organs are cleansed. At this time, there is a high probability of plaque appearing on the tongue. This is an unpleasant bonus of the cleansing process, which is normal. Simply remove it while brushing your teeth with a brush or spoon.

From the 10th to the 20th day, the so-called dense organs (in particular, the liver and kidneys) are also involved in the cleansing processes. During this time, discomfort may occur in their areas.

And at the end of the diet - from day 20 to the finish line - cleansing occurs at the cellular level of the body. Now there should be no discomfort at all. Only cheerfulness and lightness.

It is recommended to eat 5 times a day, giving up any diet 2-3 hours before bedtime. If you are very hungry at first, allow yourself a couple of sips of low-fat kefir before bed. But try to gradually move away from this eating habit and strictly adhere to the diet rules.

When a food diet comes to an end, it is extremely important to exit it correctly. Otherwise, the body, which is weaned from solid food, will simply rebel. At first, you can add only slimy porridge (preferably oatmeal) to your diet and eat it for breakfast. It is not recommended to introduce other dietary changes in the first post-diet week. From the second week, move the above-mentioned porridge (it is not necessary to always consume only oatmeal) to lunchtime, and for breakfast allow yourself 1-2 boiled eggs or a sandwich with a thin slice of cheese. Keep dinner liquid for now. In the third week after the liquid weight loss course, introduce new changes. Now make your breakfast liquid, porridge for lunch, and for dinner you can eat fresh vegetables or fruits, but without oil. In the fourth week, the most significant changes begin. For lunch, you can indulge in a low-fat meat or fish dish. Breakfast and evening meals are the same as in the previous week.

Starting from the fifth week and for a long time (preferably forever), one day a week you should allow yourself only liquid food, carrying out a kind of fasting. This will help not only protect the body from gaining excess weight, but also normalize the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract, allowing it to sometimes rest. On other days, simply do not exceed the standard calorie intake and do not indulge in fatty foods and sweets. Allow yourself them as an exception, but not every day.

Carrying out the procedure

Long preparation for the fasting procedure is a responsible step that requires scrupulousness and planning. The success of the procedure and its effect on the human body depend on the correct entry into fasting.

The day before you should balance your diet. The diet should contain more fruits and vegetables. It is better to avoid fats. Remove fatty, fried, smoked foods, sweets, and alcohol from the menu. It is recommended to switch to light foods - vegetable casseroles, cereals, salads and juices. The body will be enriched with essential microelements and the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract will be normalized.

Starvation

Refusal to eat is a difficult test for the body of a woman or man. On the first day without food, symptoms of malaise will appear - abdominal pain, salivation. All you need to do is hold out. On the first day of fasting, it is recommended to do a saline cleansing enema. Depending on the type of fasting, a person completely refuses food (dry diet), or leaves water in the diet (water diet), or uses the cascade method (alternating hungry and well-fed days). It is prohibited to refuse liquids for longer than 36 hours. Fasting for 30 days necessarily includes drinking water.

Exit

You need to end your hunger strike correctly. It is unacceptable to overeat on the first day of going out. In the first days of rehabilitation, you should not eat heavy food. You can start with salad, juice or fruit. After a week, add porridge, light soups, and casseroles to your diet.

Weight loss while fasting is not the end result. After release, body weight will increase slightly due to the supply of nutrients. At this stage, it is important to determine the diet and menu and use the calorie table.

Breaking fast for 21 days

The exit from the 21-day fast begins very smoothly. Food should be introduced into the diet gradually. You can’t immediately eat what your body wants or requires. During the first days, nutrition should be very modest; the volume of food consumed should be increased gradually so as not to harm the exhausted body.

In the first days after fasting, you need to start eating with vegetables. It is best to consume raw cabbage in pureed form. The first portion of cabbage should not exceed 200 grams. An alternative to cabbage can be an apple. You need to eat small portions five or six times a day. You can add diluted juice to your diet, which you can drink on the first day after waking up. You can have a small fruit as a snack.

Lunch can consist of 100 or 200 grams of salad without oil or vegetable soup with water. For drinks, you can consume mint decoction with a small portion of honey. Dinner may consist of an apple or shredded cabbage. Weight will begin to gain on the first day of resumption of nutrition. You can gain about 1 kg of weight.

On the second day of breaking fast, you can add butter and porridge to your diet in addition to vegetables and fruits. It is best to cook porridge for breakfast, seasoning it with a small portion of butter. For lunch, you can prepare lean and low-fat soup or porridge. From porridges, you can choose either buckwheat, millet, or wheat. You can snack on a handful of walnuts. It is best to have a low-fat fermented milk product for dinner; kefir is perfect for this purpose.

The third day of nutrition is very similar to the second, only you can add a small piece of rye bread to the first dish. For breakfast, you can eat low-fat cottage cheese, and you can still snack on a small handful of nuts. It is recommended to drink a decoction of herbs throughout the day and eat small amounts of fresh fruit.

Harm and benefit

To determine whether such a technique is suitable, you should understand its positive and negative sides.

The beneficial qualities of a water diet include:

• reducing the load on organs;
• disappearance of sensations of stomach fullness, bloating, heaviness, flatulence;
• normalization of the condition of the skin (disappearance of age spots, acne);
• cleansing of accumulated waste, toxins, poisons;
• the functioning of the sensory organs improves (sharper vision and sense of smell, taste buds are much more sensitive);
• restoration of normal metabolic processes;
• improving the condition of nails and body hair;
• elimination of excess kilograms.

Without food, a person experiences fatigue, dizziness, and migraines. There is a high probability of hungry fainting. Immune defense is greatly weakened; quite often during a diet, men and women are exposed to viral diseases.

An incorrect approach to fasting can lead to dangerous health consequences, among which the most common are nervous disorders, problems with the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and anorexia. The latter is a life-threatening disease that is based on a complete refusal to eat and uncontrolled weight loss and a constant desire to lose weight. In most cases, anorexia leads to death.

Advantages of a drinking diet

1. The drinking diet is effective. Weight loss is pleasing already in the first days of life according to the drinking regime.
2. At the same time, not only excess weight is lost, the body is also cleansed of harmful toxins, toxins and other substances.
3. It is also worth noting that the load on the digestive tract of the body is reduced. And we, alas, very often significantly overload it by consuming large quantities of solid fatty foods, smoked foods, preservatives with all sorts of suspicious additives, absorbing sweets, alcohol, etc. A liquid and low-fat diet helps the stomach digest food much easier, so our gastrointestinal tract simply rests during this diet.
4. And in general, the volume of the stomach is significantly reduced. So in the future you will be satisfied with significantly less food. But the main thing is not to stretch it again. This is extremely easy to do if you start overeating. Try to control yourself, because you have put a lot of effort into achieving the result.
5. If at first on a diet some people note that they are faced with weakness, then soon you, on the contrary, should feel pleasant lightness and vigor. The fact is that the body begins to release energy that it previously spent processing solid food. Now this activity is sent out, and you feel a surge of strength and are in an excellent mood. The maximum time after which this should happen is 10 days after starting the diet.

Contraindications

Fasting is strictly contraindicated:

• people with exhaustion of the body (after a long illness);
• long-term sufferers of diseases of the digestive organs, liver, kidneys;
• for cardiovascular ailments, nervous system disorders;
• patients with diabetes;
• pregnant and lactating women;
• patients diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, oncological processes;
• for tuberculosis;
• people under 18 years of age.

To prevent the possibility of complications and dangerous consequences, you should undergo a diagnostic examination before deciding on the need for a diet.

By resorting to a month-long fast, a person expects to get good results. In order not to cause harm to the body instead of a positive outcome, you should adhere to all the rules and recommendations of the diet.

results

In addition to losing weight, by cleansing the body and eating a low-calorie diet, the diet allows you to achieve the following results:

• reduce blood pressure, surges in which are often triggered by a lack of fluid in the body, since the vessels either narrow or dilate to allow blood to supply the entire circulatory system;
• normalize body temperature, which is especially important in hot weather not only for hypertensive patients, but also for all people who have problems with the cardiovascular system;
• improve the functioning of internal organs and joints that suffer from insufficient fluid intake into the body.

On a water diet, you can achieve another important effect - rejuvenation. The fact is that water is an important part of the metabolic process and starts regeneration. When body cells are hydrated, they begin to rejuvenate, which helps smooth out fine lines and wrinkles and strengthen hair and nails.

Before and after 21 days of fasting: personal experience of a 47-year-old healthy lifestyle woman

A 47-year-old fit girl fasted on water for 21 days and is extremely pleased with the result. Let's see if it's as useful and magical as she says.

Many people are attracted to fasting on water, which personally does not seem strange to us: the promise of quick results, complete recovery and cleansing, radiant skin and eyes, which is what experienced fasters do not promise.

There are no problems: just drink water and don’t eat anything. Plus, a certain ritualization envelops fasting with a mysterious, even mystical aura. It is not without reason that it is practiced in many religions, in whole or in part.

In fact, one thing can be said: you should not deify a banal refusal to eat, as the heroine of today’s article does.

Story with before and after photos

Australian Nicola Arthur, who lives in Sydney, is sure that water fasting helps her maintain “a radiant look, healthy skin and fight aging” (quote). Nikola is 47 years old, she is actively interested in yoga and various areas of the great and terrible pp.

Her journey was long: according to her, she led a “toxic lifestyle” for a long time - she drank alcohol, smoked, often went to parties and did not watch her diet. She had to reconsider her views on life after pregnancy, when she became pregnant with her first child, Lucia, in May 2002.

Of course, there was no talk of any fasting yet; the woman simply began to eat more raw fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds. After giving birth, she decided to take herself seriously and went to the gym, which she visited 3 times a week.

Nicola even competed in bikini fitness competitions, but gradually came to yoga and felt that it helped her reduce negativity and accept herself. She completely eliminated alcohol, parties, bread and sugar from her life.

“As soon as I found out I was pregnant, I quickly changed my entire life to put my baby first. Most of all, I was afraid of harming my daughter, so I began to lead a healthy lifestyle.

It was such pride and happiness to be a conscious mother. I even published a book called “How to Be a Happy Mom” in 2011,” as it turned out, shortly before my horribly traumatic divorce in 2013. My husband had an affair with an opera partner.

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